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CATALOGUE 2008-2009

westminster seminary california From the President

Do you believe the gospel of Jesus Christ? Do you want to understand the Bible more deeply and faithfully? Do you desire to serve Christ and his church? If your answer is “yes,” then Westminster Seminary California (WSC) is an excellent place for you. Here you will discover a community of faith and study, of fellowship and prayer. At WSC, you will find an encouraging place to reflect on and prepare for your calling from Christ.

We hope that this catalogue will help you get to know us better. As you look through it, you may want to notice, in particular, our commitments, our faculty, our programs, and our facilities.

We are committed to the gospel of Christ as taught by the inerrant Scriptures and as summarized in our Reformed confessions of faith.

Our faculty is outstanding. Each member is an experienced pastor and an excellent teacher. They are active in their churches and committed to helping students in and out of the classroom. Their academic credentials are impressive, and they are active in research and writing in their fields.

The Seminary offers two primary programs of study. First is the three-year Master of Divinity program. This program is carefully designed to prepare men for the ordained pastoral ministry. Second is the two-year Master of Arts program. With concentrations in biblical, theological and historical theological studies, it encourages women and men to pursue their own interests in preparation for various kinds of service in Christ’s kingdom.

The photographs in this catalogue will give you a glimpse of the beauty and fine facilities of our campus. However, the catalogue cannot convey the warmth FOR CHRIST, HIS GOSPEL, AND HIS CHURCH and abilities of our students nor the sense of community that we enjoy. We hope that you will visit us and experience for yourself the strengths of WSC.

Our prayer is that the Lord will use this catalogue to help you know his call for your life and future service. May the Lord bless you richly.

W. Robert Godfrey President TABLE OF CONTENTS

3 LETTER FROM PRESIDENT GODFREY

7 INTRODUCTION TO THE SEMINARY

11 THE FACULTY

25 DEGREE PROGRAMS

38 COURSE DESCRIPTIONS

50 ADMISSIONS

59 STUDENT LIFE

63 FINANCIAL AID

72 ACADEMIC INFORMATION AND POLICIES

81 APPENDICES

93 MAP AND DIRECTIONS

94 INDEX MISSION Princeton was devoted to the inerrancy Westminster Seminary California (WSC) of Scripture, outstanding scholarship, fine is a Christian institution seeking to academic education and service to the glorify God through graduate theological church in its preaching and missionary study. Its primary responsibility is to work. In 1929, when Princeton reorganized educate future pastors for Christian in order to tolerate theological liberalism, churches, especially for Presbyterian and several members of the faculty (led by the Reformed denominations. It also provides distinguished scholar J. Gresham Machen) INTRODUCTION theological education for others who will left Princeton to establish Westminster serve the Christian community and the Theological Seminary in Philadelphia, larger society. Pennsylvania, with the purpose of preserving the educational heritage of Westminster Seminary California offers Old Princeton and the scholarship and instruction in biblical, theological, and theology of the Reformation. ministerial disciplines to both men and women in order to help them develop Westminster Seminary California began intellectually and spiritually as leaders. as a branch campus of Westminster permanent campus in Escondido. In 1988, While the primary focus at WSC is to in Philadelphia, and became fully Dr. Strimple returned to full-time teaching educate and prepare men for ordained independent in 1982. WSC established and scholarship and Mr. den Dulk pastoral ministry, the Seminary also a campus with an extensive library, a became president, increasing the size trains women and men who are preparing comprehensive curriculum, and a full and financial strength of the school. In to serve Christ and his church in non- faculty of teachers who were both 1993, Dr. W. Robert Godfrey, who joined ordained vocations, so that the whole experienced pastors and experts in their the faculty in 1981 as professor of church body of Christ may be enriched. academic fields. The first Reformed history, became the third president of the seminary in the western United States, Seminary. Because “zeal without knowledge” or WSC welcomed its first students in the “knowledge without zeal” can only injure fall of 1980 and now, nearly thirty years the church, WSC seeks to develop in each later, remains committed to the inerrancy student a balance of scholarship and of Scripture, the gospel of Christ, and Christ-like piety. Westminster Seminary the importance of the church and her California strives to maintain a community ministry. WSC thrives as a community of Christian research and scholarship of faith where the best of scholarship where the proper cultivation of the mind and piety are combined to serve Christ increases the devotion of the heart. and the church. We are committed to the “whole counsel of God” (Acts 20:27) and HISTORY we pursue a union of knowledge and zeal WSC traces its commitment to Reformed for the sake of Christ’s church. theological education back to the Reformation and especially to John Dr. Robert B. Strimple and Mr. Robert Calvin’s educational approach in his G. den Dulk shared in founding the Genevan Academy. In America, that Seminary in 1979. Dr. Strimple became educational heritage was maintained the first president in 1982, overseeing at Princeton Theological Seminary in the movement of the Seminary from its the 19th and early 20th centuries. Old temporary home in San Marcos to its

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DOCTRINAL COMMITMENT ACADEMIC FREEDOM ATS and WASC are recognized by the LOCALE The Scriptures of the Old and New Because leaders confronted with complex U.S. Department of Education. WSC is Located in beautiful, culturally rich Testaments, breathed out by the Spirit of issues in the church need to advance in approved for the Veterans Administration’s Escondido, and situated in North San God through human authors, are the very scholarship, critical discernment, and educational benefits, the California State Diego County, Westminster Seminary Word of God written—the only infallible spiritual maturity, WSC maintains a Graduate Fellowship Program, and the California is just minutes from the Pacific and inerrant authority for faith and life. culture that encourages students in the California Guaranteed Student Loan Ocean. The sunny beaches, Mediterranean exercise of academic freedom. Believing Program. climate, and countless attractions make The doctrines of the Christian faith, held that intense study and rigorous thought this region a popular vacation destination. by orthodox churches throughout the ages, should be an act of spiritual devotion, The Seminary is also authorized under express the central truths concerning the Westminster Seminary California seeks to Federal law to enroll nonimmigrant alien The celebrated San Diego Zoo and San triune God and his works of creation become a community of scholar-servants students under approved F-1 status. Diego Wild Animal Park are in close and redemption, particularly as they who love God with all their minds and proximity. The California Center for the confess the saving work of Jesus Christ hearts, and who love others for his sake. NON-DISCRIMINATION POLICY Arts offers live performances ranging from as revealed in Scripture. The Reformed Westminster Seminary California does classical symphonies to modern theater confessions (Westminster Confession and ACCREDITATION not discriminate on the basis of race, productions by internationally acclaimed Catechisms, Heidelberg Catechism, Belgic Westminster Seminary California is an age, color, national or ethnic origin, artists. Downtown Escondido features Confession, and the Canons of Dort) are accredited school of theology at the disability, or gender in the administration quaint shops, antique car shows, and a the fullest and most accurate summary of graduate level, authorized by the California of its educational policies, admissions weekly farmers’ market of fresh produce. the system of doctrine revealed in Holy Superintendent of Public Instruction to policies, services, or scholarship and loan North San Diego County also offers some Scripture. The Church is to be governed grant graduate theological degrees upon programs. of the top hospitals and medical facilities according to the principles of Presbyterian recommendation of the Faculty and by the in the nation, including the Scripps church polity, as agreeable to Scripture. authority of the Board of Trustees. WSC believes that men and women are Hospitals, Children’s Hospital in San equally created in the image of God and Diego, and Palomar Medical Center. STUDENT BODY Westminster Seminary California is have distinct and complementary roles in Westminster Seminary California serves accredited by the Accrediting Commission the order of the family and the church. The As one of the nation’s fastest growing regions an evangelical and Reformed student for Senior Colleges and Universities of Board and Faculty understand the biblical for biomedical and telecommunications body from over 21 denominations. the Western Association of Schools criteria for ordained gospel ministry as industries, San Diego is on the cutting edge WSC students come from 24 states and Colleges, 985 Atlantic Ave., Suite limited to qualified males. Because the of science and technology. It is home to and 11 countries. Graduates from WSC 100, Alameda, California, 94501, phone: purpose of the Master of Divinity program several first-class academic and research are serving Christ and his church in (510) 748-9001. is to prepare candidates for ordained institutions, including the University of Singapore, the United Kingdom, Korea, pastoral ministry, only men are admitted California at San Diego, Salk Institute, Spain, England, Nigeria, Malawi, South WSC is also accredited by the Commission to this program. Scripps Institution of Oceanography, and Africa, and other countries. on Accrediting of the Association of Scripps Clinic. Since San Diego is one Theological Schools in the United States and Since God bestows gifts and callings of the largest cities in the nation, the The Seminary’s location in southern Canada, 10 Summit Park Drive, Pittsburgh, to unordained ministry to both men and developing economy is also advantageous California, near Mexico and accessible Pennsylvania, 15275, phone: (412) 788- women, both are encouraged to cultivate in affording exceptional employment to the Asian nations of the Pacific Rim, 6505, which has approved the Master of their gifts and enroll into any of the opportunities for students. encourages the student body to reflect the Divinity degree and Master of Arts (Biblical Master of Arts programs. Master of Arts ethnic diversity of the church throughout Studies, Historical Theology Studies, and students are eligible to receive financial the world. Theological Studies) degree programs. aid and other services that WSC provides to its student body.

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INSTITUTE OF REFORMED CENTER FOR PASTORAL In 2008, CPR received another grant to BAPTIST STUDIES REFRESHMENT advance the work begun in 2003. The new In 1997, the Association of Reformed Through a generous grant from the Lilly phase of the initiative is entitled, “Leaving Baptist Churches of America established Endowment, Inc., Westminster Seminary a Legacy: Fostering Excellence Among the Institute of Reformed Baptist Studies California launched the Center for Pastoral the Next Generation of Korean-American (IRBS) to provide formal training for Refreshment (CPR) for Korean-American Pastoral Leaders.” CPR aims to help ministerial students. IRBS offers a pastors in the summer of 2003. The pastoral leaders by providing an avenue for challenging curriculum of theological, program is designed to refresh pastors intellectual challenge, social interaction FACULTY historical, and pastoral courses that mentally, spiritually, and physically, so with peers, physical rest, and mentoring. complement the WSC Master of Divinity that they can return to their churches re- In turn, congregations themselves will program to provide a comprehensive energized and better equipped to lead with benefit from a re-energized and refocused preparation for pastoral ministry in vision, enthusiasm, and renewed passion. minister—whether he is in his first year of Reformed Baptist and other churches. ministry or in his twentieth. The CPR Summer Sabbatical includes The faculty of IRBS subscribes to the seminars taught by WSC faculty, system of doctrine contained in the consultations on health and fitness, Scriptures as summarized in the London recreation, and guided wilderness trips Baptist Confession of Faith of 1689. through the beauty of God’s creation in Subordinate to the Word of God, this nearby mountains, desert, and ocean. confessional standard is at the heart of Pastors in this program also have access to the IRBS curriculum. Because the IRBS the CPR study lounge on campus throughout program is focused on pastoral preparation the year for brief retreats and reflection. and is designed to complement the Seminary’s Master of Divinity curriculum, students must be accepted into the M. Div. program before they can be admitted to IRBS.

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W. ROBERT GODFREY DENNIS E. JOHNSON HYWEL R. JONES MICHAEL S. HORTON President Academic Dean Professor of Practical Theology J. Gresham Machen Professor of Systematic Theology Professor of Church History Professor of Practical Theology and Apologetics B.A., University of Wales; M.A., University of Cambridge; A.B., Stanford University; M.Div., Gordon-Conwell B.A., Westmont College; M.Div. and Th.M., Westminster Ph.D., Greenwich University School of Theology (UK). B.A., Biola University; M.A., Westminster Seminary California; Theological Seminary; M.A. and Ph.D., Stanford University. Theological Seminary; Ph.D., Fuller Theological Seminary. Ph.D., University of Coventry and Wycliffe Hall, Oxford. Dr. Jones was ordained in the Presbyterian Church of Dr. Johnson has taught at Westminster Seminary California since Dr. Godfrey has taught church history at Westminster 1982. He previously pastored Orthodox Presbyterian churches Wales in 1963 and ministered in several pastorates in Dr. Horton has taught apologetics and theology at Seminary California since 1981. He taught previously at in Fair Lawn, New Jersey, and East Los Angeles, California. Wales and England over 25 years. During those years, he Westminster Seminary California since 1998. In addition Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, Stanford University, After teaching New Testament for 16 years, he now teaches was a member of the executive committee of the British to his work at the Seminary, he is the president of White and Westminster Theological Seminary in Philadelphia. He primarily preaching and ministry courses, in which he applies Evangelical Council of Churches, editor of its theological Horse Media, for which he co-hosts the White Horse Inn, is the third President of Westminster Seminary California his background in biblical studies to the issues of ministry, the journal and chairman of its study conference. In addition a nationally syndicated, weekly radio talk-show exploring and is a minister in the United Reformed Churches. He has church, and the culture. In 2003, Dr. Johnson began his third he was co-chairman of the Westminster Fellowship of issues of Reformation theology in American Christianity. spoken at many conferences including those sponsored tenure as the Seminary’s Academic Dean. Ministers succeeding Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones. The London He is also the editor-in-chief of Modern Reformation by the Lausanne Committee for World Evangelization, Theological Seminary commenced in 1977 and Dr. Jones magazine. Before coming to WSC, Dr. Horton completed the Philadelphia Conference on Reformed Theology, and He is Associate Pastor of New Life Presbyterian Church, a growing became its first principal in 1985, lecturing in Hebrew and a Research Fellowship at Yale University Divinity School. Presbyterian Church in America congregation in Escondido. He Ligonier Ministries. biblical studies, hermeneutics, and homiletics. During that A member of various societies, including the American has served as moderator of the Orthodox Presbyterian Church General Assembly and Presbytery of Southern California, time he also taught in Romania, Malaysia, Australia, New Academy of Religion and the Evangelical Theological He is the author of An Unexpected Journey, Reformation moderator of South Coast Presbytery in the Presbyterian Church Zealand, and Italy. In 1995, he was Scholar in Residence at Society, Dr. Horton is the author/editor of twenty books, Sketches, Pleasing God in Our Worship and God’s Pattern in America, member of the Orthodox Presbyterian Church Reformed Theological Seminary in Jackson, MS; and since including a series of studies in Reformed dogmatics for Creation. He has written chapters or articles in John Committee on Christian Education, and trustee of Covenant 1998 has been a member of the Adjunct Faculty at Puritan published by Westminster John Knox, whose final volume Calvin, His Influence in the Western World; Through College. Dr. Johnson has been privileged to preach and teach in and Reformed Theological Seminary in Michigan. Before (People and Place: A Covenant Ecclesiology) was published Christ’s Word; Theonomy: A Reformed Critique; The Agony Chad, Malaysia, Mexico, Singapore, Thailand, and the Ukraine. coming to Westminster Seminary California in 2000, he in 2008. of Deceit; Roman Catholicism; Sola Scriptura; The Practice served for four years as Editorial Director of the Banner of Confessional Subscription; The Coming Evangelical He is the author of Triumph of the Lamb: A Commentary on of Truth Trust. In addition to the popular Putting Amazing Back Into Grace, Crisis; and in such journals as Archive for Reformation Revelation; Let’s Study Acts; The Message of Acts in the History Dr. Horton’s latest books are Covenant and Salvation: Union of Redemption; and Him We Proclaim: Preaching Christ from All History, Sixteenth-Century Journal, and Westminster Dr. Jones has written commentaries on Exodus, Philippians, with Christ, Lord and Servant: A Covenant Christology, God the Scriptures, as well as articles and reviews in Westminster Theological Journal. Theological Journal, Journal of the Evangelical Theological and most recently, Job. He has also written Gospel and of Promise: Introducing Covenant Theology, Too Good to be Society, Journal of the Evangelical Homiletical Society, and Church; Unity in Truth; Only One Way; and Let’s Study True: Finding Hope in a World of Hype, and A Better Way: Dr. Godfrey and his wife, Mary Ellen, have three grown Ligonier Ministries’ Tabletalk. He has contributed essays to Hebrews. He contributed two essays to the Faculty Rediscovering the Drama of God-Centered Worship. He children who all reside in California. volumes such as The New Testament Student and Theology; Symposium, Covenant, Justification, and Pastoral Ministry. has written articles for Modern Reformation, Pro Ecclesia, Theonomy: A Reformed Critique; The Pattern of Sound Doctrine; Christianity Today, The International Journal of Systematic and Covenant, Justification, and Pastoral Ministry: Essays by the He and and his wife, Nansi, have been married for more Theology, Touchstone, and Books and Culture. Faculty of Westminster Seminary California. He is a contributor to than 45 years. They are blessed with three children and five the Spirit of the Reformation Study Bible and the English Standard granddaughters. Their son-in-law studied at Westminster Dr. Horton is a minister in the United Reformed Churches Version Study Bible (forthcoming). He also edited Foundations Seminary California and is now a pastor in England. of North America. He has served two churches in Southern of Christian Education, a collection of addresses to Christian California. He resides in Escondido, California, with his schoolteachers by Cornelius Van Til and Louis Berkhof. wife, Lisa, and their four children. Dr. Johnson and his wife, Jane, have four married children, whose families are scattered from Florida to Asia.

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STEVEN M. BAUGH DAVID M. VANDRUNEN R. SCOTT CLARK BRYAN D. ESTELLE Professor of New Testament Robert B. Strimple Professor of Systematic Theology and Professor of Church History and Historical Theology Associate Professor of Old Testament Christian Ethics B.A. and B.A., University of Oregon; M.A.R. and M.Div., B.A., University of Nebraska; M.Div., Westminster B.A., University of Oregon; M.Div., Westminster Seminary Seminary California; D.Phil., Oxford University. Westminster Seminary California; Ph.D., University of B.A., Calvin College; M.Div., Westminster Seminary California; M.A. and Ph.D., The Catholic University of America. California, Irvine. California; Th.M., Trinity Evangelical Divinity School; J.D., Dr. Clark has taught at Westminster Seminary California Northwestern University School of Law; Ph.D., Loyola since 1997, during which time he also served as Academic Dr. Estelle is a minister in the Orthodox Presbyterian Dr. Baugh has taught part- and full-time at Westminster University Chicago. Dean (1997-2000). He has taught at Wheaton College, Church. He has taught at Westminster Seminary California Seminary California since 1983. He is a minister in the Reformed Theological Seminary, Jackson, and Concordia since 2000. Previously, he was a pastor in an Orthodox University, Irvine. He has been a minister in the Reformed Orthodox Presbyterian Church and is actively engaged in Dr. VanDrunen, a minister of the Orthodox Presbyterian Church in the United States and is presently a minister in the Presbyterian congregation in Maryland and was involved in preaching and teaching at Escondido Orthodox Presbyterian Church and a licensed attorney in the state of Illinois, United Reformed Churches. He has served congregations planting a church in Oregon for the Presbyterian Church in Church and elsewhere. began teaching at Westminster Seminary California in in Missouri and California. At present, he is Associate America. He lectured in Hebrew at The Catholic University 2001. Prior to this, from 1999–2001, he served as a pastor Pastor of the Oceanside United Reformed Church, where between 1997 and 2000. He is a member of the Society of One of Dr. Baugh’s main concerns has been to develop of Grace Orthodox Presbyterian Church in Hanover Park, IL. he preaches and teaches regularly. Biblical Literature and the Catholic Biblical Association. a more effective and integrated curriculum in Greek Currently, he serves on the Orthodox Presbyterian Church’s Among his publications are Recovering the Reformed instruction for the Seminary. To this end, he wrote the two Committee on Christian Education and Subcommittee on Confession, Covenant, Justification, and Pastoral Ministry He is the author of Salvation through Judgment and Mercy: main textbooks used for Greek I-III: New Testament Greek Ministerial Training. His present research interests include (editor and contributor), Caspar Olevian and the Substance The Gospel According to Jonah. He has contributed essays for Interpreters and A First John Reader. Dr. Baugh was natural law, the two kingdoms doctrine, and bioethics. of the Covenant: The Double Benefit of Christ, Protestant to Covenant, Justification, and Pastoral Ministry: Essays by a contributor to the award-winning Zondervan Illustrated Scholasticism: Essays in Reassessment (editor and the Faculty of Westminster Seminary California, The Law Bible Backgrounds Commentary. He has written scholarly The 2004 recipient of the Acton Institute’s Novak Award, contributor), Reforming or Conforming: Post-Conservative is not of Faith: Essays on Works and Grace in the Mosaic Evangelicals and the the Emerging Church (contributor), articles for such anthologies as Women in the Church, he is the author of A Biblical Case for Natural Law and Baptism, Covenant, and Election, Theological Guide to Covenant (contributor and co-editor), and But Let A Man Still Sovereign: Contemporary Perspectives on Election, Law and Custom: The Thought of Thomas Aquinas and the Calvin’s Institutes: Essays and Analysis (contributor), Examine Himself: A Biblical and Confessional Critique of Foreknowledge, and Grace, and Marriage and Family in the Future of the Common Law, and editor of The Pattern of The Compromised Church: The Present Evangelical Paedocommunion. He has also contributed articles and Biblical World. He has also written for journals such as New Sound Doctrine: Systematic Theology at the Westminster Crisis (contributor), The Pattern of Sound Doctrine: reviews to The Biblical Historian, The Catholic Biblical Testament Studies, Journal of the Evangelical Theological Seminaries: Essays in Honor of Robert B. Strimple. He is Systematic Theology at the Westminster Seminaries: Quarterly, Maarav, Modern Reformation, New Horizons, Society, and Westminster Theological Journal. also co-editor of and contributor to The Law is not of Faith: Essays in Honor of Robert B. Strimple (contributor), The Ordained Servant, and Westminster Theological Journal. Westminster Confession into the 21st Century: Essays in Essays on Works and Grace in the Mosaic Covenant. His Remembrance of the 350th Anniversary of the Publication He and his wife, Kathy, enjoy living on their “Lazy B Ranch” scholarly articles have appeared in the Journal of Law and of the Westminster Confession of Faith (contributor), The Dr. Estelle and his wife, Lisa, have two sons and one in Valley Center with their three children. Religion, The American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly, Faith Once Delivered: Celebrating the Legacy of Reformed daughter. He and his family enjoy outdoor pursuits. Calvin Theological Journal, Journal of Church and State, Systematic Theology and the Westminster Assembly. The International Journal of Systematic Theology, The Essays in Honor of Dr. Wayne R. Spear (contributor), Journal of Markets and Morality, and The University of The New Dictionary of Theology (contributor), The New British Columbia Law Review. Dictionary of Christian Apologetics (contributor), and Covenant, Justification, and Pastoral Ministry: Essays by the Faculty of Westminster Seminary California (editor Dr. VanDrunen and his wife, Katherine, a Westminster and contributor). He has also written for The Westminster Seminary California graduate, live in Escondido with Theological Journal, The Concordia Theological Quarterly, their son. Tabletalk, Modern Reformation, and other popular magazines and websites.

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JULIUS J. KIM JOEL E. KIM JOSHUA J. VAN EE ELIZABETH E. PARK Dean of Students Assistant Professor of New Testament Assistant Professor of Hebrew and Old Testament Library Director Associate Professor of Practical Theology Assistant Professor of Theological Bibliography B.A., University of California, Los Angeles; M.Div., B.A., Geneva College; M.Div., Westminster Seminary B.A., Vanguard University; M.Div., Westminster Seminary Westminster Seminary California; Ph.D. Candidate, California; M.A. and Ph.D. Candidate, University of B.A., Covenant College; M.A., Westminster Seminary California; Ph.D., Trinity Evangelical Divinity School. Calvin Theological Seminary. California at San Diego. California; M.L.I.S., University of Wisconsin (Milwaukee).

Prior to taking his current position at Westminster Rev. Kim is an ordained minister in the Presbyterian Church Since 2002, Mr. Van Ee has taught various language Mrs. Park has served in the library at Westminster Seminary California, Dr. Kim ministered in a variety of in America and has served as Associate Pastor of Segaero and biblical studies classes at Westminster Seminary Seminary California since 2005 and was previously the ecclesiastical and academic settings. He has served in Presbyterian Church in Los Angeles. He taught historical California. He is a pastoral candidate in the United library assistant at Providence Christian College. Presbyterian Church in America churches in California and and systematic theology at Calvin Theological Seminary Reformed Churches of North America and has enjoyed Illinois. His current church calling is as Associate Pastor of and International Theological Seminary in Los Angeles, various opportunities to preach and teach. He is the son of Mrs. Park resides in Escondido with her husband, Gideon, where New Life Presbyterian Church in Escondido. Dr. Kim also as well as in Taiwan and Indonesia. He is the son of a a pastor in the Christian Reformed Church. they attend the Escondido Orthodox Presbyterian Church. continues to serve the broader Christian community as a pastor in the Christian Reformed Church. He has served preacher, speaker, and ministry consultant—especially for on the English Ministry pastoral staff of Korean-American His graduate work has included studies comparing Old the Korean-American church. While in Illinois, he taught churches during his M.Div. studies at WSC and subsequent Testament covenants with ancient treaties and legal texts. undergraduate communications at Trinity International to his graduation in 1997, in California and Michigan. In his dissertation, he is analyzing various images of future University and church history at Trinity Evangelical Divinity blessing in the prophets. He has studied in Israel and done School. Following a brief tenure as Visiting Scholar Rev. Kim’s doctoral dissertation, “The True and Genuine archaeological work in Jordan. In and out of the classroom, with the Faculty of Divinity at Cambridge University, Dr. Sense: Arminius and the Interpretation of Romans 7 in its he enjoys training students in the biblical languages and Kim returned to Southern California to serve as Dean of Historical Context,” is in progress under the supervision of literatures so that they can rightly understand and expound Students and to teach practical theology at WSC. Professor Richard Muller. the Scriptures. Dr. Kim also directs the Center for Pastoral Refreshment Rev. Kim and his wife, Sharon, reside in Escondido with He lives in Escondido with his wife, Heidi, and their at WSC, a unique institute dedicated to helping sustain their daughter and son. three children. pastoral excellence among Korean-American pastors. In addition to his doctoral concentration on English church history during the Restoration, his research interests include the history of preaching, homiletics, and Asian- American Christianity. His goals are to contribute both to the church and the academy through his teaching, preaching, and writing. He is the author of The Religion of Reason and the Reason for Religion: John Tillotson and the Latitudinarian Defense of Christianity, 1630–1694 and a contributor to Covenant, Justification, and Pastoral Ministry: Essays by the Faculty of Westminster Seminary California.

A native of South Korea and California, he and his wife, Ji Hee, a Westminster Seminary California graduate, reside in Escondido with their two daughters.

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ROBERT B. STRIMPLE DERKE P. BERGSMA PETER R. JONES DARRYL G. HART President Emeritus Professor Emeritus of Practical Theology Scholar in Residence and Adjunct Professor Adjunct Professor of Church History Professor Emeritus of Systematic Theology of Practical Theology A.B., Calvin College; B.D., Calvin Seminary; M.A., B.A., Temple University; M.A.R., Westminster Theological B.A., University of Delaware; B.D. and Th.M., Westminster Northwestern University; Drs., Free University of B.A., University of Wales; B.D., Gordon Divinity School; Seminary; M.T.S., Harvard University; M.A., Ph.D., Johns Theological Seminary; Ph.D., University of Toronto. Amsterdam; Rel.D., Chicago Theological Seminary. Th.M., Harvard Divinity School; Ph.D., Princeton Hopkins University. Theological Seminary. Dr. Strimple retired in 2001 after 41 years of teaching and Dr. Bergsma joined the Westminster Seminary California Dr. Hart taught church history and served as Academic Dean was honored as President Emeritus and Professor Emeritus of faculty in 1982. Dr. Jones was Professor of New Testament at Westminster at Westminster Seminary California from 2000-2003. He Systematic Theology. In 2003, an endowed Robert B. Strimple Seminary California from 1991 to 2003. has also taught church history at Westminster Theological Chair of Systematic Theology was established at WSC. He previously taught at Calvin College and pastored in Seminary in Philadelphia and directed the Institute for South Dakota, Illinois, and Michigan. He served in the He and his family came to the U.S. in 1991, after 18 years the Study of American Evangelicals at Wheaton College. After studying under John Murray at Westminster U.S. Navy and as a chaplain in the USN Reserve, retiring of cross-cultural mission work on behalf of the Presbyterian At present, he is Director of Academic Programs at the Theological Seminary in Philadelphia, Dr. Strimple taught at Eastern Christian Schools in Paterson, New Jersey, with the rank of captain. For many years, he was professor Church in America, assisting the theological training Intercollegiate Studies Institute in Wilmington, Delaware. Toronto Bible College (now Tyndale University College), of theology at Trinity Christian College in Palos Heights, of Reformed pastors and church planters in France. He and Westminster Theological Seminary in Philadelphia. He Illinois (during which he also served as the college’s acting taught Greek and New Testament at Princeton Theological He has authored many books and articles, including John moved to California in 1979 to serve as the founding dean president). Seminary, and was Professeur de Nouveau Testament and Williamson Nevin: High Church Calvinist; A Secular Faith: and first president of Westminster Seminary California. Director of the Master’s Programme, Faculté de Théologie Why Christianity Favors the Separation of Church and A minister emeritus of the United Reformed Churches, Dr. Réformée d’Aix-en-Provence. State; Seeking a Better Country: Three Hundred Years of Dr. Strimple has served the Orthodox Presbyterian Church Bergsma is a sought-after preacher and Bible conference American Presbyterianism (co-author); Deconstructing on theological study committees and as moderator of the speaker. Among his writings are The Idea of Predestination Among his writings are: A Second Moses According to 2 Evangelicalism; Recovering Mother Kirk; The Lost Soul 50th anniversary General Assembly (1986). He has taught in Sunni Islam and Classical Calvinism Compared, Biblical Corinthians 2:14-4:6; God’s Inerrant Word (contributor); “1 of American Protestantism; That Old-Time Religion in church leaders in China, Puerto Rico, Mexico, and England. Theological Reader, Redemption: The Triumph of God’s Corinthians 15:8—Paul the Last Apostle” Tyndale Bulletin; Modern America; With Reverence and Awe: Returning to His writings include The Modern Search for the Real Great Plan, Voices, Intermission, Practical Theology and The Gnostic Empire Strikes Back; La Deuxieme Epitre de the Basics of Reformed Worship (co-author); The University Jesus, Three Views on the Millennium and Beyond (co- the Ministry of the Church, 1952–1984 (contributor), Paul aux Corinthiens; Spirit Wars; Gospel Truth & Pagan Gets Religion; Fighting the Good Fight (co-author); and author), Studying the New Testament Today (contributor), and The Compromised Church (contributor). He has also Lies; Capturing the Pagan Mind; Cracking Da Vinci’s Code; Defending the Faith: J. Gresham Machen and the Crisis of Conflict: A Moment for Ministry (contributor); Christ the contributed to professional journals including Calvin Stolen Identity; The God of Sex, and articles in La Revue Conservative Protestantism in Modern America. Lord (contributor), Roman Catholicism (contributor), The Theological Journal, The Christian Scholar’s Review, Réformée, Etudes Evangéliques, Ichthus, and Hokhma. Coming Evangelical Crisis (contributor), Anselm: Aosta, Antithesis, and Insight. Dr. Hart is an elder in the Orthodox Presbyterian Church and Bec and Canterbury (contributor), and When Shall These In January 2003, Dr. Jones was named Scholar in serves on the OPC’s Committee on Christian Education. Things Be? A Reformed Response to Hyper-Preterism He and his wife, Doris, live in the Chicago area and spend Residence and Adjunct Professor at Westminster Seminary (contributor). In 2004, a festschrift was published in his time each year in Southern California, near WSC and their California. He is director of Christian Witness to a Pagan He lives in Chestnut Hill, Pennsylvania, with his wife, Ann. honor entitled The Pattern of Sound Doctrine: Systematic many Christian friends. Dr. Bergsma has continued to Planet, now truthXchange, a national and international Theology at the Westminster Seminaries: Essays in Honor teach part-time at Westminster Seminary California during teaching, preaching, and writing ministry for the church of Robert B. Strimple. the spring semester. and the campus. Dr. Strimple’s ministry has really been a joint undertaking with his wife, Alice, whom he met in InterVarsity Christian He and his wife, Rebecca, live in Escondido. Fellowship and married in 1955. Together they rejoice in four faithful children and twelve grandchildren.

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ALFRED J. POIRIER IAIN M. DUGUID R. C. SPROUL SAMUEL D. S. LING Adjunct Professor of Pastoral Counseling Visiting Professor of Old Testament Visiting Professor of Systematic Theology Visiting Professor of Missions

B.A., California State University, Chico; M.A.R. and B.Sc., Edinburgh University; M.Div., Westminster B.A., Westminster College; B.D., Pittsburgh Theological M.Div. and Th.M., Westminster Theological Seminary; M.Div., Westminster Seminary California; D.Min, Theological Seminary; Ph.D., Cambridge University. Seminary; Drs., Free University of Amsterdam; Litt.D., Ph.D., Temple University. Westminster Theological Seminary. Geneva College; L.H.D., Grove City College. Dr. Duguid is Professor of Religion at Grove City College Dr. Ling joined Westminster Seminary California as a Dr. Poirier serves as senior pastor of Rocky Mountain in Pennsylvania. A native of Great Britain, he taught at Dr. Sproul, a minister in the Presbyterian Church in America, visiting professor in 1998. He is the president of China Community Church (PCA) in Billings, Montana. He has Westminster Seminary California from 1996 through 2005. is recognized internationally as a teacher, author, and Horizon, a Reformed teaching ministry primarily serving pastored churches over the past 25 years in San Diego, He has also served as a missionary in Liberia, taught at preacher who calls the church to a humble apprehension the Chinese-speaking world. He has lectured widely in the California, and Eugene, Oregon. He is the Chairman of Reformed Seminary in Mississippi, and planted churches in of the holiness of God and the gospel truths summarized United States and across the Pacific Rim. He has served the Board of Peacemaker Ministries as well as one of its Fallbrook, California, and Oxford, England. He takes every in the Solas of the Reformation. He has been a visiting the Presbyterian Church in America as the coordinator adjunct instructors and mediators, conducting seminars for opportunity to share his love for the Scriptures around professor at Westminster Seminary California since 1996. of Chinese Ministries and as a consultant on Chinese a variety of evangelical denominations and churches. the world: he has taught in Latvia, the Ukraine, Canada, ministries in New York City, where he also served as a and South Africa. In his seminary classes, Dr. Duguid is He has taught at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, church planter. He is the author of The Peacemaking Pastor: A Biblical Guide eager to help students learn how to preach Christ from Reformed Theological Seminary, and Knox Theological For Resolving Church Conflict and Words that Cut: Receiving ancient Hebrew texts in ways that minister to the hearts of Seminary. He is the founder and chairman of Ligonier Dr. Ling pastored churches in New York and Chicago and Criticism in Light of the Gospel. He has also contributed contemporary congregations. Ministries, and a monthly contributor to Ligonier’s Tabletalk served as the Director of Chinese Studies at Wheaton articles to Journal on Biblical Counseling, Equip, and The magazine. He has exercised leadership in the International College. He is the author of Chinese Intellectuals and the Presbyterian Church in Bangladesh Publishing. Dr. Duguid’s Ph.D. thesis, Ezekiel and the Leaders of Council on Biblical Inerrancy and the Reformation Study Gospel, The “Chinese” Way of Doing Things, Soul Searching Israel, was published by E.J. Brill. He has also written Bible (general editor). Among his publications are: Knowing (editor and contributor), and more than 500 essays on a commentary on Ezekiel in the NIV Application series, Scripture, Classical Apologetics, The Holiness of God, missiology, evangelism, apologetics, and related topics. on Daniel (Reformed Expository Commentary), and on Chosen by God, Lifeviews, One Holy Passion, Surprised by Numbers in the Preach the Word series, along with Suffering, The Hunger for Significance, Essential Truths of books on Abraham (Living in the Gap Between Promise the Christian Faith, The Soul’s Quest for God, Faith Alone, and Reality), Isaac and Jacob (Living in the Grip of The Invisible Hand, and Grace Unknown. Relentless Grace), and the Beatitudes (Hero of Heroes). He is Old Testament editor for the Reformed Expository He and his wife, Vesta, live in Florida. Commentary and has authored the volumes on Esther & Ruth and Daniel. He has contributed articles and reviews in the Westminster Theological Journal, Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society, Catholic Biblical Quarterly, Themelios and Tabletalk. He was a translator for the Holman Christian Standard Version of the Bible and a contributor to the New Living Translation Study Bible, the ESV Study Bible and the HCSV Study Bible.

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KIM RIDDLEBARGER RICHARD LINTS JAMES M. RENIHAN CHAD B. VAN DIXHOORN Visiting Professor of Systematic Theology Visiting Professor of Theology Visiting Professor of Church History Visiting Professor of Historical Theology

B.A., California State University at Fullerton; M.A., Simon B.A., Westminster College; M.A., University of Notre B.S., Liberty Baptist College; M.Div., Seminary of the East; B.A., Huron College; M.Div. and Th.M., Westminster Greenleaf University; M.A.R., Westminster Seminary Dame; Ph.D., University of Notre Dame; A.M., University Ph.D., Trinity Evangelical Divinity School. Theological Seminary; Ph.D., University of Cambridge. California; Ph.D., Fuller Theological Seminary. of Chicago. Dr. Renihan has been a professor at the Institute of Dr. Van Dixhoorn has taught at Westminster Seminary Dr. Riddlebarger has been a visiting professor at Dr. Lints is Andrew Mutch Professor of Theology at Gordon- Reformed Baptist Studies (IRBS) in Escondido, California, California since 2006, where he also directs the Westminster Seminary California since 2000. He is Conwell Theological Seminary. He has spent considerable since 1998. He is currently Professor of Historical Theology Cambridge Study Program. He has taught at the University a minister in the United Reformed Churches in North time studying the postmodern culture and its effect on and Dean of IRBS. He has lectured at The Southern Baptist of Nottingham and the University of Cambridge. He is a America and pastor of Christ Reformed Church in Anaheim, Christianity. He is also an ordained teaching elder in the Theological Seminary (Northeast Extension), the Faculté minister in the Orthodox Presbyterian Church, formerly California. He has taught as adjunct professor of systematic Presbyterian Church in America, currently serving as a de Théologie Évangélique de Montréal and several other serving as Associate Minister at Cambridge Presbyterian theology and apologetics at Simon Greenleaf University committee chair in the Southern New England Presbytery. schools. An ordained minister, he has served congregations Church in the UK. At present, Dr. Van Dixhoorn serves as and visiting professor in Reformation studies at Concordia He has taught at the Yale Divinity School, Trinity College in in Massachusetts and New York. Associate Pastor of Grace Orthodox Presbyterian Church University. He has co-hosted The White Horse Inn national Bristol, England, and the University of Notre Dame. in Vienna, Virginia, and as a senior research fellow at radio broadcast since 1990. He regularly contributes Among his publications are Edification and Beauty: The Wolfson College (University of Cambridge). articles to Modern Reformation and is a scholar of the His publications include The Fabric of Theology, Personal Practical Ecclesiology of the English Particular Baptists, theology of B.B. Warfield. Identity in Theological Perspective (co-editor), and Radical 1675-1705, True Confessions: Baptist Documents in the His articles, essays and reviews have appeared in Ironies: Religion and the Rise of Postmodernity in the 1960s. Reformed Family, Daily Treasure: 366 Daily Readings Reformation and Renaissance Review, Westminster Among his publications are The Man of Sin: Uncovering the Truth from Charles Spurgeon’s Treasury of David (editor), and Theological Journal, The Historical Journal, The Journal about the Antichrist, A Case for Amillennialism: Understanding Denominations or Associations? Essays on Reformed of Presbyterian History, Oxford Dictionary of National the End Times, Power Religion (contributor), Christ the Lord Baptist Associations (editor and contributor). He has also Biography, The Records of the Scottish Church History (contributor), and Roman Catholicism: Evangelicals Analyze published articles in Reformed Baptist Theological Review, Society, and Reformation and Revival Journal, or are What Unites and What Divides Us (contributor). The Gospel Witness, Banner of Truth, American Baptist forthcoming in The Sixteenth Century Journal and The Quarterly, and other periodicals. Westminster Confession of Faith in the 21st Century.

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LECTURERS

JASON W. BARRIE FRED E. KLETT Lecturer in Pastoral Counseling Lecturer in Missiology DEGREE PROGRAMS B.S., United States Military Academy; B.A., Towson State College; M.Div., Westminster Seminary California; M.A.R., Westminster Theological Seminary. D.Min. Candidate, Westminster Theological Seminary. ROD S. MAYS RICHARD W. BISHOP Lecturer in Practical Theology Lecturer in Church History B.A., Covenant College; B.A., Wheaton College; M.Ed., West Georgia College; M.A.H.T., Westminster Seminary California; D. Min., Luther Rice Seminary; Ph.D. Candidate, University of Virginia. Graduate studies, New Orleans Baptist Seminary, Southern Seminary. DAVID A. CRUM Lecturer in Missions S. STEVE PARK B.A., Moravian College; Lecturer in Missions M.A.R. and M.Div., Westminster Theological Seminary. B.A., University of British Columbia; M.A.R., Westminster Seminary California; MARY ELLEN GODFREY M.Div. and Ph.D., Westminster Theological Seminary. Lecturer in Graduate Theological Writing B.A., Stanford University; EDWARD W. POWERS M.A., Case Western Reserve University. Lecturer in Practical Theology B.A., University of Michigan; RYAN D. GLOMSRUD M.Div., Gordon Conwell Theological Seminary; Lecturer in Historical Theology D.Min., Covenant Theological Seminary. B.A., Wheaton College; M.A.H.T., Westminster Seminary California; DANIEL L. SCHWARTZ D.Phil. Candidate, University of Oxford. Lecturer in Church History B.A., University of California, Santa Barbara; THEODORE C. HAMILTON M.A., Trinity Evangelical Divinity School; Lecturer in Homiletics M.A., Ph.D. Candidate, Princeton University. A.B., Stanford University; J.D., Stanford University Law School; ANEES ZAKA SIHA M.Div., Westminster Seminary California. Lecturer in Missiology B.A., Ein Shams University, Cairo; ZACHARY R. KEELE M.Div., Evangelical Presbyterian Theological Seminary, Cairo; Lecturer in English Bible Th.M. and D.Min., Westminster Theological Seminary. B.A., Geneva College; M.Div., Westminster Seminary California.

26 27 Educating and forming candidates for official, ordained 26 UNITS BIBLICAL STUDIES ministries of instruction and leadership in the church 10 UNITS CHURCH HISTORY as pastors, evangelists, and teachers is the main 24 UNITS SYSTEMATICS & APOLOGETICS purpose of the Master of Divinity degree program. It 22 UNITS PRACTICAL THEOLOGY is designed to prepare ordained leaders who believe 6 UNITS ELECTIVE and love the Word of God, and who, therefore, strive to explore, communicate, and defend the depth and breadth of the instruction of the Scriptures for faith and MASTER OF DIVINITY PROGRAM MASTER OF DIVINITY PROGRAM COURSE REQUIREMENTS 88 UNITS TOTAL DEGREE UNITS life. Graduates should be able to interpret individual 3 110 UNITS TOTAL UNITS INCLUDING PROPAEDEUTIC portions of Scripture accurately, to systematize data into a coherent and comprehensive theology, understanding the church’s historic reflection on the Word, and to apply this theology to the church and to individuals through

UNITS COURSE CODE COURSE NAME JUNIOR YEAR UNITS COURSE CODE COURSE NAME MIDDLER YEAR UNITS COURSE CODE COURSE NAME SENIOR YEAR preaching, witness, leadership, and spiritual nurture. 5. The abilities to communicate and apply Scripture’s The curriculum is designed to prepare graduates to instruction to the church and individuals through: 4 NT400 Greek I meet the requirements for ordination as ministers of the a. Preaching b. Liturgy and Sacraments

SUMMER TERM 4 TOTAL TERM UNITS Word, particularly in Reformed and other evangelical denominations. Because the Seminary Board and c. Witness 2 CH601 Ancient Church Faculty understand the criteria set down in Scripture as d. Leadership 4 ST501 The Christian Mind limiting candidacy for official teaching and leadership e. Spiritual Nurture 3 PT500 Ministry of the Word 4 NT601 Gospels and Acts 3 OT701 Psalms & Wisdom Books ministry in the church to qualified males, only men are 6. The ability to defend the breadth and depth of 1 PT502 Theological Bibliography 4 ST601 Doctrine of God & Man 4 CH701 Church in Modern Age admitted to the Master of Divinity program. Women Scripture’s instruction for faith and life 1 PT400 Graduate Theological Writing1 2 PT600 Ministry of Discipleship 4 ST701 Doctrine of the Holy Spirit are encouraged to enroll in any of the Master of Arts 7. Respect for the freedom to draw theological 1 PT410 Practicum: Oral Communication1 1 PT603 Preaching Narratives 3 PT702 Pastoral Ministry Seminar programs. conclusions from the examination of evidence 3 OT400 Hebrew I 2 OT403 Hebrew IV 2 NT701 General Epistles & Revelation and the exchange of ideas 3 NT401 Greek II 2 ELECTIVE 1 PT704 Preaching and Audience Analysis It is the aim of Westminster Seminary California that 8. Knowledge of the various Christian traditions and

FALL SEMESTER FALL 18 TOTAL SEMESTER UNITS 15 TOTAL SEMESTER UNITS 17 TOTAL SEMESTER UNITS its Master of Divinity graduates demonstrate these key non-Christian systems of thought, and the ability 2 PT505 Counseling Orientation attributes: to articulate the persuasiveness of other views 1 OT401 Hebrew II 9. Godly character and spiritual maturity as requisite 1 NT402 Greek III 4 PT511 Ministry of Witness 2 ELECTIVE 1. Belief in and love for God and his Word for ordained leadership as a shepherd of God’s flock 10.The ability to meet churches’ academic WINTER TERM 4 TOTAL TERM UNITS 4 TOTAL TERM UNITS 2 TOTAL TERM UNITS 2. The ability to interpret individual portions of Scripture accurately, employing understanding of: requirements for ordination as ministers of the 4 OT501 Pentateuch 3 OT601 Historical Books 3 OT702 Prophetical Books a. The original languages of the Scriptures Word, especially in Presbyterian and 4 NT501 New Testament Interpretation 3 NT602 Pauline Theology 3 ST702 The Christian Life b. The historical situation and redemptive- Reformed denominations 1 PT504 Sermon Prep. & Delivery 4 CH602 Medieval Church & Reformation 3 ST703 Doctrine of the Church historical context of the text 4 OT402 Hebrew III 3 ST602 Doctrine of Christ 1 PT708 Preaching & Congregational Life c. The structures and conventions of biblical literature The degree is conferred upon the completion of the 2 NT403 Greek IV 3 AP601 The Modern Mind 2 PT707 Senior Seminar 3. A sound understanding of the main themes of prescribed program, which requires three years of full- 0 FE6912 Pastoral Internship 1 PT604 Preaching Doctrine & Ethic Texts 2 ELECTIVE Scripture in their systematic relations, and the time study or a longer period of part-time study. The

SPRING SEMESTER 15 TOTAL SEMESTER UNITS 17 TOTAL SEMESTER UNITS 14 TOTAL SEMESTER UNITS ability to articulate the Reformed system of faith courses prescribed should be taken in the sequence 21 Total Degree Units 34 Total Degree Units 33 Total Degree Units and practice indicated on page 28. The Academic Dean is available 41 Total with Propaedeutic3 36 Total with Propaedeutic3 33 Total with Propaedeutic3 4. The ability to articulate exegetical and theological for counsel concerning each student’s needs. 1 May be waived, see page 74. conclusions in light of the history of the church’s 2 Registration for FE691 is required by spring semester, is three units and includes reflection on the Word 700 internship hours. 3 Units required in Hebrew, Greek, writing and oral communication courses are not included in the degree units as they are considered propaedeutic. 29 Women and men develop understanding and skills in interpreting the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments through the 26 UNITS BIBLICAL STUDIES Master of Arts (Biblical Studies) program. Graduates should be 2 UNITS CHURCH HISTORY2 able to apply their knowledge of the biblical languages, historical 14 UNITS SYSTEMATICS & APOLOGETICS circumstances, and literary and theological interrelationships 3 UNITS PRACTICAL THEOLOGY to exegete Scripture accurately. They should also analyze 8 UNITS ELECTIVE contemporary trends in biblical interpretation with discernment. Graduates of this program are prepared to pursue graduate MASTER OF ARTS PROGRAM MASTER OF ARTS PROGRAM BIBLICAL STUDIES 53 UNITS TOTAL DEGREE UNITS research programs in Old or New Testament studies; or, with 3 BIBLICAL STUDIES COURSE REQUIREMENTS 74 UNITS TOTAL UNITS INCLUDING PROPAEDEUTIC & MISC. further practical training, to use their biblical knowledge in such ministries as teaching, missions, counseling, or lay church leadership. This program is not meant to prepare candidates for ordination to the ministry of the Word.

UNITS COURSE CODE COURSE NAME JUNIOR YEAR UNITS COURSE CODE COURSE NAME SENIOR YEAR It is the aim of Westminster Seminary California that its 4 NT400 Greek I Master of Arts (Biblical Studies) graduates demonstrate these

SUMMER TERM 4 TOTAL TERM UNITS key attributes:

1. Belief in and love for God and his Word 2. The ability to interpret individual portions of Scripture 4 ST501 The Christian Mind 3 OT701 Psalms & Wisdom Books accurately, employing understanding of: 1 PT502 Theological Bibliography 4 NT601 Gospels and Acts a. The original languages of the Scriptures 1 PT400 Graduate Theological Writing1 4 ST701 Doctrine of the Holy Spirit b. The historical situation and redemptive-historical 3 OT400 Hebrew I 2 NT701 General Epistles & Revelation context of the text 3 NT401 Greek II 2 OT403 Hebrew IV c. The structures and conventions of biblical literature 2 ELECTIVE 2 ELECTIVE 3. A sound understanding of the main themes of Scripture

FALL SEMESTER FALL 14 TOTAL SEMESTER UNITS 17 TOTAL SEMESTER UNITS in their systematic relations, and the ability to articulate 1 OT401 Hebrew II the Reformed system of faith and practice 1 NT402 Greek III 4. Respect for the freedom to draw theological conclusions 2 ELECTIVE 4 ELECTIVE from the examination of evidence and the exchange of ideas

WINTER TERM 4 TOTAL TERM UNITS 4 TOTAL TERM UNITS 5. Knowledge of the various Christian traditions and systems of thought, and the ability to articulate the persuasiveness 3 OT601 Historical Books of other views 3 OT702 Prophetical Books 6. The ability to communicate and apply Scripture’s instruction 4 OT501 Pentateuch 3 NT602 Pauline Epistles to individuals, the academy, and the church 4 NT501 New Testament Interpretation 3 ST602 Doctrine of Christ 7. Growing spiritual maturity consistent with Christian discipleship 4 OT402 Hebrew III 3 ST702 The Christian Life 2 NT403 Greek IV 2 PT707 Senior Seminar The degree is conferred upon the completion of the prescribed

SPRING SEMESTER 14 TOTAL SEMESTER UNITS 17 TOTAL SEMESTER UNITS program, which requires two years of full-time study or a 17 Total Degree Units 36 Total Degree Units longer period of part-time study. The courses prescribed for this 36 Total with Propaedeutic3 38 Total with Propaedeutic3 emphasis should be followed in the sequence indicated on page

1 May be waived, see page 74. 30. The Academic Dean is available for counsel concerning each 2 At least 2 semester units of electives must be taken in church history. student’s individual needs. 3 Units required in Hebrew, Greek, writing and oral communication courses are not included in the degree units as they are considered propaedeutic.

31 The main purpose of the Master of Arts (Theological Studies) program is to develop both the understanding 11 UNITS BIBLICAL STUDIES1 and skills needed to apply biblical truth to the intellectual 10 UNITS CHURCH HISTORY issues confronting the church and the surrounding 24 UNITS SYSTEMATICS & APOLOGETICS culture. Graduates should be able to exegete individual 3 UNITS PRACTICAL THEOLOGY passages of Scripture accurately and understand the 5 UNITS ELECTIVE system of truth revealed in the Scriptures, as well as MASTER OF ARTS PROGRAM the major issues in faith and life that the church has 53 UNITS TOTAL DEGREE UNITS MASTER OF ARTS PROGRAM THEOLOGICAL STUDIES 3 confronted throughout its history and in contemporary THEOLOGICAL STUDIES COURSE REQUIREMENTS 74 UNITS TOTAL UNITS INCLUDING PROPAEDEUTIC & MISC. intellectual and cultural movements. They should be able to systematize exegetical, historical, and situational data into a consistent and coherent

UNITS COURSE CODE COURSE NAME JUNIOR YEAR UNITS COURSE CODE COURSE NAME SENIOR YEAR theology, to offer a thoughtful defense of Christian theology, and to explain how this theology applies to an individual’s belief and behavior. Graduates of this 5. Respect for the freedom to draw theological 4 NT400 Greek I program are prepared to pursue research programs in conclusions from the examination of evidence

SUMMER TERM 4 TOTAL TERM UNITS such disciplines as theology, apologetics, and church and the exchange of ideas history; or, with further practical training, to use their 6. Knowledge of the various Christian traditions and 2 CH601 Ancient Church theological knowledge in such ministries as teaching, non-Christian systems of thought, and the ability 4 ST501 The Christian Mind missions, counseling, or lay church leadership. It is not to articulate the persuasiveness of other views 1 PT502 Theological Bibliography 4 CH701 Church in Modern Age the purpose of this program to prepare candidates for 7. The ability to communicate and apply Scripture’s 1 PT400 Graduate Theological Writing2 4 ST601 Doctrine of God & Man ordination to the ministry of the Word. instruction to individuals, the academy, and the church 3 OT400 Hebrew I 4 ST701 Doctrine of the Holy Spirit 8. Growing spiritual maturity consistent with 3 NT401 Greek II 2 OT403 Hebrew IV It is the aim of Westminster Seminary California that Christian discipleship 2 ELECTIVE 2 ELECTIVE its Master of Arts (Theological Studies) graduates demonstrate these key attributes: FALL SEMESTER FALL 16 TOTAL SEMESTER UNITS 16 TOTAL SEMESTER UNITS The degree is conferred upon the completion of the 1 OT401 Hebrew II prescribed program, which requires two years of 1. Belief in and love for God and his Word full-time study or a longer period of part-time study. 1 NT402 Greek III 2. The ability to interpret individual portions of 2 ELECTIVE 2 ELECTIVE The courses prescribed for this emphasis should be Scripture accurately, employing understanding of: followed in the sequence indicated. The Academic WINTER TERM 4 TOTAL TERM UNITS 2 TOTAL TERM UNITS a. The original languages of the Scriptures Dean is available for counsel concerning each student’s b. The historical situation and redemptive- individual needs. 4 OT501 Pentateuch 4 CH602 Medieval Church & Reformation historical context of the text 4 NT501 New Testament Interpretation 3 AP601 The Modern Mind 3. A thorough understanding of the main themes of 3 ST703 Doctrine of the Church 3 ST602 The Doctrine of Christ Scripture in their systematic relations, and the 4 OT402 Hebrew III 3 ST702 The Christian Life ability to articulate the Reformed system of faith 2 NT403 Greek IV 2 PT707 Senior Seminar and practice

SPRING SEMESTER 17 TOTAL SEMESTER UNITS 15 TOTAL SEMESTER UNITS 4. The ability to articulate exegetical and theological conclusions in light of the history of the church’s 22 Total Degree Units 31 Total Degree Units reflection on the Word 41 Total with Propaedeutic3 33 Total with Propaedeutic3

1 In addition to OT501 and NT501 at least 3 units of electives must be taken in Biblical Studies. 2 May be waived, see page 74. 3 Units required in Hebrew, Greek, writing and oral communication courses are not included in the degree units as they are considered propaedeutic.

33 The Master of Arts (Historical Theology) program is 1 4 UNITS BIBLICAL STUDIES designed to enable students to gain an understanding of 10 UNITS CHURCH HISTORY the historiography of theology, the historical development 17 UNITS HISTORICAL THEOLOGY of the various Christian theological traditions, and the 13 UNITS SYSTEMATICS & APOLOGETICS critical skills for evaluating them. Graduates will have 1 UNITS PRACTICAL THEOLOGY read and analyzed representative theologians and texts 9 UNITS ELECTIVE from the history of Christianity and demonstrated a MASTER OF ARTS PROGRAM grasp of the history of biblical exegesis. As a result they 54 UNITS TOTAL DEGREE UNITS should be able to give a coherent account of the history MASTER OF ARTS PROGRAM HISTORICAL THEOLOGY HISTORICAL THEOLOGY COURSE REQUIREMENTS 73 UNITS TOTAL UNITS INCLUDING PROPAEDEUTIC3 & MISC. of exegetical and dogmatic theology. They should also demonstrate historical sensitivity in evaluating theology, as well as a grasp of the intention behind the various theological formulations in each historical

UNITS COURSE CODE COURSE NAME JUNIOR YEAR UNITS COURSE CODE COURSE NAME SENIOR YEAR epoch. Graduates will possess an ability to relate the great issues of historical theology to contemporary 7. The ability to evaluate and use various 4 NT400 Greek I intellectual and cultural movements. Graduates of this historiographic models, integrating the best

SUMMER TERM 4 TOTAL TERM UNITS program are prepared to enter research programs in history and theology or, with further practical training, emphases of intellectual and social history 2 CH601 Ancient Church to use their theological knowledge in such ministries together with the history of Christian theology 1 HT501 Intro. to Historical Theology and biblical exegesis as teaching, missions, or lay church leadership. It is not 4 ST501 The Christian Mind 8. The ability to read primary historical texts the purpose of this program to prepare candidates for 1 PT502 Theological Bibliography carefully and contextually while displaying a ordination to the ministry of the Word. 1 PT400 Graduate Theological Writing2 command of secondary literature and debate on 3 OT400 Hebrew I It is the aim of Westminster Seminary California that the area of specialization 3 NT401 Greek II 4 CH701 Modern Age its Master of Arts (Historical Theology) graduates 9. The ability to write historical theology at an 2 ELECTIVE 12 ELECTIVE demonstrate these key attributes: advanced level, displaying, in their research and writing, a commitment to fairness in treating FALL SEMESTER FALL 17 TOTAL SEMESTER UNITS 16 TOTAL SEMESTER UNITS 1. Belief in and love for God and his Word alternative positions and a commitment to 2. A basic understanding of biblical hermeneutics, intellectual honesty that leads to revision of 1 OT401 Hebrew II drawing on conclusions as necessary in the light of research 1 NT402 Greek III 2 HT709 Thesis Proposal a. Knowledge of the original languages 10. The ability to recognize the major events, texts,

WINTER TERM 2 TOTAL TERM UNITS 2 TOTAL TERM UNITS b. The historical situation and redemptive- and persons in church history that have helped historical context of the text to shape understanding (and misunderstanding) 3. A sound understanding of the main themes of of the biblical text Scripture in their systematic relations, and the 11. Interest in and a propensity for a lifetime of 4 CH602 Medieval Church & Reformation learning and instruction 4 OT402 Hebrew III 3 AP601 The Modern Mind ability to articulate the Reformed system of doctrine 2 NT403 Greek IV 4 HT710 Thesis 4. Respect for the freedom to draw theological The degree is conferred upon completion of the 6 ELECTIVE 9 ELECTIVE conclusions from the examination of evidence prescribed program, which requires two years of full-time

SPRING SEMESTER 16 TOTAL SEMESTER UNITS 16 TOTAL SEMESTER UNITS and the exchange of ideas study or a longer period of part-time study and includes 5. Knowledge of the various Christian traditions and the production and oral presentation and defense of a 20 Total Degree Units 34 Total Degree Units non-Christian systems of thought, and the ability 39 Total with Propaedeutic4 34 Total with Propaedeutic4 written research thesis. The courses prescribed for this to articulate the persuasiveness of other views emphasis should be followed in the sequence indicated 1 Must be taken from OT501 or NT501. 6. Knowledge of the history of Christian theology 2 May be waived, see page 74. on page 34. The Academic Dean is available for counsel 3 The 29 units of required electives must be taken as follows: 10 hours in Historical Theology, 6 hours concerning each student’s academic needs. in Systematic Theology (ST must be taken from ST601, 602, 701, 702, or 703), 4 hours in Biblical Studies (BS must be taken from OT501 or NT501), 9 hours in any department. 4 Units required in Hebrew, Greek, writing and oral communication courses are not included in the degree units as they are considered propaedeutic. 35 The purpose of the Master of Arts (Christian Studies) 6 UNITS BIBLICAL STUDIES program is to enable church leaders and other men 6 UNITS CHURCH HISTORY and women to deepen their knowledge of God through 10 UNITS SYSTEMATICS & APOLOGETICS his self-disclosure in Christ and in the Scriptures and 8 UNITS PRACTICAL THEOLOGY to serve in the advance of his kingdom through his 2 UNITS RESEARCH AND COMMUNICATIONS church. The aims of the program are that graduates 20 UNITS ELECTIVE2 will be able to interpret the Old and New Testaments MASTER OF ARTS PROGRAM using resources available in English, to articulate the 52 UNITS TOTAL DEGREE UNITS system of truth revealed in the Scriptures, to defend it in MASTER OF ARTS PROGRAM CHRISTIAN STUDIES CHRISTIAN STUDIES COURSE REQUIREMENTS response to alternative worldviews, to address issues presently confronting the church in the light of its history and heritage, and to apply their understanding of the church and its ministries to their own roles as members

UNITS COURSE CODE COURSE NAME 2006-2007 UNITS COURSE CODE COURSE NAME 2008-2009 of the church of Christ. MACS courses are ordinarily 1 PT400 Graduate Theological Writing offered evenings and Saturdays, specifically to meet the 2 CH601 Ancient Church 1 PT502 Theological Bibliography needs of students whose employment or other weekday 7. Respect for the freedom to draw theological 4 ELECTIVE 2 PT525 Vocation & Church1 responsibilities prevent them from participating in the conclusions from the examination of evidence FALL SEMESTER FALL FALL SEMESTER FALL 6 TOTAL SEMESTER UNITS 4 ST501 The Christian Mind Master of Divinity or other Master of Arts programs. and the exchange of ideas 2 ELECTIVE 8. Growing spiritual maturity consistent with 10 TOTAL SEMESTER UNITS It is the aim of Westminster Seminary California Christian discipleship that its Master of Arts (Christian Studies) graduates demonstrate these key attributes: The degree is conferred upon the completion of the prescribed program, which requires 50 semester hours 1 2 OT520 English Bible Survey 2 CH530 Reformation & The Modern Church of study normally completed over four years of part-time 6 ELECTIVE 2 ELECTIVE 1. Belief in and love for God and his Word 2. A basic understanding of biblical hermeneutics, work. The curriculum consists of a core of 24 semester SPRING SEMESTER SPRING SEMESTER 8 TOTAL SEMESTER UNITS 4 TOTAL SEMESTER UNITS drawing on hours, distributed over four subject areas, plus 26 a. The historical situation and redemptive- semester hours of electives. MACS core courses are historical context of the text not transferable to WSC’s other degree programs (with the exceptions of OT520, CH601, ST501, and PT600),

UNITS COURSE CODE COURSE NAME 2007-2008 UNITS COURSE CODE COURSE NAME 2009-2010 b. The structures and conventions of biblical literature c. Bible study resources accessible in English but MACS students may take any other WSC courses as 3. A sound understanding of the main themes of electives to their program as long as the prerequisites 2 ST525 Redemption Accomplished & 2 OT530 Biblical Interpretation Scripture in their systematic relations, and the are met. Applied 4 ELECTIVE ability to articulate the Reformed system of doctrine 4 ELECTIVE 6 TOTAL SEMESTER UNITS 4. Knowledge of the history of the Christian church, (The MACS program has been discontinued; the last new FALL SEMESTER FALL FALL SEMESTER FALL 6 TOTAL SEMESTER UNITS and the ability to address issues presently applicants were admitted to the MACS program in fall confronting the church in light of its history and heritage 2006. MACS required courses will not be offered after 2 PT600 Ministry of Discipleship 5. The ability to defend the system of truth revealed spring 2010, and all MACS graduation requirements, 2 PT709 Vocation & Theology 2 ST520 God/Man/Christ in Scripture including elective hours, must be completed by spring 4 ELECTIVE 2 ELECTIVE 6. Growth in discernment of their callings and 2013 in order to receive the degree.) SPRING SEMESTER SPRING SEMESTER 8 TOTAL SEMESTER UNITS 4 TOTAL SEMESTER UNITS exercise of their spiritual and natural gifts in church and in society, serving Christ and other 1 Classes rotate in what is offered, but PT525 Vocation & Church and OT520 English Bible Survey people as faithful stewards will be offered every year and should be taken by students in their first year. Two additional hours of electives will need to be taken during a winter term, summer term, or semester to complete the program in four years. 2 A total of 28 hours are to be taken as electives. At least two hours must be taken in each of the following areas: Biblical Studies, Systematics/Apologetics, Church History, and Practical Theology. 37 WESTMINSTER SEMINARY CALIFORNIA CATALOGUE 2008-2009

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M. DIV. M.A.B. M.A.T. M.A.H.T. M.A.C.S. M. DIV. M.A.B. M.A.T. M.A.H.T. M.A.C.S. OLD TESTAMENT SYSTEMATIC THEOLOGY OT 400 Hebrew I 3 3 3 3 ST 501 The Christian Mind 4 4 4 4 4 OT 401 Hebrew II 1 1 1 1 ST 520 God, Man & Christ 2 OT 402 Hebrew III 4 4 4 4 ST 525 Redemption Accomplished & Applied 2 OT 403 Hebrew IV 2 2 2 ST 601 Doctrine of God & Man 4 4 OT 501 Pentateuch 4 4 4 ST 602 Doctrine of Christ 3 3 3 OT 520 English Bible 2 ST 701 Doctrine of the Holy Spirit 4 4 4 OT 530 Intro. to Biblical Interpretation 2 ST 702 The Christian Life 3 3 3 OT 601 Historical Books 3 3 ST 703 Doctrine of the Church 3 3 OT 701 Psalms & Wisdom Books 3 3 APOLOGETICS OT 702 Prophetical Books 3 3 AP 601 The Modern Mind 3 3 3 NEW TESTAMENT PRACTICAL THEOLOGY NT 400 Greek I 4 4 4 4 PT 400 Graduate Theological Writing 1 1 1 1 1 NT 401 Greek II 3 3 3 3 PT 410 Practicum: Oral Communication 1 NT 402 Greek III 1 1 1 1 PT 500 Ministry of the Word 3 NT 403 Greek IV 2 2 2 2 PT 502 Theological Bibliography 1 1 1 1 1 NT 501 New Testament Interpretation 4 4 4 PT 504 Practicum: Sermon Prep. & Delivery 1 NT 601 Gospels & Acts 4 4 PT 505 Counseling Orientation 2 NT 602 Pauline Theology 3 3 PT 511 Ministry of Witness in the World 4 NT 701 General Epistles & Revelation 2 2 PT 525 Vocation & Church 2 CHURCH HISTORY PT 600 Ministry of Discipleship in the Church 2 2 CH 530 Reformation & the Modern Church 2 PT 603 Practicum: Preaching Narratives 1 CH 601 The Ancient Church 2 2 2 2 2 PT 604 Practicum: Preaching Doctrinal/Ethical Texts 1 CH 602 The Medieval Church & Reformation 4 4 4 4 PT 702 Pastoral Ministry Seminar 3 CH 701 The Church in the Modern Age 4 4 4 4 PT 704 Practicum: Preaching Style & Audience Analysis 1 HISTORICAL THEOLOGY PT 707 Senior Seminar 2 2 2 HT 501 Introduction to Historical Theology 1 PT 708 Practicum: Preaching & Congregational Life 1 HT 709 Thesis Proposal 2 PT 709 Vocation & Theology 2 HT 710 Thesis 4 FIELD EDUCATION FE 691 Pastoral Internship 0 ELECTIVE UNITS 6 10 8 29 28 TOTAL DEGREE UNITS 88 54 54 55 50 TOTAL PROGRAM UNITS 110 74 74 73 52

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OT521 PREACHING CHRIST FROM THE BOOK OF JUDGES (1) aims to illustrate a methodology for dealing with prominent NEW TESTAMENT Exegesis of the Book of Judges in its canonical context with motifs in the Bible and will interact with recent theories of NT400 GREEK I (4) Intensive instruction in New Testament Greek with emphasis a view towards preaching in the local church context. Mr. intertextuality and theories of allusion. Prereqs., OT402 and NT403 or equivalent. Mr. Estelle. upon morphology and vocabulary. Summer term and Winter/ Duguid. Spring. Staff.

OT523 WORSHIP IN THE OLD TESTAMENT (1) OT630 INTRODUCTION TO ARAMAIC AND THE BOOK OF NT401 GREEK II (3) An overview of the sacred places, people, offerings, and DANIEL (2) This course presumes the work of Greek I or equivalent Introduction to the Aramaic language, both biblical Aramaic knowledge of Greek morphology and vocabulary determined COURSE DESCRIPTIONS festivals of the Old Testament. This course traces the by placement examination. It introduces intermediate syntax redemptive historical development of forms of worship and extra-biblical Aramaic are discussed. An exegetical and builds vocabulary, while reviewing the morphology from the Garden of Eden to the exilic period and beyond. and biblical-theological approach to the text of Daniel with learned in Greek I; it also covers 1 John 1-4 as example The focus will be exegetical, interacting with the biblical special focus on the Aramaic stories in Daniel 2-7. Prereq., passages for understanding Greek syntax for the purpose of OT402. Mr. Estelle. New Testament exegesis. Prereq., NT400 or placement by materials rather than with the historical-critical approaches. examination. Fall semester. Staff. The course’s goal is to form a solid biblical basis from which OT701 PSALMS AND WISDOM BOOKS (3) OLD TESTAMENT to address the issues of worship facing the contemporary NT402 GREEK III (1) Special introduction to the poetical books of the Old Testament OT400 HEBREW I (3) church. Mr. Duguid. This course presumes the work of Greek II and continues and to the nature of Hebrew poetry. This course examines instruction begun in Greek II. It includes further introduction Study of basic grammar and vocabulary. Fall semester. Mr. the wisdom literature (Proverbs, Job, and Ecclesiastes) to Greek syntax, surveys lexical semantics and the practice of Van Ee. OT528 UNDERSTANDING THE BOOK OF JOB (2) Greek word study procedures, and covers 1 John 5. Prereq., This course covers the literary and historical integrity of the with particular attention to the contribution of wisdom in NT401 or placement by examination. Winter term. Staff. its canonical context. Genre and contextual analysis of the OT401 HEBREW II (1) book of Job in the Wisdom literature of the Old Testament, Psalms, exegesis of selected passages, and development NT403 GREEK IV (2) Continuation of grammar and vocabulary study. Prereq., OT400 and how the summary of its theme and purpose are reflected of a biblical-theological approach to this literature are also This course presumes the work of Greek III. It includes or placement by examination. Winter term. Mr. Estelle. in the Epistle of James. The several phases of the story addressed. Prereqs., OT403 and OT520. Fall semester. Mr. mastery of morphology, vocabulary, advanced syntax, and which this book unfolds, the distinctiveness of each and its Greek exegetical skills through reading of selected passages Estelle. OT402 HEBREW III (4) relationship to what has preceded it, together with the roles in the Greek New Testament. Prereq., NT402 or placement by Reading of Hebrew prose, study of syntax, introduction to of those referred to in the book—namely God, Satan, and examination. Spring semester. Staff. OT702 PROPHETICAL BOOKS (3) textual criticism. Prereq., OT401 or placement by examination. Job, his friends, and Elihu—will then be examined. Mr. H. This course covers the nature and history of the prophetic NT501 NEW TESTAMENT INTERPRETATION (4) Spring semester. Mr. Estelle. Jones. This course offers a general introduction and hermeneutics institution in Israel. Offers an introduction and exegesis of including: the New Testament books as canon; historical, selected passages, with special attention to the messianic OT403 HEBREW IV (2) OT530 INTRODUCTION TO BIBLICAL INTERPRETATION (2) cultural, and religious background; the language and theme and eschatological patterns. Prereqs., OT403, OT501, translation of the New Testament; textual criticism; Reading of Hebrew prose and introduction to lexical Sound principles and practices for interpreting the Scriptures and OT520. Spring semester. Mr. Estelle. development of expertise in the principles and practice of semantics. Prereq., OT402 or placement by examination. Fall in English translation. Fall semester. Staff. New Testament exegesis. Prereq. or co-requisite, PT400 semester. Mr. Van Ee. (unless waiver is granted), NT403 or equivalent. Spring OT601 HISTORICAL BOOKS (3) OT780 HEBREW READINGS IN AMOS (2) semester. Mr. Baugh and Mr. Joel Kim. A continuation of the study of the phonology, morphology, OT501 PENTATEUCH (4) Special introduction to the historical books of the Old syntax and script of classical biblical Hebrew through a close NT517 COVENANT IN THE NEW TESTAMENT (2) A biblical-theological analysis of God’s covenantal Testament and to the historical, literary, and theological reading of the book of Amos. Prereqs., OT403, OT501, and This course explores the New Testament foundations of administration of his kingdom during the period covered by the character of Hebrew narrative; exegesis of selected covenant theology. After a brief survey of the Old Testament OT520. Mr. Estelle. Pentateuch, in its canonical context. Study of the emergence passages; development of a biblical theological approach to teaching on the various divine covenants, the New Testament and formation of the Old Testament canon. Survey of the this literature. Prereqs., OT403 and OT520. Spring semester. passages which deal explicitly and implicitly with covenant Mr. Van Ee. are examined, with special focus on the new covenant. higher criticism of the Pentateuch books in addition to several Selected reading in classic covenant theology. Some class other topics. Spring semester. Mr. Estelle. discussion on varieties of covenant theology found today, as OT605 EXODUS MOTIF IN SCRIPTURE (2) well as related current issues. No prerequisites. Mr. Baugh. OT520 ENGLISH BIBLE SURVEY (2) This course traces the use of the prevalent Exodus motif An introductory overview of the content of the Scriptures throughout Scripture and explores the interpretive and in English translation, especially for students desiring to canonical significance of the unfolding drama of redemptive increase their knowledge of the chronology of redemptive revelation. Combining readings in the Hebrew Old Testament history and the structure and contents of the Old Testament and Greek New Testament with insights from Biblical and New Testament writings. Spring semester. Mr. Keele. Theology (i.e., older and more recent authors), the course 40 41 WESTMINSTER SEMINARY CALIFORNIA CATALOGUE 2008-2009

NT524 PAUL THROUGH THE CENTURIES (2) CH525 THE THEOLOGY OF MARTIN LUTHER (2) CH625 THE HISTORY OF EVANGELICALISM IN THE UNITED CH701 THE CHURCH IN THE MODERN AGE (4) This course focuses on the biblical interpreters whose work An analysis of the development and nature of the theology of STATES (2) A study of prominent movements in the church from 1600 provoked significant developments in interpreting the Epistle Martin Luther through a study of original sources and recent An examination of characteristic evangelical thought and A.D. to the present. The course focuses on the consolidation to the Romans. Discussions center on the history of biblical interpretation, theory and practice of interpreting Paul, and Luther historiography. Mr. Godfrey. practice since the revival of the eighteenth century. Special of Protestant orthodoxy, the challenge of pietism and the theology of Paul. Mr. Joel Kim. attention is given to twentieth-century developments: rationalism, the evangelical revival, the impact of revolution CH527 ECCLESIASTICAL LATIN I (2) fundamentalism, neo-evangelicalism, and the religious right. and liberalism, and the rise of Pentecostalism. Prereq., NT601 GOSPELS AND ACTS (4) An introduction to Ecclesiastical Latin using grammar and Mr. Hart. CH602. Fall semester. Mr. Godfrey. A critical survey of the history of the criticism of the Gospels; questions of special introduction; the life and ministry of primary readings. The readings are chosen from patristic and Jesus; the particular theological perspective of each Gospel; biblical sources. Fall semester. Mr. Clark. CH635 THE HISTORY OF AMERICAN PRESBYTERIANISM (1) survey of Jesus’ teaching on the Kingdom of God; the origin A survey of Presbyterian bodies in America from colonial to HISTORICAL THEOLOGY and expansion of the New Testament church in the book of CH528 ECCLESIASTICAL LATIN II (2) modern times. Special attention is given to major personalities HT501 INTRODUCTION TO HISTORICAL THEOLOGY (1) Acts and the theology of Luke-Acts; all leading to developing A continuation of grammar from Ecclesiastical Latin I. and theological developments that have shaped contemporary An introduction to the methods, skills, and questions of expertise in interpreting the Gospels and Acts. Prereqs., NT403, NT501, and OT520. Fall semester. Mr. Baugh. Readings are chosen from Medieval and Reformation sources. Presbyterianism. Mr. Hart. Historical Theology. The course considers the general and Prereq., CH527. Spring semester. Mr. Clark. particular in the history of theology as well as how to relate NT602 PAULINE EPISTLES (3) CH653 GREAT PREACHING AND PREACHERS: A HISTORY OF historical analysis to theological analysis. Fall semester. Mr. This course addresses questions of special introduction CH530 REFORMATION AND THE MODERN CHURCH (2) HOMILETICS (2) Clark. centering on Paul and his writings; the theology of Paul, current issues in Pauline scholarship, and particularly Paul’s The course examines the Protestant Reformation of the 16th A general survey of the history of preaching and preachers in unique contribution to the revelation of God’s redemptive plan century, against the background of the medieval church the Christian church from apostolic times to the present. Along HT502 THE THEOLOGY OF THOMAS AQUINAS (2) through example exegesis of Pauline texts. Prereqs., NT403, (doctrinal controversies, growth of papal power, monasticism, with sermonic and biographical analysis, special attention is A study of the nature, sources, and contours of the theology NT501, and OT520. Spring semester. Mr. Joel Kim. scholasticism, mysticism). Specifically, it addresses: the given to the Old Testament background and gospel foundation of Thomas Aquinas. Special attention is given to the Reformation’s impact on theology, worship, piety, and society for the preaching task. Cross-listed as PT540. Mr. Julius Kim. development of his theology in the First Part and Second Part NT701 GENERAL EPISTLES AND REVELATION (2) This course addresses questions of special introduction and generally; the consolidation of Protestant orthodoxy, the of his Summa Theologiae. Mr. VanDrunen. exegesis of selected passages with a view to establishing challenge of pietism and rationalism, the evangelical revival, CH654 MACHEN AND MODERNISM (1) the structure and distinctive themes of these books. Special and contemporary trends. Spring semester. Mr. Clark. An examination of Machen’s critique of Protestant liberalism HT510 CALVIN AND HIS INSTITUTES (2) attention is given to Hebrews and Revelation. Prereqs., with attention to its continued relevance. This course will An introduction to the theology of John Calvin (1509-1564) NT403, NT501, and OT520. Fall semester. Mr. Baugh. CH545 THE HISTORY OF THE DUTCH REFORMATION (2) focus on Machen’s work as a biblical scholar, his involvement through a detailed historical and theological analysis of his A study of the Dutch Reformation from 1520 to 1648 with in the fundamentalist controversy, and his efforts to reform Institutes of the Christian Religion (1559). Mr. Horton. CHURCH HISTORY particular attention to the theology and organization of the the Presbyterian Church. Several of Machen’s most important CH520 THE THEOLOGY OF JOHN CALVIN (2) early Reformed church, church-state relations, the rise of works will be read. Some attention will also be given to HT511 CHRISTIAN EDUCATION IN ITS LATE-ROMAN A study of the nature and sources of Calvin’s theology in its Arminianism, and the Synod of Dort. Mr. Godfrey. the relationships among confessional Presbyterianism, CONTEXT (1) historical setting. Special attention will be given to Calvin’s mainstream Protestantism, and American evangelicalism. This course introduces students to the variety of attitudes own writings. Staff. CH601 THE ANCIENT CHURCH (2) Mr. Hart. which Christians held toward education during the Patristic A study of the developing theology, ecclesiology, piety, and period. Students will gain an understanding of ancient CH522 REFORMED SPIRITUALITY (1) worship of the Christian church from the close of the apostolic CH685 RELIGION AND AMERICAN POLITICS (1) models of education through the investigation of a variety An examination of the historical development of Reformed age to 600 A.D. Special attention is given to primary sources. An overview of the themes that have dominated the interaction of schooling in late antiquity, the extent of literacy, and the piety and the resources of that development for the life of the Fall semester. Mr. Clark. of religion and politics from the Declaration of Independence importance of race and class in matters of education. With church and individual Christians today. Mr. Hart. to Faith-Based Initiatives. The course includes lectures and this understanding as background, most of course will analyze CH602 THE MEDIEVAL CHURCH AND THE REFORMATION (4) discussion of primary sources. Special attention is given to the ways in which churchmen, monks, and laity appropriated CH524 TYPES OF MODERN THEOLOGY (1) A survey of church history from 600 A.D. to 1600 A.D. The first religious freedom, law, legitimate authority, public standards and modified these models to fit their own particular needs. A historical and theological examination of the types of half of the course examines medieval developments: doctrinal of morality, and the duties of Christian citizens. Mr. Hart. Mr. Schwartz. Christian belief systems emerging in the modern period from controversies, the growth of papal power, monasticism, Schleiermacher to Küng. Mr. Horton. scholasticism, mysticism, and forerunners of the Reformation. HT512 PIETY AND THEOLOGY IN THE REFORMED TRADITION (1) The second half addresses the Reformation, examining its The course explores the development of Reformed spirituality, impact on theology, worship, and piety as well as its general especially in relation to its central motifs. Mr. Horton. effect on society. Spring semester. Mr. Clark.

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HT516 THEOLOGY OF THE SACRAMENTS (2) aspects of twentieth-century theology. This course is a argument, research methods, and a bibliography of primary ST538 JUSTIFICATION (1) A survey of the controversies over Baptism and the Lord’s supplement to the subjects examined in AP601 The Modern and secondary sources. Staff. The biblical doctrine of justification by faith alone is Supper from medieval to modern times. Mr. Horton. Mind. Mr. Horton. explored in theological and historical contexts, focusing on HT710 THESIS (4) the controversy that led to the Protestant Reformation. The HT565 COVENANT THEOLOGY (2) HT635 EASTERN ORTHODOXY IN THE BYZANTINE EMPIRE (1) Designed for students enrolled in the M.A. Historical Reformed doctrine of sola fide is analyzed and compared with An introduction to Reformed federal or covenant theology. This course analyzes the formation of the Eastern Orthodox Theology emphasis. The thesis is intended to allow the the Roman Catholic view. Mr. Sproul. The course surveys the historical-theological development tradition as it developed theologically and culturally within its student to research, in consultation with a faculty advisor, a of covenant theology, the exegetical foundations and Byzantine context between the fourth and twelfth centuries. particular topic and thereby demonstrate an understanding ST539 A SURVEY OF REFORMED THEOLOGY (2) systematic-theological consequences of the biblical theology Students will gain familiarity with the religious, political, and of the methods and skills necessary to historical theology. This course surveys the Reformed contributions to of the covenants of redemption, works, and grace. Cross- cultural factors that continue to shape the Orthodox tradition The project must conform to the standards published by the prolegomena (introduction to theology), theology proper listed as ST565. Mr. Clark. today. They will study the theological developments that department of theological studies. Prereq., HT709. Staff. (doctrine of God); theological anthropology (doctrine of distinguish eastern Christianity from its western siblings with man); Christology (doctrine of Christ), soteriology (doctrine HT601 PATRISTICS SEMINAR (4) particular attention directed to the historical development of HT960 HISTORY AND THEOLOGY OF THE WESTMINSTER of salvation), ecclesiology (doctrine of the church), and Readings in and analysis of the main Patristic (100-500 A.D.) these distinctive features. Mr. Schwartz. ASSEMBLY (1) eschatology (doctrine of last things). Mr. Clark. theologians such as the Apostolic Fathers, the Apologists, An examination of some of the Assembly’s major debates Origen, Tertullian, Cyprian, Athanasius, Augustine, and HT637 TRINITY AND INCARNATION IN MODERN THEOLOGY (1) in systematics and practical theology, with an emphasis on ST565 COVENANT THEOLOGY (2) others. Staff. The seminar will consider carefully selected passages of subjects relevant to the modern Reformed church and pastor. An introduction to Reformed federal or covenant theology. Karl Barth’s Church Dogmatics as well as a series of more Cross-listed as PT960. Mr. Van Dixhoorn. The course surveys the historical-theological development HT604 MEDIEVAL THEOLOGY SEMINAR (2) recent and controversial articles in systematic theology. The of covenant theology, the exegetical foundations, and An introduction to the development of doctrine in the Western reading material provides an opportunity to engage current systematic-theological consequences of the biblical theology SYSTEMATIC THEOLOGY church in the early, high, and late medieval periods. This discussions and debate involving the doctrines of the Trinity, of the covenants of redemption, works, and grace. Cross- ST501 THE CHRISTIAN MIND (4) course considers several theologians in their contexts, paying Incarnation, and the divine decree of election while becoming listed as HT565. Mr. Clark. Summary of the biblical world and life view; the Word of particular attention to some of the great texts from each familiar with one of the twentieth century’s most important God, revelation, and inspiration; “knowing” and “thinking” period. Readings are drawn from Boethius, Anselm, Bernard, theologians. Mr. Glomsrud. ST567 THE THEOLOGY OF B. B. WARFIELD (1) as responses to God’s Word; the radical difference between Abelard, Lombard, Joachim of Fiore, Aquinas, Ockham, and An introduction to the theology of B. B. Warfield. This Christian and non-Christian thinking; nature and methods Bradwardine. Prereq., CH 602. Mr. Clark. HT693 PATRISTIC EXEGESIS (1) course focuses on Warfield’s vast efforts in the disciplines of theology and apologetics; procedures for dealing with What did ancient Christian writers say about the science of difficulties in the Christian faith. Taught in conjunction of apologetics, systematic theology, church history, and interpretation? Is anything they wrote still worth reading? HT611 REFORMED SCHOLASTICISM (2) with PT502 Theological Bibliography, which must be taken eschatology. Mr. Riddlebarger. A study of the theology of the early, high, and late orthodox After a brief overview of the formation of the Christian concurrently. Fall semester. Mr. Horton. Reformed theologians from 1561 to 1790. Particular attention Bible, this seminar will explore the hermeneutical vision ST580 PUTTING AMAZING BACK INTO GRACE: AN is given to Ursinus, Beza, Wollebius, Witsius, Turretin, and and resultant scriptural theologies of influential patristic ST520 GOD, MAN, AND CHRIST (2) INTRODUCTION TO REFORMED THEOLOGY (2) others. Mr. Clark. theologians such as Origen of Alexandria, Augustine of This course addresses the divine attributes; the Trinity; the This course offers a basic tour of the key distinctives of Hippo, and representative Antiochenes. Prereq., CH 601 or divine decrees; creation and providence; the constitutive Reformed theology for those who have had little or no HT615 REFORMED CONFESSIONS & CATECHISMS (2) permission of the seminar leader. Mr. Bishop. elements of man; the image of God and the covenant of exposure to it or for those who are looking for a refresher A survey of the theology of the Belgic Confession, the works; the fall into sin and its effects; the person of Christ the course on the faith that they already hold dear. Mr. Horton. Heidelberg Catechism, the Canons of Dort, and the HT709 THESIS PROPOSAL (2) redeemer. Mr. VanDrunen. Westminster Standards. Attention will focus on the Belgic Designed for students enrolled in the M.A. Historical ST602 DOCTRINE OF CHRIST (3) Confession or the Westminster Confession in alternate years. Theology emphasis, HT709 may be undertaken only after all ST525 REDEMPTION ACCOMPLISHED AND APPLIED (2) This course explores the plan of salvation; sovereign election; Cross-listed as ST615. Mr. Clark. the core courses for the degree have been completed (except This course examines Christ’s accomplishment of redemption covenant of redemption and covenant of grace; person and AP601 The Modern Mind). This course entails preparation for through his obedience, suffering, atoning death, resurrection, offices of Christ; the source, necessity, nature, and extent HT621 READINGS IN MODERN THEOLOGY (2) the completion of a thesis in the spring semester. The thesis and ascension; the Holy Spirit’s application of redemption of the atonement; the resurrection and ascension. Prereqs., A seminar-format course examining the key thinkers and proposal will be developed in consultation with faculty in the through calling, the new birth, justification, adoption, OT402 and NT402. Spring semester. Mr. VanDrunen. theologians of the twentieth century. Students work with department of theological studies and will include a brief and sanctification through the means of grace (Word and primary texts and offer research presentations on significant statement of topic, the state of the question, the proposed sacraments), Christ’s return, the last judgment, and the new heavens and earth. Fall semester. Mr VanDrunen.

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ST604 DOCTRINE OF GOD (2) ST703 DOCTRINE OF THE CHURCH AND ITS POLITY (3) PRACTICAL THEOLOGY PT502 THEOLOGICAL BIBLIOGRAPHY (1) This course surveys the biblical doctrine of the Trinity, the This course offers a biblical-theological and systematic- PT400 GRADUATE THEOLOGICAL WRITING (1) An introduction to tools for use in biblical and theological attributes, decree, existence and providence of God in theological study of the church, with attention to This course enables students to develop the abilities to write study including encyclopedias, monographs, periodicals dialogue with the Reformed tradition, the catholic creeds, ecclesiological issues in the history of the church and the graduate level theological research papers and essays and and bibliographical texts. Taught in conjunction with ST501 and contemporary theology. Prereqs., OT402, OT520, and contemporary situation. It explores the church as the people includes such skills as the development of ideas, organization, Christian Mind, with which PT502 must be taken concurrently. NT402. Fall semester. Mr. Horton. of God, community of Christ, fellowship of the Spirit. In structure, and flow of thought; interpretation and correct use Course is taught in multimedia format, orienting students to addition, the course addresses attributes of the church; marks of source materials (including quotation, paraphrase, citation, bibliographical and research tools. Credit/no credit grading is ST605 DOCTRINE OF MAN (2) of a true church; biblical worship; ecclesiastical office and and bibliographic form); paragraph, sentence style, syntax, employed. Fall semester. Staff. This course explores the doctrine of the origin, nature, and government; the relationship of the church to the kingdom of grammar, punctuation, and spelling; and other abilities original state of man; image of God; covenant of works; the God, to its cultural contexts, and to parachurch organizations. essential to clear and persuasive written communication PT504 PRACTICUM: SERMON PREPARATION AND DELIVERY (1) fall; doctrine of sin; free agency. Prereqs., OT402, OT520, and Prereqs., OT403 and NT403. Spring semester. Mr. Horton. in theological studies. The course is a prerequisite or co- Instruction and practice in the method of sermon preparation NT402. Fall semester. Mr. VanDrunen. requisite of ST501 The Christian Mind, PT500 Ministry of (including prayer, biblical exegesis, structure and outlining, the Word in Worship, CH602 The Medieval Church and illustration, application) and delivery. Prereq, PT410, PT500. ST615 REFORMED CONFESSIONS & CATECHISMS (2) APOLOGETICS the Reformation, or NT501 New Testament Interpretation, Co-requisites, NT403 and NT501. This homiletics practicum A survey of the theology of the Belgic Confession, the AP560 IMAGES OF RELIGION IN MODERN LITERATURE (2) unless the student shows sufficient writing background to meets two hours weekly. Spring semester. Staff. Heidelberg Catechism, the Canons of Dort, and the Great literature offers profound insights into the ideas and warrant a waiver of PT400. The course meets one hour per Westminster Standards. Attention focuses on the Belgic values of a culture. Through the novels of authors such as week. Credit/no credit grading is employed. Fall and spring PT505 INTRODUCTION TO PASTORAL COUNSELING (2) Confession or the Westminster Confession in alternate years. Sinclair Lewis, Aldous Huxley, Evelyn Waugh, Eudora Welty, semesters. Mrs. Godfrey. An introduction to the pastor’s unique role as a counselor Cross-listed as HT615. Mr. Clark. John Updike, E. M. Forster, and Toni Morrison modern of God’s Word. This course covers a brief history of pastoral attitudes to God and religion will be explored. The course will PT410 PRACTICUM: ORAL COMMUNICATION (1) counseling, the necessity of equipping the laity of the local ST625 LAW AND GOVERNMENT IN REFORMED THEOLOGY (2) focus on reading and discussing one or two novels per week. A preparatory course in public speaking in the context of church for effective change, the dynamics of biblical change, A survey of Reformed theologians’ thought on the nature Mr. Godfrey. Christians’ ministries of instruction and encouragement to issues concerning the relationship between body and soul, and role of law and civil government. Classes consist of one another and their witness to the world. This course is counseling methodology, and the application of biblical and lectures and focused discussions of primary-source texts. AP601 THE MODERN MIND (3) required of all Master of Divinity students unless they obtain theological truth to people’s common problems in living, such Special attention is given to the issues of natural law, civil The dominant perspectives, individuals, theologies, ideologies, a waiver by presenting a 3-5 minute speech of acceptable as guilt, fear/worry, anger, depression, habitual sin. Winter law, submission to legitimate authority, and the right to civil and cultural transformations which have contributed to the quality. Open to students in all master’s programs, this term. Mr. Poirier. disobedience. Mr. VanDrunen. current religious landscape and context for outreach. With course fulfills the speech course prerequisite for PT504, special focus on the implications for ministry and outreach, PT603, PT604, PT704, and PT708. Credit/no credit grading is PT511 MINISTRY OF WITNESS IN THE WORLD (4) ST701 DOCTRINE OF THE HOLY SPIRIT (4) this course will attempt to provide greater familiarity with employed. Fall semester. Mr. H. Jones. An introduction to the theology and practice of the This course explores the means of grace; baptism and the current trends in both the academy and popular culture. communication of the Gospel to unconverted persons, both Lord’s Supper; ordo salutis and union with Christ; calling; Prereq., ST501. Spring semester. Mr. Horton. PT500 MINISTRY OF THE WORD IN WORSHIP (3) within our own cultural contexts and among diverse people regeneration; faith and assurance of salvation; justification; This course addresses the biblical theology of pastoral groups— racial, linguistic, economic, etc.—throughout the adoption; sanctification; perseverance; glorification; the ministry as the ministry of the Word of God, with a focus world. The first two weeks focus on general evangelism while coming of Christ and the end of the age. Prereqs., OT402 and on preaching in the context of the church’s public worship: the last two weeks are devoted to the study of cross-cultural NT402. Fall semester. Mr. VanDrunen. Christ-centered preaching that relates texts to their context ministry. Winter term. Mr. Julius Kim and Staff. in the history of redemption; the preacher’s growth in grace ST702 THE CHRISTIAN LIFE (3) and gifts for ministry (including introduction of the M.Div. PT512 UNDERSTANDING PAGANISM FOR CHRISTIAN RENEWAL (1) This course explores the nature of the study of ethics; field education program); the contribution of the pastor’s This course identifies much of contemporary spirituality as Christianity, culture, and the distinctiveness of the Christian understanding of his hearers to his preaching’s effectiveness; a sign of the rise of neo-paganism, which it examines, both life; the motive and goal of the Christian life; the standards and the theology of worship and leadership in worship. Fall in the light of ancient paganism and in its contemporary of the Christian life; the theology of law and exposition of the semester. Mr. Johnson and Mr. H. Jones. expressions—spirituality, sexuality, cosmology, and Decalogue. Prereqs., OT402 and NT402. Spring semester. Mr. eschatology. This is in order to speak the gospel from a fresh VanDrunen. understanding of the goodness of the good news, specifically from the knowledge of Scripture’s profound antithetical critique of paganism, whether ancient or modern. Mr. P. Jones.

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PT514 THE MAKING OF A “CHRISTIAN” CULT (1) PT527 CHURCH AND SOCIETY (1) PT604 PRACTICUM: PREACHING DOCTRINAL/ETHICAL TEXTS (1) PT642 WITNESS TO MUSLIMS (1) A study of selected North American cult religions that reflect A social and historical study examining the role of the church Instruction and practice in preaching biblical texts that contain A foundational course with an overview of the Islamic faith identifiable Christian origins while deviating significantly in its relationship to its societal setting. Major figures in doctrinal discourse and ethical instruction. Attention is given and life, comparing Islam with historic biblical and Reformed from the historic Christian faith. The course is designed to the sociology of religion will be introduced and analyzed to law/gospel issues, the centrality and power of grace, and Christianity. Different methodologies of communicating the identify common characteristics in the development of cults including: Durkheim, Troeltsch, Max Weber, and H. Richard the necessity of pursuing holiness. Prereqs., OT403, OT501, gospel of Christ to Muslims locally, nationally, and globally so that the student will be alert to recognize contemporary Niebuhr. Biblical principles for church-society relations will NT403, NT501, PT500, and PT410. This homiletics practicum are investigated carefully. A presuppositional approach is cultic tendencies. Mr. Bergsma. be clarified. Mr. Bergsma. meets two hours weekly. Spring semester. Mr. H. Jones. emphasized. Students are encouraged to visit local mosques to interact with Muslims. Mr. Zaka. PT515 WITNESS TO THE COLLEGE & UNIVERSITY CAMPUS (1) PT540 GREAT PREACHING AND PREACHERS: A HISTORY OF PT626 MISSIONS TO MEXICANS ON THE MOVE (1) This course surveys the theology and strategies of church- HOMILETICS (2) This course addresses how to present the living Savior to PT643 WOMEN IN FAMILY, CHURCH, AND SOCIETY (2) based discipling ministries—both evangelism and A general survey of the history of preaching and preachers neighbors to the south. Topics covered include a history of This course addresses hermeneutical, theological, and edification—to undergraduate and graduate students. in the Christian church from apostolic times to the present. Tijuana, cultural and religious distinctives of the border city ministry-related issues pertaining to the identity and roles of Biblical and theological foundations of campus ministry. Along with sermonic and biographical analysis, special in particular, Mexico in general, and strategies for effective women. Lectures and readings lay a foundation for seminar Characteristics of young adults. Meta-thinking, worldview, attention will be given to the Old Testament background and evangelism. Mr. Crum. discussion of such topics as (a) the exegesis and contemporary and the challenges and opportunities to deepen and express gospel foundation for the preaching task. Cross-listed as application of key biblical texts, (b) evaluation of the modern Christian faith in the higher education context. It also covers CH653. Mr. Julius Kim. PT636 WITNESS IN ASIAN & ASIAN-AMERICAN CONTEXTS (1) feminist movement’s influence on Western culture and ways to enfold young adults into the local congregation. Mr. A course on the communication of the gospel of Christ and theological studies, (c) ministries of and to women in the Mays. PT545 CHRISTIAN PRAYER (2) the growth of the church in context of the cultures of Asia, context of biblical church order. Mr. Johnson. This course surveys how prayer is presented in the Old and especially China; and among the Asian-background people PT516 MINISTRY IN THE KOREAN-AMERICAN CONTEXT (1) New Testaments, corporately and individually, and reference groups residing in North America. Mr. Ling. PT702 PASTORAL MINISTRY SEMINAR (3) The purpose of this course is to understand the context of is made to historical debates and doctrinal questions. Mr. H. This course emphasizes the pastor’s heart and life, pastoral Korean immigrants in North America and the historical Jones. PT637 WITNESS TO THE JEWISH PEOPLE (1) care, and leadership through a study of the Pastoral Epistles. process and formation of Christianity (with emphasis on This course addresses how to share the Messiah with Jewish Prereqs., OT403 and NT403. Fall semester. Mr. H. Jones. Presbyterians) in Korea, with the resulting features distinct PT600 MINISTRY OF DISCIPLESHIP IN THE CHURCH (2) people. Topics include the history of Jewish missions, Jewish to Korean Christianity (and Korean Presbyterianism in This course offers biblical theology of the spiritual nurture of cultural and religious sensibilities, strategies for gospel PT704 PRACTICUM: PREACHING STYLE & AUDIENCE particular). This course will also explore various models God’s covenant people, leading to their growing maturity in outreach to Jewish people, and apologetic and theological ANALYSIS (1) of ministry for Korean-Americans presented in the last few faith and life. Principles and practice of Christian education issues involved in this field. Mr. Klett. Instruction in the analysis of preaching rhetoric and decades, marked by large migration of Koreans into North from children through adults, including the training of congregational needs in the context of a pluralistic society. America, and evaluate them in light of Reformed ecclesiology ordained leaders (elders, deacons) and other members for PT638 FROM EDEN TO THE NEW JERUSALEM: TRACING Prereqs., OT403, OT501, NT403, NT501, PT500, and PT410. and concern for contextualization. Mr. S. Park. diverse ministries in the Body of Christ. Fall semester. Mr. COVENANT HISTORY (2) This homiletics practicum meets two hours weekly. Fall Johnson. This course traces the movement of covenant history in semester. Mr. H. Jones. PT525 VOCATION & CHURCH (2) Scripture, highlighting the fulfillment of all its promises in This course covers the ministry of “general office” believers PT603 PRACTICUM: PREACHING NARRATIVE TEXTS (1) the person and work of the Lord Jesus Christ. The Bible is PT707 SENIOR SEMINAR (2) in the church; biblical and theological exploration of calling; This practicum provides lectures, readings, and experience a record of God’s gracious initiative calling a people into This interdisciplinary “capstone” course enables graduating clarification of God’s kingdom in family and society. Taught in in the construction and delivery of historical-redemptive covenant fellowship with himself. Mr. Bergsma. seniors to integrate information and skills acquired across the conjunction with PT502 Theological Bibliography, which must sermons based on biblical narratives. Narratives constitute a theological disciplines to address theological and ministerial be taken concurrently. Fall semester. Mr. Johnson. large portion of the Scriptures, but many students and pastors PT640 THE PASTOR AS PEACEMAKER (1) issues in a seminar setting. Required of M.Div., M.A.(B.S.) find them to be among the most difficult to preach. Prereqs., This course sets forth both the theology and practice of and M.A.(T.S.) students in their last spring semester before PT526 CHRIST-CENTERED PREACHING (1) OT501, NT403, NT501, PT500, and PT410. Co-requisite, OT biblical peacemaking in the context of pastoral ministry. graduating. Spring semester. Mr. Johnson and Mr. Estelle. A review of the preaching tradition in the Reformed community 403. This homiletics practicum meets two hours weekly. Fall Topics covered are: the distinctive calling of the pastor as a of faith with special emphasis on its contribution to biblical semester. Mr. Hamilton. minister of reconciliation, common conflicts faced in pastoral PT708 PRACTICUM: PREACHING AND CONGREGATIONAL LIFE (1) preaching as historical-redemptive proclamation. A review ministry, the dynamics of the heart in conflict, confession Instruction in the role of preaching in the maturation and and evaluation of alternative approaches to the preaching of sin, forgiveness, negotiation, mediation, principles and mobilization of a congregation, including: planning sermon task are also included. Mr. Bergsma. practices of church discipline, with the goal to equip pastors series to address congregational needs and opportunities; to lay a foundation of biblical peacemaking principles in their evangelistic preaching; preaching in times of crisis; local churches. Mr. Poirier.

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interaction between preaching and pastoral care; seasonal PT972 PREACHING CHRIST FROM THE PATRIARCHAL INSTITUTE OF THEOLOGICAL STUDIES ITS501 THE BOOK OF PSALMS (2) and occasional preaching; planning other elements of worship NARRATIVES (1) Westminster Seminary California is a member of the Institute An introduction to the Book of Psalms with an emphasis to support the ministry of the Word. Practice in preparing This course offers an approach to preaching Christ from Old of Theological Studies, cooperating with other evangelical on the principles of exegesis of hymnic literature and their orders of worship and in preparing and delivering sermons Testament narratives, focusing on the distinctive challenges seminaries in offering lecture courses on cassette tape. Each application in selected portions. Special attention is given to that address situations that arise in the typical congregation. and opportunities that are presented by Genesis 12-50. Mr. course must be taken under the supervision of a resident the various forms of the Psalms, their setting in the historical Prereqs., OT403, OT501, NT403, NT501, PT500, and PT410. Duguid. faculty member. I.T.S. courses are a special category of experience of Israel, and their application today. Prereq., This homiletics practicum meets two hours weekly. Spring directed research. A form available from the Registrar OT403. Mr. Bruce Waltke (Mr. Estelle). semester. Mr. Bergsma. PT973 CHRISTIAN SERVICE IN THE GOSPEL OF JOHN (1) must be completed, signed by professor and student, and This course gives detailed attention to John 13-17 in the submitted at the time of registration. A maximum of seven ITS502 UNDERSTANDING THE OLD TESTAMENT (2) PT709 VOCATION AND THEOLOGY (2) larger context of all that John has to say about the mission of semester units of I.T.S. courses may be applied as elective A survey of the history of salvation in the Old Testament In this concluding seminar, students apply insights gained Jesus on the one hand and that of his disciples on the other. credit to the M.Div. and M.A. programs. I.T.S. courses may especially as it relates to the Kingdom of God. Prereq., OT403 through the MACS program to issues entailed in living their Mr. H. Jones. not be used in lieu of required courses except by special completed or in process. Mr. Bruce Waltke (Mr. Estelle). callings from God in church, home, business/employment, action of the Faculty. The tuition charges for I.T.S. courses and society at large. Each student develops a significant PT974 ADDRESSING THE NEW PAGANISM (1) are the same as for other courses offered by WSC. Students ITS503 THE BOOK OF PROVERBS (4) project that integrates research and reflection (and possibly This course examines the contemporary form of paganism, will also need to purchase the required books and tapes. An exegetical study of the Book of Proverbs in both its cultural implementation) for presentation and discussion in the the so-called New Cosmology, in terms of its present cultural Students who have been admitted to WSC (except those and historical settings with attention to its critical and seminar. Spring semester. Mr. Johnson. reality, its coherent power, and its immediate future. The admitted as Special Students) may register for I.T.S. courses hermeneutical problems. Prereq., OT403. Mr. Bruce Waltke course develops a Christian response with a view both to prior to beginning their on campus work if their cumulative (Mr. Estelle). PT959 PREACHING CHRIST FROM THE BOOK OF EZEKIEL (1) evangelism and to the strengthening of orthodoxy for the undergraduate G.P.A. was 3.0 or above. A student interested An examination of the Book of Ezekiel, with a view to critical days ahead. Mr. P. Jones. in taking an I.T.S. course should consult the Registrar. The ITS505 THE SERMON ON THE MOUNT (2) preaching or teaching Bible studies from these passages following courses have been approved by the faculty. An expositional study of the Sermon on the Mount in Matthew faithfully and effectively. Mr. Duguid. 5-7 dealing with the history of the interpretation of the text FIELD EDUCATION and the theological issues arising out of it. Emphasis is given PT961 PREACHING CHRIST FROM THE BOOK OF ESTHER (1) FE691 PASTORAL INTERNSHIP to the practical application of the Sermon. Prereq., NT403. This course examines how to preach Christ from the narrative This internship requires seven hundred (700) hours of supervised Mr. John Stott (Mr. Baugh). texts of the Old Testament, focusing on the Book of Esther. and evaluated ministry in a local congregation and/or a Mr. Duguid. summer intern program in a congregation or missions program ITS510 THE EPISTLE TO THE HEBREWS (2) at a distance. Experience is required in a broad spectrum of Introduction to the context, content, major interpretive issues, PT965 LEADING IN WORSHIP (1) pastoral experiences in keeping with an agreement worked and theological contribution of the Epistle to the Hebrews. An examination of the theology and practice of leading God’s out among the student, the congregation, and the Seminary. The superiority of Jesus as mediator of the covenant, the people in worship, through a discussion of biblical foundations Insofar as possible, requirements for ordination are considered wilderness pilgrimage of the church as the people of God, and historical models of Reformed worship. Mr. Duguid. in tailoring the program. Credit/no credit. All M. Div. students and the usefulness of this epistle-sermon for the believers’ are required to enroll into this internship during the spring mutual encouragement and accountability. Prereqs., NT403 PT967 PASTORAL MINISTRY IN THE PURITAN TRADITION (1) semester of the first year. Mr. H. Jones. and NT501. Mr. Johnson. An examination of the Puritan approach to piety, preaching, pastoring, and church life, and how they relate to the pastoral ITS602 REFORMATION CHURCH HISTORY (2) ministry today. Mr. Ryken. A study of the development of the theology, the piety, and the churches of the Reformation against the backdrop of the PT970 PREACHING CHRIST FROM OLD TESTAMENT social, political, and intellectual character of the sixteenth APOCALYPTIC TEXTS (1) century. Open only as an elective course, and only to students An examination of the genre of apocalyptic literature in the Old in the M.A.(B.S.) program. Mr. Godfrey. Testament, with a view to preaching or teaching Bible studies from these passages faithfully and effectively. Mr. Duguid.

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If a suitable person is (a) Has completed at least 120 • An additional Academic or degree are admitted on a “conditional” minimum cumulative grade point average Enrollment Deposit may be granted not available at the applicant’s church or an semester hours (180 quarter hours) Ecclesiastical Reference basis pending completion of their of at least 2.0 in Seminary course work will deferred enrollment for up to one additional applicant feels that it is preferable to have of post-secondary coursework in undergraduate degree and submission of be required for confirmation of admission. academic year beyond the year noted on the reference completed by a pastor/elder accredited educational institutions, Completed application forms, references, a final transcript verifying that they have Since probation is viewed as a time to assist the Application for Admission without from a church of which the applicant is not a including courses providing a degree and transcripts should be submitted to: received the degree. Under ordinary a student in developing and demonstrating being required to reapply for admission. To member, an explanation must be submitted of mastery in such disciplines as circumstances the final transcript must academic competency, admission on request deferred enrollment, the student to the Office of Admissions with the English composition and literature, Westminster Seminary California be received before a student is allowed to probation will not be recorded on his or her must complete the Deferred Enrollment completed reference form. history, philosophy, natural sciences, Attn: Office of Admissions enroll in classes at WSC. permanent transcript. Request Form which is available online and social sciences, ancient and modern 1725 Bear Valley Pkwy by request through the Office of Admissions. 3) OFFICIAL TRANSCRIPTS foreign languages, and Bible; Escondido, CA 92027 ADMISSION ON ACADEMIC PROBATION ENROLLMENT DEPOSIT Students who defer their enrollment to Official transcripts (sealed) of all academic (b) Has earned a Master’s or higher degree Academic probation is a period of testing Westminster Seminary California requires WSC must re-apply for financial aid the work beyond high school must be submitted from an accredited institution; and and proving one’s abilities. Students a $100.00 refundable Enrollment Deposit following year. Students who have been as part of the completed application (c) Has completed at least 36 as part of the admission and enrollment granted deferred enrollment and later 54 55 WESTMINSTER SEMINARY CALIFORNIA CATALOGUE 2008-2009

choose not to enroll must notify the Office STUDENT ORIENTATION and directs students to other potential biblical languages (Greek and/or Hebrew) TRANSFER CREDIT FROM UNACCREDITED applicants must seek and show certified of Admissions of their decision and request Westminster Seminary California provides resources for accommodation to the as prerequisites if the courses taken at INSTITUTIONS proof of additional financial means of a refund of their Enrollment Deposit by July a New Student Orientation prior to each student’s disability. Physically challenged those institutions did not have the biblical Students admitted to an M.A. or M.Div. support. It should be noted that due to 1 of the following academic year, or the academic term. It is normally scheduled students are encouraged to request language prerequisites. program who seek transfer credit for recent changes in the law regarding foreign Enrollment Deposit will be forfeited. one day prior to the start of the fall or accommodation as early as possible in graduate-level studies completed at an students, prospective students are urged spring semesters (see Academic Calendar). their planning process. At least 36 semester hours must be unaccredited institution must supply the to start the application process at least NEW STUDENT REGISTRATION All new students enrolled in a Master of completed in a WSC degree program. No following information for the evaluation one year in advance of their anticipated Registration materials are mailed in June Arts or Master of Divinity degree program ADDITIONAL ADMISSIONS transfer credit will be given for Greek or of each course for which transfer credit is enrollment date. (summer/fall students) and November are required to attend. The purpose of REQUIRMENTS AND PROCEDURES Hebrew language courses taken at either requested: (winter/spring students) to all newly the orientation is to introduce students the undergraduate or graduate level with • A copy of the course syllabus, In addition to the admission requirements admitted students. Registration will only to seminary life, the campus, theological TRANSFER CREDIT REQUIREMENTS the exception of students who have taken stating the instructor’s name and outlined above, international student be processed for those students who have education, seminary policies and the Greek or Hebrew for credit at Westminster the course requirements applicants must also meet the following submitted the $100.00 Enrollment Deposit. resources of the surrounding community. ADMISSION AND Theological Seminary in Philadelphia. • At least one sample of course requirements to be admitted to a Master’s The registration deadlines are July 1 TRANSCRIPT EVALUATION Language credits from WTS-Philadelphia work submitted in fulfillment of degree program (M.A. or M.Div.) at (summer/fall students) and December VETERANS Students who intend to request transfer may be transferred by submitting an official course requirements Westminster Seminary California. 12 (winter/spring students). (Late The following policies apply to students credit from another graduate-level transcript to the WSC Registrar’s office registrations will be accepted with a late receiving educational benefits from the institution must submit all regular required documenting passing grades. Students All decisions regarding transfer credit from ENGLISH LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY fee of $50.00 until the last day to add/drop Department of Veterans Affairs (D.V.A.), in application items, including the following: who have taken Greek and/or Hebrew unaccredited institutions are made on a International applicants for whom English for each semester as determined by the compliance with that department’s policies: Application for Admission, Application language courses at other institutions course-by-course basis. Acceptance of one is not their first language who have not Academic Catalogue.) For more information Westminster Seminary California Fee, Ecclesiastical Reference, Academic are encouraged to take the language course from an unaccredited institution previously attained a degree within the regarding WSC registration policies, see is required to initiate a review of Reference, and Official Transcripts from placement exams. for transfer credit carries no implication United States are required to demonstrate the Academic Policies section. transcripts of any Master’s level each post-secondary institution from regarding the acceptance of other courses sufficient evidence of mastery of the English (M.Div., M.A.) course work that a which the applicant has received credit. No transfer credit will be given for work from that institution. language for graduate study through the Test New students may be eligible to test or place D.V.A. student has completed at Once the prospective transfer student has that has previously been used as a basis of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL). out of certain academic courses. See the another theological seminary in order been admitted to Westminster Seminary for the awarding of a Master’s or Doctoral Only courses in which a grade of B (not B-) Academic Policies section of the catalogue to determine which and how many California, the Registrar will complete a degree by another institution. Students or above was received will be accepted for The Test of English as a Foreign Language for information on waiving Greek and/or credits are transferable as partially transcript evaluation to determine which admitted to the Master of Divinity program transfer credit. No more than 15 semester is currently offered in three formats: paper, Hebrew, Graduate Theological Writing, and fulfilling WSC’s degree requirements. courses will receive credit from WSC. If may be granted “advanced standing” for hours (23 quarter hours) from an unaccredited computer, and Internet-based. Applicants Oral Communication requirements. All course work that is transferable as a transfer student desires a preliminary course work for which they have previously institution will be accepted for transfer required to take the TOEFL must achieve equivalent to Westminster Seminary transcript evaluation prior to acceptance, received a Master of Arts degree in Biblical credit toward a student’s degree program at either a score of at least 570 on the paper FINANCIAL AID California’s required or elective courses the student may submit his or her official or Theological Studies, or a Master of Arts Westminster Seminary California. test and 4.5 on the Test of Written English Westminster Seminary California has a will be transferred into the student’s transcripts and request for transcript in Religion degree. See the Advanced (TWE), or a score of at least 230 on the wide range of financial aid opportunities present Westminster Seminary evaluation to the Office of Admissions. Standing policy. INTERNATIONAL STUDENT computer-based TOEFL with a 4.5 minimum available to students. Admitted students California program. The Academic Transfer credit will not be processed until ADMISSIONS on the essay portion of the exam, or a score planning to apply for financial aid are Dean determines course equivalence the student has been admitted. ADVANCED STANDING (M.DIV. ONLY) Students of high academic standing of at least 88 on the Internet-based test with encouraged to complete the WSC on the basis of course descriptions, Students holding a Master of Arts or from foreign countries are encouraged a minimum writing score of 25. The following Application for Financial Aid or WSC syllabi, prerequisites, and requirements, TRANSFER CREDIT POLICIES Master of Arts in Religion degree from to apply to Westminster Seminary chart summarizes the minimum TOEFL International Student Application for and in consultation with the relevant Westminster Seminary California may grant an accredited theological seminary or California. Applicants should note that, requirements at Westminster Seminary Financial Aid (available through the Office instructors of courses. graduate level credit for courses in which a divinity school may be granted advanced while some limited financial assistance California for each test format: of Admissions and online www.wscal.edu), grade of C (not C-) or above was received. standing toward the Master of Divinity may be awarded by the Seminary toward and the FAFSA (www.fafsa.ed.gov, school WSC is approved for the Department of Course work from an accredited institution degree. Students who receive advanced tuition costs, complete financial support code: G22768 U.S. students only) by April Veterans Affairs educational benefits, may transfer as equivalent to a required standing at WSC must complete, over a (including living expenses) is not granted 1 (summer/fall applicants) or October 15 the California State Graduate Fellowship course or as elective credit in the student’s period of at least two academic years, at to any student. International students (winter/spring applicants). These dates are Program, and the Federal Family Education program at WSC. The Academic Dean least 60 semester hours beyond the M.A. are encouraged to seek additional means recommended but not final for financial aid Loan Program. For information, contact the determines course equivalence on the basis or M.A.R requirements. The 60 semester of support elsewhere. All international consideration. Applications for financial Veterans Office or the Financial Aid Advisor. of course descriptions, syllabi, prerequisites, hours include all required M.Div. courses aid will only be reviewed for students and requirements, and in consultation with not previously taken and exclude any who have been admitted. Please see the REQUEST FOR ADA ACCOMMODATION the relevant instructors of courses. additional Greek or Hebrew courses that financial aid section of the catalogue for The Dean of Students works with students must be taken to fulfill the WSC language more details. with disabilities who wish to request Transfer credit may not be granted for requirements. accommodation. The Dean of Students coursework at other institutions for provides orientation to campus resources courses in the WSC curriculum that require

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degree program at Westminster party evaluation and attestation to their of Special Students may be admitted in Years of employment and Christian service Seminary California. academic standards, Westminster Seminary any one year. To more clearly evaluate the experience may be fulfilled concurrently, Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) Requirements • An applicant with dependents California exercises caution in evaluating Special Student application file, Westminster but both categories must be fulfilled. must show, by statement from some applications and/or requests for transfer Seminary California has designated specific Test Format Minimum Score responsible organization or individual credit from graduates of such institutions. criteria regarding the applicant’s academic GRADUATE RECORD EXAMINATION (GRE) Internet 88 (including bank statements or tax Graduates of unaccredited institutions are history, ministry and employment experience, The applicant must take the GRE General returns), funds which are committed Computer 230 admitted under probationary status. and standardized examination results. Test and obtain scores at or above the to and sufficient for the support and 50th percentile in the verbal and analytical Paper 570 care of the dependents at home In order to evaluate whether a degree EDUCATION writing sections. Applicants should request Writing (Internet) 25 while he or she is in the U.S.; or from an unaccredited institution meets the The applicant must have completed at that the Educational Testing Service send TWE (Computer/Paper) 4.5 sufficient funds for round-trip tickets standards required for admission, applicants least 30 semester units (or equivalent) of GRE test results directly to Westminster and the entire support of the must submit the following, in addition to undergraduate study at an accredited or Seminary California [school code: 4980]. dependents during their stay in general admission requirements: otherwise approved college or university. the U.S., if they are to accompany • A catalogue of the unaccredited Of these units, at least 15 semester units NARRATIVE ESSAY Because the TOEFL exam is given only a (Form I-20) necessary to obtain the F-1 visa the student. institution granting the student’s degree must be in humanities or liberal arts other The Special Student applicant must also limited number of times each year, the for non-immigrant students, the following • If the institution is in the United States, than Bible and theology (namely, English or submit a concise but thorough narrative applicant should allow sufficient time for conditions must be satisfied: Please note that the regulations regarding a copy of the document attesting world literature, history, philosophy, ancient essay that describes both the type and the results to be included in the admissions • The applicant must be admitted as the issuing of student visas may change at authorization to grant degrees by or modern foreign languages, etc.). To duration of his Christian service/ministry process. Applicants must make their own a full-time student to a Master’s any time. It is the student’s responsibility to the State Board of Education. strengthen the application, the remaining experience, including dates, and specific testing arrangements with Educational degree program investigate requirements through the local Such authorization is not equivalent course work should be in the above areas ministry activities (including biblical or Testing Service (ETS) at its web site www.ets. • The applicant is required to supply United States Consulate. International to accreditation in the evaluation or in natural sciences, social sciences, and theological study and teaching), oversight, org, via email [email protected], by calling TOEFL certification that they have financial students should also visit the U.S. of adherence to accepted academic Bible/theology. The cumulative grade point evaluation received, and lessons learned, Services at (609) 771-7100, or by writing P.O. resources adequate to provide for Immigration website at www.uscis.gov for standards, but it does show that average in undergraduate course work and the type and duration of employment Box 6151, Princeton, NJ 08541-6151, USA. their expenses while in seminary forms and policies regarding coming to the the institution has offered evidence must be 3.0 or above. experience, including dates, responsibilities, Applicants should request that the results without resorting to unauthorized United States as a foreign student. of its educational purpose and oversight, and lessons learned. be sent directly to Westminster Seminary employment. United States law financial responsibility EMPLOYMENT & CHRISTIAN SERVICE California [school code: 4980]. Please note administered by the U.S. Citizenship Once these conditions have been met, the • A document which provides details The applicant must also have life experience ECCLESIASTICAL REFERENCE that the student’s copy of the results cannot and Immigration Services restricts Designated School Official (D.S.O.) will regarding the institutions from which in employment and Christian service in a Because a Special Student’s admission be used for admissions purposes. the employment of international issue the Certificate of Eligibility (I-20). the current faculty of the institution church or para-church organization. Four constitutes an exception to normal students. Funds may come from Students who come to study on an I-20 received their graduate/advanced years of employment experience and of admissions criteria for the sake of GRADUATE THEOLOGICAL WRITING (PT400) personal savings, family, church or must register and maintain full-time status degrees, and identifying which experience in Christian service will be the church’s leadership needs and its All non-native English speaking applicants denomination, sponsoring agencies of 12 or more units per semester. faculty members are full-time (if not weighted as equivalent to one year (30 confirmation of an individual’s gifts and who are admitted to WSC with the or individuals, or some other clearly stated in the catalogue) semester units) of undergraduate study. maturity for ministry, special attention minimum required score of 570 but less dependable source. If expenses will GRADUATES OF UNACCREDITED • A list of accredited institutions The applicant must have a total preparation will be given to the evaluation offered than 640 on the paper TOEFL test, or with be paid from personal or family INSTITUTIONS that have admitted graduates of the package (combining ministry/employment by a pastor or other church leader in the the minimum required score of 4.5 but less savings, the applicant must supply Westminster Seminary California has long unaccredited institution and/or experience and academic course work) Ecclesiastical Reference concerning the than 5.5 on the TWE, or with the minimum official bank records demonstrating recognized the value of the accreditation accepted its courses for transfer credit equivalent to four years (120 semester applicant’s Christian maturity, experience that the account or accounts contain required score of 88 but less than 112 on process both as a means of institutional • Two examples of assigned course units) of undergraduate study. Thus, Special in ministry, and potential for future service funds sufficient to cover expenses the Internet-based TOEFL, or with the self-evaluation and self improvement work submitted to the institution. Student applicants must demonstrate one in the church. minimum required score of 25 but less than for the entire degree program. and as a means of external attestation If expenses will be supplied by of the following combinations of academic 29 on the writing portion of the exam, must of educational quality to students, SPECIAL STUDENTS (M.DIV. ONLY) and life experience: ADDITIONAL INFORMATION FOR SPECIAL register for PT400 (Graduate Theological assistance from family members or constituency, and other academic other sponsors on a year-by-year In extraordinary cases, a student whose • 30-59 semester units of academic STUDENT APPLICANTS Writing) during the fall semester of their institutions. We also recognize that for gifts for pastoral ministry have been courses, plus 12 years employment and Upon request by the Office of Admissions, first year and during each subsequent fall basis, the applicant must send various reasons (recent founding of an certification from these sources that strongly confirmed by the church but who 12 years Christian service/experience. the applicant may be required to demonstrate semester until the course is passed. The institution, location in a nation lacking has not completed an approved Bachelor’s • 60-89 semester units of academic knowledge of the liberal arts and an ability course must be passed in order for the the sponsor (or sponsors) have the accreditation processes, reservations resources to guarantee the expenses degree program may apply for admission to courses, plus 8 years employment and to pursue graduate level study by submitting student to graduate from WSC. about the accreditation process) certain the M.Div. program as a Special Student. 8 years Christian service/experience. an essay or research paper for evaluation by for at least the first year of study, institutions may lack accreditation by a and that the sponsor (or sponsors) Because the Seminary strongly believes • 90-119 semester units of academic the Admissions Committee. Special students F-1 VISA/I-20 (CERTIFICATE OF ELIGIBILITY recognized association and yet maintain that an undergraduate Bachelor’s degree courses, plus 4 years employment and are admitted initially on probationary status. FOR NON-IMMIGRANT STUDENT STATUS) are able and committed, barring academic standards comparable to those unforeseen circumstances, to program in the liberal arts and sciences 4 years Christian service/experience. After completing, with a cumulative grade In order for the applicant to receive from found in accredited institutions. Since such provide adequate funding for the is the preferred preparation for graduate point average of at least 2.3, the courses the Seminary the Certificate of Eligibility institutions cannot offer reliable third- subsequent years of the student’s theological study, only a limited number specified in the standard M.Div. curriculum 58 59 WESTMINSTER SEMINARY CALIFORNIA CATALOGUE 2008-2009

for the summer, fall, and winter terms of the Dean makes a final determination as to then apply to an M.A. program rather than first year, he shall receive confirmation of whether a Non-Matriculating Student has to a certificate program. acceptance into the M.Div. degree program. sufficient academic background to enroll in a particular course, which may necessitate AUDIT STUDENT PROGRAM (NON-CREDIT) the request of documentation in the form Auditors are permitted in most courses. NON-DEGREE STUDY PROGRAMS of official transcripts. Persons desiring to audit are required to Westminster Seminary California offers secure the permission of the Registrar, a variety of study programs for students CERTIFICATE STUDENT PROGRAM (M.A. ONLY) complete the audit registration form, and who do not intend to pursue a Master’s Westminster Seminary California’s pay a non-refundable fee of one-half the STUDENT LIFE degree. Students enrolled in the Visiting, certificate programs are designed for those regular tuition charge for each course Non-Matriculating, Certificate, and Audit men or women for whom the completion of audited. A COMMUNITY OF FAITH Programs are required to observe all a Bachelor’s degree is not feasible, who Westminster Seminary California is more than an policies and procedures stated in the desire to develop personal understanding of Minors (persons under 17 years old) are academic catalogue with the exception of Scripture and theology, and who anticipate permitted to audit a course only when they academic institution built on a beautiful ten-acre those specifically pertaining to M.Div. or pursuing no further academic study. The have either graduated from high school or campus in the hills of Escondido. It is a community M.A. program requirements. curricula for these certificate programs are passed the GED exam, or the instructor of faith existing to glorify God and to make the identical to the M.A. Biblical Studies, M.A. in charge has given permission. Audit gospel of Christ known through the church. The WSC VISITING STUDENT PROGRAM Theological Studies, and M.A. Historical privileges include regular class attendance, community is a diverse one, composed of faculty, Students holding a Bachelor’s degree Theology, respectively. A limited number copies of all photocopied or printed staff, and students from a variety of denominations. from an approved institution who desire of certificate students are admitted in any material distributed free to the class, and This variety, especially among the student body, to take courses for credit at WSC may one year. the opportunity to ask occasional questions follow a simplified application procedure in class. ensures an atmosphere of challenging and to apply for the status of Visiting Student. Though WSC is not able to award Masters stimulating discussions about theology and ministry. Each applicant must submit a completed of Arts degrees to individuals who lack Normally auditors will not be permitted This community is also unified under the banner of Visiting Student Application form, a non- a Bachelor’s degree, a certificate with to participate in classroom exercises Christ and God’s revelation. The faculty and students refundable application fee, TOEFL and accompanying transcript will attest to the or recitations or to make seminar study his Word together, believing that the church TWE scores (if the applicant is not a native student’s completion of a unified course of presentations, nor will assignments or is best served by those who know and love that English speaker), and an official transcript studies in biblical, theological, or historical examinations be reviewed or graded by Word. The Seminary is united in sharing a profound the instructor. Occasional visitors must showing the completion of a Bachelor’s theology disciplines. Certificate students commitment to Christ and to his gospel as recorded degree program. take courses for credit, pay regular fees, seek permission of the instructor for each receive faculty evaluation of course class they wish to attend and will not in the Scriptures and expressed in our common Visiting Students may enroll in any class assignments and examinations, and have have the privilege of participation in class confessions of faith. Each student experiences a offered by WSC as long as they have met a record of their completion of certificate discussion. Auditors and other members of Christian community of faith not only in the classroom, the prerequisites for the class. If a Visiting requirements maintained by the Registrar. the community have access to the library but also in chapel services promoting spiritual life, Student applies and is accepted into a “Credit/No Credit” evaluation is used for collection and on-site resources, and for a faith, and fellowship in a variety of forums. degree program at a later date, credits certificate students and reported on their nominal fee they may apply for circulation earned as a Visiting Student will be applied transcripts. privileges. to the degree program. The application requirements for the EVENING COURSE LISTENER’S PASS NON-MATRICULATING STUDENT PROGRAM certificate program are similar to those PROGRAM (NON-CREDIT) Students enrolled in undergraduate or for the Special Student application, and As a service to the Christian community, graduate programs at other educational the criteria are followed rigorously by the WSC occasionally offers a Listener’s Pass institutions may, without application to Admissions Committee (see the “Special to select courses that enable an individual and matriculation in Westminster Seminary Students” section above). Because to attend at a reduced (non-refundable) California, take courses at the Seminary for an undergraduate Bachelor’s degree audit fee. The Listener’s Pass is limited transfer of credit to their current degree program in the liberal arts and sciences to designated evening courses selected programs. Non-Matriculating Students is the preferred preparation for graduate before each academic term. Students must present the Registrar with written theological study, and because the lack of a granted a Listener’s Pass must meet all notification from the institution in which Bachelor’s degree often proves a hindrance requirements and observe all policies they are enrolled that each course to be to later educational goals, WSC urges stipulated for the Audit Program. taken at WSC is approved for credit toward individuals to complete a Bachelor’s degree their degree requirements. The Academic at an accredited college or university and

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DEVOTIONAL LIFE students are urged to commit to the life WESTMINSTER WOMEN’S FELLOWSHIP California designated the proceeds of Access to these online resources is WSC provides an opportunity for Master The spiritual life of Westminster Seminary and work of a local congregation of their Westminster Women’s Fellowship is a this endowment to bring an experienced a significant advance in information of Divinity students to gain practical California is nurtured by morning devotions choice. diverse group of women connected to pastor to the campus each year to address retrieval that faculty and students now ministry to which they can apply the on Tuesdays and Thursdays and student- WSC—from students and administrators students preparing for the ministry of take advantage of on and off campus. information learned in the classroom. advisor prayer groups on Wednesdays. to faculty and student wives. The Women’s the Word, as well as pastors engaged To support the new online services, the In this way the WSC curriculum seeks Morning devotion speakers include THE WESTMINSTER STUDENT Fellowship provides an opportunity for in ministry. This lecture is designed to library expanded its computing resources to balance intense Christian scholarship faculty, local pastors, missionaries, ASSOCIATION new women at the Seminary to cultivate encourage both students and pastors and by installing a wireless network that with practical ministry. The Director and Christian lay people. All devotional The Westminster Student Association friendships with— and benefit from— to give counsel regarding the rigor and joy allows laptop users in the library access of Field Education advises students of exercises are governed by the Word of (WSA) was established to promote those who have long associations with of shepherding Christ’s flock. to online resources from any place in the service opportunities and coordinates the God, which remains the true guide in Christian fellowship and growth among WSC. Monthly activities are planned library. fulfillment of field education requirements Christian worship and prayer, as well as students, faculty, staff, and their families. to address both theological issues and LIBRARY with the M.Div. students and pastoral in all other activities of the Christian life It also provides a voice for student practical concerns. Activities include The library houses over 120,000 titles THE BOOKSTORE AT WSC internship supervisors. Each M.Div. and life on campus. It is only when the concerns. The WSA coordinates a variety brunches and guest speakers. The and subscribes to 260 periodicals. The Bookstore at WSC is located on the student is required to register for the believer, with the help and guidance of of activities throughout the school year, Women’s Fellowship activities are A substantial collection of works on central quad of the campus. The bookstore pastoral internship (FE691) during the the Holy Spirit, returns continually to the such as dinners, guest speakers, the supported with a portion of the student Reformed theology is augmented by stocks course textbooks, faculty-written spring semester of his first year. great scriptural doctrines of God, of sin, student-faculty softball game, BBQ association fee. an excellent collection of materials in books, and other important theological and and of grace, that true blessing is to be lunches, sporting events, tournaments, biblical studies and church history. Of pastoral resources. In addition to books, Students preparing for the pastoral obtained. and events in the student lounge. These WESTMINSTER KOREAN FELLOWSHIP special note are the microfilm editions the bookstore also sells audio lectures, ministry are urged to work under the events are supported through an annual The Westminster Korean Fellowship of titles in Evans’s American Bibliography magazines, and seminary apparel. These supervision of a local church throughout WSC recognizes the indispensable role student activities fee that is collected (WKF) exists as a resource for students and Migne’s Patrologiae (Greek and Latin resources are also available for purchase the course of their Seminary education. of the church in the growth of every from full-time students. The officers of serving in Korean-American churches to Fathers), Corpus Reformatorum (all the online at www.wscal.edu/bookstore. Churches throughout San Diego, believer and does not assume to itself the the Association (president, vice president, (1) facilitate networking and (2) create works of Calvin) and numerous 16th and Riverside, and Orange counties regularly church’s responsibility for the nurture of secretary, and treasurer) are elected forums for biblical reflection about 17th century Puritan texts. NUZI TABLET provide information regarding internship the spiritual life of the student. Therefore, annually by all full-time students. applying Reformed theology in the Korean- The Nuzi Tablet is WSC’s weekly opportunities that current students may American church. WKF holds informal Through membership in the Statewide e-newsletter that is distributed online be able to pursue in fulfillment of their discussion groups about pressing issues in California Electronic Library Consortium, throughout the fall and spring semesters. Field Education requirement. Students Korean-American ministries. In addition, the library affords unlimited online The Nuzi Tablet provides information are also encouraged to return to their WKF organizes a theological colloquium searching of Online Computer Library about current on-campus or community home churches to serve during the in the spring targeting the broader Center’s (OCLC) large book database events, academic dates, refund schedules, summer months if feasible. Seminary and church communities. WKF along with nearly seventy other discipline- convocation schedules, updates, activities are supported with a portion of specific periodical databases through reminders, and other helpful information HOUSING the annual student activities fee. OCLC’s FirstSearch service (39 of these for WSC students. The Office of Admissions is available databases contain full-text documents to assist admitted students in finding DEN DULK LECTURES that can be read online or printed). FIELD EDUCATION/INTERNSHIP PROGRAM suitable accommodations by providing The Robert G. and Nellie B. den Dulk Westminster Seminary California’s informative resources on housing Lectures on Pastoral Ministry were The library also has online access to Field Education program is designed to opportunities in the community. These endowed by friends of Westminster the premier religion and theological integrate on-campus studies with part- opportunities may include rooms, houses, Seminary California when Bob den Dulk periodical database, ATLA, the full-text time ministry in local churches. Field or apartments for rent in Escondido and resigned as the second president of the religion database in Proquest, indexing education involves supervised hands-on elsewhere in San Diego County. New Seminary. In appreciation for the den and abstracting of religion periodicals in ministry experience and opportunities for students should plan to arrive in the area Dulks’ 30-year service to the Westminster Religious and Theological Abstracts, and evaluation and reflection with mentors, and seek accommodations during the Seminaries in both Pennsylvania the full text of seminal works from the peers, and professors, in which students summer before the fall semester, no later and California and in recognition of Reformation and Post-Reformation eras are given opportunities to develop the than two weeks prior to the beginning their passion for preparing pastors to through the Digital Library of Classical skills and gifts necessary for effective of classes. Students enrolling in Greek I preach the word of God faithfully and Protestant Texts. ministry. The Field Education program at during the summer term should plan on powerfully, Westminster Seminary arriving in early July.

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STUDENT HEALTH INSURANCE EMPLOYMENT AND MINISTERIAL The Seminary has established a PLACEMENT relationship with United Healthcare Churches from around the country Student Resources through which a regularly contact Westminster Seminary student insurance plan is offered to all California regarding open ministerial enrolled students who meet minimum positions. These opportunities are made eligibility requirements. Plan details and available to graduating students and eligibility requirements are provided to alumni through our campus-wide email FINANCIAL AID all admitted students who plan to enroll list-serve. Community members often SCHOLARSHIPS for credit prior to each academic year. advertise part-time positions for students WESTMINSTER SEMINARY CALIFORNIA GRANTS The health insurance policy, booklet, through the Nuzi and the bulletin board in FINANCIAL AID PROGRAM STUDENT LOANS and application forms are available on the Student Lounge. WSC’s financial aid program is available to assist the WSC website at www.wscal.edu or degree-seeking students with the financial resources through the Registrar’s Office. Considering necessary to complete their seminary education. The the inherent financial risks in the event of financial aid program is designed to supplement each a student or family member’s accident student’s own financial resources (i.e. savings, family and church support, and part-time employment) through or illness, WSC strongly encourages a combination of scholarships, grants and student all students to take part in this health loans. insurance plan or another comparable health plan. International students are TYPES OF FINANCIAL AID required to carry medical insurance and, therefore, are strongly encouraged to • Grants – WSC offers a variety of grants that are use this plan. For more information visit awarded on the basis of a student’s need and do www.wscal.edu/currentstudents not need to be repaid. • Merit Scholarships – WSC offers donor- SPOUSE AUDIT PRIVILEGES supported scholarships which are based on academic achievement and previous leadership Full-time students enrolled in 12 or more experience. Financial need may or may not units per semester and their spouses may be considered. audit courses without charge. Children • International/Missions Scholarships – Awarded of full- or part-time students wishing to either to international students or students with audit a course are subject to regular audit a vocational call to missions in countries outside fees. of North America. • Stafford and PLUS Federal Loans – WSC is a Title Spouses of full-time students, who have IV participating school. This means that Subsidized also been admitted to Westminster loans (loans based on need) and Unsubsidized Seminary California as students, may loans are available to our students. take courses for credit at two-thirds the standard tuition fee. If both students are full-time, the spouse taking the lesser number of units will receive the discount. Alumni and their spouses may audit courses previously taken for credit without charge.

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REQUIREMENTS FOR FINANCIAL AID courses (such as Institute of Theological 3. If a student is applying for a Application. Loan policies are outlined students) even if they drop below full-time In the event that a request is received from a CONSIDERATION Studies) exceed 33% of the student’s scholarship or grant that requires below. The Stafford Loan Application status by taking all courses required to church after the fund for that academic year Financial aid eligibility at WSC is based on enrollment status, they shall not be a letter, additional application, and/ can be obtained online at the WSC graduate. In this case, the amount of grant is exhausted, WSC will contact the church the following: considered in determining financial aid or renewal application, these website (www.wscal.edu). For more award will be based upon the percentage prior to processing the contribution. This • Admission to a WSC Master’s degree eligibility or award payment. documents should be submitted with information, contact the WSC of units being taken in that given semester is to ensure that the church still desires to program (WSC Financial Aid the WSC Application for Financial Financial Aid Coordinator by sending (e.g. if the student is enrolled for 6 units, the contribute to the student’s education outside Applications will not be reviewed FINANCIAL AID PROCESS Aid. For more information about the an email to [email protected]. student would receive half of what he or she of the Church Matching Grant program. prior to admission) To apply for or renew any form of financial requirements for a particular would qualify for if enrolled for 12 units). A • Enrollment in a minimum number of aid at WSC, the following steps must be scholarship or grant, please see 5. To renew scholarships and grants, senior is not eligible to receive more than Forms required: a letter from the church academic units per semester completed: the descriptions below. If awarded the following forms must be submitted two semesters of this prorated grant. A (on official letterhead) stating that they (generally 12 units or more) a scholarship or grant, the award is each year: student who registers for more than the would like to participate in the Church • Maintenance of a minimum grade 1. File an online Free Application renewable every academic school • FAFSA (renewal) number of units required to complete the Matching Grant program and a check to point average and satisfactory for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) for the year, provided that the student • WSC Application for Financial Aid degree in a particular semester (e.g., taking WSC designated as their contribution to academic progress intended academic year of enrollment continues to meet the eligibility for the upcoming academic year extra electives) will not have those additional the student. • Completion of all required financial at www.fafsa.ed.gov. Westminster requirements for that award. To • Renewal Letter as specified in unit hours included in the calculation of the aid applications and forms as Seminary California’s school code renew the award for subsequent number three above grant. MARJORIE MCGILL STUDENT AID outlined below is G22768. This online form should be academic years, submit a one-page FUND completed and submitted prior to or letter addressed to the Financial Aid Once admission has been confirmed, Forms required: FAFSA (www.fafsa.ed.gov) This fund was established through the New students (summer/fall applicants) at the same time as the submission of Committee indicating which awards financial aid applications will be reviewed and WSC Application for Financial Aid for generous gift of Marjorie McGill who who intend to apply for financial aid the WSC Application for Financial you received previously and would like and the Financial Aid Committee will upcoming academic year (available online desired to aid the furtherance of the gospel are encouraged to complete the WSC Aid. The WSC Application for to renew, current ecclesiastical award scholarships and grants to accepted www.wscal.edu/admissions/financialaid). through the work of Westminster Seminary Application for Admission and all financial Financial Aid will not be processed affiliation, current progress towards and qualified students. An award letter California. Her desire was that the name of aid applications by April 1 prior to the until the FAFSA is received by the a degree, need for financial support, summarizing all scholarships and grants will CHURCH MATCHING GRANT our exalted Lord be glorified in the lives of following academic year in order to receive Financial Aid Coordinator. and how the WSC education is be sent to student recipients, asking them The Church Matching Grant seeks to those who are trained to travel to the ends priority consideration for financial aid. benefiting you both spiritually and to either accept or decline them within one bring churches and the Seminary together of the earth bringing the Word of life to a Although these dates are recommended, 2. Submit the WSC Application for academically. All awards must be month. in support of a student’s first year. The lost and dying world. financial aid applications are processed until Financial Aid for the academic year renewed every spring semester Seminary’s contribution to the matching the first day of each semester with awards for which the student is applying. for the following academic year and grant is provided by the income from an The income from this fund shall be used to being made as they are available. Winter/ This form can be obtained online at as requested by the Financial Aid Office. GRANTS endowment established by long-time make grants to students studying for the spring applicants who intend to apply for www.wscal.edu/admissions/ friends of the Seminary. This grant was gospel ministry. financial aid are encouraged to complete financialaid or by calling WSC at 4. (Optional) Apply for a Stafford or PLUS WSC GRANT established to help churches actively support the WSC Application for Admission and all (888) 480-8474. Federal Loan. To process a Stafford The General Financial Aid Fund provides seminarians and to share in the great task of The recipient of this grant will be a full- financial aid applications by November 1. Loan, submit the WSC Federal Loan need-based grants to students meeting theological education. time student who has completed the the general requirements specified above. first year of studies, continues to make Following Financial Aid Committee review, The grants are awarded on an annual basis The number of grants from this fund is satisfactory academic progress, has a clear award letters summarizing all scholarships and applied equally to both fall and spring limited and awards are processed in the vocational calling to the gospel ministry, and and grants that have been offered will semester tuition charges. order in which the requests are received. demonstrates financial need. The award will be sent to each student asking them to The Seminary, within this limitation, will be reviewed annually and may be renewed. either accept or decline the award within a Grants from this fund are processed through match the contribution of a congregation designated time frame. the Financial Aid Office, which determines up to a maximum of $1,000 per student. Forms required: FAFSA (www.fafsa.ed.gov) awards based upon the submitted FAFSA The total amount of the grant, made up of and WSC Application for Financial Aid for Repeat Courses and WSC Application for Financial Aid. All the contributions of the congregation and upcoming academic year (available online A course that is repeated will not be applications for admission and financial the Seminary, will then be equally divided www.wscal.edu/admissions/financialaid), considered in determining financial aid aid should be submitted by April 1 for full between fall and spring semesters. This and a one-page letter describing vocational eligibility. Repeat courses, however, will consideration. Continuing students must grant is not based on financial need. The calling to the gospel ministry. count towards deciding the student’s resubmit the WSC Application for Financial church’s contribution to the matching grant academic progress. Aid and FAFSA each academic year to retain comes from the student’s home church CANADIAN GRANT this grant. A senior can maintain the need- and is available only for the first full year WSC offers financial assistance based on Distance Education Courses based grant (up to a total of 9 semesters for of study at WSC. For further information, the disparity between Canadian and U.S. If distance education and directed research M.Div. students and 6 semesters for M.A. please contact the Financial Aid Office. currencies. The Canadian grant will vary

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every year based on the exchange rate. PRESIDENTIAL MERIT SCHOLARSHIP U.S.). All applications must be received Admitted students desiring to apply for The award will be reviewed annually and and completion of the M.Div. degree within Contact the Financial Aid Office for more The Presidential Merit Scholarship is by the Financial Aid Committee by April the scholarship must submit a 250-500 can be renewed for the student who has three years (six semesters) or the M.A. information. awarded to students based upon prior 15 for the fall semester and by November word essay on why they wish to study at done adequate work at WSC and continues degree program within two years (four academic performance and the potential 15 for the spring semester. Students who Westminster Seminary California and how to have financial need. Applications for semesters). Form required: a letter requesting for future leadership in both ordained and have been granted this scholarship during they plan to use their theological and biblical this scholarship will be submitted to the assistance. non-ordained vocations. Students who have their first year and have maintained a 3.0 education after graduation. Applications are Financial Aid Committee through the Dean Forms required: FAFSA, WSC Application been awarded this scholarship in their first grade point average may reapply to the to be addressed to the Minnie Gresham of Students and will consist of a one-page for Financial Aid, and a letter requesting ANTIOCH MISSION FELLOWSHIP year may request renewal in subsequent Financial Aid Committee. The scholarship is Machen Scholarship Committee and must typed letter describing the applicant’s consideration for this award. GRANT academic years until they graduate, provided renewable for up to three academic years of be submitted by April 1 for the following spiritual background, demonstrated financial This grant, funded by the Antioch Mission they are enrolled in a minimum of12 units study. Reapplication must be made prior to academic year. need, and future plans for ministry. All THE ELIJAH AND ELIZABETH OWEN Fellowship of Mishawaka, Indiana, is per semester with a minimum 3.0 GPA. April 15 for the following academic year. awards will be applied to the recipient’s SCHOLARSHIP FUND available for students either accepted for or Forms required: WSC Application for tuition at WSC. The Elijah and Elizabeth Owen Scholarship enrolled in a Master’s level program at WSC Form required: WSC Financial Aid Forms required: D. K. Kim Scholarship Financial Aid and 250-500 word essay as Fund was established in honor of the and whose goal upon graduation is to enter Application Application, WSC Application for Financial described above. Forms required: FAFSA, WSC Application ministry of Pastor Elijah Owen who served a full-time ministry directed to Vietnamese Aid, and FAFSA. The D.K. Kim Scholarship for Financial Aid, and one-page letter as for more than thirty-six years as a chaplain in people. Consideration will also be given to THE D. K. KIM FOUNDATION Application is located online at www. AWES PRESIDENTIAL SCHOLARSHIP described above. the California State Prison system. Chaplain those called to mission work in Korea or SCHOLARSHIP FUND wscal.edu/admissions/financialaid. This award was funded by Mrs. Johanna Owen’s ministry through both the spoken and Mainland China. Recipients are selected by These scholarships are annually funded by Awes to serve as a testimony of God’s THE ANNIVERSARY SCHOLARSHIP the written word has influenced the lives of the Seminary’s Financial Aid Committee. the D. K. Kim Foundation, Inc., to promote THE MINNIE GRESHAM MACHEN faithfulness in her and her husband’s lives. A generous donor created this award to many inmates to come to a knowledge of The primary selection criterion for the award the Christian faith through the preparation SCHOLARSHIP The President of the Seminary awards the celebrate WSC’s twenty-year anniversary the doctrines of God’s sovereign grace. is an essay submitted by the applicant of ministers of the gospel for the church The Minnie Gresham Machen Scholarship grant to students meeting certain criteria. of training pastors and other leaders for affirming a commitment to Reformed worldwide. The fund’s purpose is to provide was established to encourage and enable Such criteria include, but are not limited the Reformed community. By providing The purpose of this scholarship fund is to theology and outlining the applicant’s annual scholarships for deserving students talented women to take advantage to, high academic standing, full-time financial assistance to promising African- provide financial assistance to students vision and strategy for advancing Reformed in the Master of Divinity (M.Div.) program. of advanced theological education at enrollment in the M.Div. degree program, American and Hispanic American students, entering the gospel ministry who have Christianity among Vietnamese people in Westminster Seminary California in order to status under care of a presbytery (or this scholarship is designed to encourage financial need. Vietnam, the United States, and/or other The WSC Financial Aid Committee will equip them to answer God’s calling in the equivalent) as a student of theology, proven leadership development among ethnic parts of the world. award one (1) full-tuition scholarship to a home, the academy, and the church. record of leadership ability, and potential communities traditionally underrepresented Students meeting the qualifications outlined full-time non-North American international for leadership in the church of Christ. by Reformed churches. above may make a formal request to the Additional criteria are the applicant’s student enrolled in the M.Div. program with The scholarship is named to honor the The financial need of the student may Westminster Seminary California Financial year of the study at the Seminary (with demonstrated financial need determined memory and legacy of Minnie Gresham be considered. Such grants are normally These scholarships shall pay the recipient’s Aid Committee. In addition to submitting preference given to first-year students) and through the WSC International Financial Machen. Throughout her life, she was valiant given for one year, but may be given for tuition and fees for up to three years of the WSC Application for Financial Aid, the academic record. Financial need may also Aid Application. The WSC Financial Aid for the truth of the Reformed faith and had two or more years based on the student’s study at WSC. student shall write a statement of no more be considered. Committee will award ten (10) half-tuition profound influence on her son, J. Gresham performance. To renew this award, submit than three pages in length, double-spaced, scholarships to full-time students enrolled Machen, through formative training in the a letter addressed to the Financial Aid Recipients shall be African-American describing goals and plans for ministry. Form required: a letter requesting in the M.Div. program with demonstrated Scripture and the confessional tradition of Committee. and Hispanic American students who are Applications should be received by April 1 consideration for this grant. financial need as determined by the FAFSA the Reformed faith. selected by the Anniversary Scholarship of each year. Notification of the award will and WSC Application for Financial Aid. All Form required: a letter from the student Committee in consultation with WSC’s be granted no later than May 15 prior to the SCHOLARSHIPS awards shall be credited to the recipients’ The Minnie Gresham Machen Scholarship requesting consideration for this award. Financial Aid Committee. Additional academic school year. OVERVIEW tuition accounts at the Seminary in the Committee will award the scholarship criteria include the following: United States • Presidential Merit academic year for which the scholarship to one or more female recipients each THE YOU KYE-SOON MEMORIAL citizenship, acceptance and enrollment Forms required: WSC Financial Aid Form • D. K. Kim Foundation was granted. year who meet the following criteria: the SCHOLARSHIP into Westminster Seminary California for and a letter as described above. • Minnie Gresham Machen recipient must be admitted to a full-time The family of Mrs. You Kye-Soon, as a full-time studies, and completion of all • Awes Presidential Application Requirements: Students shall M.A. program at WSC, be a member in good memorial of her life of faith in her savior required financial aid forms. Recipients • You Kye-Soon Memorial apply for the D.K. Kim Foundation, Inc. standing of a Bible-believing church, show Jesus Christ and of her concern to make the shall be selected annually. In addition THE WALTER SWETS SCHOLARSHIP • Elijah and Elizabeth Owen Scholarship by submitting the D.K. Kim evidence of high academic achievement, gospel known, instituted the You Kye-Soon to the criteria above, continuation of an FOR HISPANIC STUDENTS • Anniversary Foundation Scholarship Application and demonstrate financial need through Memorial Scholarship. This scholarship award is contingent upon: enrollment as a This scholarship was instituted in honor • Walter Swets for Hispanic Students (available online or through the Financial Aid the WSC Application for Financial Aid. The provides an annual scholarship for a full-time student at WSC, maintenance of of the ministry of Rev. Walter Swets, who • Reformed Scholarship Office), the WSC Application for Financial scholarship will provide tuition aid for up to deserving full-time student in the Master of a 3.0 cumulative grade point average for served as a Christian Reformed Church • Trinity OPC Aid, and the FAFSA (for U.S. students only three years of study, depending upon the Divinity program. each academic year, the annual committee pastor from 1959 until his retirement in or those with permanent residence in the need of the recipient. review of the recipient’s financial aid data, 1997.

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The recipient of this scholarship will be TRINITY PRESBYTERIAN (OPC) United States be approved as meeting that who have received this award in their first Committee chooses annual recipients of ACADEMIC AWARDS an Hispanic full-time student who has SCHOLARSHIP obligation. If a student does not return to year and have maintained a 2.5 grade point the $1,000 award with preference given demonstrated financial need, enrolled in a A scholarship provided by the Trinity the country of origin and does not receive average may reapply to the Financial Aid to non-North American students preparing THE SAMUEL AND ANN VAN TIL degree program at Westminster Seminary Presbyterian Church (OPC) of Medford, approval from the Financial Aid Committee Committee in each successive year until for service in their home countries upon STUDENT SCHOLARSHIP PRIZES California, and intends to minister to the Oregon, is awarded to a student in the to minister elsewhere in fulfillment of his they graduate. Renewals are made at the graduation. The Samuel and Ann Van Til Student Hispanic population within the United States Master of Divinity program who is a loan obligations, the student is expected discretion of the committee based upon its Scholarship Prizes were instituted by their or another country. During the years that member in good standing in the Orthodox to repay the loan, in full, twelve months knowledge of a student’s financial situation, Form required: a letter requesting children in cooperation with Westminster WSC has no Hispanic student(s) meeting Presbyterian Church, is under care of an OPC after completion of studies at Westminster fitness for ministry, or change in ministry consideration for this award. Seminary California to honor their parents’ the above criteria, the scholarship may be presbytery, and is planning to be a pastor Seminary California. Only students who goals. love for the Reformed faith and its witness awarded to another student(s) who has in the OPC. The student must also have a have been admitted to a regular program of THE STEWART NEW ZEALAND to the world through the Seminary. The fund interest in pursuing Hispanic ministry, either demonstrated financial need. study prior to March 15 will be considered Applications for the scholarship must be STUDENT AID FUND was established in 1994 through an estate as a missionary, pastor of a congregation, or for financial aid for the following academic made to the Financial Aid Committee by The purpose of the Thomas and Grace bequest of Mr. and Mrs. Van Til and receives servant to a congregation that is seeking to Forms required: FAFSA, WSC Application year. The International Student Financial April 15. The application is in the form of Stewart New Zealand Student Aid Fund is continuing memorial donations from family reach out to Hispanics. for Financial Aid, and a letter requesting Aid Application should be received by the a one-page essay describing the applicant’s to encourage students from New Zealand to and friends. The fund’s annual investment consideration for this award. Financial Aid Office by April 15. Students previous educational and church experience attend Westminster Seminary California and proceeds are used to encourage exemplary The award will be reviewed annually and will be notified in early May if they have and future ministry goals in their home to return to New Zealand after graduation Reformed scholarship by awarding grants can be renewed for the student who has received funds from the International country. to minister in a church faithful to Reformed for continued full-time study at Westminster done adequate work at WSC and continues INTERNATIONAL STUDENT AID Student Financial Aid Fund. Additional doctrine. Awards up to one year’s tuition Seminary California. One prize is awarded to have financial need. A letter (no more than regulations governing this fund and the loan Forms required: WSC International will be made from this fund. The awards each year for the best major paper (15-20 two pages typed) should be submitted to the D. K. KIM FOUNDATION contract form may be obtained from the Application for Financial Aid and a one- will be in the form of an interest-free loan pages) submitted in each of the Seminary’s Financial Aid Committee. This letter should The D. K. Kim Foundation Scholarship Financial Aid Coordinator. page essay as described above. that will be forgiven at the rate of $1,500 departments: Biblical Studies, Theological consist of the following: the individual’s provides one full scholarship to an inter- per year of active ministry in New Zealand Studies, and Practical Theology. The faculty, spiritual background, financial need, and national student. (Please see the detailed International students who have been THE MARTIN AND ALICE BIELEMA after graduation. Should an award recipient in coordination with the Academic Dean, goals and plans for ministry. information above.) granted financial aid their first year and FOREIGN STUDENT FINANCIAL elect not to return to New Zealand, or if he select the recipients. have maintained a 2.3 grade point average AID GRANT is later called elsewhere, the balance of his Forms required: WSC Application WSC INTERNATIONAL STUDENT may reapply to the Financial Aid Committee This award was instituted by Mrs. Doris loan obligation to the fund shall be repaid THE ARTHUR FOREST WELLS for Financial Aid or the International AID FUND for aid in each successive year until they Bergsma and Mrs. Sandra Kolk in memory of in three years. For further information, MEMORIAL AWARD Application for Financial Aid, and a letter Financial aid in the form of a loan from the graduate. Reapplication must be made prior their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Martin Bielema, applicants should contact the Director of This fund was established in 1980 in requesting consideration for this award. International Student Financial Aid Fund is to April 15. as a memorial to their lives in service to our Enrollment Management. memory of the Rev. Arthur Forest Wells, made available to international students risen Lord and love for foreign missions. The a Presbyterian minister in St. Louis and REFORMED SCHOLARSHIP FUND who are committed to ministry in their own Forms required: WSC International recipients of this award will be non-North Forms required: WSC International Baltimore. The investment gained from this These grants for first-year students of up countries after their study in the United Application for Financial Aid and a letter American students who have demonstrated Application for Financial Aid and a letter fund is used to support the WSC library to $2,500 were established by friends of States and who indicate this in writing. requesting to be considered for this fund financial need and who are selected by the requesting consideration for this award. and to help build a personal library of a the Seminary to encourage students from Students receiving this award must pursue and, once awarded, a signed loan contract Financial Aid Committee. Priority will be selected student. The selection is based Reformed churches to attend Westminster full-time studies in a degree program as agreeing to the stipulations of the aid. given to those students who sign a pledge ANTIOCH MISSION FELLOWSHIP upon the following criteria: the recipient is Seminary California. listed in the catalogue. Because these stating that they will return to their native GRANT to be a senior M.Div. student recognized grants never exceed the amount of tuition, THE TRINITY CRC VISALIA country to apply their Westminster Seminary This grant is primarily intended to assist as upholding the highest standards of One or two recipients are chosen each the student’s fees, rent, food, transportation, INTERNATIONAL SCHOLARSHIP California education. The award is applied those desiring to minister to Vietnamese scholarship, subscribing to the Westminster year by the Seminary’s Student Financial and other living expenses must be supplied The Trinity CRC Visalia International towards tuition at WSC. people in Vietnam and around the world. Confession of Faith, and having the career Aid Committee according to the following from other sources. Scholarship is awarded annually to two Consideration will also be given to those goal of serving as a minister of a local criteria: acceptance for full-time study as non-North American international students Forms required: WSC International called to mission work in Korea or Mainland congregation in a Presbyterian or other a first year student, membership in good When the student returns to the country at Westminster Seminary California who Application for Financial Aid and a letter China. (For details about this grant, please Reformed denomination. standing in a Reformed church, demonstrated of origin, the loan will be forgiven at a rate intend to return to their country of origin requesting consideration for this award. see the Grant section above.) financial need, and demonstrated Christian of one year of financial support per year to strengthen the ministry of their home leadership. of ministry in that country. If the student churches. THE YUNE-SUN PARK SCHOLARSHIP desires to minister in a country other than This scholarship is funded annually by the Forms required: FAFSA, WSC Application the country of origin he may petition the Recipients of this award shall be non-North family of the Reverend Yune-Sun Park for Financial Aid, and a letter requesting Financial Aid Committee to approve such American students who have demonstrated as a memorial to Rev. Park’s prayers and consideration for this award. a ministry as fulfilling the loan obligations. financial need and who are selected by the constant support for Westminster Seminary Under no circumstances may ministry in the WSC Financial Aid Committee. Students California. The Seminary’s Financial Aid

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FEDERAL STAFFORD AND PLUS • Must work toward a degree In extreme situations, the school may 4. Fill out a Master Promissory Note (MPN) PETITION PROCESS have been earned and need not be returned. LOANS program at the Seminary waive this requirement in the event that a with the lender of their choosing. A student who desires to appeal the financial In the event that the student fails to notify • Must complete the loan process student drops below these levels. A letter Like the Entrance Interview, this may aid disqualification or ineligibility status the Registrar and Financial Aid Coordinator INTRODUCTION outlined below stating the student’s circumstances and the be filled out either online or in the for federal aid must complete and submit of his/her withdrawal, the last date of class Westminster Seminary California partici- • Must demonstrate financial need in request to continue eligibility for financial Financial Aid Office. Please contact the Federal Student Aid Petition Form to attendance will be used as the withdrawal pates in the Federal Student Aid (Title IV) order to qualify for a subsidized loan aid must be submitted to the Financial Aid the Financial Aid Coordinator for the Financial Aid Committee indicating date. Program enabling students to apply for low- • Must use federal financial aid funds Committee for review. The Financial Aid WSC’s list of preferred lenders. the reason for consideration. This petition interest, federally supported Stafford and solely for educational purposes Committee reserves the right to consult form is due no later than the established VETERANS BENEFITS Graduate PLUS Loans. Loans are contingent • Must make satisfactory with the Academic Dean, Dean of Students, Upon withdrawal, dismissal, or in the deadline for the semester for which he WSC is certified by the Department of upon enrollment; if the student’s enrollment academic progress and Faculty Advisors if necessary and semester prior to graduation, all students or she wishes to receive aid (typically 2 Veterans Affairs as an institution at which ceases during a semester, they may need to • Must not be in default on any appropriate. who have received Title IV funds must also weeks after the start of the semester). If veterans may receive educational benefits. return all or a portion of the funds. Federal Student Aid Program loan complete an Exit Interview either online or the petition is approved, reinstatement Veterans can contact the Department of LOAN APPLICATION PROCESS in the Financial Aid Office. of financial aid eligibility will not exceed Veterans Affairs to determine their eligibility. There are two types of Stafford Loan: SATISFACTORY ACADEMIC Students who need to apply for a student a period of one school year, regardless of For additional information regarding Subsidized, in which the Federal government PROGRESS (SAP) loan must follow the following steps: LOAN PERIODS remaining academic requirements. If the veterans benefits at WSC, please contact pays the interest while the student is In order to be eligible for student loans, The usual loan period is one academic year, petition is denied, reinstatement of financial the Director of Enrollment Management. enrolled at least half-time in an accredited a student must be admitted to a degree 1. Any student who desires financial September through May. For those students aid eligibility begins as soon as the student institution, and Unsubsidized, in which program, be enrolled in at least 6 credits aid must fill out a Free Application who begin their studies in the winter/spring, meets the satisfactory academic progress the student is responsible for all interest (not previously attempted), and be making for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA). the spring semester will be considered the requirements. which accrues on the loan from the day Satisfactory Academic Progress (SAP). SAP This may be accessed online at loan period. of disbursement. The maximum combined includes both a cumulative grade point www.fafsa.ed.gov. Westminster WITHDRAWAL/LEAVE OF ABSENCE amount (Subsidized and Unsubsidized) average of at least 2.0 and reasonable Seminary California’s school code DISBURSEMENT SCHEDULING In the event that a student desires or needs which a student may borrow under the progress towards a degree. Progress is is G22768. Within the loan period defined above, to withdraw or to take a leave of absence Federal Stafford Loan program is $20,500. measured by the number of credits earned 2. Submit the WSC Application for federal regulations mandate that loans from WSC, written notification must first The Stafford Subsidized Loan is need-based per year and is outlined in the following Stafford Loans to the Financial must be disbursed according to payment be submitted to the Registrar. Withdrawing and may not exceed $8,500. chart for full-time students. Aid Coordinator. periods, or each semester within that loan from classes or WSC entirely may adversely period. For one academic year there will affect your student loan status, including the The Graduate PLUS Loan carries a higher For part-time students, those who take First time borrowers at WSC must also: be two disbursements, one per semester. following: reduction in the qualification for interest rate than the Stafford Loan. between six and eleven credits a semester, 3. Fill out an Entrance Interview before If a student enrolls beginning in the winter subsidized monies, the return of some or all Students must have already applied for their the length of their program for SAP purposes a loan may be processed. This may be or spring, two disbursements are still of a loan, the beginning of your grace period, maximum Stafford Loan eligibility. will be extended by one (1) semester for done either online or in the Financial required. The first will occur 30 days after or repayment of loans. Upon withdrawal the each semester a student is enrolled Aid Office. the start of classes for new borrowers. The student may still owe a balance to WSC. Please contact the Financial Aid Coordinator part-time. second disbursement occurs at the calendar Federal regulations mandate that students with any questions about student loans. midpoint of the loan period. who withdraw or do not return from leave of MINIMUM UNITS TO BE COMPLETED absence must complete a loan Exit Interview. ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA Maximum Time Allotted for Degree Completion INELIGIBILITY STATUS See Academic Information and Policies for Generally speaking, students may be eligible A student will be considered ineligible for more information about withdrawing or to borrow money under the Stafford Program ACADEMIC YEAR M.DIV. M.A.B M.A.T. M.A.H.T. federal financial aid if he or she: taking a leave of absence. if they are enrolled in a degree program and 1 24 24 24 24 • Exceeds the maximum time frame satisfy all of the following provisions: 2 48 48 48 48 for program completion, based on TITLE IV REFUND POLICY • Must complete and submit all 3 73 74 74 73 units attempted Federal regulations stipulate that if a student documentation required, and certify 4 97 • Drops below a cumulative G.P.A. of withdraws prior to completing 61% of the the information is true, correct, 4.5 110 2.0 at the end of each semester or semester, Title IV funds must be returned to and accurate school year the lender. The amount that must be returned • Must be a U.S. citizen or eligible Credits to be earned per academic year for each degree program. • Has completed fewer units than is calculated based on the amount of aid the non-citizen the established minimum at the end student earned. If a student withdraws and • Male students, between the ages of a semester Title IV funds must be returned, the student of 18-25, must be registered with may owe a balance to WSC. After the 60% the Selective Service point in the semester, all aid is considered to

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REGISTRATION circumstances, the Add/Drop form will Studies department. A Greek placement A registration packet, which includes all not be processed through electronic mail test is held on the day prior to the necessary forms and schedules, will be or fax. For information concerning refund beginning of Greek I during the summer sent to students one month prior to the and withdrawal dates please reference term and also during times posted on the registration due date as listed on the the refund schedule and Academic the Academic Calendar. The Hebrew Academic Calendar (as listed in the back Calendar. During the grace period, the placement exam is held prior to the start of the catalogue or online at www.wscal. period between registration and official of fall semester by making arrangements ACADEMIC edu/currentstudents/calendar). Students billing, a student must obtain his or her with the Old Testament faculty. INFORMATION & are required to complete the registration Faculty Advisor’s and Registrar’s approval BEGINNING YOUR WSC PROGRAM form and return it to the Registrar. Extra for registration changes, but the Add/ Each test covers the fundamentals of POLICIES Once a student is admitted to Westminster Seminary California, registration packets will be located Drop fee will not apply. Once a student is grammar, vocabulary and translation of the Registrar will assist the student with organizing class outside the Registrar’s office. Following officially billed, typically one month prior selected scriptural passages. Sample schedules, planning course work, and registering for classes. To registration, the Dean of Students will to the beginning of the semester, an Add/ tests are available through the Office of ensure academic order, WSC has created the following procedures assign faculty advisors who are available Drop fee will be charged to the student’s Admissions. and policies related to beginning course work and sustaining the to advise students’ course of study. account per form submitted. After the student in the program. Students should review the registration, beginning of the semester, a student is Greek and Hebrew courses at WSC are placement, and academic policies to become familiar with how Registration for new students is processed not normally permitted to add a course considered propaedeutic and will not WSC organizes degree programs and how to begin and continue through the mail. Students who are but may drop courses with the written be counted toward the total number of studies successfully at the Seminary. admitted less than one month prior to the approval of the instructor, the student’s units required for graduation. However, start of classes will register during WSC Faculty Advisor, and the Registrar. grades resulting from these courses are orientation (a late registration fee will calculated into a student’s grade point apply). The effective date for dropping a course is average. the date on which the Registrar approves Students must register for classes for the Add/Drop request. Courses dropped GREEK AND HEBREW AUDIT POLICY each semester at the time listed in the between the first and the seventh week Auditors are not normally admitted into Academic Calendar. Continuing students of a semester will not be recorded on the language courses, but may be under one must obtain their Faculty Advisor’s student’s permanent record. Withdrawal of the following conditions: approval on their registration forms prior to under any other circumstance will result • The student has previously taken the registration, along with the completion of in a failing grade in the course. course for credit at Westminster any additional paperwork (i.e.: extramural Seminary California. petitions with approval of faculty, directed • The student has “tested out” of the research course approvals, class conflict ACADEMIC PROCEDURES & course by examination. approvals, etc.). These forms are available POLICIES • The student does not plan to enroll at the Registrar’s office or online at GREEK AND HEBREW PLACEMENT into a degree program at Westminster www.wscal.edu/currentstudents/forms. Westminster Seminary California Seminary California. Those who later php. A late registration fee of $50.00 believes that knowledge of original decide to enroll in a degree program will be charged when a student fails to biblical languages is essential for the at WSC will be required to take the register with all necessary paperwork study of God’s Word. Therefore, incoming class for credit and will not be able to before the due dates listed in the students without knowledge of Greek or test out of the language requirement. Academic Calendar. Hebrew should enroll in Greek I during the summer term. A student whose performance on a REGISTRATION CHANGES placement exam indicates that they do Courses may be added or dropped by Students with prior undergraduate work in not need to take the introductory course submitting a completed Add/Drop form Greek or Hebrew may “test out” of some and who will enroll full-time (12 units to the Registrar within the dates listed of the language requirements by taking minimum or in the last semester of a in the Academic Calendar. 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credits to graduate) may audit the waived The paper must be at least 5 pages POLICIES ON THE DISCLOSURE OF records; financial aid records; letters of • Officials of other educational INSPECTION AND REVIEW RIGHTS; courses without an audit fee. (1500 words) long and must include at STUDENT RECORDS recommendation; academic references; institutions to which the student seeks RIGHT TO A HEARING least ten footnotes, a bibliography and STUDENTS’ RIGHTS OF PRIVACY AND medical or health records; clinical or intends to enroll (on condition that A currently or previously enrolled student KNOWLEDGE OF THE ENGLISH BIBLE a signed statement reading: “I certify ACCESS TO RECORDS, FERPA, AND counseling and psychiatric records; the student upon request is entitled to has the right to inspect and review his or A thorough knowledge of the English Bible that this writing sample reflects my own FTC GRAMM-LEACH-BLILEY FINANCIAL transcripts, test scores, field evaluations a copy of such records). her education records. This right does is expected of all students at Westminster efforts and activity in research, reasoning, PRIVACY ACT on internships or field work undertaken • Appropriate federal, state or local not extend to applicants, those denied Seminary California. In order to ensure that composition, and editing, unassisted by Westminster Seminary California, in as part of a Seminary program, and other officials or authorities, consistent admission, or those admitted who do not all students have an in-depth understanding any other person.” accordance with the Family Educational academic records. “Personally identifiable with federal regulations. enroll. Officials may require that requests of the Bible, WSC has established an Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) of 1974, information” means that the information • Organizations conducting studies for, for access be submitted in writing, and or on behalf of, educational agencies English Bible Exam. The examination is If the student has no such paper available, as amended, has adopted this Policy on includes: (a) the name of the student; (b) may ask for, but not require, the reason or institutions. administered twice per academic school the instructor of Graduate Theological Disclosure of Student Records to address the address of the student; (c) a personal for the request. The Seminary will comply • Accrediting organizations to carry out year. All incoming students are required to Writing will recommend an alternative. the following issues: (1) disclosure of identifier such as social security number; with requests to inspect and review a their accrediting functions. If the paper is judged to reflect adequate directory information; (2) confidentiality take the English Bible Exam during the fall or (d) a list of personal characteristics or • Parents of a dependent student as student’s records that it has determined semester. See the Academic Calendar for skill in research, composition, grammar, of personally identifiable information; and other information that would make the defined in Section 152 of the Internal to honor within a reasonable period of examination dates. and the use of sources, skills necessary (3) student rights to inspect, review and student’s identity easily traceable. Revenue Code of 1986 (provided that time, but in no case more than forty-five for success at WSC, the student may be seek amendment of their records. The Seminary will generally not disclose the Seminary must take reasonable days after the request was made. A score of 110 or higher out of 150 exempted from the course. personally identifiable information to third steps to assure itself of the parent’s Records to which students are not entitled questions is required in order to be DISCLOSURE OF DIRECTORY INFORMATION parties without the written consent of the right to claim the student as a dependent). to access, include: exempt from OT520 English Bible Survey. PUBLIC SPEAKING REQUIREMENT Information concerning the following student. The consent should specify the • Parents or guardians of a student, Students who fail the exam once will All M.Div. students are required to enroll items about individual students is records to be disclosed, the purpose of where the information pertains to • Confidential letters and statements be allowed another attempt to pass the in PT410 Oral Communication during designated by the Seminary as directory the disclosure, and to whom the records violations of any federal, state or local of recommendation placed in a exam during the beginning of the winter the first fall semester unless a waiver is information and may be released or are to be disclosed. However, personally law or of any Seminary rule or policy student’s record before January term. After a second failure the student granted. It is possible for the student to published without the student’s consent: identifiable information may be disclosed, governing the use or possession of 1, 1975, or confidential letters and is required to take OT520 English Bible obtain a waiver if the student delivers a full name; address (local, home or without the student’s consent, to the alcohol or a controlled substance, and statements of recommendation to Survey (which is offered only in the spring brief speech and demonstrates adequate electronic mail); telephone number; following individuals or institutions, or in the student has committed a which students have waived their semester) as an elective. Each student oral communication skills (in preparation, photograph; date and place of birth; the following circumstances: disciplinary violation. rights of access. must pass the exam in OT520 prior to structure, and delivery) to representative program of study; dates of attendance; • In connection with the student’s • Employment records of students as registering for OT601, OT701, OT702, faculty of the Department of Practical degrees and awards received; most Seminary officials (or office personnel application for, or receipt of financial aid. Seminary employees. • Records that are made or maintained by NT601, NT602, NT701, and ST601. Theology prior to the first fall semester recent previous educational institution ancillary to the officials) who require • To comply with a judicial order or a physician, psychiatrist, psychologist, of study. Please contact the Dean of attended; participation in officially access for legitimate educational lawfully issued subpoena (on condition pastor, or other recognized professional GRADUATE THEOLOGICAL WRITING Students during the week of the WSC recognized Seminary activities. Students purposes such as academic, disciplinary, that a reasonable effort is made to notify the student of the order or or paraprofessional acting in his or PT400 Graduate Theological Writing is New Student Orientation to sign up for a who do not wish directory information to health or safety matters. Seminary subpoena, if legally permitted to her professional capacity or assisting designed to assist students in developing speech. Speeches will be scheduled prior be released or made public must inform officials may include, without limitation, do so). in his or her paraprofessional capacity, competencies in such areas as organization to the start of classes in the fall semester. the Registrar’s Office, in writing, at the the President, Deans, Department Chairs, • In case of an emergency, to protect and that are made, maintained, or and composition of essays and papers, Master of Divinity students who do not time the information is originally sought. Faculty Members, the Seminary’s legal the health or safety of students or used only in connection with treatment correct use of source materials in writing, successfully waive PT410 will be required counsel, Judicial Officers, Counselors, other individuals. of the student and are not disclosed clarity and style in sentence syntax and to take the class before enrolling in CONFIDENTIALITY OF PERSONALLY and the Admissions Committee. to anyone other than the individuals paragraph construction, diction, grammar, PT504 Sermon Preparation and Delivery IDENTIFIABLE INFORMATION Seminary officials also include individuals The Seminary will inform a party to whom providing the treatment. These punctuation, and spelling. Admitted and the advanced homiletics practica All personally identifiable information employed by or under contract to the a disclosure of personally identifiable records may be reviewed, however, students have the opportunity to obtain (PT603, PT604, PT704, PT708). For more contained in student records other than Seminary to perform a special task, such information is made that it is made only by a physician or other appropriate a waiver of PT400 Graduate Theological information please direct questions to directory information is considered as an attorney or auditor, and individuals on the condition that such party will not professional of the student’s choice. Writing. To do so they must submit an the Dean of Students. A booklet, Your confidential information. This information acting as official agents of the Seminary disclose the information to any other party • Financial records of the parents of the academic paper to the Registar’s Office First Speech, is available online or from includes, but is not necessarily limited to: who are performing a service on behalf of without the prior written consent of the student or any information contained in by August 15 (December 1 for winter the Registrar’s Office and provides more academic evaluations; general counseling the Seminary. student. An exception to this is in the case those records. term, January 15 for spring semester). information concerning this requirement. and advising records; disciplinary of mandatory disclosure to comply with a • Records of instructional, supervisory, judicial order or lawfully issued subpoena. and administrative personnel and

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educational personnel ancillary to with the resolution, the student should ACADEMIC POLICIES professor and student, and submitted should submit the completed petition FIELD EDUCATION those persons, that are in the sole contact the individual to whom that DIRECTED RESEARCH PETITION at the time of registration. to the Academic Dean. Field education is an integral requirement possession of the maker of the record person reports. If still not satisfied, the (ELECTIVE COURSES ONLY) • Students taking a directed research • The student must register for the of Westminster Seminary California’s and are not accessible or revealed to student may contact the appropriate vice Professors will be pleased to arrange elective will have a course number course at the time of registration Master of Divinity program since the any other individual except a temporary president or designee. The final level of research courses on subjects of interest assigned to the course by the Registrar (if the petition is granted). program is designed to prepare men for substitute for the maker. appeal is a formal hearing. To obtain a for qualified students. These courses after completing the petition. the pastorate. Consequently the program • Institutional records of students which hearing, the student should file a written will be conducted by means of assigned Completion Deadline includes not only academic studies but may be maintained by the Seminary in request with the Registrar. The hearing reading, a thesis and conferences with Course Numbering All written research papers and other also the opportunity to exercise and a computer printout or similar format will be conducted in accordance with the the professor and/or an examination. The course numbers shall reflect the work must be completed on the last day develop ministry skills through this (so long as this computerized requirements of FERPA. These regulations and procedures also department of the class such as: OT – Old of classes of the same term, and any supervised internship program. For more information is not intended to be apply to Institute of Theological Studies Testament, or ST – Systematic Theology. final exam must be completed by the end information, please contact the Director distributed outside the Seminary), as The substantive judgment of a faculty courses offered by Westminster Seminary of the examination period of the same of Field Education. long as the original source of member about a student’s work (grades California. Completion Deadline term. Failure to meet these deadlines computer information is available in the office or department having or other evaluations of work assigned) is All written research papers and other will automatically result in an “F” for The Field Education Program (FE 691) original jurisdiction for the records. not within the scope of a FERPA hearing. Directed research courses may be one, work must be completed by the last day the course, unless a further extension is requires 700 hours of supervised and • Records that only contain information A student may challenge the factual and two, or three semester units in credit of classes of the same term, and any granted by faculty action prior to the end evaluated ministry in a broad spectrum about a person after that person was objective elements of the content of value. The instructor shall indicate on final exam must be completed by the end of that term. of pastoral experience. WSC strongly no longer a student at the Seminary student records, but not the qualitative the Directed Research Agreement the of the examination period of the same recommends that students begin their (e.g., information collected by the and subjective elements of grading. number of credit units assigned to the term. Failure to meet these deadlines CLASS CONFLICT PETITION field education early in their seminary Seminary pertaining to particular course in light of the amount of will automatically result in an “F” for Students may petition to fulfill program in order to maximize its value. accomplishments of its alumni). If as a result of a hearing the Seminary research, writing, and faculty consultation the course, unless a further extension is requirements for two overlapping classes. See the fee schedule for charges. • Those portions of a student’s records determines that a student’s challenge is required. granted by faculty action prior to the end Both professors must sign the petition. that contain information on other without merit, the student will have the of that term. Under these circumstances students The Director of Field Education will students. right, and will be so informed, to place Qualifications: are expected to divide their attendance advise students, monitor progress, review in his or her records a statement setting • Directed Research courses may EXTRAMURAL PETITION between classes and complete all evaluations, give reports to the field Students may be invited but not required to forth any reasons for disagreeing with the be pursued only by students who are (REQUIRED COURSES ONLY) assignments. education committee and the faculty and, waive their right of access to confidential Seminary’s decision. registered for regular class work, Students desiring to take a required when the field education requirement is letters of recommendation for admission, unless they have previously attained course through independent study must Petition Procedures: completed, give a grade of “credit” or “no academic references, honors or awards, or Students have a right to file complaints a general academic standing of 2.8 or complete an Extramural Petition available The petition deadline is on the scheduled credit.” This requirement must be met employment. Failure to execute a waiver concerning alleged failures by the better at WSC. on the WSC website or from the Registrar. registration deadline (see Academic prior to graduating from the Master of will not affect a student’s admission, Seminary to comply with the requirements • Generally, directed research courses Extramural Petitions are approved only Calendar). Students will not be allowed to Divinity program. receipt of financial aid, or other Seminary of FERPA and the implementing are taken with full-time faculty. If by a vote of the Faculty Committee on register for either course until the petition, services. If a student signs a waiver, regulations. Complaints should be a student wishes to pursue a directed Petitions. signed by both professors, is submitted to ATTENDANCE he/she may request a list of all persons addressed to the Family Policy Compliance research course in an area in which the Registrar. If this deadline is missed, a It is expected that students will attend making confidential recommendations. Office, U.S. Department of Education, 400 only an adjunct professor specializes, Petition Procedures: late registration fee will be charged. The every class for which they are registered. Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington DC the petition must be approved by the • The petition deadline is one month prior student is responsible to: Absences caused by illness, or other A student who believes that any 20202-4605. Students are encouraged Academic Dean. to the normally scheduled registration justifiable causes, will be permitted to a information contained in his or her to bring any complaints regarding the day. The Committee will not normally • Obtain the Class Conflict Petition form limited extent. If, in the judgment of the education records is inaccurate or implementation of this policy to the Petition Procedures: approve late petitions. from the Registrar’s office or online. instructor, these permitted absences or misleading, or otherwise in violation of attention of the Registrar. • Arrangements for directed research • The student is responsible to obtain • Meet with the professors to arrange other (unauthorized) absences endanger his or her privacy rights, may request that courses must be made prior to the the Extramural Petition form from the attendance, to obtain all material the standing of the student in the course, the Seminary amend the records. The scheduled registration date as printed Registrar’s office or online. covered in both courses and obtain the the instructor shall advise the student student should first discuss his or her in the Academic Calendar. • The student should meet with the professors’ signatures. and notify the student’s Faculty Advisor. concerns with the individual responsible • A petition form available from the professor to arrange fulfillment of • Submit the completed petition to the Further absences will normally result in a for the office where the records are Registrar or from the WSC website requirements and obtain the Registrar during registration. failing grade in the course. maintained. If the student is not satisfied must be completed, signed by the instructor’s signature. The student

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CHANGE IN DEGREE PROGRAM A student’s general standing is the result prior to registration. The minimum full- Petition Procedures: A student will be placed on academic A student, who desires to return to the Students are admitted into the degree of the total number of grade points time course load during summer and • Obtain the Incomplete Petition form probation if his or her cumulative grade Seminary within one academic year, program for which they apply. Students earned divided by the total number of winter terms is two credit units. from the Registrar’s Office or from the point average falls below 2.0 after must notify the Registrar in writing, wishing to change their degree program semester units taken. Courses in which Westminster Seminary California completing 25 semester units of course stating a re-entrance date into a degree must submit to the Registrar a formal credit/no credit grading is employed are REPEATED COURSES website (www.wscal.edu). work at WSC. The student remains in program. If a student has withdrawn application form with their Faculty not calculated in the grade point average. A student is permitted to repeat a course • Obtain the signatures of the professor probation status until his or her cumulative for one or more academic years, he or Advisor’s signature along with the change Grades received in Hebrew and Greek in which a grade has already been earned. and the Dean of Students. grade point average is raised to 2.0 (the she must submit a new Application for of program fee of $15.00. The Change in courses taken at Westminster Seminary When a course is repeated, both the first • Return the completed petition to the minimum grade point average required for Admission and Ecclesiastical Reference Degree application form is available from California are calculated in the grade and the second grades are figured into the Registrar by the last day of classes. graduation). to the Office of Admissions along with the the Registrar or online. point average. total cumulative grade point average and current application fee. After reviewing A student must raise his or her cumulative the application and reference for re- both grades are shown on the student’s Petition Deadlines grade point average to 2.0 within 30 admission, the Seminary will notify the DOUBLE SUBMISSION OF PAPERS In a course in which a failing grade has transcript. In the case of a granted incomplete, all semester units after being placed on applicant in writing about their status. It is contrary to academic ethics to submit been received, a student may be granted outstanding course requirements must probation. Failure to do so shall be an identical paper for credit in two or permission by the professor to take a re- INCOMPLETE COURSE WORK be finished and graded by the last day of examination or complete a re-assignment grounds for dismissal. Students returning to WSC after an more classes at Westminster Seminary A student is expected to complete all work classes of the next semester, or by some absence of one year or more re-enter California. The only exception is that of sufficient quality to raise the grade to within the current term. In extraordinary earlier date agreed upon by the professor an F/D. Such work must be completed A student dismissed for academic their programs under the curricula and students enrolled in PT400 Graduate circumstances, however, a student may and the student. Any arrangement for reasons may appeal to the faculty for graduation requirements stated in the Theological Writing may, with the within 21 days after notification of the petition for an Incomplete. If the petition work to be turned in must allow time for failing grade. If the grade is raised to a reinstatement. Such an appeal should current catalogue. knowledge and consent of both instructors, is granted, the “I” grade will remain on the professor to grade it by the last day of be made in writing and submitted to the D, the student receives credit for the submit the same paper in PT400 and the transcript in addition to the final letter classes of the following semester. Academic Dean, explaining the student’s course, but no grade points are counted FINAL EXAMINATIONS another course taken concurrently. grade. circumstances, and proposing a plan for in calculating general standing. The Academic Calendar indicates the Failure to meet these deadlines will successful completion of seminary course dates of final examinations of each GRADING SYSTEM An incomplete grade may be granted automatically result in an “I/F” for the work if reinstatement is granted. If the GRADE REPORTS AND APPEALS semester or term. Morning exams start Every credit is calculated by the use of only when the student’s work in the course, unless a further extension is appeal is granted, the faculty may also Following each semester a student at 8:30 a.m. promptly and end at 11:30 a grade point system. Grade points are course has not been completed because granted by faculty action prior to term grant whatever credit it deems appropriate receives a copy of an unofficial transcript. a.m.; afternoon exams start at 1:00 p.m. assigned to grades as follows: of extenuating circumstances. These end, at the request of the student. for work already completed. Any discrepancy between the transcript and end at 4:00 p.m. (unless otherwise circumstances may include long-term and the student’s personal record must be specified by the professor). Students are A 4.0 g. p. personal illness, personal or family ACADEMIC PROBATION Since probation is to be used to help brought to the attention of the Registrar expected to take examinations at the A- 3.7 g. p. traumatic crisis and other reasonable and Probation status is a means by which the student demonstrate and develop in writing. Students have a period of scheduled time. B+ 3.3 g. p. unforeseeable events. the Seminary seeks to alert and assist a his academic competency, neither four months from the day that grades B 3.0 g. p. student whose academic standing is in probation at admittance nor academic are issued to question or challenge the probation shall be recorded on a student’s Examinations in evening and Saturday B- 2.7 g. p. An incomplete grade may not be given jeopardy. Its purpose is both to emphasize grades recorded on their transcripts. After permanent transcript. courses will be administered at the C+ 2.3 g. p. when a student has simply failed to the need for change in the student’s the four-month period, grades will be final normal class time during finals week. C 2.0 g. p. complete the work or fails to take an approach to theological study and to and permanent. provide the guidelines and support for WITHDRAWAL OR LEAVE OF ABSENCE C- 1.7 g. p. examination due to lack of discipline A student planning to withdraw from the In the case of extenuating circumstances D+ 1.3 g. p. or organization, church ministry, job such a change. When a student is placed COURSE LOAD on academic probation, his or her Faculty Seminary must report that to the Registrar (long-term personal illness or personal or D 1.0 g. p. responsibilities, or other ordinary The minimum full-time course load for Advisor and/or the Dean of Students will in writing. The student is responsible family crisis of a traumatic nature), students D- 0.7 g. p. circumstances. The Dean of Students M.Div. and M.A. students during fall meet with the student to discuss the for unpaid bills to the Seminary and may request excuse from taking a final F 0.0 g. p. will determine whether adequate cause and spring semesters is 12 credit units. factors contributing to previous academic completing an exit interview if loans have examination at its scheduled time and the exists for granting the incomplete. Six to eight credit units is considered a difficulty. The student will be guided in been received. The Student Loan Officer, rescheduling of the exam. Such requests A through D- are passing during the exit interview, will address the half-time load; and nine to eleven units producing a written plan of action for the must be presented to the instructor, in F is a failing grade, no credit given No incomplete will be granted automatically. possibility of paying back a portion of the is considered a three-quarters-time load. coming term, which will be submitted to writing or electronically, and granted by CR is passing, no points Student initiative is required to petition loan per the federal guidelines. A student No student may take more than 20 units the Academic Dean. the instructor prior to the scheduled time NC is not passing, no points for an incomplete. will be considered withdrawn if he or she of the examination. The instructor may I is incomplete work, anticipating further during a semester without the permission has not enrolled for any semester during of the Faculty Committee on Petitions grant permission to take the final exam work to be done the academic year. before the date when grades are due to

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the Registrar (see the Academic Calendar), REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREES The cost of commencement will be billed or the student may file a petition for an To qualify for a Master of Divinity or to the student prior to graduation. Incomplete with the Dean of Students. Master of Arts degree at Westminster Unless the instructor has granted the Seminary California, a student must A graduation reception is held in connection student’s request for permission to defer fulfill and successfully complete all with the commencement exercises, the exam or an Incomplete has been requirements and receive a cumulative normally on the evening preceding the granted by the Dean of Students or the grade point average of 2.00 or higher at ceremony. This reception provides an Committee on Petitions, absence at the the completion of required course work. opportunity for fellowship with faculty and scheduled examination period will result fellow graduates and for reflections on in a failing grade on the exam. APPLICATION FOR GRADUATION Seminary years and future plans. Any student planning to graduate must APPENDICES Each examination must be taken in the complete an Application for Graduation TRANSCRIPT REQUESTS scheduled classroom. Withdrawal to and return it to the Registrar’s Office To request a transcript, complete the areas other than the restroom or lounge by the date listed on the application. A transcript request form that is available is not permitted. Computers (notebooks, graduation application form is available online or from the Registrar’s Office. laptops, desktops, or others) capable of through the Registrar or the form can Official transcripts are $4.00 per copy. storing or retrieving data files may not be be submitted online under the current Unofficial copies are free to students. used in writing examinations. At WSC all students section of the WSC website. Transcripts must be requested in person examinations are conducted by the honor or by mail. Telephone or fax requests will system and honor pledge. All examinations COMMENCEMENT not be accepted. No transcripts are issued require the submission and signature Commencement exercises are held once for students with unpaid accounts. of the examined student on the test or each academic year at the end of the examination booklet. The responsibility lies spring semester. All students who are INFORMATION PERTAINING TO directly upon each individual to maintain eligible to receive degrees are expected VETERANS this honor system without blemish. The to participate in the commencement For students receiving Department of following pledge is to be written out and ceremony. If requirements for the degree Veterans Affairs benefits, credit-unit signed on each examination paper: “I were completed by the end of the winter values have been designated as follows: pledge my honor that I have neither given term, a student who is unable to be degree requirements not bearing “credit nor received verbal or written assistance present at the ceremony may petition units” in FE691 Pastoral Internship (for a during this examination beyond that the faculty for permission to receive the total of 3 units) and all other units do bear permitted by the instructor in charge.” degree in absentia by giving the reason “credit units.” In accordance with the rules for his or her inability to attend the of the Department of Veterans Affairs, a No student with unpaid financial commencement ceremony. student receiving veteran’s benefits will obligations to the Seminary (including be placed on probation if his cumulative library fines) shall be allowed to take Prospective graduates must pay all debts grade point average falls below a 2.0. He final examinations unless the student has to the Seminary, including the library, no or she may continue to receive veteran’s made satisfactory arrangements prior to later than the last day of classes of the benefits while on probation for a maximum the start of final examinations. In such spring semester in order to participate in of two semesters. If he or she is allowed circumstances, a final examination will not the commencement exercises. Neither to remain on academic probation beyond be re-administered to any student at a later a diploma nor a final transcript will this period, all veteran benefits will be date and will result in a failing grade. be released until a student’s financial terminated. obligations to the Seminary are met in full.

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FINANCIAL INFORMATION $ 25.00 Technology fee (for all students) REFUNDS REFUNDS SCHEDULE (2008-2009) 2008-2009 ACADEMIC YEAR $ 15.00 Add/Drop fee (per transaction) A student who gives the Registrar written $ 15.00 Degree Program Change fee notification of his or her withdrawal from REFUND % SUMMER ‘08/GREEK FALL ‘08 WINTER ‘09 SPRING ‘09 TUITION AND FEES $ 4.00 Official Transcript fee courses during any academic term, or of 100% 7/29–7/30 9/4-9/11 Winter refunds 2/9-2/17 $ 100.00 Commencement fee a desire to change their enrollment in a 80% N/A 9/12-9/18 are listed below 2/18-2/24 The following tuition and fee schedule (paid through the Enrollment Deposit) course from credit to audit status, will has been approved by the Westminster 1.5% Service fee on unpaid balance receive a tuition refund according to 60% 7/31-8/1 9/19-9/25 and are based 2/25-3/3 Seminary California Board of Trustees for the following schedules. If the student 40% N/A 9/26-10/2 upon first day of 3/4-3/10 the 2008-2009 academic year. Tuition and TERMS OF PAYMENT withdraws from a course before the NONE 8/2 10/3 and after class and length 3/11 and after fees are subject to change for subsequent Tuition and fees are due one week prior class has met, all tuition will be refunded of course. academic years. to the start of each semester. Payments (this does not include a refund of tuition *For courses of other duration please see below for winter and summer term classes deposit, drop fees, audit fees, or listener’s TUITION must be paid in full by the first day of passes). Student Association fees will not $ 340.00 Tuition per semester unit class. Payments may be made by cash, be refunded after the first two weeks of WINTER 2009 $ 1,020.00 FE691 Pastoral Internship check, money order, or credit card (Visa or the academic period. Refunds owed to TWO AND THREE WEEK COURSES (Registration required for M.Div. students Master Card). Because Federal Stafford Federal Student Aid Programs, including 100% end of the 2nd day of class during the second semester) Loans are disbursed during the first Federal Subsidized and Unsubsidized 60% end of the 3rd day of class $ 170.00 Audit fee (per unit, non-refundable) week of the fall and spring semesters, Stafford Loans and PLUS Loans, are not 40% end of the 5th day of class $ 50.00 Listener’s Pass on select Evening payment for summer term classes are the calculated according to WSC’s tuition none after the 5th day of class Courses (per course [2 units] and responsibility of the student. Students refund schedule. Federal Student Aid *No withdrawal without academic penalty after the 5th day of class. non-refundable) who expect to receive financial assistance recipients should see the Financial Aid beyond tuition charges from churches or Coordinator for information on refunds or APPLICATION FEES ONE WEEK COURSES other sources must provide, with their payments due. 100% end of the 1st day of class $ 30.00 Application for Admission fee first tuition payment, a letter from the (non-refundable) 60% end of the 2nd day of class church or other source, on its letterhead, 40% end of the 3rd day of class $ 15.00 Visiting Student Application fee signed by a church official indicating the (non-refundable) none last day of class and after amount to be distributed to the student *No withdrawal without academic penalty after the 4th day of class. $ 100.00 Enrollment Deposit (refundable for living expenses. This letter must with official withdrawal approval and will indicate how much is to be paid directly be applied to ensuing graduation fees) FULL SUMMER – DIRECTED STUDIES to the student for living expenses, if any. 100% 1st week of June No individual who has unpaid financial STUDENT FEES 80% June obligations to the Seminary or Library 60% July $ 20.00 Student Association fee per shall be permitted to register, take final semester (all full-time students, 40% end of scheduled summer term examinations, receive a degree, or be *No withdrawal without academic penalty after July. non-refundable after second week of issued an official transcript. Final exams the semester) will not be re-administered to any student $ 50.00 Late Registration fee (see at a later date. Academic Policies and the Academic Calendar for registration deadlines) PAYMENT AT A GLANCE $ 15.00 Library fee per semester TERM PAYMENT DUE (for all students) Summer 2008 July 29, 2008 Fall 2008 August 28, 2008 Winter 2009 1st Day of Class Spring 2009 February 2, 2009

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CODE OF CONDUCT others. Such discipline may also be credit must be given to the one whose policy defining sexual harassment and the Westminster Seminary California is a brought against those who violate civil ideas they are. In a word, plagiarism procedure for investigating allegations distinctively Christian community of law, except in those rare cases where must be avoided at all costs.” Since the is published in the Student and Faculty scholars and expects its students and the civil law contradicts the Scriptures. definition of acceptable and unacceptable Handbooks. employees to conform to the standards of Student conduct is under the supervision use of others’ words and ideas varies behavior set forth in Scripture and in the of the Faculty, acting through the Dean from society to society and from context NON-DISCRIMINATION POLICY historical Reformed confessions. These of Students. The Faculty reserves the to context within any given society, an Westminster Seminary California does standards teach that authentic goodness right to dismiss from the institution a extensive description of what the faculty not discriminate on the basis of race, age, is a state of the heart, the product student whose conduct is found to be considers to be plagiarism in the context color, national and ethnic origin,disability, of regeneration by God’s Holy Spirit. unsatisfactory. The Student Handbook of graduate theological study can be or gender in the administration of We cannot judge another’s heart, and states students’ rights to due process and found in the Student Handbook given to its educational policies, admissions therefore we cannot judge the internal the procedures followed in hearings and every new student. policies, services, or scholarship and thoughts and attitudes that produce good appeals in cases of student discipline. loan programs. The Seminary Board and or wicked actions. But we can and must SUBSTANCE ABUSE Faculty understand the criteria for the take account of the external actions that ACADEMIC HONESTY – Westminster Seminary California is gospel ministry set down in Scripture as Scripture praises or condemns. Those HONOR SYSTEM committed to being an institution free limiting candidacy for the gospel ministry whose actions violate these biblical and Examinations at WSC are conducted on the of the use of illegal drugs and of the to qualified males. Because the Master confessional standards may be subject honor system. Each student is responsible abuse of alcohol. All faculty, staff, and of Divinity program is designed for the to discipline (through due process as to maintain this system without blemish. students are required as a condition of purpose of preparing candidates for described in the Faculty Handbook, A more detailed explanation of the honor employment and/or enrollment not to use official pastoral ministry, only men are Student Handbook, and Staff Handbook) system is found in the Student Handbook illegal drugs or to abuse alcohol. Illegal admitted to the M.Div. degree program. and, in cases of serious unrepentant or which is given to all new students at New drugs may not be used at or brought to Women as well as men receive gifts and continued violation, may be required to Student Orientation. the campus or any Seminary activity. calling from God to serve in various un- leave the institution. There are lengthy Alcohol may not be consumed on campus ordained ministries. Therefore women statements in the Student Handbook PLAGIARISM or at a Seminary function. As a Christian and men are encouraged to enroll in the concerning plagiarism and the use of Plagiarism is a serious offense. It institution the Seminary is eager to Master of Arts programs. drugs and alcohol (see summaries below). is sometimes committed through help anyone struggling to overcome the Offenses defined by these policies are carelessness, sometimes as a conscious misuse of drugs or alcohol. The Seminary subject to discipline. Other offenses intention to deceive. Because of their will help find counseling support for a which violate our confessional standards concern for the seriousness of this student or employee through the Institute and are therefore subject to discipline, offense, the Faculty adopted a detailed for Biblical Counseling and Discipleship with the possibility of expulsion, include “Statement on Plagiarism” for inclusion or some other appropriate agency. This (but are not limited to) the following: in the Student Handbook. Every WSC policy is outlined in detail in the Student participation in the occult, profane or student is expected to read, understand, and Faculty Handbooks. blasphemous language, expressions of and follow this statement. It says (in part): disrespect for others, contentiousness, “Since ideas and their communication are SEXUAL HARASSMENT divisiveness, slander, physical assault, one of the most important ingredients God’s Word commands respect for others unbiblical termination of pregnancy, in any academic institution, it is most and the maintenance of sexual purity sexual misconduct (including rape, incest, important that we, as a community, make in thought, word, and deed. Scripture fornication, adultery, prurient use of abundantly clear our expectations with condemns the use of influence by persons pornography, lewd conduct, homosexual regard to the sharing and transmission of of either sex to exploit others sexually, and behavior), unrepentant divorce which ideas. We think it essential that no one it instructs Christ’s followers to avoid all was obtained on unbiblical grounds, ever present as his own the academic sorts of impure speech. As a community lying, dishonesty (particularly violations achievements of another. Certainly the under the lordship of Christ, WSC intends of the honor system), disruptive behavior, intellectual contributions of others may to preserve an environment that is free theft, and damage to the property of be utilized, but whenever they are, full from sexual harassment. The Seminary’s

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BOARD OF TRUSTEES TRUSTEES EMERITI ADMINISTRATIVE STAFF GOVERNMENT Westminster Seminary California is Mr. Lewis Aukeman PRESIDENT DIRECTOR OF FIELD EDUCATION governed by a self-perpetuating Board Mr. Jack Brouwer W. Robert Godfrey Hywel R. Jones consisting of eighteen Trustees, all of Mr. Edward Brower whom have served as ministers or elders The Rev. James D. Carson ACADEMIC DEAN BUSINESS MANAGER in Presbyterian and Reformed churches. Mr. Alfred Clark Dennis E. Johnson Dan TerHorst At least six but no more than nine must Dr. Joseph Garrisi be ministers of the gospel. Each Trustee is The Rev. Alexander De Jong (deceased) EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT FINANCE and FACILITIES MANAGER required to subscribe to the confessional Mr. Robert G. den Dulk (deceased) Steven D. Oeverman Dick Cummings standards of the Seminary in a pledge The Rev. Robert Nicholas (deceased) similar to that required of the Faculty. All Mr. John Verhoeven (deceased) VICE PRESIDENT FOR ADVANCEMENT DIRECTOR OF PUBLICATIONS AND corporate powers are exercised by or under Mr. G. Fred Wheeler (deceased) Dawn G. Doorn COMMUNICATIONS the authority of the Board of Trustees. Mr. Harlin Wilson (deceased) Young-Mi Cha DIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT BOARD OF TRUSTEES Henry Doorn COMMUNICATIONS AND PUBLIC FACULTY EMERITI RELATIONS MANAGER DIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT MR. JOHN ANDREWS MR. DAVID MAULDING Brenda Jung The Rev. Dr. Derke P. Bergsma John Bales Elder (URC), Newport Beach, CA Elder (OPC), Springfield, IL The Rev. Dr. Robert B. Strimple INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY The Rev. Dr. Meredith G. Kline DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATE MR. RICHARD BLAUW DR. LARRY McHARGUE Adam Claus (deceased) Elizabeth McDaniel Elder (URC), Ravenna, MI Elder (OPC), South Pasadena, CA The Rev. Dr. Edmund P. Clowney BUSINESS OFFICE ASSISTANT (deceased) MR. DAN BRYANT MR. JAMES ONNINK LIBRARY DIRECTOR & DEAN OF WOMEN Diane Belnap Elder (OPC), McLean, VA Elder (OPC), Oostburg, WI Elizabeth E. Park LIBRARY PUBLIC SERVICES ASSISTANT THE REV. C.J. DEN DULK DR. JAMES PAAUW DIRECTOR OF ENROLLMENT Dan Wagner Pastor (CRC), Grand Rapids, MI Elder (URC), Grand Rapids, MI MANAGEMENT Mark J. MacVey THE REV. LEROY CHRISTOFFELS MR. RON PRINS FURTHER ADMINISTRATIVE Pastor (CRC), Worthington, MN Elder (URC), Escondido, CA ADMISSIONS COORDINATOR SERVICES Christa M. Haeck THE REV. ERIC HAUSLER MR. PETER SARA ACCREDITATION Pastor (OPC), Ada, MI Elder (PCA), Vista, CA REGISTRAR Dennis E. Johnson Heather Gideon MR. MILTON HODGES THE REV. SALVADOR SOLIS HUMAN RESOURCES Elder (PCA), Deatsville, AL Retired Pastor (OPC), Turlock, CA FINANCIAL AID COORDINATOR Steven D. Oeverman Barbara Clark THE REV. JACK HUTTINGA MR. ROGER SWETS INTERNATIONAL STUDENT ADVISOR Pastor (CRC), Manhattan, MT Elder (URC), Alto, MI DEAN OF STUDENTS Mark J. MacVey Julius J. Kim THE REV. TERRY JOHNSON THE REV. DERRICK VANDER MEULEN Pastor (PCA), Savannah, GA Pastor (URC), Jenison, MI

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ACADEMIC CALENDAR YEAR 2008-2009

2008 SUMMER TERM 2009 WINTER TERM Apr 7-11 Registration for summer term for continuing students Nov 3-7 Registration for winter term for continuing students July 1 Registration and Enrollment Deposit due by mail for new summer term and fall semester students Dec 12 Registration by mail for winter term for new students July 28 Greek placement exam–9:00 a.m. Jan 6 Classes begin July 29 Greek I begins 8:00 a.m. (Other summer term classes as per schedule) Jan 12 Greek placement exam for new winter students; Hebrew by appointment with OT faculty July 30 Final day to drop Greek I without authorization Jan 12 English Bible Exam–3:00 p.m. Required of all new students and those not passing in fall Aug 20 Greek I-final drop date without academic penalty Jan 30 Classes end Aug 29 Classes end Jan 31-Feb 3 Reading period Sept 1 Labor Day – WSC closed Feb 4-6 Final exams Sept 2 Greek I final exam–1:00 p.m. Feb 9 New Student Orientation for new winter/spring students Sept 9 Grades due to Registrar Feb 20 Grades due to Registrar

2008 FALL SEMESTER 2009 SPRING SEMESTER Apr 7-11 Registration for fall semester for continuing students Nov 3-7 Registration for spring semester for continuing students July 1 Registration and Enrollment Deposit due by mail for new fall semester students Dec 12 Registration by mail for spring semester for new students Aug 25 Placement exams: Greek–9:00 a.m.; Hebrew by appointment with OT faculty Jan 19 Greek placement exam for new Spring students; Hebrew by appointment with OT faculty Sept 1 Labor Day – WSC closed Feb 9 New Student Orientation for new winter/spring students Sept 3 New Student Orientation for summer/fall students—Reception for new students at 7:00 p.m. Feb 9 English Bible Exam–3:00 p.m. Required of all new winter/spring students Sept 4 Classes begin Feb 9 Classes begin Sept 15 English Bible Exam—3:00 p.m. Required of all new students. Feb 24 Final day to drop without authorization Sept 19 Final day to drop without authorization Apr 6-10 Spring vacation Oct 24 Final drop date without academic penalty Apr 10 Good Friday – WSC is closed Nov 3-7 Registration for winter term and spring semester for continuing students Apr 13-17 Registration for summer term and fall semester for continuing students Nov 27-28 Thanksgiving holiday—WSC closed Apr 14 Final drop date without academic penalty Dec 5 Classes end, papers due at 10:00 a.m May 15 Classes end, papers due at 10:00 a.m. Dec 6-10 Reading period May 16-20 Reading period Dec 11-19 Final exams May 21-29 Final exams Jan 9 Grades due to Registrar May 30 Commencement June 12 Grades due to Registrar

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ACADEMIC CALENDAR YEAR 2009-2010

2009 SUMMER TERM 2010 WINTER TERM Apr 6-10 Registration for summer term for continuing students Nov 2-6 Registration for winter term for continuing students July 1 Registration and Enrollment Deposit due by mail for new summer term and fall semester students Dec 11 Registration by mail for new winter term students or late fee will apply July 27 Greek placement exam–9:00 a.m. Dec 21 Greek placement exam for new winter term students; Hebrew by appointment with OT faculty July 28 Greek I begins 8:00 a.m. (Other summer term classes as per schedule) Jan 5 Classes begin July 29 Final day to drop Greek I without authorization Jan 11 English Bible Exam–3:00 p.m. Required of all new students and those not passing in fall Aug 19 Greek I-final drop date without academic penalty Jan 29 Classes end Aug 28 Classes end Jan 30-Feb 2 Reading period Sept 7 Labor Day – WSC closed Feb 3-5 Final exams Sept 1 Greek I final exam–1:00 p.m. Feb 19 Grades due to Registrar Sept 8 Grades due to Registrar 2010 SPRING SEMESTER 2009 FALL SEMESTER Nov 2-6 Registration for spring semester for continuing students Apr 6-10 Registration for fall semester for continuing students Dec 11 Registration by mail for new spring semester students July 1 Registration and Enrollment Deposit due by mail for new fall semester students Jan 18 Greek placement exam for new spring students; Hebrew by appointment with OT faculty Aug 24 Placement exams: Greek–9:00 a.m.; Hebrew by appointment with OT faculty Feb 8 Classes begin Sept 7 Labor Day – WSC closed Feb 23 Final day to drop without authorization Sept 2 Orientation for new students—Reception for new students at 7:00 p.m. Mar 29- Apr 2 Spring vacation Sept 3 Classes begin Apr 2 Good Friday – WSC is closed Sept 14 English Bible Exam—3:00 p.m. Required of all new students Apr 12-16 Registration for summer term and fall semester for continuing students Sept 18 Final day to drop without authorization Apr 13 Final drop date without academic penalty Oct 23 Final drop date without academic penalty May 14 Classes end, papers due at 10:00 a.m. Nov 2-6 Registration for winter term and spring semester for continuing students May 15-19 Reading period Nov 26-27 Thanksgiving holiday—WSC closed May 20-28 Final exams Dec 4 Classes end, papers due at 10:00 a.m. May 29 Commencement Dec 5-9 Reading period June 11 Grades due to Registrar Dec 10-18 Final exams Dec 21 Greek placement exam for new students Jan 8 Grades due to Registrar

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MAP AND DIRECTIONS

DRIVING DIRECTIONS

PERSONS DRIVING TO THE SEMINARY FROM THE NORTH: Via Interstate 5 or 15 – take Highway 78 east, into Escondido. At Broadway, where 78 turns right and becomes a surface street, continue straight ahead on Lincoln Avenue. At Rose Street, turn right. Rose merges with Boyle Ave south of E. Valley Parkway, and the Seminary campus is at the intersection of Boyle and Bear Valley Parkway on the hill overlooking Bear Valley.

PERSONS DRIVING TO THE SEMINARY FROM THE SOUTH: Take Highway 163 north to Interstate 15 north and then exit at Via Rancho Parkway. Turn right on Via Rancho Parkway (which becomes Bear Valley Parkway) and continue approximately 4.5 miles to the Seminary campus at the intersection of Bear Valley Parkway and Boyle Avenue. Turn right on Boyle and enter the gates of the Seminary.

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A E L Spouse Privileges 62 Academic Calendar 88-91 English Bible, Knowledge of 74 Leave of Absence 79 Student Association 60 Academic Dean 12 English Language Proficiency 55-56 Library 61 Student Body 59-62 Academic Freedom 8 Enrollment Deposit 53 Listener’s Pass 58 Student Health 62 Academic Information and Policies 72-80 Extramural Petition 77 Loan 70 Student Life 59-62 Academic Honesty 84 F Locale 9 Student Loans (Stafford) 70-71 Academic Probation 79 F-1 Visa/I-20 see International Students 55-56 M Students’ Rights of Privacy 74-75 Access to Records (FERPA) 74-76 Faculty 11-24 Map 92-93 Substance Abuse 84 Accreditation 8 FAFSA 64-65 Master of Arts Program Biblical Studies 29 Systematic Theology Course Descriptions 43-44 Administrative Staff 87 Federal Stafford Loans 70-71 Master of Arts Program Christian Studies 35 T Admissions 50-58 Eligibility Criteria 70 Master of Arts Program Theological Studies 31 TOEFL 55 Certificate students 58 Entrance and Exit Interview 70-71 Master of Arts Program Historical Theology 33 Transfer Credit 54-55 General requirements 51-52 Federal Refund Policy 71 Master of Divinity Program 27 Transcript Request 80 Graduates of unaccredited institutions 56-57 Petition Process 71 Merit Scholarships 66 Travel Reimbursement 51 International students 55-56 Repeat Courses 78 Arthur Forest Wells Memorial Award 69 U Non-degree applicants 58 Satisfactory Academic Progress 70 Presidential Grant 66 Unaccredited Institutions 55-57 Special students 57-58 Field Education 48, 77, 82 Samuel and Ann Van Til Student Scholarship Prizes 69 Undergraduate Education 54 Admission on Probation 53 Final Exams, see Academic Calendar 88-91 Mission of the Seminary 7 V Advanced Standing (M.Div.) 55 Financial Aid 63-71 N Veterans 80 Appendices 81-91 Church Matching 65 Need Based Grant 65 Visiting 51 Association of Theological Schools 8 Denominational 65, 68-69 Canadian Grant 66 Visiting Student 58 Attendance 77 International Student Aid 68-69 General Financial Aid Fund 65 W/X/Y/Z Auditing 58,82 Merit 66 You Kye-Soon Memorial Scholarship 67 Westminster Women’s Fellowship 60 B Need-based Grants 65 New Testament Course Descriptions 39-40 Western Association of Schools and Colleges 8 Behavioral Standards 84 Scholarships and Grants 65-69 Non-Degree Seeking Applicants 58 Withdrawal or Leave of Absence 79 Board of Trustees 86 Stafford Loans 70-71 Non-Discrimination Policy 8 Bookstore 61 G Non-Matriculated Student 58 C General Requirements 51-52 Notification of Admission 53 Center for Pastoral Refreshment (CPR) 10 Grading System 78 Nuzi 61 Church History Course Descriptions 40-41 Graduates of Unaccredited Schools 56-57 O Church Matching Grant 65 Graduate Record Examination 52 Old Testament 38-39 Class Conflicts 77 Graduate Theological Writing 74 Orientation, Student 54 Commencement 80 Graduation, Applying for 80 P Conduct, Student 84 Greek and Hebrew Placement 73 Papers, Double Submission of 78 Course Descriptions 38-49 Greek and Hebrew Auditing 73 Payment, Terms of 82 Course Load 78 H Policies 72-80 Course Requirements by Degree Program 25-37 Historical Theology Course Descriptions 41-43 Plagiarism 84 D History of the Seminary 7 Practical Theology Course Description 45-48 Dean, Academic 12 Honor Pledge 80 President 12 Dean of Students 16 Housing 61 Public Speaking Requirement 74 Degree Change 78 How to Apply 51-52 Q/R Degree Programs 25-37 I Refunds 82-83 Degree Requirements 25-37 Incomplete Coursework 78-79 Refund Calendar 83 Denominational Grants/Scholarships 65-69 Institute of Reformed Baptist Studies 10 Registration 73 Devotional Life 60 Institute of Theological Studies Course Descriptions 49 Registration, Late 73 Directed Research Petition 76-77 International Student Aid 66-69 S Directions to Seminary 92 Yune-Sun Park Scholarship 69 Scholarships and Grants 65-69 Doctrinal Commitment 8 International Students 55-56 School Code 70 Double Submission of Papers 78 F-1 Visa/I-20 56 Seminary For A Day 51 Introduction to the Seminary 7 Sexual Harassment 84-85

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This catalogue is a statement of the policies, personnel, programs, and financial arrangements of Westminster Seminary California as projected by the responsible authorities of the seminary. The seminary reserves the right to make alterations without prior notice, in accordance with the seminary’s institutional needs and academic purposes.

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