BAEd/BSEd.INTA.TC6G.MACH.CLMN.ACCEL - Bachelor of Arts in Education/Bachelor of Science in Education Core Subjects Early Childhood-Grade 6 Certification/Master of Arts in Childrens Ministry

UNDERGRADUATE REQUIREMENTS

A 120-credit-hour minimum for a bachelor's degree is required. Students must complete all Undergraduate hours and shared undergraduate/graduate hours prior to enrolling for remaining Graduate hours.

Elective Requirements*

• In order to satisfy the “Undergraduate only” portion of an accelerated degree plan, sufficient lower-level and upper-level elective hours must be taken to complete the minimum number of Undergraduate credit hours required for each specific accelerated degree.

• As part of this accelerated degree plan, 6 shared Graduate hours will be counted toward a minimum of 36 upper-level Undergraduate credit hours required for all bachelor’s degrees.

RETENTION IN AND GRADUATION FROM THE PROGRAM

Students must fulfill the following conditions to enroll and continue enrollment in the Accelerated Bachelor's and Master's degree program:

• Students must be accepted to the Educator Preparation Program at the completion of 45 semester hours.

• Students must file a Statement of Commitment at the completion of 90 semester hours (including current enrollment).

• Students must maintain and graduate with an overall institutional GPA of 3.0 and must maintain and graduate with an institutional GPA of 3.0 in their teaching fields/academic concentrations.

• Students must apply to and be accepted into the MA in Children's Ministry program before the start of the junior spring semester (before 5000-level courses) in order to progress in graduate coursework and complete the MA in Children's Ministry degree.

• Science and Math courses must be taken prior to Field-Based semesters.

REMAINING GRADUATE REQUIREMENTS

**Requisites: MACH 5312 and MACH 6311

*Indicates Signature Course requiring download of Signature Assessment in TaskStream Reminder.

Note:  Church Membership Requirement (for admission into the Master’s Ministry Degrees, Advanced Ministry Certificate Programs, EDD in Educational Leadership—all concentrations, and PHD in Leadership Studies’ Ministry Concentration): Within the last 12 months, the applicant must have been an active member of a Christian church that holds Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior and who holds solely the Old Testament and the New Testament as sacred Scripture.

Graduate School of Ministry Portfolio

Dallas Baptist University’s Ministry Degree Programs seek to provide an academic experience that enables all candidates to engage and impact Christian Ministries of the 21st century. The Portfolio is designed to be an individualized collection of documents that represent the candidate’s preparation for future ministry positions, demonstrating the candidate’s ongoing knowledge, skills, and ministry experiences.   

The Graduate School of Ministry provides candidates the opportunity for self-reflection through the compilation of documents in an electronic Portfolio. Documents in the Portfolio may include Signature Assignments, Resume, and Philosophy of Ministry among others.  

Throughout the program, the candidate will collect designated documents and upload them to the Portfolio within Blackboard. The Portfolio will be used to assess development as the candidate proceeds through their designated ministry program. It is the candidate’s responsibility to meet with their GSOM Program Director to discuss the Portfolio required documents prior to graduation.

Reminder: Degree plan subject to adjustment as state policy changes.

Students will complete state requirements for initial teacher certification in the areas of Core Subjects EC-6. Students completing this program will learn and demonstrate how to serve as an effective literacy teacher and leader through synthesis and application of knowledge regarding the interrelated components of reading, writing, speaking, and listening across developmental stages of oral and written language. Degree candidates will also learn and demonstrate sufficient theoretical and experiential knowledge for serving as an ethical and effective teacher, advocate, and leader for culturally and linguistically diverse students. 

Students completing this Accelerated Bachelor’s and Master’s degree program will take the following courses at the graduate level as substitutes for their undergraduate cross-listed course requirements, thereby requiring 30 hours instead of the regular 36 graduate hours for the program beyond the regular undergraduate degree requirements.

• ECHE 5360 – Foundations of Early Childhood Education

• EDUC 5334 - Pedagogy of Fine Arts and Movement in the Elementary Classroom

(S-L) = Course(s) with field-based service-learning component.

Refer to course descriptions for course requisites.

COURSE DESCRIPTIONS

Find course descriptions by category under the Undergraduate Course Descriptions OR Graduate Course Descriptions section in the navigation panel.

Retention in and Graduation from the Program:

Students must fulfill the following conditions to enroll and continue enrollment in this Accelerated Bachelor’s and Master’s degree program:

• Students must be accepted to the Educator Preparation Program at the completion of 45 semester hours.

• Students must file a Statement of Commitment at the completion of 90 semester hours (including current enrollment).

• Students must maintain and graduate with an overall institutional GPA of 3.0 and must maintain and graduate with an institutional GPA of 3.0 in their teaching fields/academic concentrations.

• Students must apply to and be accepted into the MA in Children’s Ministry program before the start of the junior spring semester (before 5000 level courses) in order to progress in graduate coursework and complete the MA in Children’s Ministry degree.

• Science and Math courses must be taken prior to Field-Based semesters.