Approved Educational Venues

All students are required to submit a list of proposed courses to the Dean’s office for final approval before beginning their studies. These credits may come from whatever accredited college, university or diocesan approved training program the student chooses.

NOTE: Residential and internet courses taken at colleges, universities and diocesan seminaries are accepted on a case by case basis, as are professional-level workshops. Internet courses already taken from the specific Approved Educational Venues listed by Cloverdale College will also be accepted towards the degree.

Cloverdale College/Graduate Theological Foundation is proud to offer E-Tutorials designed and proctored by Cloverdale faculty. Note: this link will take you to the comprehensive list of E-Tutorials offered by the Graduate Theological Foundation. Unless otherwise noted, all of these are offered at the Undergraduate level. Please indicate as such when registering.

University of Notre Dame The Satellite Theological Education Program (STEP) at the University of Notre Dame offers quality theological education to pastoral ministers and other adult Catholics across the country. Conducted via the Internet, STEP provides a wide variety of adult faith formation opportunities. STEP is a part of Notre Dame’s Institute for Church Life (ICL).

University of Dayton The Virtual Learning Community for Faith Formation (VLCFF) is an Internet distance-learning program to support catechist and adult faith formation in the Church.

Boston College Institute of Religious Education and Pastoral Ministry This Institute offers Continuing Education courses. The CE programs are designed to meet the needs of the contemporary church. Every person interested in exploring the important issues of the Church today can find a workshop, lecture or course to meet their needs.

National Association of the Catechesis of the Good Shepherd

Good News Digital Classroom Catholic Digital Resources™ offers online courses covering Church documents.

Belmont University School of Religion and Moench Center for Church Leadership These two institutions are pleased to make the ministry of church leadership training available to ministers, lay leaders, congregations, associations, and conventions. Through the Moench Center, Belmont is committed to providing premier, professional, biblical resources to any minister wanting to infuse leadership development with a Christian perspective.

Islamic American University IAU has grown from a project of the Muslim American Society, the nation's largest grass roots organization for Islamic work, and specializes in the Islamic education of working adults, Muslim American youth, and new Muslims by offering degree programs that are highly relevant and accessible.

Study Islam - University Homepage The IIU is a leader in the online learning community of Muslim youth and professionals. It uses comprehensive and cutting edge technology in distance learning with superior ease of use, i.e. the "high performance interactive virtual classroom" model.

Islamic University of Minnesota

Islamic Cultural Center of Greater Chicago

ed2go network This network is a leading provider of online courses for adults and offers a bounty of interactive courses on a wide variety of topics. All courses include expert instructors, many of whom are nationally known authors.

Gatlin Educacation Services Online education courses that are designed to provide the workforce skills necessary to acquire professional caliber positions for many in-demand occupations. Cloverdale College will recognize and endorse certificate courses through Gatlin Educacation Services on a case-by-case basis.

www.pryor.com Fred Pryor Seminars and CareerTrack, divisions of PARK University Enterprises, Inc., create one of the most respected international providers of professional seminars. Since pioneering the one-day seminar in 1970 as Fred Pryor Seminars, our organization has built a reputation for high-quality, convenient, and practical business-skills training around the world, in every industry and sector.

Barnes & Noble University Online courses and reading groups led by authors and other recognized experts are offered free of cost.

CollegeBoard.com CLEP testing

Note: Cloverdale College is committed to the highest standards of religious education and is an independent educational institution. We are not affiliated in this degree-completion program with any college or university but rather we have chosen to endorse and validate selected institutions on the basis of the quality of their internet course offerings. The College is continuing to evaluate new courses and additional institutions are being added to our growing roster of endorsed and validated programs in order to broaden the range of course options available to our students.