Academic Regulations
1. In order to satisfy the requirements for the award of the degree, candidates must successfully complete 8 units (including any for which they may be granted advanced standing). One or two of those units may be a project.
2. Course work units are chosen from the three fields of study, namely, Biblical Studies, Christian Thought and Christian Ministry. Four or five units must be chosen from one field (the chosen field of specialisation), and at least one MA(Theology) unit proper from each of the other two fields in order to ensure both breadth and depth in their program.
3. Candidates are required to complete successfully at least one unit involving the study of a book of the Bible in the original language. This may be taken at any stage throughout the course.
4. Students normally may not enrol in a project until they have completed at least five course-work units.
5. Where two units of advanced standing are granted from the BD (see Section 4.2.4.2, above), one unit will be deemed to be Biblical Studies and one Christian Thought. When a third unit of advanced standing is granted from the BD (Hons), it will be deemed to be the field in which the BD Project was written.
6. Students may choose to forgo one or more units of advanced standing for which they are eligible if, for example, they wish to shift the focus of their degree into a new field of specialisation.
7. Course work units normally comprise 26 hours of ‘face-to-face contact’. The units are offered in either ‘continuous’ or ‘intensive’ mode. Continuous mode comprises a weekly two-hour class over one semester. Each semester has thirteen weeks of instruction with the exam (if applicable) taking place in the fourteenth week. Intensive mode involves two three-day teaching blocks. The class contact hours are the same for each mode. The attendance requirement for both modes is 100%. Assessment by written work and/or examination is the same for each mode.
8. The bibliography for units is limited to 2,000 pages of reading. In order to ensure the inclusion of works of substance this must include approximately 12 titles. For units offered by ‘intensive’ mode pre-reading before the first teaching block may be 1,000 to 1,300 of the 2,000 pages of total reading.
9. Units are normally offered on average every two or three years. Every time a unit is offered its bibliography is updated.
10. The penalty for late submission of assessments is one “letter grade” (e.g. A to A-) for each week or part thereof of lateness – with a maximum of three weeks. After that the Board of Studies reserves the right not to mark the item.
11. Candidates enrolled for the Moore College MA may be granted credit for up to two units of study with an approved college affiliated with the ACTh for MA studies. When enrolling through another college for ACTh unit(s), candidates should mark their ACTh enrolment form as ‘non-award’
12. Candidates enrolled with an approved ACTh college may complete up to two units of study at Moore College.