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DOCTORATE DEGREE PROGRAM

Requires a Bachelor’s Degree, 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. The outline is to be a minimum of
five points per chapter or audio lesson. 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 five-
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.

Note: If a student is changing his or her field of study from what 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 the student has not taken The Gifts and The Calling of
God, this course must be taken in addition to any other requirements for a
degree.

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