Certificate Learning Aims

Graduates of the Certificate in Theology and Ministry program should:

• Demonstrate the skills, methods, and knowledge constitutive of the academic discipline of theology. This will include the ability to undertake original research and to describe the results of that research in an appropriate manner.
• Describe and analyze Christian theology in its historical, cultural, and comparative expressions, including attention to non-Western and/or traditionally marginalized Christian communities.
• Demonstrate a level of expertise in a theological sub-discipline such as: Scripture, historical theology, systematic theology, moral theology (ethics), and comparative theology.
• Be able to evaluate appropriately scholarly work in theology.