Ordination & Licensing Courses

These classes are often opportunities to fullfill district requirements for ordination & licensing in the Church of the Brethren. (However, as districts may have different requirements, please contact your District Executive to discuss specific expectations.)

To take any graduate course, a student must apply [1] and be admitted as one of the following. 

• Occasional [2] student
• Certificate-seeking [3] student (CATS) 
• Degree-seeking [4] student (MDiv or MA)  
   

 Please begin the application process in a timely manner in order to meet all application requirements by the following deadlines

• July 15 for Fall Session
• December 1 for January intensive and/or Spring Session
• March 15 for May intensive  

  Once students have been admitted, they must submit an enrollment deposit in order to register for classes.

At this time, financial aid is only available to certificate (CATS) and degree-seeking (MDiv or MA) students. Payment (or a payment plan) is due the first day of the semester.  Current costs may be found on our Tuition and Fees [5] page.

2013 Spring Session

Church of the Brethren Polity & Practice, M 265-S, Warren Eshbach

Weekend Intensive at Susquehanna Valley Ministry Center in Elizabethtown, PA

This course is designed to enable a student to study and understand the ecclesiology, history, and polity of the Church of the Brethren. During this course, students will explore the ecclesiology in the Anabaptist and Pietist traditions in general and in the Church of the Brethren in particular. In addition, students will examine the changing nature of organization and polity in the Church of the Brethren while gaining an understanding of the relationship of congregation, district, and denomination. Included in this course will be the study of the relationship between cultural context and organizational patterns of congregations. 3 semester hours.

History of Church of the Brethren, H 201-O, Denise Kettering

Online course

This course investigates the history of the Brethren from German Pietism, through transplantation and spread in America, and into the 19th and 20th centuries. Along with theological concerns, the course will investigate social historical contexts for the Brethren story. 3 semester hours.