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Course Access Instruction

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Welcome to the world of online learning through Southern Seminary and Boyce College Online! You may have questions concerning how your internet course is going to function. After you have been properly admitted as a student at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary and have registered for an online course via the web registration process (go to EXWeb in Ecampus) read the following information very carefully in order to have the greatest possible educational experience.

  1. After you have registered for an online course, you will access your course components via Moodle CMS (Course Management System). Log in to Moodle with the same User Name and Password as for Ecampus.
  2. If you have registered for an online course that features recorded lectures, they will be streamed from Southern’s secure server, accessible from links on your course site on or near the start of the semester.  Keep in mind that fall and spring online courses follow the same semester calendar as on-campus courses and summer follows a 10-week format, beginning in late May.  Check the Academic Records Registration page for semester schedule.
  3. The course video lectures are for registered students only. Do not make copies or share these resources. Due to copyright and intellectual property issues and policies, the video lectures remain the property of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. You must agree to accept a Student User Agreement in order to receive course credit. The agreement must be submitted by the end of the first full month of the semester.
  4. To view lectures on your course site, click the lecture icon or link.  Depending on your computer’s operating system, the lectures are generally viewed through Windows Media Player. For more information about viewing online course lectures go to the Lecture Viewing Support page.
  5. For information concerning other online resources and program policies, please browse the links found on the left of this page. Links to library resources, faculty advisers, textbook and curriculum information, our virtual chapel and much more are available.
  6. If you do not intend to remain in an online course, please drop it as soon as possible. Other students need and are hoping to get the seat! If you must drop an online course, please do not simply “not show up”. If you do not properly drop an online course for which you are registered, you will receive a failing grade at the end of the semester.
    • To drop an online course prior to the close of web registration, go to your Ecampus and follow the instructions for dropping a course.
    • To drop an online course after the close of web registration and before the mid-point of the semester, complete the Course Withdrawal Form and submit it to the Office of Academic Records. You must also return any course lecture DVDs along with the signed Student User Agreements to the Office of Online Learning immediately. In addition, it would be considerate to e-mail the professor so he or she will not have conerns about your inactivity in the course.
  7. If you experience difficulty, check this Technical Support page or contact one of the following:
    • For difficulty understanding the course material, contact your professor by e-mail.
    • For difficulty with the lecture DVDs, contact Southern Productions at 800-626-5525 ext. 4162 or email at southernproductions@sbts.edu.
    • For textbook needs, you may contact a book dealer of your choice or our campus LifeWay bookstore at (502) 897-4506, email at southernseminary.4689@lifeway.com.
    • For difficulty with other online course issues, contact the Office of Online Learning at sso@sbts.edu or at 800-626-5525 ext. 4701.

Truth. Legacy. Vision. Southern Seminary Sesquicentennial

Announcements

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Fall Gheens Lectures 2010

Hunter Baker will deliver the fall 2010 Gheens Lectures, “The System Has a Soul: Lectures on Christianity and Secularism,” in Heritage Hall Sept. 14-15. Baker is senior associate dean for the College of Arts and Sciences and associate professor of political science at Union University. He has written for numerous popular and scholarly publications, and has worked for the Rutherford Institute, Prison Fellowship Ministries and the Georgia Family Council. The first 100 students to arrive for Baker’s first lecture at 1:00 p.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 14, will receive a complimentary copy of his book The End of Secularism (Crossway, 2009). The Gheens Lectureship schedule is as follows:

Tuesday Sept. 14

1:00 p.m. Lecture 1, “Freedom, Democracy, and Secularism?”
2:30 p.m. Lecture 2, “Decline, Fall, and the Options”

Wednesday Sept. 15

10:00 a.m. Lecture 3, “Secularism, Church, and Society”

Forum with author David Helm

Join pastor and author David Helm Tuesday Sept. 7, at 7pm in Heritage Hall for a special forum on “How to Teach Your Children the Whole Story of the Bible.” Helm is the author of The Big Picture Story Bible, a pastor at Holy Trinity Church in Chicago, and executive director of the Charles Simeon Trust.  Complimentary childcare is available on a limited first come-first serve basis.  To register for childcare, please email HRC@sbts.edu.

SBTS anticipates fall festival

Southern Seminary encourages its faculty, staff and students to attend Southern’s sixth annual Fall Festival, Sept. 10 from 6 - 9 p.m. All food and activities are free of charge.

This year’s festival will celebrate Kentucky life, exploring three unique themed areas: Kentucky State Fair, Frontier Land and Fort Knox.

Kentucky State Fair will feature carnival rides and games, inflatables, a Ferris wheel and traditional fair food, including popcorn, cotton candy and nachos. Fort Knox will host inflatables provided by the Mobile Event Team from the Kentucky National Guard and offer MRE’s, military meals ready to eat. Frontier Land food will include burgoo, a traditional Kentucky chili-like stew served alongside cornbread, and watermelon.

Students Earn Course Credit During REFO500 Conference

SBTS students can earn course credit by attending the REFO500 conference. Students should enroll in Studies in Theology: Reformation Theology and Piety with Dr. Michael Haykin, an intensive study of the Reformation in Germany, Switzerland, France and England. Each enrolled student must attend the eight class lectures on Friday, September 24, and Monday, September 27, and the entire Conference: Refo500: Challenges and Opportunities between Now and 2017. Contact Academic Records at 502-897-4209 or academicrecords@sbts.edu.

Blogs

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The Predicament — Francis Collins, Human Embryos, Evolution, and the Sanctity of Human Life
Sep 3

Francis Collins stands at the very summit of the scientific community. He successfully led the massive effort to map the entire human genome, bringing the project to completion ahead of time and under budget. He now serves as director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), having been nominated by President Barack Obama last summer. He oversees one of the largest research budgets in the world and, armed with a Ph.D., a medical degree, and a long list of accomplishments, is one of the most influential scientists of the last 100 years.

God, the Gospel, and Glenn Beck
by Russell D. Moore – Aug 30

A Mormon television star stands in front of the Lincoln Memorial and calls American Christians to revival. He assembles some evangelical celebrities to give testimonies, and then preaches a God and country revivalism that leaves the evangelicals cheering that they’ve heard the gospel, right there in the nation’s capital. The news media pronounces him the new leader of America’s Christian conservative movement, and a flock of America’s Christian conservatives have no problem with that.

Never Having to Say You’re Dead? The New Interest in Reincarnation
by R. Albert Mohler, Jr. – Aug 30

Dr. Paul DeBell believes that he was once a caveman. Not only that, he is fairly certain that his life as a caveman ended violently. “I was going along, going along, going along, and I got eaten,” said the psychiatrist.

To his life as a caveman, Dr. DeBell adds his knowledge of previous lives as a Tibetan monk and “a conscientious German who refused to betray his Jewish neighbors in the Holocaust.” Dr. DeBell’s account is found in “Remembrances of Lives Past” by Lisa Miller of Newsweek magazine, published in the August 29, 2010 edition of The New York Times. Miller writes of the growing acceptance of the idea of reincarnation among Americans.

‘Prettifying’ Darwin — A Timely Look at a Losing Strategy
by R. Albert Mohler, Jr. – Aug 27

The American literary critic Frederick Crews once spoke of defenders of evolutionary theory who attempt to make Darwinism appear more congenial to the Christian faith than it truly is. These defenders, Crews wrote, present a vision of Darwin and Darwinism that “is often prettified to make it safe for doctrines that he himself was sadly compelled to leave behind.” The prettifying of evolution continues, even in today’s edition of The Wall Street Journal.