Theology Graduate Students

Student Resources

Fall 2023 Graduate Courses

An Updated Collection of Documents and Resources for Students in the MACT, MTS, and PhD Programs

Doctoral Student Handbook for Theology (Red Book)

Doctoral Student Handbook for Theology Blue Book)

Guidelines for the Perplexed

Forms and Documents

Some of the departmental forms and documents are available for viewing, printing, and/or download in Adobe Acrobat PDF file format from the theology department's web site. All other forms are available only through the departmental secretary.

Forms

• Application for the PhD Comprehensive Examination
• Approval of Dissertation Committee
• Approval of Dissertation Proposal
• Change of Dissertation Committee Request
• Change of Dissertation Title
• Dissertation Title Approval
• Status Certification Form

Any forms not listed above are available through the departmental secretary. However, many of the forms listed below are for faculty and staff use only. These include:

• Approval for Dissertation Defense
• Change of Grade Form
• Continuing Student Non-Matriculated Application*
• Departmental Report on the PhD Comprehensive Examination: Evaluation of Examination by Professor
• Dissertation Acceptance Form
• Fulfillment of Language Requirement
• Mentor's Report of Students Writing Dissertations or Proposals
• New Student Non-Matriculated Application*
• Request for Grade of Incomplete*
• Results of MA Examination
• Results of the PhD Comprehensive Examination
• Solicitation of the PhD Comprehensive Examination Questions
• Transfer of Credit*
• Waiver of Requirements*
• Annual Reviews of Students*

*Note: an asterisk (*) indicates a form for student use that can only be secured through the departmental secretary.

Comprehensive Examination Lists

 Judaism and Christianity in Antiquity

• Ante-Nicene Christianity
• Greco-Roman World
• Ancient Judaism

Systematics - EFFECTIVE FALL 2018

• Christology
• Theology of God
• Ecclesiology.
• Fundamental Theology
• Paradigmatic
• Sacramental Theology
• Theological Anthropology

Systematics - Pre-Fall 2019

• Christology
• Doctrine of God
• Ecclesiology
• Fundamental Theology
• Paradigmatic
• Sacramental Theology
• Theological Anthropology

History of Christianity

• Medieval Theology
• Modern Christianity
• Patristics-Early Christianity

Bible

• New Testament
• Old Testament

Theological and Social Ethics

• Bioethics
• Catholic Social Thought
• Economics and Ethics
• Environmental Ethics
• Foundational Theological Ethics
• Gender and Sexuality
• Liberation and Feminist Texts
• Major Texts
• Philosophical Sources and Theological Ethics
• Race and White Privilege

Examination and Submission Information

• Language Examinations Dates, 2023-2024: August 28 & 29th, November 29th, February 7th, and April 17th.
• Doctoral Comprehensive Examinations Dates (*Oral exam will be scheduled for approximately one week later.): October 18 and 20, April 3 and 5.
• Submission dates for Doctoral Committee Reviews: November 8 and March 20.