05.3.9 Academic Regulations

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  1. In order to satisfy the requirements for the award of the degree, students must successfully complete 8 units (including any for which they may be granted advanced standing; see Section 05.3.4 Admission 5.3.4.2). One or two of those units may be a Project (Section 05.3.17 Project Guidelines ) or Research Project (Section 05.3.18 Research Project Guidelines ).

  2. Units (including Projects and Research Projects) are chosen from the three fields of study, namely, Biblical Studies, Christian Thought and Christian Ministry. Four or five units must be chosen from one field (the chosen field of specialisation).  At least one MA(Theology) unit proper (not a unit of advanced standing) from each of the other two fields must be taken in order to ensure both breadth and depth in  their program.

  3. Students are required to complete successfully at least one unit involving the study of a book of the Bible in the original language. This may be taken at any stage throughout the course.

  4. Students may not enrol in a MA Project until they have completed four MA units, with an average of 72.5%. [Students who have received advance standing units from their completed MTC BDiv, at the time of enrolment in the MA course, must complete a minimum of 3 units in addition to their advance standing units with an average of 72.5% or greater.]

  5. Students may not enrol in an MA Research Project until they have completed six MA units, with an average of 72.5% and subject to the availability of a faculty consultant.

  6. Students seeking to enrol in an MA Project or Research Project are required, as a pre-requisite, to complete a research methods unit.  Any student who has completed the research methods unit as part of CT499 in the last 5 years, is exempt.

  7. Students enrolled in the MA(Theology) and those holding the MA(Theology) are invited to participate in the Research Forum program.

  8. Where two units of advanced standing are granted from the BD or BTh/ThM (see Section 5.3.4.2, above), one unit will be deemed to be Biblical Studies and one Christian Thought. When a third unit of advanced standing is granted, it will be deemed to be the field in which the BD or BTh/ThM Project or Issues in Theology Final Paper was written.

  9. Students may choose to forgo one or more units of advanced standing for which they are eligible if, for example, they wish to shift the focus of their degree into a new field of specialisation.

  10. Course work units normally comprise 26 hours of face-to-face contact. The units are offered in either continuous or intensive mode. Continuous mode comprises a weekly two-hour class over one semester. Each semester has thirteen weeks of instruction with the exam (if applicable) taking place in the fourteenth week. Intensive mode involves two three-day teaching blocks. The class contact hours are the same for each mode. The attendance requirement for both modes is 100%. Assessment by written work and/or examination is the same for each mode.

  11. The bibliography for units is limited to 2,000 pages of reading. In order to ensure the inclusion of works of substance this must include approximately 12 titles. For units offered by intensive mode pre-reading before the first teaching block may be 1,000 to 1,300 of the 2,000 pages of total reading.

  12. Units are normally offered on average every two or three years. Every time a unit is offered its bibliography is updated.

  13. Any essay not conforming to the requirements of 05.8.1 General Guidelines For Writing Postgraduate Essays and Theses of this Handbook may be returned by Administration for the student to rectify.

  14. The penalty for late submission of assessments is 5 marks for the first day and 3 marks for the second and subsequent days or part thereof of lateness – with a maximum of two weeks. After that the Learning and Teaching Committee reserves the right not to mark the item.

  15. Candidates enrolled for the Moore College MA(Theology) may be granted credit for up to two units of study with an approved college affiliated with the ACT for MA studies. When enrolling at another college for ACT unit(s), candidates are considered cross-institutional studies students at that ACT college.

  16. Candidates enrolled with an approved ACT college may complete up to two units of study at Moore College.