The ministry setting provides the laboratory for application of course material as well as the questions posed in the courses. Students attend courses on campus twice a year, involving two one-week intensives during each session. This allows students to complete four on-campus courses a year. Students also take two distance courses a year in their ministry settings. These courses will be mediated by the instructor through a variety of other appropriate technologies such as the internet, and audio and videotapes.
Students complete one ministry practicum each year.
The on-campus and distance courses combined allow a student to take seven courses a year and to complete the Master of Divinity in approximately five years. Entering students and continuing students will be together in the same classes, their ministry experience providing the common foundation. The ministry experience component of the InMinistry program takes the place of the supervised ministry component of the on-campus Master of Divinity program. Contact the office of admissions for information on financial aid. It is possible to take up to two intensives during the Winter and Summer quarters.