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A. MORNING SEDER and SHIUR (8:30 AM – 1:00 PM) 1. 2-year cycle: Gemara – traditional meseketh and Gemara/Hilkhot Shabbat (1st and 2nd year students). 2. 2-year Halakha cycle: Niddah-Ishut and Yoreh Deah (3rd and 4th year students) B. AFTERNOON SEDER and SHIUR (2:15 PM – 5:30 PM) 1. Orah Hayim Halakha - 1 year (for 1st and 2nd year, parallels Gemara year) 2. Lifecycle Events Halakha - 1 year (for 3rd and 4th year, parallels Niddah-Ishut year) 3. Jewish Thought – every other year (during Gemara/Hilkhot Shabbat and Yoreh Deah year) a. Fundamentals of Jewish Thought - 1 year b. 4 additional semester classes (semester classes are also offered as minimesters, and half-semester classes are offered in Elul)
C. NIGHT SEDER 1. Two-hours a week, with a chavruta, to be done at home or at YCT 2. Monthly required Night Seder at YCT, Mondays, 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM 3. To be used for Torah learning on whatever topic/text student chooses D. WEEKLY CLASSES (beyond SEDER-SHIUR requirements) 1. 1st or 2nd year: a. Challenges of Modern Orthodoxy (1 year) b. Bereishit (1 year) c. Philosophy of Prayer (1 year) d. Achronim (1 year) e. Lomdus Skills / Minchat Chinukh (1 year) f. Halakhic Methodology (week-long intensive) g. Gemara Methodology (week-long intensive) 2. Parsha and Parshanut (4 years) 3. Intellectual History of Jewish Movements (1 semester) E. PASTORAL COUNSELING 1. 4 years of course work: a. 1st year: Fundamentals of Pastoral Counseling b. 2nd year: Chaplaincy c. Alternating years, for years 1 and 2 1. Family and Marital 2. Pathologies d. 3rd or 4th year: Lifecycles e. 4th year: Master Classes 2. Field Work a. 2nd year: Intensive Chaplaincy (6 afternoons) b. 3rd and 4th year: Pastoral field work (20 hour internships) 3. Pastoral Internship Mentoring – 3rd and 4th year F. PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT 1. 2nd year: Communications 2. 3rd and 4th year a. Officiating at Lifecycles (1 year) b. Rabbi and the Community / Spiritual Activism (1 year) c. Pedagogy, Adult Ed, Writing (1 year) d. Homiletics (2 years) 3. 4th year a. Professional Skills b. Special-Day Programming G. LEADERSHIP TRAINING 1. External Professional Focus: Social Action; Israel; Interdenominational (1 year) Required coursework and fieldwork 2. 3rd and 4th year: Eitzah Leadership training seminars H. INTERNSHIPS 1. 3rd and 4th year: Internships with a mentoring rabbi (monthly or more often) 2. Internship in-house mentoring I. SELF-STUDY REQUIREMENTS 1. Parsha with Commentators: Years 1-4 - required Journaling 2. Gemara – 100 daf: Years 1 and 2- required Journaling 3. Moadim – Laws and Text: Years 1-4 To view a sample daily schedule, click here. To view Academic Calendar 2009-2010, click here. |