FACULTY OF DIVINITY. TEACHING SESSION. 1927-28. 1. Winter Term Commencement. Wednesday, 19th Oct., 1927. 2. Spring Term. Close The Inclusive Fee for instruction Bachelor of Divinity is 40 guineas, payable in three annual instalments of £14. In addition to the Inclusive Fee each student must pay the Matriculation Fee, viz.: For the Academical Year, £2 2s., or for the Summer Term alone, £1 1s. The Examination Fee for the Degree of Bachelor of Divinity (B.D.) is 7 guineas. N.B.-Normally students will attend classes in all the four departments in their first and second years. The special courses in the selected department or departments, for students in their third year, will be held at hours to be arranged. For particulars as to the Inclusive Fee for courses in Divinity see under University Fees. * For information regarding Classes, see under Synopsis of Classes. PRELIMINARY QUALIFICATIONS. The laws of the Church of Scotland require that, in order to be enrolled for the first year of his attendance, every Student shall produce to the Professor of Systematic Theology a certificate from the Minister of the Parish in which he has his usual residence, or in his absence, or during a vacancy in said Parish, the Moderator of the Kirk Session, bearing that he is a member of the Church of Scotland, and that his character is suitable to his views; together with a certificate from the General Assembly's Examining Board for intrants at one of the Universities that he has satisfied the requirements of the Board and passed their Examination. In order to be enrolled for subsequent years, the Student is requ red to produce a certificate, as before, from the Minister of the Parish, or the Moderator of the Kirk Session, and a certificate fromithe Presbytery. LENGTH OF COURSE. According to the Act of the General Assembly of 1883, all Candidates for the Ministry are required to, attend at the Divinity Hall either three full and regular Sessions, without the fourth partial Session; or two full and regular Sessions and three partial Sessions; and further, in the case of Students whose last Session is a regular one, the motion proposing them for trial shall not be considered by the Presbytery until that last regular Session shall have been duly certified as completed. Every Sudent must give regular attendance during at least two full and regular Sessions on the Classes of Systematic Theology, Church History, Biblical Criticism and Hebrew; and a third full and regular Session, or three partial Sessions, on the Class of Systematic Theology. Every Student is required to deliver Six Discourses, viz., a Theological Essay, a Homily, a Critical Exercise on some portion of the Original Text of the New Testament, a Critical Exercise on some portion of the Original Text of the Old Testament, a Lecture and a Popular Discourse; and it is expected that every Student will deliver his first Discourse during his second Session at latest. The Professor of Systematic Theology receives the Essay and hears the Lecture and Popular Sermon, The Professor of Divinity and Church History hears the Homily. the Professor of Divinity and Biblical Criticism hears the Critical Exercise on a portion of the New Testament, and the Professor of Hebrew hears the Critical Exercise on a portion of the Old Testament. All Students of Theology who have completed the prescribed course of Theological instruction are required, before being taken on trial for licence, to be examined by the Examining Board of the Church on the various subjects of Theological Study. It is competent, however, for that Board to exempt Students who have taken the Degree of Bachelor in Divinity at one of the Universities of Scotland, from examination in those subjects of Theological Study proficiency in which is denoted by the said Degree. During the first three days of the Divinity Session, Students producing the necessary certificates will be enrolled by the Professor of Systematic Theology; but thereafter, no Student will be enrolled until the grounds of absence have been submitted to the Divinity Faculty, and declared satisfactory. Students who are Bursars must attend not fewer than two classes in any one year of their course, except in the last. In the last Session, provided the required attendances at the classes of Church History, Biblical Criticism, and Hebrew have been completed, it is permissible to attend the class of Systematic Theology only. No reduction is allowed in the fee for subsequent attendance on any of the classes. CHURCH OF SCOTLAND EXAMINING BOARD. ENTRANCE AND EXIT EXAMINATIONS OF DIVINITY STUDENTS. Students who produce a diploma of M.A. at any of the Universities of Scotland, or of B.A. after an undergraduate course at a British or Irish or approved Colonial University, or who produce evidence of having satisfied the preliminary requirements of the Scottish University Authorities for the time being in force, and of having given attendance on a degree course in Arts, and of having passed in subjects with a view to the degree of M.A. at a Scottish University, will be exempted from examination in the subjects covered by the degree or certificates. All students-graduates as well as non-graduates-will be examined in Scripture Knowledge and New Testament Greek, and failure to pass in these subjects means failure of the whole examination, while those whose certificates in their progress to a degree do not cover Greek, Latin, Moral Philosophy and Hebrew will, in addition, be examined in any or all of those subjects not included. Under the provisions of the Act of Assembly, 1916, students who fail at the Entrance Examination in October in not more than two of the following subjects, viz., Latin, Classical Greek, Moral Philosophy, and Hebrew, will have an opportunity of being examined in the following April, at the time of the Exit Examination, in the subject or subjects in which they have failed. In the event of failure to pass in Greek, students are strongly recommended to attend a class in Greek during the session. |