The Academic Cycle 

At the Christendom Graduate School the required courses (both core requirements and special requirements for the concentrations) are divided into four cycles, each containing approximately one-fourth of the requirements. Two cycles are offered every semester, one of them on campus and the other in the online format. Every fall semester, either cycle A or cycle C is offered on campus (and either cycle B or D online), and every spring either cycle B or D is offered on campus and cycle A or C online. The summer cycle sequence is independent from the fall-spring sequence: either Cycle A or Cycle C is offered at Front Royal (and either Cycle B or Cycle D online) in the summers of odd-numbered years, while Cycle B or Cycle D (and either cycle A or cycle C) is offered in even-numbered years. The schedule of cycles for upcoming years is listed below. Required courses in the core study are offered online more frequently, either every fall or every spring online, not merely in their cycles. Introduction to Ecclesiastical Latin is usually offered on campus in the spring semester and online in the fall, and the prerequisite Introduction to Theology course is offered online every semester. Consecrated life and spirituality courses are offered only in the summer, as part of the Vita Consecrata Institute, at the Front Royal campus.

 

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

 

 

Schedule of On-Campus Courses             Schedule of Online Courses

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