Earn up to half of your degree through off-campus study

Many of Calvary's courses are available to students in two standard modes of non-resident delivery: online and video (DVD/VHS). M.A. and M.Div. students may earn up to half of their degree through these forms of non-resident studies, and M.A. students can complete their entire 36-credit program without relocating to Lansdale by combining online or video courses with on-campus modular courses.

Online Courses

Calvary is in its second semester of offering courses online. Courses are delivered using Sakai (pronounced "sa-KAI"), a widely-adopted online collaboration and learning environment used by many of the world's leading universities. The courses keep pace with the on-campus versions of the same classes, and online students are required to meet the same deadlines as their residential counterparts. Online students are required to watch the weekly residential lectures on video. To get involved in one of these courses, contact the seminary office.

Video Studies

Since receiving permission in 1995 from the State of Pennsylvania to begin offerings courses by video, students have taken thousands of courses by videotape or DVD. Courses are professionally recorded and edited and are recorded in the classroom, providing students a more dynamic learning experience by recording student-teacher interaction. Students have 150 days to complete video courses. Course work is nearly identical to the work required by resident students, and student work is graded by seminary professors and held to the same high level of rigor expected of the seminary's resident students.