Course description
Requires a Master’s Degree Plus 30 Credit Hours of Doctoral Study materials for each course in this program consist of a series of audio, lectures, a textbook, or a workbook. Students are required to listen to the audio, lectures, to read the textbook, and to answer the questions prepared for each course. Answer sheets are provided for that purpose. This process may require listening to the audio or reading the textbook several times. Students are then required to prepare an outline of the contents of each audio lesson, or each chapter in the textbook. In addition, students are required to write a nine paragraph essay describing seven points of the book or audio course that spoke to them. Also, students are required to read an ADDITIONAL book that is related to the subject matter being taught and to prepare an eight-page book report of that ADDITIONAL book. All Outlines, Essays, and Book Reports are to be written as per the required format provided in the appendix of this catalog.
For each course of the Doctorate Degree Program the Test will comprise 40%, the Outlines will comprise 10%, the Essays will comprise 20%, and the Book Report will comprise 30% of the course grade. All scores will be averaged together for one grade. In addition to the required course of study, students receiving a degree that does not contain the word ―”Ministry” in its nomenclature must submit a dissertation in MLA form of no less than seventy-five (75), and no more than one-hundred (100) typewritten (double-spaced) pages with ten (10) outside resources on a subject that has been pre-approved by the Academic Dean.
NOTE: A student cannot begin studies in a new course unless all requirements for the previous course have been completed and submitted.
Special Note: If a student is changing his or her field of study from that he or she received at the Master’s degree level to a different field of study at the Doctorate level, he or she will have to take additional courses to ensure competency in the new field of study. If a student has not taken, The Gifts and the Calling of God, he or she must take this course in addition to any other requirements for a degree.
