Academic Catalog: Educational Ministries
The educational ministries department focuses on the teaching, discipling, and leading aspects of making followers of Jesus Christ. Embracing church, parachurch, and cross-cultural contexts of ministry, the department challenges students to broaden their ministry perspectives. Students are taught to develop their own philosophy of ministry based upon solid theological, philosophical, educational, and leadership principles.
EM 501 Foundations of Teaching and Learning
Introduces students to educational ministry of the church, including history, educational psychology, and practical educational methodology, with special emphasis on ministry to families with small children. Also included is a teaching practicum. Offered fall semesters. Three hours.
EM 601 Teaching Practicum
Introduces students to the process of teaching the Bible through the preparation and presentation of teaching sessions. Recommended for second year students. Offered fall and spring semesters. Two hours.
EM 590, 690, 790 Studies in Educational Ministries
These course numbers are reserved for courses of special or one-time interest that do not otherwise appear in the catalog or courses designed to free the student for independent investigation in educational ministry under the guidance of a professor. One to three hours.
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