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.
YTU beginning of semester 1, 2010
- Friday, 19 February, Orientation Program and BBQ beginning at 5:00pm. All new and returning faculty and students are very welcome for this informative and social evening.
- Monday, 22 February, First Semester lectures begin.
Social Policy Connections Newsletter, February 2010
You can download the latest 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.
Enrolments at YTU for 2010
Graduate and Undergraduate Awards:
If you have not already enrolled or re-enrolled for the academic year of 2010 please make an appointment to enrol during the following dates:
- Monday 1 February – Wednesday 10 February 2010
Undergraduate students should make an appointment with the Academic Dean, Dr. Catherine McCahill SGS. Graduate and postgraduate students should make an appointment with the Postgraduate Coordinator, Rev. Dr Michael A. Kelly CSsR. All appointments can be made by emailing or phoning the Registrar on 9890 3771.
New and continuing students who are funded by for the Graduate Certificate in Teaching Religious Education have already been enrolled so do not have to make an appointment, but they should check the dates of their course on www.ytu.edu, or phone 9890 3771 or email Dr Michael A. Kelly at YTU for further information.
Results for Semester 2, 2009
Results for the second semester 2009 are available here on the YTU website. The results are listed with your MCD student number. If you are unsure of your number, please contact admin at YTU.
Liturgical Study Tour in 2011
If you are interested in the sources of contemporary liturgical renewal you are invited to consider taking a tour in November of 2011. If undertaking the tour for academic credit it will be worth 30 points, or one may wish to undertake the tour simply for the educational experience. This is a new offering and expressions of interest are invited by 31 March 2010. Please see this flyer for details.
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. Both documents are available from this site under the menu items “Admin” then “YTU Forms” (click here).
YTU Handbook 2010
The YTU Handbook for 2010 is available, as is the 2010 Timetable.
Graduate Certificate in Teaching Religious Education – 2010
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 both Box Hill and Sunbury. The details of the course are in this document. 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) offers sponsorship for many applicants and the application form is available on their CEVN website (Catholic Education Victoria Network). The application deadline for 2010 sponsorship is 11 September, 2009.
There are two application forms: (1) For those who have CEOM sponsorship ; (2) for those who are funded independent of the CEOM. All applications are due by 1 December, 2009.
We also teach the course in Mildura and students in this program may gain some sponsorship through the Ballarat Office of Catholic Education.
The dates for all 2010 sessions — Box Hill, Sunbury and Mildura — are in this document.
For any inquiries please contact the Postgraduate Coordinator at YTU, Rev. Dr Michael A. Kelly CSsR on 9890 3771 or email him.
YTU as a Research Community
Teaching and learning are basic activities of a theological community such as YTU. However, it is also important to be mindful of the continuing research of faculty who contribute to the global community of scholarship. This document offers a snapshot of the current research activity of faculty members.
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.
