Christian Education Certificate

Program Code: D-XTEDU-C
Degree Designation: Certificate
Department: Divinity School
Website: divinity.duke.edu/academics/certificates/christian-education

Program Summary

The Divinity School offers a certificate in Christian education within the MDiv (residential and hybrid) and MA curriculum. This certificate benefits persons seeking to practice as church educators, teachers, college chaplains, youth workers, or health care workers. Since educational ministry is rightly understood as organic to the church’s ministries of outreach, worship, mission, and nurture, persons called to parish ministry will find the certificate equally beneficial in preparing them for congregational leadership.

Academic Requirements

• MDVR Requirements (complete all, at least 4 courses)

  • XTIANEDU 760 (Introduction to the Education of Christians)

  • Christian Education Electives (complete any) - see list below

  • Field Education

• MDVH Requirements (complete all, at least 4 courses)

  • XTIANEDU 760 (Introduction to the Education of Christians)

  • Christian Education Electives (complete any) - see list below

  • Field Education within Formation for Ministry

• MACP Requirements (complete all, at least 3 courses)

  • Christian Education Core Courses (complete any)

    • XTIANEDU 760 (Introduction to the Education of Christians)

    • XTIANEDU 713 (Christian Formation in Congregations and Communities)

  • Christian Education Electives or Another Course with CE Purpose (complete any) - see list below

  • Vocational Integration Summary

• Christian Education Electives

  • XTIANEDU 706 (The Youth Minister as Leader)

  • XTIANEDU 707 (Youth Minister as Evangelist)

  • XTIANEDU 710 (The Art of Biblical Interpretation)

  • XTIANEDU 712 (The Youth Minister as Pastor)

  • XTIANEDU 761 (Introduction to the Praxis of Youth Ministry)

  • XTIANEDU 763 (Curriculum and Pedagogy in the Church)

  • XTIANEDU 765 (Education for Creation Care)

  • XTIANEDU 766 (Worship and Christian Formation)

  • XTIANEDU 768 (Education and the Worshiping Arts)

  • XTIANEDU 769 (Discipleship and Adult Catechesis)

  • XTIANEDU 770 (Baptism and Faith Formation)

  • XTIANEDU 790 (Christian Education Topics Course)

  • XTIANEDU 800 (Bible Study Programs for the Local Church)

  • XTIANEDU 801 (Explorations in Pauline Anthropology)

  • XTIANEDU 802 (Paul's 'Mother Tongue': Interpreting and Approaching Paul's Parental Metaphors)

  • XTIANEDU 803 (Imitation and Transformation in the Letters of Paul)

  • XTIANEDU 804 (Eating Together Faithfully: Education for Christian Foodways)

  • XTIANEDU 805 (Christian Education for Public Ministry)

  • XTIANEDU 890 (Topics in Christian Education)

  • PASTCARE 812 (Discipleship and Disability)

  • LTS 808 (Teaching Worship)

  • NEWTEST 800 (Bible Study Programs for the Local Church)

  • NEWTEST 813 (Paul & the Person)

  • PARISH 760 (Food, Eating, and the Life of Faith)

  • PASTCARE 810 (Theology, Mental Health and Human Flourishing)

  • SPIRIT 760 (Introduction to Christian Spirituality)

  • PASTCARE 813 (The Disabled Church)

  • Other pre-approved courses may also count

Guidance for Electives

A final Christian Education elective can be substituted (with prior approval) with one graded assignment in another course for Christian educational purposes.

Guidance for MA Students Co-Curricular Requirements

• Completion of one assignment related to Christian Education for a non-CE course, with permission from the instructor; and

• Completion of a 500-word summary of how coursework integrates with current vocation, with specific reference to the CE certificate.