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    Oct 05, 2024  
Academic Catalog - Spring 2023 
    
Academic Catalog - Spring 2023 [ARCHIVED]

Master of Arts in Cross-Cultural Counseling⁺


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The Master of Arts in Cross-Cultural Counseling is a specialized degree offered by Southeastern that is designed to prepare students for counseling ministry focusing on international contexts and cross-cultural settings. The degree combines on-campus and/or distance learning course options and the field-based ministry and practicum requirements. This degree can be earned online, along with the field ministry and practicum components.

Philosophy of the Biblical Counseling Program

Under the Lordship of Jesus Christ and for the glory of His name, the counseling programs at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary are committed to equipping students to serve the church and fulfill the Great Commission through the ministry of Biblical Counseling. We will provide Christians who are called to the ministry of counseling the training and experience that is needed to explain and apply the authoritative and sufficient written Word of God in a clinically informed manner.

The guiding foundation for SEBTS’s Biblical Counseling program is that the Holy Scriptures are the written Word of the Living God and are necessary for understanding people as spiritual, moral, relational, and psychological beings (2 Timothy 3:14-17; Psalm 1). SEBTS’s counseling program prepares students to counsel from within the framework of a biblical anthropology, developing a biblical, God-related understanding of human problems, and implementing truthful, graceful, timely, relevant, and practical Christ-centered methods of problem-solving and change (Psalm 1:1-2; Hebrews 4:12-13).

Read the full central affirmations of Southeastern’s Biblical Counseling Program.  

Admission Requirements

Admission to this program is limited to persons holding a bachelor’s degree or its equivalent who also meet all other admission requirements for the seminary.

Degree Requirements

Master of Arts Core - 34 Hours


Cross-Cultural Counseling - 27 Hours


Practicum Selective (6)


Choose two of the following courses (one must be a trip and one must be a counseling practicum):

Biblical Counseling & Missiology (9)


Total Hours - 61


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