Music Department Chair
Elisa Cooper
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Elisa C. Cooper received her B.M. in Piano Performance from Wheaton College and her M.M. in Piano Performance from Indiana University. She studied piano with Joy Miller Kiszely, Karin Redekopp Edwards, and Shigeo Neriki. She was coached by Matthew Manwarren and Elaine Greenfield at Adamant Music School and Emile Naoumoff at Indiana University and has performed in master classes with artists such as Nelita True, Alan Chow, William Westney, and Ben Heppner with Craig Rutenberg. She has performed twice at Carnegie Hall (Weill Recital Hall) and has appeared as a soloist with the Wheaton College Symphony Orchestra. As a collaborative artist, she has played with vocal and instrumental soloists, choral groups, and chamber groups for many years and continues to perform as a soloist and collaborative pianist. She has also served as an adjudicator for Iowa Music Teachers Association piano auditions and festivals in eastern Iowa.
Miss Cooper studied conducting with Paul Wiens, Daniel Sommerville, and Ariadne Moisiades at Wheaton College and was the honors conductor for the Wheaton College Concert Choir in 2002 – 2003. She recently served as pianist and assistant conductor for the Canadian Children’s Opera Company during their 2011 European Tour to Austria and Italy. During her graduate studies, she taught undergraduate music theory/aural skills for two years as an Associate Instructor at Indiana University. Currently she is Chair of the Music Department at Emmaus Bible College where she is also the director of the Emmaus Ensemble and teaches piano, music theory/aural skills, and conducting.
Music Ministry Faculty
Sharon Jensen
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Sharon Jensen holds music degrees from Calvin College, University of Texas and University of Michigan. As the recipient of a Rotary Fellowship, she attended the Hochschule fur Musik, Vienna, Austria. where she was awarded the Artist’s Diploma. Her teachers have included Hans Graf, Danielle Martin, Gary Grafman, Louis Nagel and John Perry at the Aspen Music Institute. Ms. Jensen was the chair for keyboard studies at Augustana College (Rock Island, IL) and was a member of the Augustana Trio. With the trio, she performed on St. Paul Sunday Morning and on the Dame Myra Hess Series, broadcast on WFMT from the Chicago Public Library. She has also served on the faculties of University of Wisconsin-Platteville, Calvin College and the Bay View Music Festival. Currently a resident of Dubuque, Iowa she is a music faculty member of Emmaus Bible College where she teaches piano and related music classes. She is also an active teacher in the Iowa Music Teachers Association where her students have earned honors at the local and state levels.
Sharon Jensen has appeared with orchestras throughout the mid-west, including the Quad Cities Mozart Festival Orchestra and the Dubuque Symphony. In March 2010 she made her debut at Carnegie’s Weill Recital Hall with flautist Margaret Cornils, where the duo performed again in March of 2011. She has been heard on Wisconsin Public Radio’s Live from the Chazen with the Rountree Ensemble and with Kassia Vocal Music. Dr. Jensen performs regularly as a soloist, chamber musician and collaborative pianist throughout the Tri-State area.
Teacher Education Faculty
Sarah Poling
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Sarah has been on the Teacher Education faculty of Emmaus since 1998, serving at a half time status since 2002. She is a trained Elementary Educator with a Masters of Arts in Teaching from Coe College. She attended Emmaus as a one year certificate student before Emmaus had a teacher education program, and transferred to Greenville College to earn her Elementary Teaching License with K-8 endorsements in Reading, Language Arts, Science, and Social Studies. As part of her graduate work, she specialized in Gifted Education, Technology Education, and Assessment. In addition to teaching middle school, 5th grade, and a multi-age gifted class, she also participated in technology grants in her life before Emmaus.
Outside of her classroom experience, she has directed Girls Camp, counseled and directed the Nature program at Lake Geneva Youth Camp broadening her teaching/leadership experience in a ministry setting. Teaching the Bible to children is a passion of hers and she has practiced her teaching/leadership skills in her home, ladies Bible studies, Christian Camping, teaching Sunday School, and directing children's clubs and programing.
Most recently, she’s developed a blog www.whisperingtheword.blogspot.com to share her passion and organize her research. She is married to Roger, a high school business/math/technology teacher, in the Dubuque Community Schools. Her favorite teaching experience is with the three children God has blessed her with. Raising children remains her best life opportunity to use all the professional and ministry skills to live the new life in Christ before her children while motivating them to love God heart, soul and mind. It keeps her fresh and with real life elementary perspective.
At Emmaus, she teaches in the Teacher Education program courses on technology, assessment, management, and a course for Educational Ministries in Children’s Ministry, and coordinates the Yearlong Student Teaching Internship. She also enjoys serving as the academic advisor to education students who transfer to Emmaus.
Counseling Psychology Faculty
Seth Scott
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Seth L. Scott attended Emmaus from 2000 to 2004, graduating with a wife, Jen, and a Bachelor of Science in Biblical Studies and Intercultural Studies. Seth completed his semester internship with Jen in Northern Ireland, working with a local assembly to provide discipleship, small group training and growth work, and college ministry at the University of Ulster in Belfast. Seth and Jen moved to Virginia Beach to work at and attend Regent University's School of Psychology and Counseling. Seth graduated from Regent in 2007 with a Master of Arts in Community Counseling with internship training at Virginia Wesleyan College. While at Wesleyan, Seth worked in the College Counseling Center providing individual counseling, prevention awareness, and substance abuse treatment and prevention workshops for the fraternities and sororities in campus. Seth and Jen welcomed Suzanne to the family in the summer of 2007 and soon after moved to Maine. In Maine, Seth worked at Counseling Services, Inc., providing adult and child outpatient therapy and Intensive In-Home Crisis stabilization and support treatment for 3-21 year olds and their families. During the four years at CSI, Seth was able to receive training and certification with Trauma work with children; Modular Approach to Treatment with Children - Anxiety, Depression, Trauma, and Conduct; and complete his certification as a Alcohol and Drug Counselor. In 2009, Caleb was added to the family mix and Seth started couple's co-counseling on the side with Linda Connell at Higher Ground Christian Counseling Ministries. This allowed for application of Seth's certification in Hope-Focused Marital Therapy and Seth took over as Executive Director of Higher Ground in the fall of 2011. Soon after starting full-time at Higher Ground CCM, Seth and Jen prayerfully applied for a counseling faculty position at Emmaus and were accepted in the spring of 2012, which has allowed Seth to apply counseling experience with his love and great enjoyment of teaching and training.
Computer/Tech Director
Mark Woodhouse
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Mark serves as the Chairman of the Computer Studies Department and Director of Technology at Emmaus Bible College. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree from New Jersey Institute of Technology and a Masters of Science degree in Computing Technology in Education from Nova Southeastern University. In 2000, after teaching for five years as an adjunct faculty member, Mark was asked to come and design and oversee the installation of the network infrastructure for the college and establish a 4-year degree program with a double major in Biblical Studies and Computer Information Systems (CIS). He has served as the Department Head and CIS Program Director since that time.
Mark Woodhouse is also an Elder and principal teacher at Cedar Rapids Bible Chapel. He also maintains a full preaching achedule at churches and Bible conferences around the Midwest and other parts of the country. He volunteers as a Law Enforcement Chaplain with the Dubuque Police Department and the Sheriff's Department for the county of Dubuque.
Mark served our country as an officer and pilot in the Georgia Air National Guard for eight years while also pursuing a civilian career in engineering. He spent several years as the engineering and production director of a West German company, Meltex GMBH. After completing his military commitment as a fighter pilot, Mark worked for thirteen years as a Principal Engineer with the MITRE Corporation, working with our country's military and government intelligence agencies. He was a principal contributor in the development of our nation's worldwide intelligence network, INTELNET. In 2000, Mark left corporate America to invest his life in young men and women by teaching at Emmaus, where he has served for the last seventeen years.
Mark and his wife, Laura, homeschooled their two children, Alicia and Christopher from the early elementary grades through high school graduation. For several years, they were the directors of the largest homeschool support group in the state of Nebraska, helping hundreds of families homeschool their own children. Their son, Christopher has his own technology company in Omaha, and their daughter, Alicia, is now the Vice President for the Midwest Region for Classical Conversations, an organization enabling families to educate their children classically at home. Mark has been the keynote speaker at several state homeschool conventions and continues to be a strong supporter of homeschooling in general and classical education, in particular.