Urbana 06 Seminars

Urbana 06 featured more than 200 seminars and workshops led by ministry leaders, missionaries, and InterVarsity staff, as well as by lay Christians applying God’s purposes to their lives everywhere from the boardroom to the living room. These seminars were categorized into 16 Urbana Majors and 4 Residential Tracks.

We encourage you to choose one of the 16 majors or 5 tracks as your "Urbana major" once you arrive. Each has been designed to help you go deeper in a particular area; seminars in the majors build on each other, ranging from the big-picture to the very specific and practical. By choosing an Urbana major you will be able to focus in, gain a breadth of information, and network with other delegates who have similar interests as well as seminar leaders and mentors with expertise in that area.

Majors will not be chosen at registration. No sign-up is necessary – just go to the seminars of your choosing. You are not limited to taking seminars only from one major – in fact, "Gen Ed" seminars are offered each afternoon.

Residential Tracks

Included in the Urbana 06 seminar offerings are four special residential tracks designed to provide in-depth teaching on a particular subject area. Attendees who sign up for a residential track are housed together and participate in special track functions as well as the general Urbana 06 program. You will have an opportunity to sign up for a track during the online registration process. Each of these tracks has limited capacity and some have requirements for attendees who would like to participate. Click here to see the descriptions of the following tracks:

• International Students
• Mission through the Lens of AIDS NEW IN 06
• Open for Business NEW IN 06
• Slum Communities of the Developing World NEW IN 06

A special program for pastors and church leaders will also be offered at Urbana 06. It includes afternoon seminars, special bible studies and evening programming. Pastors and church leaders will have the option to be housed with other leaders on a space available basis. If you are a senior pastor, youth or college pastor, missions pastor, or other church leader and would like more information, click here. 

Seminar Majors:

• Africa, the African Diaspora & Mission
• An Asian Perspective on Missions
• Around the World
• Arts, Media, and Culture
• Crossing Cultures: Beyond Tolerance
• Diverse People Reaching a Diverse World
• Evangelism
• General Interest
• Getting Ready to Go
• Global Missions Issues
• Graduating High School with a Mission
• Health Care
• Leading into Mission on Campus
• Missions 101: Growing in Understanding
• The Workplace and Academia
• Urban Ministry in North America: Seeking the Shalom of the City
• World Religions

Residential Tracks

Included in the Urbana 06 seminar offerings are four special residential tracks designed to provide in-depth teaching on a particular subject area. Attendees who sign up for a residential track are housed together and participate in special track functions as well as the general Urbana 06 program. You will have an opportunity to sign up for a track during the online registration process. Each of these tracks has limited capacity and some have requirements for attendees who would like to participate. Click here to see the descriptions of the following tracks:

• International Students
• Mission through the Lens of AIDS NEW IN 06
• Open for Business NEW IN 06
• Slum Communities of the Developing World NEW IN 06

A special program for pastors and church leaders will also be offered at Urbana 06. It includes afternoon seminars, special bible studies and evening programming. Pastors and church leaders will have the option to be housed with other leaders on a space available basis. If you are a senior pastor, youth or college pastor, missions pastor, or other church leader and would like more information, click here.

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