 History of the Institute worldwide
Unique opportunities at the Melbourne Institute
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Friends of the John Paul II Institute and the John Paul II Foundation
Apostolic Constitution Magnum Matrimonii Sacramentum
Allocution of Pope John Paul II to the Faculty of the Institute
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Teaching Modes and Attendance Requirements
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A variety of teaching modes are used in the Institute, to take advantage of small class sizes and the diversity of lecturers both local and international. At a time when tutorials of as many as 30 undergraduates are commonplace in universities and when tutorials for graduate students are increasingly rare, the Institute is pleased to offer more personalized teaching.
Courses involve 36 contact hours, ordinarly divided into twelve once-weekly blocks of three hours' duration; lecturers vary as to how they distribute this time between lecture, seminar, tutorial or other teaching modes. Some courses will be offered by more intensive modes, especially by international visiting professors, over one to four weeks.
Attendance at lectures and tutorials is required; students who miss more than 20% of the classes in a particular course will ordinarily be regarded as having withdrawn from that course. Students seeking leave from some part of a course or special consideration should make application to the Dean.
All lectures, seminars, examinations and written tasks are undertaken in English. A good working knowledge of English is therefore essential.
Morning classes ordinarily run from 10 am to 1 pm; afternoon classes from 2 pm to 5 pm; and evening classes from 6 pm to 9 pm. Once student enrolments are settled, however, every effort will be made to accommodate students’ preferred times; some courses in each programme will be offered by day and others by night. Likewise some courses will be offered on weekdays and others, more intensively, on weekends.
Some Masters and all S.T.L. degrees also have supervised research thesis components. The Doctorates are research degrees but commonly also involve some preliminary course work.
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