The MA in ministry degree prepares reflective practitioners to be missionally engaged in a variety of ministry settings. The 48-credit program includes core curriculum in practical theology and Bible and theology, as well as elective courses.

Students pursuing the MA in ministry choose either a theology/leadership concentration or a church counseling concentration when fulfilling their electives.

NOTE: the church counseling concentration is not designed to prepare a person for licensure. For the licensure-oriented program, go to MA in Counseling (MAC).

Theology/Leadership Concentration:

Practical Theology - 21 credits

• Formation & Mission
• Community & Mission
• Ministry Internship Seminar
• Organizations & Change
• Leadership Development
• Pastoral Counseling
• Senior Seminar

Bible & Theology - 15 credits

• Reading the OT Missionally
• Reading the NT Missionally
• Introduction to the Christian Tradition
• Missional Theology 1: God &Creation
• Missional Theology 2: Reconciliation & Redemption

Electives - 12 credits

Church Counseling Concentration: CCEF courses in italics*

Practical Theology - 24 credits

• Formation & Mission
• Community & Mission
• Ministry Internship & Senior Seminar
• Homiletics
• Leadership Development
• Pastoral Counseling or Helping Relationships
• Psychopathology or Counseling Problems and Procedures
• Human Development

Bible & Theology - 15 credits

• Reading the OT Missionally or Biblical Interpretation
• Reading the NT Missionally or Counseling & the Biblical Text II
• Introduction to the Christian Tradition
• Missional Theology 1: God &Creation
• Missional Theology 2: Reconciliation & Redemption

Electives - 9 credits (prereq.: all core counseling courses above). Sample electives:

• Marriage & Family Counseling or Marriage Counseling
• Physiology or Counseling and Physiology
• Counseling in the Local Church
• Human Personality
• Essential Qualities of a Biblical Counselor
• Counseling Observation
• Child & Adolescent Counseling

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