Proposed 2025-2026 Schedule New Student

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Introductory Course for all new students. 

This course is a study of beginnings. It shows how the ancient, inspired Hebrew writers expressed in narrative form a record of God’s saving deeds from the beginning of God’s work with all humankind. From these narratives, students can see God’s unfolding plan of

redemption through what Christians believe to be God’s revelation. Concepts like covenant, priesthood, law, trust, faithfulness, and righteousness come from the Old Testament. Such knowledge is basic to understanding the New Testament. 

Introductory Writing students practice and

acquire fundamental writing principles: parts of speech; sentence structure and sentence types; and punctuation. The course project consists of four assigned essays, submitted incrementally; thus, students receive individual feedback from

instructors throughout the course. The collateral writing assignment (CWA) teaches vital research skills, requiring students to develop a research question and thesis statement. Students will gather notes from scholarly 

This course is intentionally a literary approach to understanding the New Testament and is not intended to be a survey course. More attention is given to understanding literature—especially

divinely sponsored literature—than is given to surveying the specific contents of each book. The overarching goal is to prepare students to appreciate and understand the New Testament

more fully in its divinely ordained original context. The intent is that this understanding will better equip students to be fai

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