The Academic Cycle
Full-time students normally must attend the Christendom Graduate School for four consecutive semesters in order to take all of the required courses for the master’s degree: either four consecutive summers or two academic (fall & spring) years. It is possible to accelerate the program by combining on-site and online courses, and also by attending year-round.
The courses offered during each of the cycles are listed below. Courses marked with an asterisk (*) are only offered on campus, during the summer academics at the Front Royal Campus.
Cycle A | Cycle B |
PHIL 602 Philosophy of God and Man | PHIL 603 Philosophical Errors |
THEO 601 God the Father | THEO 602 Christology |
HIST 610 Church History, Part I | HIST 611 Church History, Part II |
THEO 724 Sexual and Biomedical Ethics | THEO 802 Catholic Social Teachings |
SCRI 602 Pentateuch | SCRI 701 Prophets |
EDUC 604 Methods of Catechesis and Evangelization | SCRI 702 Psalms & Wisdom Literature |
CONL 622 Liturgy & the Consecrated Life | EDUC 602 The Catechetical Tradition |
CONL 626 Consecrated Life in Canon Law * | CONL 621 History of the Consecrated Life* |
SPIR 633 Christian Asceticism* |
SPIR 630 The Spiritual Life* |
SPIR 631 Sacraments in Spiritual Life* | |
Cycle C | Cycle D |
THEO 603 Holy Spirit and Ecclesiology | THEO 604 Moral Theology |
SCRI 606 Old Testament | SCRI 607 New Testament |
THEO 712 Patristics | THEO 605 Liturgy and Sacraments |
THEO 720 Theological Anthropology | THEO 721 The Virtues |
SCRI 610 Synoptic Gospels | SCRI 711 Pauline Epistles & Acts of the Apostles |
SCRI 710 Johannine Corpus | CONL 624 Vows According to St. Thomas Aquinas* |
THEO 606 Apologetics | SPIR 632 Christian Prayer and Contemplation* |
CONL 623 Scriptural Foundation of Consecrated Life* | SPIR 635 Spiritual Direction* |
CONL 625 Vatican II & Consecrated Life* | |
SPIR 634 Virtues and the Spiritual Life* |
Schedule of Cycles
campus/online | campus/online | campus/online | |||
SPRING 2019 | B / A | SUMMER 2019 | A / C | FALL 2019 | C / B |
SPRING 2020 | D / C | SUMMER 2020 | B / D | FALL 2020 | A / D |
SPRING 2021 | B / A | SUMMER 2021 | C / A | FALL 2021 | C / B |
SPRING 2022 | D / C | SUMMER 2022 | D / B | FALL 2022 | A / D |