CIU is one of the few Christian universities that offers an undergraduate degree in Bible Teaching. Other schools offer a degree in Bible or education, but not a combination of both!
Our program is designed to train you to know, love, live and teach the Bible with integrity. Although this training will equip you to design creative Bible lessons and curriculum in a Christian school setting, your skills will be transferable to multiple Christian ministry settings. Many graduates use their training in pastoral, youth ministry, camping and mission ministry contexts.
The purpose of the Bible Teaching program is to develop the ministry skill of teaching Bible in North America and around the world in public, private, international, government and missionary schools. In addition, this program provides preparation for other areas of Christian work where Bible teaching skills are required. CIU Education programs are endorsed by the Higher Education Accreditation Program (HEAP) of the Association of Christian Schools International (ACSI). Program graduates who meet specific requirements are eligible to apply for appropriate ACSI teacher or administrator certificates. ACSI waives the certification fee when applying at the time of CIU graduation.
Campus
January 3, 2025
120
College of Arts & Sciences
ABHE, ACSI, SACSCOC
Cultivate the skill of preparing hermeneutically-sound Bible lessons and curriculum that are developmentally appropriate and consistent with the pattern of biblical revelation
Implement the sociological, philosophical, and psychological principles of the teaching-learning process into the preparation and delivery of Bible lessons
Establish positive, professional behavior and relationships with supervisors, co-workers, parents and students
In addition to the undergraduate core and other related courses, here is a glimpse at a few of the courses you will be taking in this program.
For a full list of courses related to this program, visit the Academic Catalog at one of the options below:
In this course, you will: a) develop a basic appreciation for the various visual and temporal arts - painting, sculpture, music, literature, drama - and b) grow to understand the broad historical progression of the arts from the late Middle Ages to the 20th Century. You will particularly focus on how philosophical ideas and worldviews are communicated through the arts.
This course is an introduction to the broad historical development, philosophical structures, and worldviews of the non-Christian religions. You will explore primal religions, Hinduism, Buddhism, Chinese and Japanese religions, and Islam, as well as some of their folk expressions.
This course introduces students to Christian apologetics: the task of "giving a defense" of the Gospel and Christian doctrine to contemporary intellectual and cultural challenges. Students will study specific challenges to Christian doctrines and responses to those challenges, as well as comparing and contrasting different approaches to the apologetic task (e.g., classical apologetics, presuppositionalist apologetics, etc.).
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