Goals:

1. To offer instruction in the specialization in Dogmatic or Systematic Theology, with a particular emphasis to investigate the problems of inculturation.

Academic Year:

1. The academic year lasts from the beginning of September until the end of May. The break between the semesters is from Christmas to mid-January.
2. Class periods are of 50 minutes’ duration. 28 class periods are equivalent to 3.5 ECTS credits.
3. Classes are held on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 7:15 p.m. to 9 p.m., and on Saturdays from 2:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. If needed, classes may also be arranged on other dates.

Length of Study:

1. The programme is a licentiate course, of two years of full-time study or four years of part-time study. Students may study the whole programme or take individual courses.

Entrance Requirements:

1. Admission to the L.T. programme is open to all Catholics, lay or religious, who are marked by their moral conduct and who have the required qualifications; any exception to this norm will be made by the Admissions Committee set up by the Seminary College President.
2. The required qualifications are the following:
   
   1. All applicants must have obtained the Bachelor of Theology degree (cum laude) or equivalent; and
   2. A working knowledge of Chinese and English is required as teaching and assignments are done through the medium of these two languages.
3. For students who have no B.T. degree but who have completed 6 years of philosophy and theology studies in a seminary or other schools approved by the local bishop with an average grade of 24/30, they can be admitted if they obtain a grade of at least 24/30 in the admission exams. They must also have a basic knowledge of Biblical Greek, Biblical Hebrew and Latin.

(Remark: It is a matter of discretion for individual employers to recognise any qualification to which this course may lead.)