Master of Arts in Applied Linguistics:
Cross-Cultural Service Concentration

GIAL has a cooperative agreement with Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary (SWBTS) whereby students with a prior relationship with SWBTS may be admitted to GIAL and, having successfully completed a specified program of study, graduate with a Master’s degree from GIAL. These students may transfer up to 18 semester hours from SWBTS to GIAL toward the Master’s degree with a Cross-cultural Service Concentration. Students in this concentration must be fully admitted at both GIAL and SWBTS.

This page identifies requirements for the Cross-Cultural Service Concentration with a thesis or non-thesis option. There are other program requirements for the degree.

Cross-Cultural Service Common Courses

Course	Sem Hrs
LD5373 Religion & Worldview	3
LD5374 Christianity Across Cultures	3
Biblical Language	6
Missiology (from approved list below)	6
Biblical Studies (from approved list below)	3
Electives	3
Total cross-cultural service concentration hours	24
Total AL degree hours (minimum)	37

SWBTS students may transfer six (6) semester hours of Hebrew or Greek for the language requirement. Pre-approved courses for the Missiology and Biblical Studies components of this concentration are listed below. Any of these may also be used for the elective.

Missiology

• MISSN 3363 Intro to Missiology
• MISSN 4333 World Religions
• MISSN 4393 Church Planting
• MUMIN 3902 Applied Ethnomusicology

Biblical Studies

• BIBHST 3323 Biblical Backgrounds
• BIBST 3203 Biblical Hermeneutics
• SYSTH 3003 Systematic Theology I
• SYSTH 3013 Systematic Theology II
  

In addition to the 18 hours of transfer specified above, SWBTS students may also take MISSN 4373 Anthropology For Cross-cultural Evangelism at SWBTS in lieu of the GIAL prerequisite course LD4370 Cultural Anthropology that is part of the Certificate in Applied Linguistics.

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