Forms
Please feel free to contact the Registrar’s Office if you have any questions regarding the completion or content of these forms p: 03 9207 4800 option 3.
Enrolment Deadlines
Current students should note the enrolment dates listed below. Please ensure that you have submitted your enrolment form to the Registrar’s Office by these dates.
2024 enrolment deadlines
semester one and full-year units: 2 February 2024
semester two: 21 June 2024
semester three: 18 October 2024
2025 enrolment deadlines
semester one and full-year units: 31 January 2025
semester two: 20 June 2025
semester three: 17 October 2025
Please note:
units that run in intensive/extensive/other mode may have a different enrolment date – these dates are listed on the timetable.
Timetables
The timetables are available below but is still subject to change. Please ensure you check this site regularly for updates (we strongly recommend that you hit the ‘reload’ button in case your computer has cached this page).
Please note:
Semester three is 12 weeks long with a 1 week break over the Christmas/New Year period.
Year Planner
The academic year planner is available below. Please note that it may still be subject to minor changes, so it’s a good idea to check this page occasionally for updates (we strongly recommend that you hit the ‘reload’ button in case your computer has cached this page).
Please note:
- Semester three is 12 weeks long with a 1 week break over the Christmas/New Year period.
- Students should also be alert that tertiary holidays do not always intersect with school holidays, and should plan accordingly.
In particular:
>> Victorian public holidays, like Labour Day and Melbourne Cup Day, are not holidays for tertiary institutions.
>> Ridley offers 1–3 reading weeks each semester, some of which almost certainly do not match school holidays.
>> Such reading weeks are not holidays, and learning expectations are made of students during these weeks.
Study Modes
Ridley units are offered in various modes and timings. The modes of study described here delineate how/where academic contact hours and interactions occur between teachers and students. All units involve additional learning tasks outside these academic interactions. Such tasks may include pre-unit preparation, prescribed and additional reading, additional teaching content, and various assessments. Unit resources and assessment tasks are primarily available through the My Ridley learning site. Such tasks may include pre-unit preparation, prescribed and additional reading, further content input, and various assessments.
Timing Descriptors
Semester-based units
Semester-based units bring academic staff and students together on a weekly basis for 12 weeks (with 2 reading week breaks).
Intensive/Extensive units
Intensive/Extensive units bring academic staff and students together at less regular intervals. A greater proportion of students’ learning is devolved to learning activities outside these contact hours. Common configurations include:
- campus intensive: students attend in-person classes on campus for a single block of days (commonly 2–5-day periods), with other learning activities before, during and after the contact dates
- virtual intensive: students attend virtual classes on specific dates, with other learning activities before, during and after the contact dates
- extensive: students attend classes where the contact days are split into multiple sessions across the semester (e.g. across a series of Fridays; for three days on campus near the start of semester then for two days online later in the semester).
Self-directed learning
There are a variety of additional modes, such as research projects, Independent Reading units, capstones. Please contact the Registry team for further information.
Australian College of Theology
Ridley College is an affiliate College of the Australian College of Theology (ACT); a national consortium of 20 Bible and Theological Colleges.
The ACT was established in 1891 by the General Synod of the Church of England in Australia and Tasmania ‘to foster and direct the systematic study of Divinity, especially among the clergy’. Over 13,500 men and women have graduated with ACT awards.
Further information about the ACT can be accessed at their website http://www.actheology.edu.au/