Academics
Briercrest College and Seminary offers one-year certificates, Associate of Arts degrees, Bachelor of Arts, Master of Arts, and Master of Divinity degrees. Each program includes courses in Bible and theology, Christian ministry, liberal arts, and the social sciences. The college has been accredited by The Association for Biblical Higher Education since 1976. The seminary is accredited by the Association of Theological Schools. It employs a modular format (typically one course in one week) for most of its courses.
Briercrest also offers distance learning courses at both the college and seminary levels.
The college is associated with the Saskatchewan Institute of Applied Science and Technology (SIAST) and has transfer agreements with the universities of Regina and Saskatchewan.
In early 2011 Briercrest and Minot State University announced a partnership allowing students to complete a Bachelor of Arts degree and a Bachelor of Science in Education degree from both schools in five years. The program requires students to complete their Bachelor of Arts degree during the first three years at Briercrest college and the final two at Minot State earning the Education degree. Minot State offers five different concentrations for its B.S.E. As such a students completing this program may select earning a Bachelor of Science in:
- Elementary Education
- English
- History
- Music
- Physical Education
The Seminary Research Treasure Hunt is a popular activity among seminary students. In this activity they learn about Harry S. Stout, the their library has 2 fiction texts set in the German reformation, that there are 11 texts on theodicy in their library, and that ATLA has 90 texts on John 3:16, 10 of them being written in German. Leadership in woman and the Christian periodical index are also studied. As they progress begin looking for the 8 articles of ministering to adolescent youth ministry for working with the goth movement. Through the John Griffith's article in the Journal of Near Easter Studies, students search for the origin on the name Moses and search for both of Keith Graham's texts on the end times. Finally, they search to discover more about the Tochia, the role of parent supervision when working youth in the home at age 12, and find 3 leadership journals.
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