Academic Catalog: Course Descriptions
Course Numbering
500-599 First year or introductory graduate-level courses.
600-799 Advanced graduate-level courses, usually second or third year in the MDiv program and second year in the MA program.
Term of Instruction
The instructional year is thirty weeks in length which is divided into two semesters of fifteen weeks each (including exam week).
Unit of Credit
A semester hour of credit represents one (fifty-minute) lecture per week for one semester.
Elective Courses
Most elective courses earn two hours of credit. With permission of the professor and the provost/dean, as well as the completion of the individualized study approval form, they can be taken for three hours of credit.
- Chaplaincy (CHP)
- Church History (CH)
- Counseling (CO)
- Christian Studies (CS)
- Educational Ministries (EM)
- General Studies (GS)
- Intercultural Ministry (IM)
- Leadership (LD)
- Messianic Judaism (MJ)
- New Testament (BI or NT)
- Old Testament (BI or OT)
- Outdoor Leadership (OL)
- Pastoral Ministry (HOM or PME)
- Philosophy of Religion (PR)
- Christian Formation and Soul Care (SF)
- Theology (TH)
- Training and Mentoring (T/M)
- Youth and Family Ministries (YFM)
- Institute of Theological Studies Courses
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