COCHRANE, Alberta, Canada — It’s one of the first of its kind in North America and is poised to bring education to those in ministry across the continent and beyond.
Previously the Association of Theological Schools (ATS) only accredited master of divinity degree programs when at least two-thirds of the degree was earned on the campus of a seminary in a traditional classroom.
The Canadian Southern Baptist Seminary (CSBS) in Cochrane, Alberta, however, has worked with ATS to launch a new delivery system, seminarylink.com, that will allow the seminary to work with students across Canada and the world.
Under this new delivery system, the class schedule would allow a student to take nine credit hours online per year and six credit hours in on-campus intensives, which equates to two visits to Cochrane per year.
Steve Booth, CSBS academic dean, emphasized that the Canadian seminary is dedicated to making sure the online students get much of the mentoring and spiritual formation that on-campus students receive. Counseling, chapel, journey groups and the like will be replicated in innovative ways over the Internet.
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