Code | Title | Credits |
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Major in Communication Studies (B.A.) | ||
Communication Core | ||
COM 210 | Perspectives on Human Communication | 3 |
COM 213 | Media Communication | 3 |
COM 363 | Methods of Communication Research | 4 |
Code | Title | Credits |
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Communication Core | 10 | |
Select one emphasis | 35-44 | |
General Education | 47-48 | |
Electives | 21-29 | |
Total Credits | 122 |
Students may not declare a B.A. in Communication Studies and a Minor in Communication Studies.
Health Communication Emphasis (38-44 credits)
Code | Title | Credits |
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CHL 110 | Introduction to Healthcare | 3 |
COM 209 | Introduction to Health Communication | 3 |
COM 319 | Health Campaigns and Technology | 3 |
COM 324 | Professional and Technical Communication | 4 |
COM 355Z | Intercultural Communication | 4 |
COM 370 | Interpersonal Communication | 4 |
COM 375 | Media Criticism and Theory | 3 |
COM 481 | Internship in Communication | 1-4 |
COM 497 | Capstone: Relational Studies 1 | 4 |
Choose three from the following: | 9-12 | |
Group Communication | ||
Gender Communication | ||
Interpersonal Conflict | ||
Nonverbal Communication | ||
Family Communication | ||
Dating, Mating, & Relating: Lifespan Communication | ||
Abusive Relationships and Christian Responsibility | ||
Spanish for Health Professionals 2 | ||
Total Credits | 38-44 |
Relational Studies Emphasis (35-37 credits)
Code | Title | Credits |
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COM 220 | Group Communication | 4 |
COM 370 | Interpersonal Communication | 4 |
COM 375 | Media Criticism and Theory | 3 |
COM 400 | Family Communication | 4 |
COM 481 | Internship in Communication | 3-4 |
COM 497 | Capstone: Relational Studies | 4 |
Choose three of the following Relational Topics courses: | 9-10 | |
Gender Communication | ||
Facilitating Difficult Conversations | ||
Intercultural Communication | ||
Interpersonal Conflict | ||
Nonverbal Communication | ||
Topics in Relational Communication 1 | ||
Dating, Mating, & Relating: Lifespan Communication | ||
Family Interaction | ||
Abusive Relationships and Christian Responsibility | ||
Choose one of the following Oral Communications courses: | 4 | |
Oral Interpretation | ||
Professional and Technical Communication | ||
Advanced Public Speaking | ||
Speaking in Ministry Contexts | ||
Total Credits | 35-37 |
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Course may be repeated for credit when topics offered are different.
Overview
The Ministry Scholars program is Bethel University's bachelors to master's degree program that reduces cost and time-to-completion by streamlining undergraduate and graduate education. Graduates receive a bachelor's degree from Bethel University's College of Arts and Sciences (CAS) and a master's from Bethel Seminary. This program is well suited for a variety of majors who want to become equipped to lead churches, parachurch organizations, and other ministries. It is also a good fit for ministry-minded students who want to pursue bi-vocational ministry or work outside of professional ministry. Students learn from successful ministry leaders and experts in Biblical and Theological Studies, Spiritual and Personal Formation, and Transformational Leadership. This program offers supplemental training resources, developmental activities, and discipleship opportunities to prepare ministry-minded students for effective ministry leadership. Students also gain valuable field experience in local churches and ministry settings.
The objectives of the program are that graduates will demonstrate age-appropriate growth and ultimately ministry leadership preparedness in the following domains:
- Spiritual life: Students will grow spiritually, deepening their love for, commitment to, and dependence on God, and develop an instinct to trust in God and to connect intimately with God.
- Discernment of call: They will clarify and reaffirm their sense of calling to vocational ministry and what that looks like in a changing world.
- Emotional maturity: They will become emotionally mature adults, possessing the ability to sense and manage emotions, to see others’ perspectives, to sympathize and empathize, to follow and lead as appropriate and to foster healthy relationships.
- Cultural competence: They will become culturally aware, gaining a perspective that all cultures possess strengths and vulnerabilities, an ability to work across cultural lines and an appreciation that diverse teams are stronger teams.
- Bible knowledge: They will gain a clear understanding of the Bible’s content and a deep and abiding passion for the truth of the Gospel.
- Spiritual wisdom: They will grow in wisdom, possessing a capacity to apply the Bible so that others are inspired by their teaching and preaching to live out biblical truth and experience human flourishing.
- Intellectual virtues: They will develop virtues such as critical thinking, respect for data, intellectual humility, and thirst for learning, combined with the skill to interpret and teach the Bible accurately.
- Leadership capacity: They will learn to follow leaders and to lead followers—enlisting people, building teams, leading change and achieving results.
- Godly character: They will become virtuous people—individuals who love others, speak truth, live humbly, sacrifice their own interests, live justly, express joy and show compassion.
What is Bethel looking for in a Ministry Scholar?
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Ability to maintain a minimum of 3.0 GPA (cumulative college grade point average or unweighted high school GPA if the student has less than one year of college experience) throughout the duration of the Ministry Scholars program while enrolled at CAS and Seminary.
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Ability to provide a pastoral and ministry leader reference that speaks to the student’s character and call to ministry.
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Commitment to prioritizing activities, discipleship opportunities, and retreats offered to Ministry Scholars, designed to enable the individual to develop a strong sense of community.