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Course Selection Guidelines - Orlando IBS

Be sure to carefully read the course selection guidelines before you register.

    1. Four two-week courses constitute a full class load. If you serve with theCampus Ministry staff and have been assigned to IBS as your summer assignment, you are required to complete 8 IBS credits, i.e. four two-week courses during the summer. You should take either the four second-year courses or, if you have completed the second-years courses, the four third-courses.
    2. If you have not finished the IBS Certificate, take those courses needed for its completion. (See IBS requirements for details. If you serve with the Campus Ministry you are required to complete all eleven of these courses as a part of your ongoing theological development.)
    3. Please note that all IBS Core courses can be taken either for graduate credit (through one of our five seminary partners) or for IBS credit toward the certificate. Taking a course for graduate credit does not increase your workload because all IBS core courses are already taught at a graduate level. The only difference between IBS credit and graduate credit is the cost. NOTE: To be qualified to receive graduate credit you must possess an undergraduate degree.
    4. If you are taking IBS core courses in order to fulfill your organizational requirement (i.e., the IBS certificate), you must take your courses for a grade. Auditing IBS core courses is not adequate.
    5. Although they are transcripted as two courses, Biblical Interpretation and Biblical Communication function as one integrated class lasting four weeks. As a result, they must be taken together during the same summer. You may take Biblical Communication by itself only if you have taken Biblical Interpretation during a previous summer. (See course descriptions for more info about this.)
    6. If a course has prerequisite (as several courses do), the required prerequisite will be identified at the end of the course description.
    7. When registering for classes, be sure to check the course schedule to make sure that you are not signing up for two classes offered at the same time.
    8. Course syllabi for all required core courses will be available on the Core Classes page of this website a month or two before IBS begins. We would strongly encourage you to download descriptions for the courses you are taking and to complete as much of your reading as you can before you arrive.