Graduate Certificate in Spirituality

The Graduate Certificate in Spirituality allows students to understand personal spiritual experience through introductory study of themes and approaches in Christian spirituality.

It serves as a foundation for further study in spirituality or spiritual direction.

Graduates are able to articulate insights for Christian practice and identity.

The Graduate Certificate in Spirituality consists of 72 points comprised of one of the following programs.

Program 1: Candidates must complete either DS9201W The Art of Contemplative Practice or DS9108F The Weeks of the Spiritual Exercises, and a further 48 points in the discipline of Spirituality or Spiritual Direction.

Program 2: Candidates must complete the unit DS9000P or DS9009P Fullness of Life: Spirituality in Christian Tradition and 48 points selected from the following units:

• DS8010P Early Monastic Wisdom: The Desert and the City
• DS9300P Medieval Monastic Wisdom
• DS8400P Lent and Easter: Forty Days and Fifty Days
• DS8405P Prayer and Hospitality: Benedictine Spirituality in Australia
• DS9030P The Wisdom of St Benedict: The Rule and its Sources

Successful completion of an undergraduate degree, or an approved equivalent.

Graduates of the Graduate Certificate in Spirituality:

1. have engaged with personal spiritual experience in light of foundational themes and approaches in spirituality and / or spiritual direction;
2. have knowledge of the dynamics of the spiritual life through reflection on personal experience, integrated with foundational themes and approaches in spirituality and / or spiritual direction;
3. apply the insights of Christian spirituality to understanding life, work and community.