The YTU Experience
You can look at the Handbook and view the website. You can read the lecturers’ publications and visit the premises, but it is good to know what students think about YTU. We offered an open invitation to students to write about their experience of YTU. We trust that you will find in their stories encouragement to inquire, enrol or continue your studies at YTU. Please look at the menu “About YTU” or follow this link to The YTU Experience.
Sojourn in the Land of the Bible
An opportunity to study at the Ecce Homo Center for Biblical Formation which is located in the heart of Jerusalem. There are a variety of programs and the 5 June to 3 July option can be taken as part of the YTU unit, The Biblical Land and the Gospels. The procedure is enrol in the Ecce Homo program (www.biblicalformation.org) and then enrol in the unit at YTU.
Social Policy Connections Newsletter, December 2011
You can read the December 2011 newsletter by clicking on this link. This newsletter — as well as previous editions — can be found on the SPC website.
Please also check the website for Membership Renewal, donations and other salient advice.
Application for the position of Academic Dean at YTU
Yarra Theological Union (YTU) advises that the full-time position of Academic Dean will be advertised in the Higher Education Section of the Melbourne Age on Saturday 4 February, 2012
Applications from religious or lay persons able to work within and be supportive of the ethos, values and Catholic tradition of the YTU will be accepted after the advertisement on 4 February, 2012, but no later than 18 February 2012.
For further information about YTU which is a Recognised Teaching Institution of the MCD University of Divinity (1 January 2012) please refer to the website of YTU: www.ytu.edu.au
Application procedures and contact details will be provided with the advertisement and will be available on this website.
Results for Semester 2, 2011
Results for the second semester 2011 are available here on the YTU website. Results are listed under your student ID, but if you are unsure of your student ID number then please contact Reception or the Registrar at YTU for assistance. However, if your home RTI is other than YTU, the MCD has advised that you will need to contact your home RTI for results.
Enrolments for 2012
All students wishing to enrol for 2012 should make an appointment through the YTU Office by phoning 9890 3771
(New and continuing students are encouraged to enrol in the November-December enrolment period)
Undergraduate Students need to make an appointment to see the Academic Dean.
Graduate and Postgraduate Students need to make an appointment to see the Postgraduate Coordinator.
Enrolment appointments for 2012 will be scheduled for the following dates:
- In 2011
- Monday 14 November – Friday 09 December
- In 2012
- Monday 23 January – Wednesday 15 February
- Monday 28 May – Friday 29 June
For details of what new students need to bring to an appointment please see this flyer.
First Publication of the Yarra Institute for Religion and Social Policy
Sufficient for the Day: towards a sustainable culture was officially launched at Dymocks bookstore on Collins St in Melbourne on Thursday 15 September 2011.
The author, Geoff Lacey, a civil engineer, is well known as a pioneering environmentalist and naturalist. He is an Honorary Senior Fellow at the University of Melbourne. This is Geoff’s first publication since his landmark work on the ecology of the Yarra, “Still glides the Stream”: the Natural History of the Yarra from Heidelberg to Yarra Bend (2004). Further information about the Yarra Institute for Religion and Social Policy can be viewed at: www.yarrainstitute.org.au
If you wish to purchase the book you can use this order form
YTU Handbook 2012
The YTU 2012 Handbook is available for download.
Graduate Certificate in Teaching Religious Education – 2012
YTU offers the course, Graduate Certificate in Teaching Religious Education, which is taught at the rate of one unit per semester over two years at Box Hill, Sunbury and Mildura. See the details of this course here.
When the course is successfully completed, a registered teacher in a Catholic school can apply to the Catholic Education Office for accreditation to teach religious education in a Catholic school.
The Catholic Education Office Melbourne (CEOM) offers sponsorship for many applicants and the application form is available on their CEVN website (Catholic Education Victoria Network). The closing date for sponsorship application is 9 September 2011. The Catholic Education Office in Ballarat also offers sponsorship, and their students will be in the first year of a two year cycle in 2012.
There is one application form for all new students sponsored or independently funded. Please complete and send this form to YTU as soon as possible.
First year students will be asked to re-enrol during the last class of their second unit, and some out of sequence students will also be asked to re-enrol so they can complete the award. See here for this form.
The dates for all 2012 classes — Box Hill, Sunbury and Mildura — are in this document.
For any further inquiries in 2011 please contact the Acting Postgraduate Coordinator at YTU, Revd Dr Ross Fishburn on 9890 3771 ext 5 or email him.
In 2012, please contact the Postgraduate Coordinator at YTU, Revd Dr Michael A. Kelly CSsR on 9890 3771 ext 4 or email him.
Hire of the Yarra Theological Union Study Centre
The YTU Study Centre is available for hire by groups wishing to host a function, a conference, or to use a large facility for purposes in keeping with the ethics of Yarra Theological Union. Inspections are welcome and can be arranged through the Business Administrator of YTU whose contact details are given on the following forms. For application and costing for hire of the Study Centre please see this document. For the terms and conditions of hire please see this document. This flyer includes pictures of the Study Centre facilities. All documents are available from this site under the menu items “Admin” then “YTU Forms” (click here).
Financial Support of YTU
YTU is an important centre for theological education and ministerial formation for the churches of Australia, Asia and Oceania. It is a Recognised Teaching Institution of the Melbourne College of Divinity and offers awards from Diploma to Doctorate. It is governed by a number of Catholic Religious Orders. It is ecumenical in terms of faculty and in its offering to students drawn from the communities of religious orders but its largest constituency is the wider lay community. If you would like to support the work and mission of YTU you might like to consider some form of financial support. Details of how you might contribute are in this form.
