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  • Only 5-quarter-credit or 3-semester-credit upper division undergraduate courses qualify to allow a student to substitute other courses for specific graduate core courses.
  • Only courses taken within three years before admission to the SPS qualify allow a student to substitute other courses for specific graduate core courses.
  • Only courses in which a grade of A- (= 3.7) or better was achieved qualify to allow a student to substitute other courses for specific graduate core courses.
  • A maximum of three 3-credit graduate core courses (maximum of 9 credits) can be substituted for upper division undergraduate courses.
  • Note: the substitution of a core course for elective courses does not reduce the total number of graduate credits a student must complete for his or her degree.
  • Whenever possible, a student who substitutes a core graduate course for another course will be expected to replace that course with another in the same general field (e.g., a Bible course with another Bible course, or a theology course with another theology course). In cases where no other graduate course is available in our curriculum (e.g., church history), the Curriculum Coordinator Associate Dean or faculty advisor will assist the student in selecting a suitable alternative.
  • This substitution process does not decrease the number of credits required for the degree.
  • Note: In rare cases, one or more of these conditions may be waived by the Dean of SOT or the Curriculum CoordinatorAssociate Dean, though in such cases a written rationale for the waiver, supported by adequate documentary evidence, must be furnished by the student.

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A student who has graduated from a regionally accredited undergraduate institution with a major in theology or some related discipline (as determined by the SOT Dean or the Curriculum CoordinatorAssociate Dean) may petition for “advance standing” (as defined in Educational and Degree Program Standard 3.31 of the 2020 Standards of Accreditation of the Association of Theological Schools). To qualify, the following conditions must ordinarily be met.

  • An official transcript from the institution granting his or her baccalaureate degree must be on file at SPS.
  • He or she must have attained a cumulative undergraduate grade point average of at least 3.0 (= B).
  • He or she must have attained a grade of at least A- (= 3.7) in any upper division undergraduate theology course which he or she is petitioning to have counted toward an SPS master’s degree, and must submit the syllabus of that course, to ensure that the material covered therein is equivalent to the SPS course from which he or she is asking to be exempted.
  • Only 5-quarter-credit or 3-semester-credit upper division undergraduate courses qualify to exempt a student from graduate core courses.
  • Only courses taken within three years before admission to the SPS qualify to exempt a student from graduate core courses.
  • SPS courses eligible for exemption are restricted to those in the “academic core” (i.e., THEO 6010, 6020, 6030, 6040, 6050, 6060, 6070, 6080, and 6090).
  • No more than fifteen credits of graduate work will be awarded to MDiv students qualifying for advance standing. No more than nine credits of graduate work will be awarded to MA-Theology students qualifying for advanced standing . That is, the student must complete at least 93 credits of graduate work to complete the MDiv or 51 credits of graduate work to complete the MA.
  • Note: In rare cases, one or more of these conditions may be waived by the Dean of SOT or the Curriculum CoordinatorAssociate Dean, though in such cases a written rationale for the waiver, supported by adequate documentary evidence, must be furnished by the student.

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