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MA Chaplaincy

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    MA 2.5 – 4 Years Part-Time

Course Description

Newman University offers a full Masters qualification in Chaplaincy over 2½- 3 years. However if you choose to undertake the first year specialism in Paediatric and Maternity it will take you an additional year (3½- 4 years.)

In your role as a Chaplain it is essential to develop your skills and understanding to provide high quality pastoral and spiritual care in the setting in which you work. These part time, multi-disciplinary, work-based courses are primarily aimed at those working (paid or voluntary) across the diverse range of Chaplaincy contexts, including, schools, hospitals, universities, prisons, military and the growing area of urban and workplace chaplaincy.

Why study Chaplaincy at Newman University?

  • The Courses are designed around you as the Chaplain/Chaplaincy worker, enabling you to develop your own skills, knowledge and research base suited to your own context.
  • As applied courses they enable you to reflexively draw on your experience in tandem with the academic learning
  • The programmes are inter-disciplinary drawing on a number of academic fields such as theology, sociology, psychology, and philosophy
  • The Assessments will help develop your reflective and research practice and encourage you to hone and focus your Chaplaincy.
  • Delivery of the courses is Hybrid. You will be expected to attend 5x weekends a year in Birmingham. This is supported by online learning to enable you to incorporate it into your busy work and personal life.

Entry Requirements

You will normally need a good undergraduate degree or equivalent or substantial experiential learning and demonstrate the ability to study at postgraduate level.

You will normally be working as a chaplain or similar in a paid or voluntary capacity for the equivalent of 2 sessions a week for each of the modules. One of your referees will need to be a person with direct experience of your practice, ideally also a chaplain.  We will discuss your experience at interview.   All applicants will be interviewed in person or over zoom, you will have the opportunity to ask questions and meet one of the teaching team.

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Fees

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Module Details

Please note that the module allocations below relate to students studying the main Chaplaincy route. Students studying the Paediatric and Maternity Chaplaincy route, will study Year 1 modules across their first two years. Year 2 modules will be studied in their third year, and Year 3 modules will be studied in their final forth year.

Year 1

  • Chaplaincy: Principles and Practice
  • Understanding Spirituality
  • Reflective Practice

Year 2

  • Working with Faith and Belief in Contemporary Contexts
  • Being Human in the Modern World

Year 3

  • Applied Practice Project 1
  • Applied Practice Project 2

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