{"id":48279,"date":"2021-11-02T09:04:25","date_gmt":"2021-11-02T13:04:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/?p=48279"},"modified":"2021-11-02T14:52:22","modified_gmt":"2021-11-02T18:52:22","slug":"busth-announces-first-fully-online-masters-degree-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/busth-announces-first-fully-online-masters-degree-program\/","title":{"rendered":"BUSTH Announces First Fully Online Master&#8217;s Degree Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/sth\/files\/2019\/10\/DT-Grad-Cert-in-Fundraising-Management-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" class=\"alignright wp-image-40912 size-large\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/files\/2019\/10\/DT-Grad-Cert-in-Fundraising-Management-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/files\/2019\/10\/DT-Grad-Cert-in-Fundraising-Management-636x424.jpg 636w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/files\/2019\/10\/DT-Grad-Cert-in-Fundraising-Management-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/>November 2021 \u2013<\/strong> <span>Boston University School of Theology (BUSTH) announces its first fully online master\u2019s degree program, the Master of Arts in Religion and Public Leadership (MARPL). The MARPL\u2019s inaugural academic semester will be Fall 2022, and the program is designed for students who seek to enhance their capacity for serving religious communities and\/or other forms of leadership that engage the challenges of public life. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>This 32-credit master\u2019s degree program is \u201cideal for persons in any profession who wish to gain a more robust appreciation for the ways in which religious traditions, including their own, shape and creatively engage public life,\u201d says Associate Dean for Academic Affairs <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/profile\/bryan-p-stone\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bryan Stone<\/a>. \u201cWe are thrilled to be able to take this new step in expanding our academic reach.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<p>The School of Theology faculty and administration have learned how to effectively teach in an online format over the past decade, given both the success of the hybrid <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/academics\/degree-programs\/doctor-of-ministry\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Doctor of Ministry program<\/a> and remote learning necessitated by the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>Information about all BUSTH academic degree program offerings are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/academics\/degree-programs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">available online<\/a>. New MARPL information will be published in the coming weeks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>November 2021 \u2013 Boston University School of Theology (BUSTH) announces its first fully online master\u2019s degree program, the Master of Arts in Religion and Public Leadership (MARPL). The MARPL\u2019s inaugural academic semester will be Fall 2022, and the program is designed for students who seek to enhance their capacity for serving religious communities and\/or other [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12612,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[200,203],"tags":[215,238,194,366,365],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48279"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12612"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48279"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48309,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48279\/revisions\/48309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}