Transfer credit is not accepted into either the D.Miss. or Ph.D. programs, and is normally not accepted into the D.Min. in Global Ministries. A concentration is an institutionally designed set of courses which address a given ministry arena. A specialization is a set of courses designed by the student to address his or her own ministry development needs in a sequential and integrated way. Concentrations available in the Master of Arts curriculum in Intercultural Studies currently include such areas as church growth, communication, general missiology, history of missions, international development, Islamic studies, Judaic studies and Jewish evangelism, leadership, translation, spiritual dynamics in mission, theology of mission, and urban mission. Specializations may be arranged according to individual needs and interests utilizing the resources of all three schools of the seminary.
Provision is made for field research, practica, and internships for credit.
Missiological Integration Seminar Students in M.A. and Th. Missiological Integration Seminar I is required during the first or second quarter on campus. This seminar aims at facilitating the design of an integrated academic missiological program. The Missiological Integration Seminar II is normally taken in the last quarter of one's program. It seeks to provide the means by which students can demonstrate the achievement of an integrated set of competencies related both to their ministries and to the related missiological disciplines.