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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
AL5373 Religion & Worldview
 3
AL5374 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 5913 Applied Ethnomusicology

Biblical Studies

  • BIBCK 3312 Biblical Backgrounds
  • BIBCK 3323 Biblical Hermeneutics
  • SYSTH 4443 Systematic Theology

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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