Participants in the DSBS program who hope to receive either the Basic Biblical Studies Certificate after two years of successful study, or the Advanced Biblical Studies Certificate after completing the full four years of study, should be aware of these expectations held by the program and its faculty:
1. All participants are expected to be in attendance for the whole day at a minimum of seven of the nine Saturday sessions that make up each year’s calendar. If the scheduled class in your area conflicts with other commitments (work, personal concerns, health matters), it is our first preference that you travel to attend another teaching center that month to remain current with the subject matter. If you intend to travel to another teaching area—or even if you must miss a class altogether—please call or email the DSBS director so adjustments for food and materials can be made at your regular teaching site.
2. When a class must be missed and cannot be made up by attending an alternative teaching center, it remains the student’s responsibility to do the reading, complete the homework for review, and to obtain the substance of the missed lectures. For this last piece, listening to recording of your actual teacher is helpful. Students who foresee that they will miss a lecture should make arrangements with a colleague to have them record the lectures for them. In addition, the Bible School maintains a cache of recorded lectures from previous years online. See: http://diocesanschoolofbiblicalstudies.weebly.com/
3. Students who, due to circumstances or lack of care, miss three class days in the course of a year will be asked to withdraw from the program.
4. Written assignments—your answers to each lesson’s study questions—are to be handed in to the instructor at the end of the class day in which those lessons are treated. It is preferred that they be typed, but handwritten responses will be accepted if the student has very good penmanship. Your work will be reviewed for evidence that you understand the concepts; spelling or grammar will not be corrected. In a case of special necessity an assignment may be turned in late, but never later than the following session.
5. A passing effort is required on the three “lesson reviews” each year. Upon request there will be an opportunity to retake a failed review, but not more than one month after it was first taken.
6. Failure to have met these expectations at the end of any study unit will lead to the issuance of a “letter of warning” from the DSBS director spelling out the area(s) of inadequate performance. A failure to raise the level of work by the end of the next unit may lead to a request that a student withdraw from the program.
7. If a student withdraws from the course, tuition already paid will be refunded in proportion to the amount of the year that remains at the time that a formal letter of withdrawal reaches the DSBS director.
8. Upon payment of a minimal registration fee, our students may earn three undergrad credits from Viterbo University for the first two years of study, and then again for the last two years. But as the course work is cumulative, one must have received credit for Years I and II before requesting it for Years III and IV.
1. All participants are expected to be in attendance for the whole day at a minimum of seven of the nine Saturday sessions that make up each year’s calendar. If the scheduled class in your area conflicts with other commitments (work, personal concerns, health matters), it is our first preference that you travel to attend another teaching center that month to remain current with the subject matter. If you intend to travel to another teaching area—or even if you must miss a class altogether—please call or email the DSBS director so adjustments for food and materials can be made at your regular teaching site.
2. When a class must be missed and cannot be made up by attending an alternative teaching center, it remains the student’s responsibility to do the reading, complete the homework for review, and to obtain the substance of the missed lectures. For this last piece, listening to recording of your actual teacher is helpful. Students who foresee that they will miss a lecture should make arrangements with a colleague to have them record the lectures for them. In addition, the Bible School maintains a cache of recorded lectures from previous years online. See: http://diocesanschoolofbiblicalstudies.weebly.com/
3. Students who, due to circumstances or lack of care, miss three class days in the course of a year will be asked to withdraw from the program.
4. Written assignments—your answers to each lesson’s study questions—are to be handed in to the instructor at the end of the class day in which those lessons are treated. It is preferred that they be typed, but handwritten responses will be accepted if the student has very good penmanship. Your work will be reviewed for evidence that you understand the concepts; spelling or grammar will not be corrected. In a case of special necessity an assignment may be turned in late, but never later than the following session.
5. A passing effort is required on the three “lesson reviews” each year. Upon request there will be an opportunity to retake a failed review, but not more than one month after it was first taken.
6. Failure to have met these expectations at the end of any study unit will lead to the issuance of a “letter of warning” from the DSBS director spelling out the area(s) of inadequate performance. A failure to raise the level of work by the end of the next unit may lead to a request that a student withdraw from the program.
7. If a student withdraws from the course, tuition already paid will be refunded in proportion to the amount of the year that remains at the time that a formal letter of withdrawal reaches the DSBS director.
8. Upon payment of a minimal registration fee, our students may earn three undergrad credits from Viterbo University for the first two years of study, and then again for the last two years. But as the course work is cumulative, one must have received credit for Years I and II before requesting it for Years III and IV.