Holy Spirit College

Persons looking for credentialing by the Texas State Board of Examiners of Psychologists (TSBEP) to end up an authorized pro in school brain research (LSSP) must have a graduate degree with brain science in the name. Holy Spirit College's recently endorsed MAP-LSSP Re-specialization project can give acknowledgment for past graduate coursework from directing and instructive diagnostician programs. The Director of Graduate Studies in Psychology will assess every understudy's transcripts to decide the course work required for the MAP-LSSP. Projects of study will vary for every understudy in view of contrasts in past graduate course work, measure of time that has passed subsequent to the culmination obviously work, and so forth. At least, conceded understudies will be required to finish 30 hours of coursework and the 1200-hour Licensed Specialist in School Psychology Internship. 

The following are the prerequisites for system confirmation: 

Accommodation of the on-line application 

A presented graduate degree from either a territorially authorize directing or instructive diagnostician program 

Check that no disciplinary move has been made against a candidate's endorsement or permit 

No less than two scholarly/proficient letters of proposal 

Meeting with the Director of Graduate Studies in Psychology 

Extra data about Holy Spirit College's MAP-LSSP project can be found on the National Association of School Psychologists (NASP) site: www.nasponline.org 

"While taking a shot at my Master of Arts in Psychology, I discovered that Holy Spirit College teachers exemplify ability and motivation in their instructive methodologies. The ability of my educators was obvious in their abundance of information and their capacity to scatter even the most confused mental ideas in ways that were important. The educators tested me to learn foundational ideas inside a system of just the most moral and deferential practices. This motivation and information drove me on a way to accomplishment as a Licensed Specialist in School Psychology and a Licensed Professional Counselor." 

Michelle Wolf '01 – Licensed Specialist in School Psychology (LSSP) 

Main Ten Reasons to Attend Holy Spirit College's MAP-LSSP Program 

The Christian environment at Houston Baptist University asserts all persons all through the classroom and encourages elevated requirements in one's close to home set of accepted rules. 

The comfort and adaptability obviously offerings make it feasible for understudies to work all day and still convey a full-time course stack. 

There is a low understudy/teacher proportion which takes into consideration understudies to get singular consideration and coaching 

The Program meets the Texas State Board of Examiners in Psychology (TSBEP) necessities for licensure as a Licensed Specialist in School Psychology. 

The Program meets the TSBEP necessities for licensure as a Licensed Psychological Associate. 

The Program meets the Texas State Board of Examiners for Professional Counselors (TSBEPC) prerequisites for licensure as a Licensed Professional Counselor. 

The courses are taught by doctoral level teachers and experts in the field of brain science 

Understudies who are admitted to the project are appointed coaches who are LSSPs to guide them through the procedure of planning for their profession decision 

Holy Spirit College's wonderful, quiet grounds is settled inside a prospering universal city 

The project is intended to esteem, acknowledge and build up understudies' exceptional endowments and abilities 

Program Description 

The Department of Theology offers the Master of Arts in Theological Studies (MATS) as a coordinated way to deal with Christian religious graduate instruction intended to plan understudies for improved service, both lay and professional, in their temples and to set up the individuals who need to seek after further graduate study. What's more, we have various understudies in the system with non-philosophical professional reasons for living, however they ponder with us to improve their own profound adventure. For those wanting to seek after professional service, you may likewise be keen on our Master of Divinity (MDiv) degree. 

We esteem and draw from our Baptist legacy, yet our workforce and understudies speak to a scope of outreaching conventions and sections. In this way, we invite any individual who might wish to concentrate on with us. 

The Master of Arts in Theological Studies opens understudies to key inquiries and worries in the fields of scriptural studies, philosophy and reasonable service. Drawing from our particular spotlight on the Bible, alumni of the MATS program at Holy Spirit College can mindfully bring the old writings of Christian Scripture into discourse with authentic, religious, and contemporary concerns. 

Our 36 hour system is based upon a 15 hour center (decisions from Old Testament, New Testament, History, and Theology), however you have the adaptability to pick the remaining 21 hours from our offering of classes in our conventional regions of scriptural studies, religious philosophy and viable service or in our other MA program regions: scriptural dialects, rational theology, works of art, and reasoning. 

Points of interest and Opportunities 

Through close connection with experienced workforce in little, workshop style classes, understudies in Holy Spirit College's Master of Arts in Theological Studies system will be tested to become mentally and profoundly in their worker authority. One of the best qualities of our system is the individual association with staff. Our MATS classes are topped at 15 understudies every, which permits us to become more acquainted with you by and by. Also, as opposed to continually addressing and just giving all of you the right replies, our classes are essentially workshop style, in which we read messages together and talk about them in group, which permits every one of us to gain from the various service encounters of those in the classroom. This not just supports a more profound engagement with writings and thoughts, yet for those looking towards future study, it sets you up for kind of discourse in PhD workshops. 

Most understudies get ready for service seek after some sort of graduate degree to help them further get ready for service. Customarily, the Master of Divinity (MDiv) has been the standard degree, as it gives the most balanced and hearty preparing for service. We offer a 72 hour MDiv, however for understudies that desire to seek after an all the more scholastically engaged and shorter degree, our 36 hour MATS gives the center establishment coveted by places of worship while likewise giving adaptability in course choice. We offer the larger part of our classes at night, in classes that meet one night a week, so you can without much of a stretch wrap your studies around your work duties. 

The greater part of our understudies are seeking after a job of chapel service, and our ecclesially connected with workforce are appropriate to help you in your readiness. Other than the assortment of past chapel service encounters that we bring, a large number of our personnel are as of now serving as ministers and between time ministers. In the meantime, some of you may consider a PhD as the following stride. A number of our staff, some with degrees from world-class research colleges, are locked in presently in examination and distributed. We have had various understudies finish further graduate concentrate effectively at other all around regarded projects, for example, Duke University and Manchester University. The alternative to compose a proposal is particularly useful for those looking in this course. 

After Graduation 

Other than the individual advancement from concentrating on the Bible, religious philosophy, and service with extraordinary staff, alumni of the MATS project will be prepared for an assortment of chances. The MATS degree can give the instructive system expected to most service and educating opportunities. Moreover graduates may seek after further training at the PhD level. On the off chance that you are thinking about a PhD, a sister foundation has drawn together a supportive portrayal of the procedure of planning and applying: Soooo … you need to get a Ph.D.? Furthermore, Nijay Gupta has arranged a supportive book that portrays the procedure in more profundity: Prepare, Succeed, Advance. 

Course Requirements 

The degree is 36 credit hours (12 courses), which takes roughly two years. There are 5 required classes (15 hours). The first is CHRI 5301 Research Methods, yet there are decisions for the other four, one from every range underneath: 

Old Testament (Pentateuch or Prophets) 

New Testament (Gospels or Paul) 

(History of Christianity or Historical and Moral Theology) 

Religious philosophy (Hermeneutics or Systematic Theology) 

For the remaining 21 hours of the project, you may pick among any of the offered classes as electives, including up to 12 hours of scriptural dialects, rational theology, and/or reasoning (with endorsement from the chief). A proposition (6 hours) is not required, but rather can be taken as an elective. 

Note: Those entering the project without an earlier college degree in religious philosophy or without an earlier graduate studies in religious philosophy are required to take CHRI 5300 Introduction to Biblical Texts and Doctrines in their first semester. 

Costs, Scholarships, and Financing 

To discover the expenses of the system, see the present year Graduate Tuition and Fees for the MATS program. 

Holy Spirit College offers a few sorts of grants to help our approaching understudies. What's more, the BGCT offers $100 per credit hour for experts understudies who are seeking after service as a work. It would be ideal if you take note of that there is a Scholarship Application (and perhaps an extra individual articulation) not quite the same as the application for affirmation. It would be ideal if you ensure you check all the important boxes on the application. What's more, note that the Guild Scholarship has its own, different Guild Scholarship Application, alongside a different individual proclamation. Current and entering understudies can apply for the Guild Scholarship. It is granted every year and the due date for application is April 1. (Note that new references and a resume are not required for the Guild application; these will be drawn from the application for confirmation. All that is required is the letter of presentation, other than the Guild A