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Advanced Certificate in Special Needs Children's Ministry

(15 hours – excluding prerequisites)

Note: Church Membership Requirement (for admission into the EDD in Educational Leadership—all concentrations, PHD in Leadership Studies’ Ministry Concentration, Master’s Ministry Degrees, and Advanced Ministry Certificate Programs): Within the last 12 months, the applicant must have been an active member of a Christian church that holds Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior and who holds solely the Old Testament and the New Testament as sacred Scripture.

This 15-credit hour program is designed to provide ministry leaders a framework for understanding areas of special needs that may be encountered when working with children in the local church. In addition, this certificate will guide students to provide leadership that raises the awareness of the need to progress toward greater inclusion of children and their families into the life of the community of faith and provide accommodations that make that participation possible.

REQUIRED COURSES (excluding prerequisites)

course

MACH 6311 - Early Childhood Ministry

MACH 6312 - Ministry with Children

MACH 6315 - Ministry to Children with Special Needs

MACH 6316 - Advanced Ministry to Children with Special Needs (S-L)*

Select one of the following:

EDUC 6304 - Improvement of Instruction

EDUC 6308 - The School and Multicultural Society

MACH 5313 - Disability and Suffering

MAFM 6353 - Ministry to Families

SPED 5350 - Teaching Students with Emotional/Behavioral Disabilities

(S-L)=Course(s) with field-based service-learning component.

*Refer to individual course descriptions for course requisites.

COURSE DESCRIPTIONS

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