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Bob Jones University Seminary & Graduate Studies Bulletin 04–05 BOB JONES UNIVERSITY is in the business of helping young people determine their place in this world…and the next. Our six academic schools offer you a multiple-choice menu of liberal arts majors and vocational and Christian service career-training programs. BJU is a special place, prepared and kept by God—a place where you’ll find a warm, spiritual atmosphere. Write us, call us, or come visit us. You’ll find our people friendly, our campus beautiful, and our testimony vibrant. college of arts & science school of religion school of education school of fine arts school of business administration school of applied studies seminary & graduate school of religion 1-800-BJ-AND-ME 864-242-5100 www.bju.edu [email protected] Nonprofit Org. 7BJu U.S. Postage 1700 Wade Hampton Blvd. PAID Greenville, SC 29614 Greenville, SC Permit No. 823 1. Academy Gym 2. Academy/Junior High 3. Administration Building 4. Alumni Stadium 5. Alumni Classroom Building 6. Barge Memorial Hospital 7. BJES Beginnings Center 8. Brokenshire Residence Hall 9. Campus View Apartments 10. Child Development Center 32 31 11. Cleaners 12. Co-generation Plant 4 13. Dining Common 11 14. Elementary School 41 40 15. Estelle S 42 19 26 6 1 16. Executive iddonsResidences Residence Hall 35 2 17. Fine Arts Center 18. Founder’s Memorial Amphitorium 25 15 19. Fremont Fitness Center 20. Georgia Creel Residence Hall 30 36 23 21. Grace Haight Nursing Building 28 33 12 22. Graves Residence Hall 43 8 23. Johnson Residence Hall 18 24. Mack Library 38 17 25. Margaret Mack Residence Hall 10 34 26. Mary Gaston Residence Hall 20 22 27. Museum & Gallery 37 28. Nell Sunday Residence Hall 5 29. Office Annex 21 27 39 30. Performance Hall 31. Press Distribution Center 24 32. Printing Division 3 14 33. Reveal Residence Hall 34. Rodeheaver Auditorium 13 16 29 35. School of Applied Studies 44 7 36. Science Building 37. Seminary & Evangelism Center 38. Smith Residence Hall 39. Stratton Hall, Student Center, War Memorial Chapel 40. Tennis Courts 9 41. TV Productions 42. University Gymnasium Site 43. Unusual Films Studio 44. Welcome Center Public Pay Phones Convenient Restrooms Bob Jones University 1700 Wade Hampton Boulevard Greenville, South Carolina 29614 For Admissions information call 1-800-BJ-AND-ME (864) 242-5100 | www.bju.edu catalog and announcements Volume 78 March 2004 Cover and front matter design concept: Jeremy Spence, graphic design major ©2004 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED For seven decades, Bob Jones University has to learn how to live, than in this special place offered Christian young people the best which God has prepared and maintained. opportunities for spiritual growth, academic The University gives special emphasis to the training, and Christian service. Bible; church administration; missions; evan- Over 76,000 young people have sat under gelism; pastoral training; theology; history; the teaching of, what we feel to be, the most education; languages, both ancient and mod- wonderful faculty and staff anywhere. They ern; fine arts; music; speech; drama; and lit- are the secret to the success of Bob Jones erature. Every undergraduate student in the University. They are held in the Lord’s hand, University is required to take a course in the and Christian young people who sit under Division of Bible each semester. Bob Jones their ministry in the classroom could not be University offers speech, music, and art in better hands. Nor could they have better without additional cost above academic opportunities for learning and service. tuition. We place great emphasis on public speaking, for we believe that a man or People who graduate from Bob Jones woman is not properly educated until he or University are recognized as having what it she can stand on the platform of any audito- takes to succeed in a turbulent world. They rium and talk with ease to an audience. are in much demand for their vocational skills and for their spiritual steadfastness. Bob Jones University has a spirit all its own, combining an atmosphere of culture without Seventy-five years of experience has provid- cold formality, of youthful enthusiasm with- ed this institution with the maturity—an out rowdiness, and of scholarship without established, proven Christian education/ mustiness. Christian character-building formula—that makes parents rejoice and makes thoughtful We believe in the right of every Christian to Christian young people recognize that this is interpret the Bible as he may be led by the truly “God’s Special Place” for them. Holy Spirit, but we deny the right of anyone to call himself a Christian and question the The purpose of the founder was “to make authority of the Bible. Religiously, our testi- this university a center of the highest aca- mony is: “Whatever the Bible says is true.” demic standards and Christian culture to Standing firmly for and aggressively con- which carefully chosen young people will tending for the great Fundamentals of the come from all parts of the world and receive Christian Faith, Bob Jones University is their training and from which these trained proud to be known as Fundamentalist in its Christian leaders will go forth to render serv- position. We oppose all atheistic, agnostic, ice to our Lord in all corners of the globe.” It and humanistic attacks upon the Scripture. is our feeling that today’s Christian young We also combat the so-called Modernistic, person has no better opportunity to learn Liberal, and neo-Orthodox positions and how to make a living, and more importantly, protest the unscriptural compromise of the a personal word from the president New Evangelicals and the unscriptural prac- Our institution has a tices of the Charismatics. reputation for its disci- pline, but our student Every teacher in the University signs our body, we believe, is orthodox creed once each year. We have the most contented proved in this institution that it is possible in group of students on the present day to be thorough in scholastic the American continent. Discipline is admin- work and still hold to the old-time Faith of istered by a committee composed of two our fathers. members of the student body and two mem- We believe that properly trained Christian bers of the faculty. The rules and regulations young men and women are character-pre- may be changed in any year by members of pared for whatever circumstances they may this committee. We believe the discipline is meet in life–whether those circumstances are reasonable and necessary. prosperity or adversity, peace or war. Here, our Christian faith is the natural thing. While hundreds of our students each year It is not stereotyped, strained, or overly are studying for the ministry and other areas pious. It is simple and unaffected. Every of Christian work, others are planning to be class is opened with prayer, and our social lawyers, doctors, teachers, business execu- gatherings blend easily and naturally into “a tives, etc. little prayer before we go.” We believe in a Bob Jones University on the basis of its clean social life. In all our work and play, in financial income, its equipment, and its aca- personal life and social relations, we seek to demic standards could qualify for member- be loyal to the Lord Jesus Christ. ship in any educational association, regional Displayed upon the Bob Jones University seal or national. It is our sincere conviction, how- are the words petimus credimus, “we seek, ever, that the type of institution which we we trust.” We seek to inculcate into our stu- operate can accomplish more for the cause dents a desire for knowledge of the arts and of the Lord Jesus Christ by not holding sciences, and we seek to satisfy that desire. organic membership in any educational asso- Above all, we trust the Bible as the inspired ciation. We feel, moreover, that we can ren- Word of God, the Lord Jesus Christ as the der a unique service academically by main- only Hope of the world, and His gospel as taining our freedom to experiment inde- the solution to the problems of our day. pendently along certain lines educationally. We invite you to visit us and find out for We have, however, standardized the work of yourself why we believe Bob Jones this institution academically so that our University is “The Opportunity Place–God’s courses are in line with similar courses Special Place for You.” offered in other colleges. Recognition of aca- demic credit for graduate study in other institutions is seldom a problem. Within the cultural and academic soil of liberal arts higher education, Bob Jones University exists to grow Christlike character that is Scripturally disciplined; others-serving; God-loving; Christ-proclaiming; and focused Above. mission statement the opportunity place God’s special place for you our pledge Bob Jones University is determined that no school shall excel it in the thoroughness of its scholastic work; and God helping it, in the thoroughness of its Christian training. the crest The scales represent the proper balance of life and the fact that man weighed in God’s balances is always found wanting; the cross speaks of Christ and our redemp- tion; the Book is the Word of God; and the lamp is the light of Truth. The BJU motto, Petimus Credimus (“We seek, we trust”), underscores the University’s foundation and purpose. We seek to inculcate into our students a desire for knowledge of the arts and sciences, and we seek to satisfy that desire. We trust the Bible as the inspired Word of God, the Lord Jesus Christ as the only Hope of the world, and His gospel as the solution to the problems of our day.