Entry Requirements:
An Australian Tertiary Admission Rank (ATAR) of 72.5, or its equivalent; or Mature Age and Special Entry Admissions for those who have reached the age of 21; or articulation from other Sydney College of Divinity programs.

Duration:
1 year full-time or 3 years part-time.

Mode:
Full-time, part-time.

Structure:
72 credit points (i.e. 8 course units)

English Proficiency:
Applicants whose entry qualifications were obtained in an institution where English is not the language of instruction normally require a minimum IELTS (or equivalent) score of 6.5 with no less than 6.0 in all bands of the test. A student can be admitted provisionally into the DipChSt when they have an IELTS result of 6.0 with no score less than 6.0 in all bands of the test.

GRADUATE PROFILE AND RATIONALE

The Diploma of Christian Studies is an undergraduate award based wholly on Bachelor of Theology units. It is designed to introduce students to Christian studies within higher education.
Graduates will have acquired basic knowledge, skills, and values of Christian relevance to their professional, family, church, social, or personal lives and have deepened their awareness of the nature and scope of theology and their affinity with it as a field of study within higher education. Some graduates may have taken the opportunity to focus their elective studies in such a way as to complete a major. In this case, they will have acquired the skills, knowledge, and valued outlined for the respective majors as set out for the Bachelor of Theology (see BTh section).

ARTICULATION TO OTHER AWARDS

The Diploma of Christian Studies is both a stand-alone award and a nested award in the Associate Degree of Christian Thought and Practice and the Bachelor of Theology. As a result it articulates directly into either of these awards. On completion of either of these further awards the student would surrender their Diploma of Christian Studies. The exception would be if there was no credit granted into the further awards for the units in the Diploma.