STETS provides integrated theological education, training and formation.

For BA students, the training and formational elements are part of the academic programme and accrue academic credits towards their academic award. 

MA students in initial training are required by the churches to do the same training and formational work, but these do not accrue credit towards the MA.  There is time budgeted for this work in both programmes.

One important way in which the FdA & BA and MA programmes offer integrated training is through their spiral design.  Each pays regular and recurrent attention to the three core elements of Scripture, Theology and the Church in Mission. 

Thus, in the FdA, the first distance-learning module (A1) introduces the study of Scripture, Theology and ministry in the Church’s Mission.  The programme then addresses each of these elements in two turns of the spiral within each phase: A2 deals with Scripture, A3 with Theology, and A4 with the history of the Church in Mission.  A second turn of the spiral begins with the second Scripture module A5. 

In this way you are enabled to give due attention to the central concerns of theological subjects such as the Hebrew Bible, Systematic Theology and Church History and Practice, while tackling them in terms of STETS’ overall missiological and contextual orientation.  This spiral arrangement produces further opportunities for you to develop and integrate your learning.