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Master's Degree Programs MASTER OF DIVINITY (MDIV) CURRICULUM The Master of Divinity degree program is designed primarily to prepare students for church ministries requiring ordination. It also prepares students for doctoral-level studies in many theological schools. As the standard ministerial degree program, its scope is sufficiently broad to equip students for varied church or mission vocations. The heart of the program is the core curriculum of required courses, selected in response to the demands of the work of ministry. The MDiv degree program consists of eighty-five to eighty-nine core hours and eight elective or eight to twelve concentration hours for a total of ninety-seven semester hours. MDiv Core These courses are required of all MDiv students (except where noted) regardless of the concentration selected. Biblical interpretation Old Testament New Testament Church history Theology Apologetics and ethics Pastoral ministries Homiletics Educational ministry Intercultural ministry Biblical languages Hebrew grammar Greek grammar Exegesis Spiritual formation Mentored ministry Open electives Total hours required for degree: Course # BI 501 OT 511, 512 NT 511, 512 CH 502, 503 TH 501, 502, 2 hour elective AE 501, 601 PME 601, 6021, 701, 7022 HOM 612, 701 EM 5013 IM 501, 6114 OT 501, 5025 NT 501, 502 NT 611, 612, OT 7014 T/M 500, 501, 601, 611, 701, 711 T/M 502, 602, 612, 702, 712 Sem. Hrs. 2 6 6 6 8 6 10 6 3 4 6 6 9 6 5 8 97 1 Students with a chaplaincy or pastoral counseling concentration should take CO 526 instead of PME 602. Students with a leadership concentration should take LD 501 instead of PME 702. Students with a youth and family ministries concentration should take YFM 602 instead of EM 501. 4 Students with an intercultural ministry concentration should take IM 795 instead of IM 611. 5 Those selecting a concentration in chaplaincy, intercultural ministry, justice and mission, leadership, outdoor leadership, pastoral counseling, worship, or youth and family ministries may take OT 501 and 505 (which reduces the hours in the core by four so that the concentration hours may be increased to 12), or they may take OT 501, 502 and 701 (the normal Hebrew curriculum for the MDiv program), increasing the total number of hours for the degree to 101. 2 3 Degree Requirements 1. Note the following sequence requirements in the MDiv program: a. OT 501 and OT 502 Introductory Hebrew (or OT 505 for some concentrations) must be taken in sequence. 49