Students who successfully complete The Advance Track may submit their courses to Master's Divinity School for consideration towards fulfilling requirments for a degree in Biblical Counseling. Students work closely with Gateway staff and Master's Divinity School's Admissions department to determine the appropriate level.

The courses are divided into four modules. Each module is 10 weeks long. The courses combine live classroom interaction (lectures, discussions, role play) with distance learning concepts such as recorded lectures and writing assignments. The classes meet one day a week for two hours.

Students must complete a core curriculum and a practicum. The required courses are:

• Introduction to Counseling Theology
• The Biblical Foundation for Self-Awareness
• Fundamentals of Biblical Counseling
• A Comparative Analysis of Biblical Theology and Humanistic Psychology
• Topics in Biblical Counseling
• Marriage and Family Counseling
• The Biblical Basis For Counseling
• Biblical Counseling Practicum

• Required listening:11 cassette tapes
• Required reading:
  
  • A Theology of Christian Counseling - Adams

• Required reading:
  • Jesus Christ Self-Denial Or Self-Esteem - Tyler
  • The Biblical View of Self-Esteem, Self-Love, Self-Image - Adams
  • Psychology As Religion The Cult of Self-Worship -- Vitz

• Required listening: 7 cassette tapes
• Required reading:
  • A Thirst for Wholeness - Adams

• Required listening: 14 cassette tapes
• Required reading:
  • Competent to Counsel - Adams
  • The Christian Counselor's Manual -- Adams
  
  A Comparative Analysis of Biblical Theology & Humanistic Psychology
• Required listening: 01 cassette tape
• Required reading:
  • Why Christians Can't Trust Psychology - Bulkley
  • A Comparative Analysis of Biblical Theology & Humanistic Psychology (booklet) - Frey

• Required listening: 12 cassette tapes
  
• Required reading:
  
  • Self Confrontation - Broger
    
  
  Marriage and Family Counseling
  
• Required listening: 3 cassette tapes
  
• Required reading:
  
  • Marriage and Family Counseling Work Book
    
  • Marriage and Family Counseling Compact Disk
    
  
  Counseling and the Finished Work of Christ (Level A Only)
  
• Required listening: 5 cassette tapes
  
• Required reading:
  
  • The Finished Work of Christ - Schaeffer
    

• Biblical Directionism, Dennis Frey
• Totally Sufficient, Ed Hindson and Howard Eyrich

• Required listening: 03 cassette tapes
• Required reading:
• Curing the Heart: A Model for Biblical Counseling - Eyrich & Hines
• Homework CD for Biblical Counseling - Eyrich & Hines
• 50 hours of supervised counseling