2010-2011 HBU Catalog - Houston Baptist University

Freshman Year Seminar (FYS)
This required class provides incoming freshmen with valuable adjustment techniques and strategies to assimilate
them into academic and social life at the University. In addition to helping students discover and use their
strengths, the course also focuses on helping individuals develop relationships and rapport with professors and
peers to facilitate a variety of educational experiences, enhances the potential for academic success, and provides
students with a forum to reflect on spiritual growth, character development and personal morals, career planning,
community service, and campus involvement. For information, contact your advisor.
Spiritual Life
Spiritual Life seeks to foster Christian community life and worship by facilitating experiences for students,
faculty, and staff in spiritual formation that will result in the integration of faith and learning. All programs,
activities, and relationships offered through the Spiritual Life Office seek to provide students with opportunities
to grow spiritually while attending HBU. Because of HBU‘s strong commitment to spiritual development, a
Community Life and Worship (CLW) graduation requirement has been developed for all students seeking an
undergraduate degree. The Spiritual Life Office directs the implementation of the Community Life and Worship
Program.
Community Life and Worship (CLW) Graduation Requirement
All students (full-time and part-time) seeking an undergraduate degree are required to attend 80 CLW
events to graduate. Students may earn credit for attending up to a maximum of 20 CLW events per
semester, which is accrued toward the total required for graduation. Students are encouraged to attend a
minimum of ten events per semester until the requirement is met and to complete their Community Life
and Worship Program requirement before their last semester. Transfer students will receive credit for
.75 events for each transfer hour. Students may view their CLW record online.
A minimum of 50 CLW credits must be accrued from worship events including Convocation (weekly
on Wednesdays and Thursdays; special Convocations during Spiritual Emphasis Week and Passion
Week); Quest, Sunday Service; Vespers, and Fellowship of Christian Athletes. Students may get no
more than 30 CLW credits from Community Life events including small group Bible studies, prayer
groups, conferences, mission trips, ACTS ministry, Service Learning Internship, and Church
Leadership Internship.
More information about the Community Life and Worship (CLW) Program is available on-line at
www.hbu.edu/clwmag or in the HBU Student Handbook. Questions about the CLW Program may be
directed to the Spiritual Life Office. Spiritual Life, Student Ministries, and ACTS offices are located in
room 238 of the Baugh Center. The Spiritual Life staff includes the Director of Spiritual
Life/University Chaplain, the Director of Student Ministries, and administrative support staff.
Student Ministries
Student Ministries seeks to provide opportunities for all students to know Jesus and then to make Him
known by learning to be active participants in a daily faith journey. The Ministry Leadership Council
(MLC) is the primary vehicle through which this takes place. MLC provides students the opportunity
to develop leadership skills in ministry areas such as worship, Bible study, prayer, evangelism and
missions. Weekly ministries such as Quest and Freshman Fellowship target the areas of worship and
relationship building. MLC members are selected in the spring for leadership in the following year.
ACTS (Community Service & Missions)
ACTS (Assisting Communities Through Students) promotes lifestyles of service and ministry, serves as
an experiential learning tool, and meets service needs in the Houston community. Students can join
student-led service teams and participate in other ACTS events that develop heightened awareness of
community needs.
Student Conduct
HBU expects students to adhere to high standards of personal conduct consistent with the Christian mission of
the University. In order to achieve its purpose, HBU expects individual members of the University community to
accept responsibility for their personal conduct.
As members of the campus community who have chosen to be a part of HBU, students are expected to know and
abide by all guidelines, policies, and procedures set forth by HBU. All local, state, and federal laws are
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