The Theological University of America

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Degrees Awarded on Prior Education, Ministry, and Experience

Previous transcripts and certificates may provide for all required degree credits

Ministry and experiences may provide for all required degree credits

Courses may be taken to complete required credits

YOU MAY BE ASKING, "what kind of information do I need to send for evaluation for credit toward my degree?"

The list of activities in the Criteria for Credit by Evaluation are suggestive of the kinds of information from which credit can be evaluated.

It is not necessary to provide information for every topic on the Criteria. You should use the items of the Criteria that fit with your background and preparation. You are, also, encouraged to provide information on actitivies in which you engaged that are not on the Criteria.

Please send any questions you may have about using the Criteria for Credit by Evaluation. We are most pleased to answer them.

CRITERIA FOR CREDIT BY EVALUATION

TRANSFER CREDITS

All course credit from universities, colleges, Bible schools and institutes, and seminaries with C or higher grades.

Seminars, workshops, lectureships, professional education

For the religious seminars, workshops, lectureships, please provide the overall theme of each, the location of each, the dates of each, and your level of participation.

For professional employment, please provide the name of your professional employment at the time, your professional duties and responsibilities at the time of the professional employment, specific titles of your employment, the dates and locations.

How long did you work in each of your professional employments?

What was your last rank or position in each of your professional employments?

MINISTERIAL PREACHING

Topical Preaching

Expository Preaching

Please send only the following information about the sermons:

1. the topic or book of the Bible;
2. the year the sermons were preached;
3. the number of sermons preached per topic/per book of the Bible for the year.
Initially, please send only your topical and expository selections for two complete years.

SPECIFIC MINISTERIAL ACTIVITIES

Counseling (list counseling subjects, frequency)

Hospital Ministry

Prison Ministry

Gospel meetings

Personal Evangelism

Campaigns (your responsibilities, dates, locations)

Mission Activities (in US and abroad, your responsibilities, dates, locations)

Weddings (frequency per year)

Funerals (frequency per year)

Media (TV, radio, newspapers, books and articles written, lectureship and workshop speaker/teacher

TEACHING IN CHURCH ENVIRONMENTS

Topical Teaching

Expository teaching

TEACHING in ACADEMIC ENVIRONMENTS

Schools of Preaching

Bible Institutes

Colleges and Universities

Other post secondary educational activities

Courses taught:

Graduate courses

Undergraduate courses

Date and months for each course taught

Number of times the courses were taught

BOOKS and OTHER LITERATURE YOU HAVE READ

1. Please list each book, journal, article by title;

2. please give the name(s) of the author(s) of each book and other literature;

3. please give the approximate year in which the book and other literature were read;

4. please give the approximate number of pages of the book and other literature read;





YOU MAY PROVIDE MORE YEARS OF ADDITIONAL SIGNIFICANT LEARNING AND MINISTERIAL EXPERIENCES WITH YOUR CREDENTIALS THAT ARE NOT SPECIFIED IN THE CRITERIA FOR CREDIT BY EVALUATION.