On-Line Greek & German

                                                                                                                                              Vol. XII, No. 4, April 1999

Southwestern Baptist Theological seminary now offers New Testament Greek on-line to help students off campus obtain training in courses needed for master’s and doctoral degrees. Theological German also is also being offered. Both courses began in the fall of last year.

The New Testament Greek course is a "hybrid" master's level course requiring students to meet on campus for one and a half hours each week and then receive one hour's worth of work over the Internet. In the German course students access the syllabus and assignments via the Internet. They can also access translations of German texts, group discussions on how the texts are translated, and exams. Students answer tests and quizzes on the computer and send them back via e-mail.

This semester, four full-time pastors from New Mexico, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Florida are taking the course to fulfill part of their doctoral requirements. The students who are taking Internet German course this semester met at Southwestern's main campus in Fort Worth for a week before the course began to get to know their professor and one another. [BP]