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Missions 37
intervention strategies. The clientele for the internship
come from a variety of community sources.
The clinical internship and supervision take place
in the clinical facilities of the Department of
Marriage and Family in the College of Biblical
Studies Building. These facilities include faculty
offices, 11 therapy rooms, state-of-the-art
laboratories, a television studio, and classrooms.
Students receive both individual and group
supervision through video presentations, live
observation, and case presentations. Interns meet
for supervision at least two hours a week.Evaluation
A student's progress in the MFT program is
normally evaluated at the end of each semester.
Using oral discussion, written evaluation, grades,
review of videotapes, and peer evaluation, faculty
members try to determine whether the student has
the necessary academic ability, personality, and
interpersonal skills to become an effective
therapist. Students who pass this evaluation are
permitted to continue in the program.Master of Arts or Master
of ScienceAdvisor: Dr. Ed Mathews
People often associate missions and missionaries
with the fantasy of thrilling adventure, frontier
challenges, and satisfying sacrifice and also with
the frustration of glaring failure, aborted projects,
and fruitless labor. Unfortunately, these ideas
contain enough truth to appear correct and enough
untruth to be dangerous. The Department of
Missions at Abilene Christian University exists to
clear away unfounded fantasy and unnecessary
frustration in the cross-cultural proclamation of the
Gospel. In their knowledge, interest, and
experience in world missions, the members of the
faculty are qualified to accomplish this purpose.
The graduate missions program is designed to take
carefully selected people and help them prepare
spiritually, emotionally, intellectually, and physically
to go overseas to save souls in other cultures.
The MA Degree in Foreign Missions is a 30-hour
program which requires the writing of a thesis; the
MS Degree in Foreign Missions is a 36-hour
program without a thesis. Students who are not
actively leading others to a saving faith in Jesus
Christ must choose the MS degree rather than the
MA. An oral defense of the thesis is required in the
MA degree. An oral comprehensive is required of
those who take the MS. The Master of Missiology is
a 45-hour, non-thesis degree.
The Missionary Assessment Center is available to
all students in a missions program for field
readiness evaluation. It is recommended that all
students take advantage of this service early in
their graduate program.Prerequisites
Prerequisites for the MA Degree and the MS
Degree in Missions are identical: Six upper-division
undergraduate hours of Biblical text courses and 12
hours of foreign missions courses from among the
following courses or their equivalents: Missionary
Principles and Practices, Missionary Anthropology,
Introduction to the Study of Religion, Introduction
to Cross-Cultural Church Growth, and Introduction
to Missionary Research.
MA Requirements
Courses in Foreign Missions (12 hrs.) - Include
at least one of the following: Urban Anthropology,
Urban Evangelism, Animism, or Introduction to
Linguistics. Not more than three hours can be
taken among the "Special Topics in Missions"
mini-courses.
Biblical Text Courses (12 hrs.) - If the student
has not had a course in doctrinal studies, he or she
should include BIBD 641 in the 12 hours.
Thesis (6 hrs.).
MS Requirements
Courses in Foreign Missions (15 hrs.) -
Identical to the MA requirement except in number
of hours.
Biblical Text Courses (15 hrs.) - Identical to the
MA requirement except in number of hours.Missions
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