A. MORNING SEDER and SHIUR (8:30 AM – 1:00 PM)

1.        2-year cycle: Gemara – traditional meseketh and Gemara/Hilkhot Shabbat (1^st and 2^nd year students). 

2.        2-year Halakha cycle: Niddah-Ishut and Yoreh Deah (3^rd and 4^th year students)

B. AFTERNOON SEDER and SHIUR (2:15 PM – 5:30 PM)

1.        Orah Hayim Halakha  - 1 year (for 1^st and 2^nd year, parallels Gemara year)

2.        Lifecycle Events Halakha  - 1 year (for 3^rd and 4^th 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.        1^st or 2^nd 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 – 3^rd and 4^th 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.        3^rd and 4^th 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.