Master of Arts - Religious Studies
Prerequisite: Bachelor's degree or a minimum of 120 undergraduate credits with a minimum of 10 credits in counseling, theology, ministry, education, administration, music, fine arts, media communications, social work or disciplines related to the interspiritual focus-area of the graduate program proposed.
60 Credits at NETU required for this program with a thesis project. *
The Master of Arts (MA) - Religious Studies degree program is a highly flexible, interdisciplinary program that takes full advantage of faculty strengths within New Earth Theological University as well as ancillary fields of the humanities and social sciences.
In the spirit of the innate interdisciplinary character of religious studies and interspirituality, this program is to prepare academics in the history, theory and method of religious, modern theological studies, with complementary approaches such as textual study, philosophy, history, anthropology, sociology and art.
NETU's exceptional faculty’s broad training and diverse interests provide a rich foundation for future research and teaching in a field that demands deeply trained specialists also actively engaged in multi-faceted methodological and theoretical conversations of interest to the whole discipline.
MASTER OF ARTS - RELIGIOUS STUDIES (MA degree)
60 minimum credits required of integrated study at NETU to earn a Master's degree
Areas of study and competency:
Core Courses and Electives:
* All students are required to enroll in and successfully complete the courses: Introduction to Interspiritual Studies; and, Entering the Gate: Foundations for Academic Research.
* NOTE: A Master’s Thesis at NETU is expected to be a minimum of 100 pages, and based upon an additional 1-2 years of studies and life-work after receiving a Bachelor's Degree from NETU or another academic institution. The academic term “Thesis” is actually the Greek word ‘thésis’, meaning an intellectual “proposition” as a “proposal of a position”, which from the 17th century eventually came to mean, presenting academic research.
At NETU, your Thesis presents a comprehensive review and analysis of a body of research work from academic and experiential source materials, demonstrating competency in the field of studies.
60 minimum credits required of integrated study at NETU to earn a Master's degree
- 2 prerequisite courses required * = 16 Credits
- 1 regular course elective = 8 Credits
- 1 research project with thesis advisory = 12 Credits **
- ** 3 semester advisories = total of 36 Credits
- (minimum three (3) semesters at NETU depending on approved transferred credits)
Areas of study and competency:
- Interspiritual Studies
- Focus-area studies
- Research project with thesis *
Core Courses and Electives:
* All students are required to enroll in and successfully complete the courses: Introduction to Interspiritual Studies; and, Entering the Gate: Foundations for Academic Research.
* NOTE: A Master’s Thesis at NETU is expected to be a minimum of 100 pages, and based upon an additional 1-2 years of studies and life-work after receiving a Bachelor's Degree from NETU or another academic institution. The academic term “Thesis” is actually the Greek word ‘thésis’, meaning an intellectual “proposition” as a “proposal of a position”, which from the 17th century eventually came to mean, presenting academic research.
At NETU, your Thesis presents a comprehensive review and analysis of a body of research work from academic and experiential source materials, demonstrating competency in the field of studies.