Fall 2024 SDBU Registration Now Open!
Ends August 25th!
How to Become an SDBU Student:
1: Complete the Admission Application for SDBU Certificate Programs.
2: Submit the $50 application fee. (This will be invoiced to you after the submission of your application.)
3. After being admitted to SDBU, register for classes. Scroll down to view a list of current and upcoming SDBU classes.
If you have any questions, please contact us at sdbu@seventhdaybaptist.org or call (608) 752-5055 ext. 701.
SDBU Certificates
Fall 2024 Term Course Offerings
(September 1, 2024 – December 22, 2024)
SDBU 201: Ministry Leadership in the Church
This course is designed to help students learn the role of a ministry leader in the local church and how to understand and use leadership in the context of congregational polity in order to create healthy churches and leaders by helping them to understand and clarify what the role of a ministry leader is and how a healthy ministry leader functions.
This course will also help students become better stewards of time and effort through biblical productivity creating healthy churches and leaders by helping them use their time and talents more effectively so that the ministry of the church is ordered and flourishes.
Prerequisites: None.
SDBU 210: Bible Interpretation
This course introduces the student to the tools and methods necessary for an inductive study of the Bible. The student’s coursework will culminate with the writing of an exegetical paper 10-12 pages in length on a selected passage from Ephesians.
SDBU 220: Old Testament Survey
This course is an introduction to the literature and content of the Old Testament from the beginning of the biblical narratives to the inter-testamental period. Attention will be given to the cultural, geographic, political and historical backgrounds necessary to understand the text in its proper context. An introduction to the archaeological and academic concerns around the OT texts will be given. The form of the OT texts (genre, etc.) will also be considered.
Prerequisites: (None, but SDBU 210 and 211 are recommended.)
SDBU 250: Introduction to Theology
This course introduces the discipline of Systematic Theology from an evangelical perspective and provides a survey of key topics in the discipline. The course is intended to help the student better understand and articulate faith in the context of the Biblical witness and appreciate how what we believe influences how we live.
Prerequisites: the following classes (or their equivalents) are required: SDBU 210 (Bible Interpretation), SDBU 220 (Old Testament Survey), SDBU 230 (New Testament Survey)
SDBU 261: Introduction to Missions
A broad overview of missions looking at the biblical basis for missions, missions history, the current state of the world, mission strategy, and culture. The course focus is to actively engage students in missions activity in their current context and broaden thinking around how individuals and churches in North America can become involved with missions to the unreached.
Prerequisites: None