Winter registration

By AMY DAVIS
for Tennessee Bible College

COOKEVILLE—It's time once again for students to be making their selections of courses to be offered at Tennessee Bible College.

Registration for the winter quarter will be Jan. 5, 2007, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Classes begin Jan. 8 and conclude March 30.

Looking forward to the winter quarter at Tennessee Bible College are, in front, from left, students Chris Thomas and Tony Li, and, in back, TBC President Malcolm Hill. Hill will be teaching a course on topical Bible studies when class begins Jan. 8. Registration for all courses will be Jan. 5.

Undergraduate courses include Topical Bible Studies (Malcolm Hill), Hebrew History I (David Hill), Life of Christ I (Glenn Ramsey), Denominational Doctrines (Ronald D. Gilbert), Spoken English (Glenn Ramsey) and I-II Corinthians (Kerry Duke).

Graduate courses are The Apologetic Value of Miracles (Ronald D. Gilbert), Book of John (Glenn Ramsey), Advanced Textual Studies of the Old Testament (staff), Special Problems (Malcolm Hill) and The Problem of Evil (Kerry Duke).

"We have education with a biblical perspective," said TBC director of missions Ronald D. Gilbert.

"Since the Bible college is a Bible-centered school, our classes are smaller. The better classes are the smaller classes because you have more contact with the teacher and an opportunity to ask questions. You're not in a class with two or three hundred people."

In addition, the classes are "very economical," he said.

Fees are $30 per undergraduate hour ($90 a class) and $50 per graduate hour ($150 a class). A Distance Learning program is also available, in which courses are $120 each for undergraduate and $150-$180 for graduate. Scholarships are available to those who qualify.

"I talked to a young lady the other day who said she was paying $1,000 per class for courses she was taking through a distance learning program—and our classes are $90 per class," Gilbert said. "So there's a big difference in $1,000 per class and $90 per class."

And that's a big draw for many students.

"We're getting more and more students who are taking a few of their electives at Tennessee Bible College, even if they're students at Tennessee Tech or Motlow or Nashville Tech or some other school," Gilbert said.

"They are taking their electives through us from two standpoints: to get a biblical perspective of a class—say, on civilization or psychology—and they can save a lot of money on the classes. That's something that helps. Moms and dads always appreciate that if they're footing the bill!"

Tennessee Bible College, located at 1616 McCulley Road in Cookeville, was established in 1975 and is authorized by the Tennessee Higher Education Commission to confer the bachelor's degree in religious education, the master's and doctorate degree in theology and a two-year preacher's diploma.

For more information, call (931) 526-2616, e-mail tbc@tn-biblecollege.edu or visit the web site at www.tn-biblecollege.edu.