GREENWOOD UNIVERSITY
GREENWOOD UNIVERSITY
School of RC is designed to build the religious counseling knowledge and skills needed for those who desire to bring hope to people as counselors in churches or faith-based organizations. This program will prepare students for an advanced level of pastoral counseling, counseling teaching or other counseling positions which do not require professional licensure.
The Master of Religious Counseling program provides the Christian leaders of today and tomorrow with the knowledge and skills required to succeed in a spiritual environment. The program emphasizes Christian counseling psychology, support church and counseling skills, ethics, and Christian real-world applications for the Lord.
The program consists of 30-semester units. The course of study usually spans a period of two years. Students must complete their study within six years, beginning on the date of their first registration for courses. Those who carry twelve or more units are considered to be full-time students. Those carrying fewer than twelve units are considered to be part-time students.
Master Program Students receive the Master of Religious Counseling degree upon successful fulfillment of the following program requirements:
Required (15 units: Each course 3 units)
GT 501 Systematic Theology I
GB 503 Introduction to Old Testament
GB 504 Introduction to New Testament
CPM601 Foundations for Faith-Based Counseling
CPM602 Counseling Theory
Electives (15 units: Choose 5 courses of the following)
GM 501 Biblical Foundation of Missions
GP 507 Leadership and Church Administration
GP 508 Prayer and Healing
CPM603 Counseling Skills
CPM604 Counseling Children and Adolescents
CPM605 Group Counseling
CPM606 Family Counseling
Doctor of Religious Counseling is designed to build the counseling knowledge and skills needed for those who desire to bring healing and hope to hurting people as counselors in churches or faith-based organizations. This program will prepare students for an advanced level of pastoral counseling or other counseling positions which do not require professional licensure.
The program is a 48-semester unit program including 6 units of dissertation. The course of study usually spans a period of six semesters. Students must complete their studies within six years, beginning on the date of their first registration for courses.
1. Completion of all required course work with a minimum grade point average (GPA) of 3.0.
2. Satisfactory pass of the comprehensive examination
3. Completion of an acceptable dissertation (about 120 to 150 pages)
4. An oral defense of a dissertation: The dissertation is submitted, and defended in an oral examination.
All candidates for the Doctoral degree must pass a written comprehensive examination over the major field of study. These examinations serve as a major means of evaluating the student's academic competency in the major area. Comprehensive examinations may be taken any time after completion of 30 units of the coursework. Only two retakes of the examination are permitted.
The dissertation is the bulk of the doctoral program. The paper should be double-spaced with the font no smaller than ten and no larger than twelve. Most dissertations will be between 120 to 150 pages in length. A theme should be submitted in writing within sixty days of acceptance into the program. State your proposed dissertation idea in two to three sentences explaining what you hope to cover in your dissertation. The dissertation should be written in a way that it would be worthy of public distribution. The dissertation should introduce the theme and then in detail research the theme and provide the exposition or details of the theme. Footnotes and research notes should be noted numerically after each quote with the source listed.
The dissertation is prepared, submitted, and defended in an oral examination. Students can do this oral defense only after they have successfully completed course work, comprehensive examination, and submission of the dissertation.
Doctor Program Students receive the Doctor of Religious Counseling degree upon successful fulfillment of the program requirements:
TD707 Old Testament Theology Seminar
TD 708 New Testament Theology Seminar
CPD701 Spiritual Formation and Counseling
CPD702 Counseling Theories and Methods
CPD 703 Research Design and Methodology
CPD 704 Dissertation Writing
CPD705 Human & Family Development
CPD706 Social & Cultural Foundations for Counseling
CPD707 Marriage & Family Counseling
CPD708 Counseling Assessment & Research
CPD709 Counseling Techniques
