DEPARTMENT OF CHRISTIAN EDUCATION

Course

Semester

Number

Hours

SA 221, 222

4

The basics of building and maintaining a Bible-oriented, soul-winning Sunday school are emphasized.

CD 221, 222

4

This course will present the student with both knowledge and observational skills in the field of childhood development.  Students will be taught the stages of childhood development and will be given an opportunity to observe the stages of childhood development.  This course will take the advice and principles laid out in God’s Word to properly rear children.

PW 221, 222

4

The Pastor’s Wife course is a practical class of instruction covering such subjects as the wife as an individual, her role as a wife and mother, and her ministry within the church.  Many other subjects are considered for the woman who may become the wife of a pastor or other full-time Christian servant.

PH 221

2

This course of study is designed to enable the student to understand philosophy as a worldview that affects the practical, everyday life, and to instill in the student the means to integrate biblical philosophy as a reference for thought.

BE 222

2

This course will deal with alternatives and issues.  Biblical thinking is examined and brought to the forefront in the decision-making process.

TP 221, 222

4

This course is designed for the individual who plans to enter the field of Christian education.  Various aspects of teaching will be discussed, such as classroom arrangement, discipline, teaching techniques, tests, homework, and curriculum comparisons.  Students will learn how to complete teacher planning books and grade books.  Attention will be given to the practical “how to” of teaching.

PC 331, 332

6

This course is designed to give students the tools for understanding temperament and its relationship to behavior, as well as how to use Scripture for counseling in such matters as child-rearing, adolescent problems, drugs, marriage, guilt, depression, and other areas faced by Christian workers.

CE 321, 322

4

This course deals with the daily issues of practical Christianity.  The students will take a deeper look at Scripture as the Compass for every day life, and will learn to more readily recognize the lures and snares that Satan uses to defeat them and to distance them from the Lord and His will.  Emphasis is placed on learning more of the true character and motives of the Lord, and in particular, how they relate to the Christian.  (For women only)

YM 321, 322

4

SO 331, 332

6

Students will be placed in a classroom under the direction of experienced teachers.  Student observers will spend time helping, watching, and learning the art of teaching.  They will receive some “hands on” experience.  Most of this work will be done at Massillon Christian School.