Christian Faith Education (CFE)104 – CICM Mission Identity is one of the basic subjects offered to all college students in the CICM Schools. It deals with the life and ministry of CICM missionaries worldwide. It focuses on the spirituality and missionary character of the congregation, anchored on Jesus whose words and deeds become their source of inspiration in order that their faith may be strengthened through the model that He set for them. 

This course aims to deepen the students’ understanding of the life and mission of the CICM missionaries with Fr. Theophile Verbist who laid the foundations of the Congregation. Going through this course, the students will be deeply familiarized with the richness of the congregation and will be enabled to reflect on the value of its presence for them. 

As such, this course provides the students an avenue in following Jesus more closely in their personal lives as members of the Church, the community of Jesus’ disciples, in the way CICM exemplifies, and with Mary as their inspiration.

This course is designed to prepare and guide every graduating student to live their life into a meaningful and successful professional in the light of faith and mission. This final stage of the CFE course highlights the ensuring of formation and transformation of communities and thus, promotes quality education by precisely building on its core competencies. With that, the spiritual and religious formation shared by the CICM also help the students to reflect on what it truly means to be a professional CICM co-missionary to the society. Such that, this course also aims to revisit the norms and standards observed in the profession, their sources, interpretation and application in various situations of life which will serve as guideline as the graduating students struggle to live a life of Faith, Hope and Love to God and neighbors in the context of their professional as well as their personal life and the created world.

Course Description

The course is designed to meet the needs of the students in preparation for their profession as law enforcement officer and the like and to help the students understand the system of management, leadership, and administration. Moreover, It will help the students know the objectives and functions of management. Leadership, and administration.     

The course covers the understanding of personal values, characteristics and goals including the normative foundations of leading which includes the wide array of leadership and management approaches and refine their leadership and management styles. Understand the frames of judgment and skills needed to affect positive change in a wide array of settings and to transform cultures, organizations, and institutions through effective leading, management, analysis and decision-making in a self-aware manner to think and act strategically.

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This course focuses on an in-depth and critical study of the development of learners in three levels: a.) infant and toddler, b.) preschool and c.) K-3 levels (ages 0-8) considering the different domains and the multiple interacting influences. It demonstrates knowledge and understanding of the young learners’ gender, needs, strengths, interests and experiences. It provides opportunities to observe and interact with children from the three levels in their home and school environment to build preservice teachers’ positive disposition and readiness in preparing developmentally appropriate learning environment, teaching and assessment.

This course emphasizes the foundational concepts in the study of Christian Morality. It reflects more deeply on moral actions rooted and guided by the Ten Commandments, Catholic Social Teachings, and a renewed vision of life and love as taught and exemplified by Jesus Christ for the fulfillment of the Kingdom of God. In the midst of a plurality of moral issues and concerns in our time affecting the human person, family, ecology, and the society in general, this course seeks to answer what a meaningful life is in the light of the Christian faith and how the teachings of Jesus Christ be integrated into one’s own life choices and decisions in response to God’s offer of life and love – salvation, through an authentic Christian moral life and actions.