New Learning Pathways for Ridley
Posted on September 25 2009
Posted by:
Tim Foster
This week I announced some exciting development taking place at Ridley in 2010.
We are introducing new subjects and learning pathways to better equip students for the challenges of contemporary ministry. We realise that we are equipping you for ministry in a culturally diverse post-Christian context and want to ensure that our training equips you well for the next 20-30 years. We aim to help you develop cross-cultural ministry skills, an awareness of a range of church planting and ministry models, and theology that can engage post-Christian culture. These have been implemented after a great deal of consultation among Deans, Faculty and students.
As a result Ridley will offer the following from 2010:
- Church Planting
- Issues in Missiology
- Ministry in Culturally Diverse Contexts
- Australian Church and Society
- Apologetics (from 2011)
To ensure that all our graduates have the basic skills and theology necessary for contemporary ministry we have expanded the core units required of all degree graduates. The Ridley Core will not be compulsory for existing students until 2012.
Further changes that will take effect from 2010 are designed to ensure students develop essential competencies in bible, christian thought and ministry while also having opportunity to specialise in their area of interest. These are:
- Hermeneutics will be taught as a 10 hour subject over two days in the mid-year break. It is a non-award, no fee unit that is a pre-requisite for OT302/502.
- STFE will no longer be offered for credit. However, it will continue to be offered for ordination candidates as non-credit, no fee subject with substantially reduced classroom hours.
- SEBL will only be available to BMin students
- Ordination candidates will need to take some of the units required by the diocese as non-credit, low fee units (approx 36 classroom hours total). This will include Training Others and Anglican Formation units, as well as some material on CPE, children's and youth ministry.
You can read more about our Learning Approach, Common Core, Learning Pathways for each course (BMin, BTh, MDiv & GradDipDiv) and Learning Communities elsewhere on the site. You can post comments and ask questions below.
Tim Foster
Director of Theological Education and Formation
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