Wheaton Passage: CE 131: Introduction to Spiritual Formation

Wheaton Passage is Wheaton College’s first-year student transition program that is specifically designed to help you form friendships and effectively navigate the transition into Wheaton. Designed and run by HoneyRock, the College’s Outdoor Center for Leadership Development, and the Christian Formation and Ministry Department, Passage has a long history of enhancing the first-year experience by providing a small group of peers, an upper-class mentor and a faculty leader to every student before they arrive on campus.This course is specially designed to equip incoming students for their transition to Wheaton College through an experiential education model. Students will engage in purposeful adventure challenge combined with course readings, critical reflection and discussion intended to foster self-evaluation and development of personal faith, and character. You will also develop a social support network of faculty and peers to enhance your effectiveness as a student at Wheaton College. Through the educational experiences of this course, students will be presented with a framework for integrating the multi-faceted learning experience of college into Christian belief. This textbook serves as a course packet that contains the syllabus, various readings, discussion guides and details of Passage.