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Live, Work, and Play
while Studying History & Culture in Boston
The Boston Semester Program at Eastern Nazarene College will bring
together students
from around the nation to take advantage of the wealth of cultural,
literary, historical, social, and political resources in the Boston
area.
Students who take part in the fall program will make frequent field
trips into Boston and will enroll in classes that focus on the profound
intellectual culture of one of America’s oldest cities. Those
enrolled in the program may also choose to intern at archives,
libraries, museums, and other venues in the area.
The
Quincy and Boston Area
Quincy, the City of Presidents, is a seaside community. Settled by
English immigrants in 1625, the area around Eastern Nazarene College is
the oldest section of the city. Only blocks away from campus
stretches beautiful Wollaston beach, from which, on a clear day, one
can see Boston’s majestic skyline. Boston itself is just a short
subway ride away, and Plymouth and Salem are accessible by rail.
In Quincy alone are numerous historic sites: John Hancock's birthplace,
the home of presidents John and John Quincy Adams, the site of
America’s first railway, a 17th-century mansion and a Revolutionary
War-era home.
Boston is chock full of historic homes, museums, libraries, and
churches. The Boston Common is America’s oldest public
park. Boston’s famed Freedom Trail intersects the park and snakes
through the city, offering visitors a glimpse of the Cradle of Liberty.
The city is home to more than fifty colleges and universities.
Free public lectures and performances are a regular feature at Harvard
University, Boston College, and Boston University. This is a city
where the life of the mind is cultivated to its fullest.
Bookstores dot the streets of Beantown. The Brattle Book Shop,
established in 1825, contains a massive collection
of
affordable titles in almost every subject conceivable.
Little wonder that Boston is a great place for personal and
professional growth. Research, internships, and employment
opportunities with the cutting-edge firms and prestigious companies
are
readily available. As evident by the steeples that mark its
skyline, Boston is home to a variety of churches and religious organizations.
Students at ENC attend various Nazarene churches, Trinity Church of
Boston, or the Park Street Church right next to the Boston Common. The
city is also a great place to get involved in urban ministry and
outreach.
If
that’s not enough, there’s plenty more to do and see in the
city. One could fill a lifetime with visits to the Museum of Fine
Arts, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Harvard’s countless museums,
the John F. Kennedy Library, the Boston Public Library (the third
largest in the country with roughly 15.7 million volumes), the Boston
Film Festival, Jordan Hall concerts, shops along Newbury Street, Quincy
Market, the North End, and Fenway Park (major league baseball’s oldest
stadium).
About
Eastern Nazarene College
Located
on Boston’s historic South Shore, within walking distance of
Quincy Bay, Eastern Nazarene College (ENC) celebrated its 100th
birthday in the year 2000. A fully accredited traditional liberal arts
college, ENC has approximately 1,200 students distributed across a
traditional residential undergraduate program, adult studies, and a
graduate program. ENC is known for its success in getting students into
top graduate and medical schools and has a 100 percent acceptance rate
for its students into Law School. While many faculty are active in
publishing and research, and some are leaders in their fields, the
emphasis is on the teaching and mentoring of students in a nurturing,
spiritually informed, and academically supportive environment. Students
are encouraged to travel, engage in service learning projects, and
participate in praxis experiences as a part of their education. ENC is
one of 160 members of the Council for Christian Colleges &
Universities (CCCU).
ENC
Community
From
its inception in 1900, move to Quincy in 1919, and to the present,
Eastern Nazarene College has pursued a mission of excellence in
education in an atmosphere of Christian faith. ENC is one of nine
liberal arts colleges supported by the International Church of the
Nazarene in the United States and Canada, and part of an educational
network of sites supported by the church around the world. The college
is located in a suburb of Boston, Massachusetts, which places the college within one of the
great hubs of educational, cultural, and scientific endeavor in the
world. Eastern Nazarene College is coeducational and offers resources
and opportunities for participation, advancement, and service to all
students regardless of race, religion, national origin, gender, age,
disability, genetic information, veteran status, or any other category protected by law. Although the majority
of the students come to ENC from Nazarene church backgrounds, over 30
denominations are represented by the nearly 1100 undergraduate students
on campus and in the adult education program. Besides strategic
location and equal opportunity, an additional advantage ENC students
enjoy over students in larger universities is one of greater personal
contact with faculty members who are dedicated not only to their
scholarly activities, but also to their personal lives of faith. Rather
than sheltering students from challenging ideas and controversial
issues, ENC professors encourage debate of ideas and issues as a means
of learning, to search for truth, greater depth, and personal meaning
in one’s faith. With a student to faculty ratio of 14 to 1, students
enjoy the rarity of getting to know their professors personally within
the context of the classroom and in extracurricular activities. All of
these elements are reflected in the mission statement and goals that
seek to guide every aspect of the college’s development.
The ENC
Ideal
Eastern
Nazarene College seeks, in each member of its community, to
enlighten the
mind,
to enhance the quality of personality, to enkindle a never-ending
search for
truth,
and to enable each, out of Christian love and concern, to serve
others creatively and responsibly. Both faculty and students subscribe
to these principles, as follows. Truth: We will persevere in our search
for truth in our studies, our human relationships, and our knowledge of
God. We will endeavor to express clearly, concretely, and consistently
in all phases of our lives, the truth as we see it. Values: We will
consciously seek the highest values in all phases of our
lives--literature, the arts, recreation, personal human relations,
government--by actively
supporting
and encouraging their expression wherever we find them.
Creative
Scholarship: We will seek to advance knowledge, both secular
and religious, by exploring new, fruitful approaches to deeper
insights, wider perspectives, and more effective applications of
liberal arts, science, and spiritual values to humankind under a
motivation that springs from our Christian commitment. Christian Faith:
We will orient our thinking and our living around a commitment to the
Christian way, seeking ever to deepen our own spiritual lives and to
disseminate the Gospel as widely as possible.
Contact:
Professor Randall Stephens
bostonsemester@enc.edu
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