Graduate : Graduate Certificates
Overview: : Overview: Approximately 30 credit hours
The M.Div is 127 credit hours; the M.A.R. is 75 credit hours.
Done entirely via distance learning
Five different certificates available:
Certificate in Systematic Theology
Certificate in Historical Theology
Certificate in Practical Theology
Certificate in Missiology
Certificate in Apologetics
Advantages to the Student: : Advantages to the Student: No need to relocate.
No need to leave a church.
Bachelors degree not a prerequisite. And they shall come from the east, and from the west, and from the north, and from the south, and shall sit down in the kingdom of God.
Advantages to the Faculty: : Advantages to the Faculty: Faculty lectures are stretched farther.
No additional re-teaching of classes is required.
Advantages to the Seminary: : Advantages to the Seminary: It enables PRTS to keep our requirement that at least half of the M.Div and M.A.R. degrees be completed face-to-face. Since it is not a degree per se, it will not interfere with our efforts to seek accreditation.
Increased revenues
Further advantages… : Further advantages… Greater flexibility in dealing with students who have unique circumstances.
Improve the quality of our lectures.
Make use of the investment we’ve already made in mp3 technology. He saith unto him, Feed my lambs.
Target Group : Target Group International pastors who can’t leave their churches.
Domestic church leaders who can’t or won’t relocate.
Pastors who have no seminary education and don’t want or can’t get an M.Div.
Church leaders (youth pastors, Elders, Deacons, etc.) with no intention to pursue a degree but still want a better knowledge of Bible and theology.
Women.
Perspective missionaries who need to meet the requirements of their sending agencies. And I will give you pastors according to Mine heart, which shall feed you with knowledge and understanding.
Will this turn PRTS into a “diploma mill”? : Will this turn PRTS into a “diploma mill”? The required course work is the same work expected of our traditional students.
No “degree” is being earned.
The Final Project.
The gateway class.
Slide 9 : Earn the entire Certificate without relocating. Bachelors degree is not a prerequisite. Earn the Certificate on your own schedule. Theology that is Reformed, experiential, practical, and Biblical.
Cost - Two Models : Cost - Two Models Start tuition at a lower rate
See what sort of demand there is and adjust price accordingly. Keep tuition costs the same.
$150 per credit hour
Schools currently offering Certificate Programs: : Schools currently offering Certificate Programs: Birmingham Theological Seminary
Farel Reformed Theological Seminary
Geneva Reformed Seminary
New Geneva Theological Seminary
Westminster Theological Seminary
Reformed Theological Seminary
Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
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