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TCA College has moved!
Students started the 3rd trimester in our new college premises at the
brand spanking new complex of Trinity@Paya Lebar at 249 Paya Lebar Road.
The move intensifies the exciting journey of faith for the college as it
launches many new programmes this year. The new college premises
comprises 16 classrooms of various sizes, 2 lecture theatres each for
250 people, a chapel for up to 1000 people, a library capacity for
100,000 volumes and wireless access for all students. In order to
facilitate training for our counselling courses, there are now 8
counselling rooms available. All these facilities are the fulfilment of
part of the vision borne by the College Board – transforming TCA College
to a multi-disciplinary college that provides a holistic education for
the training of effective leaders in both the Church and the market
place.
TCA College Website (www.tca.edu.sg)
Besides the shift of our campus, you will notice the constant updating
of information on our website with the latest events and programmes. It
is our effort of providing up-to-date information to our alumni,
students and visitors. You can download the online brochure of courses
offered for the latest trimester or search for the required information
of any programme of the college. For our Chinese Department, we have
also started our Chinese website on
http://www.tca.edu.sg/Chinese/.
Don’t forget to visit our website to check on our latest exciting
developments and to give us your feedback on the developments of the
college.
School of Creative Arts (SCA)
We are thankful to the Lord for the many students who have undergone
training and are now equipped with the skills and expertise in our SCA
programme that started a year ago. It’s been exciting to see not just
the current students signing up for the classes offered by the SCA, we
are also seeing new students, both part-time and full-time from
Singapore and overseas, joining us in our certificate programme. The
robust response is a testament to the quality teaching provided by our
qualified and experienced lecturers who are currently teaching in our
SCA classes. If you are interested to be equipped in this area, do not
hesitate to contact Paul David (pauldavid@tca.edu.sg) for more
information.
School of Counselling (SOC)
SOC is also in the midst of recruiting our 2nd cohort of students for
our Post-Graduate Diploma in Counselling that will commence in January
2008. The programme is designed to train students who desire to become
competent counsellors serving in the Body of Christ and the market
place. Besides undergoing the academic rigour required in the programme,
students are to complete 100 hours of internship before they can qualify
to graduate. Please do not hesitate to contact Anita Chia (anitachia@tca.edu.sg)
for more information on this programme.
We are mulling over plans to develop Chinese counselling programme and
your feedback in this area is definitely needed to determine the
decision of when to start it.
School of Divinity (SOD)
SOD, being the largest and oldest school in the college, is going
through a major revamp of its curriculum so that students will continue
to be given relevant education in serving the Body of Christ as full
time and part time students. Given the large number of part time
students in the college, the curriculum will ensure that students are
given the best education that comes with international academic
recognition without compromising on the need to produce effective
ministers in all of our programmes. More information on the curriculum
revamp will be announced in the coming months and the college will
inform the students about an academic advising session to shed more
light on the details.
(i) Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Theology Programme
The latest exciting development for the SOD is the launch of the PhD
Programme in Theology, in partnership with the
University of Wales (UoW),
Bangor in UK. The first cohort of students completed their first
doctoral seminar with Dr.Terry Larm in early August 2008 and they are
now in the midst of writing their dissertation proposals for submission
to UoW. We are now looking forward to having the second cohort of
students to register for the programme by the end of October. If you
have a Master’s degree in our Chinese programmes and meet the required
academic standard in written English, you can also apply for the PhD
programme. Please contact Dr. Shelly Li (shellyli@tca.edu.sg) if you are
interested to know more information on the programme.
School of Leadership (SOL)
(i) Master of Arts in Organisational Leadership (MAOL)
In July 2007, we hosted the first cohort of students for the MAOL
programme. This programme is a partnership with
Azusa Pacific University
(APU) with the intent to equip Asian leaders in Asia. It is also the
college’s desire to see the raising of Asian leaders who are trained to
teach leadership principles in the Body of Christ and the market place.
You can read the details of what took place during the 2-week intensive
modules with the Professors from APU in one of the attachments to this
letter.
(ii) Doctor of Ministry (DMin) Programme
Besides the PhD programme that has been launched in the college, the
second doctoral programme that will soon be launched will be our DMin
programme with an emphasis in leadership. The 4-year, part time DMin
programme is specially designed to cater to those who are greatly
involved in church ministry and desire an internationally recognised
doctoral degree without leaving the ministry. Furthermore, it is the
first DMin of its kind to be launched in Singapore and conferred by the
University of Wales, Bangor. The programme will have proven and
experienced leaders such as John Kirkpatrick, Matt Rawlins, Peter Chao
and John Ng as our teaching faculty for the coming modules in 2008. The
registration has begun and the closing date is on the 31st March 2008.
Please refer to our website for more details on this programme.
Final Words
As you have read the brief summary of all the exciting developments that
are unveiling in the various schools of TCA College, we would like to
invite you to visit our new premises or to talk to us so that we can
assist you in your personal development.
Please keep us in your prayers as we seek for strategic partnerships
with Chinese Universities for our Chinese programmes so as to allow for
greater recognition of our degrees in this region. With the college
expansions, we will be having new distinguished full time faculty with
us and you will hear more about them in the coming months.
Please partner with us as we embark on this exciting journey to equip
and train holistic Asian leaders and ministers for the Kingdom of God.
Rev Wilson Teo |
