Department of Theology cultivates dedicated people who take lead in Christian Community and Korean spiritual culture by offering academic and pastoral programs based on Catholic tradition and experience. To achieve this goal, we provide diverse courses which help you to study systemically, for example, professional education for pastors, reeducation for priests, and training for ascetics. Courses for degrees are divided into two program; master’s degree program and doctoral degree program. Each program has Bible theology, church theology, spiritual theology, and environmental theology and so on.

1. The Master’s Degree Program

1) 51 or more credits (including thesis or additional course-credits) are required for a Master’s Degree. Students must complete 45 credits in the Department of Theology and 6 credits in other departments or divisions of the University.

2) Students for a Master’s Degree must pass the Foreign Language Exam and the Master’s Degree Comprehensive Examination. The following areas are included in the subjects for the examination.

* Biblical theology: Introduction to the Old Testament, the Pentateuch, the prophets, wisdom literature, introduction to the New Testament, the synoptic gospels, Johannine writings, Pauline letters.

*Dogmatic Theology: Christology,Sacramenal Theology, Ecclesiology, The Doctrine of Creation and Eschatology, Theology of God and of the Trinity. 

* Moral theology: Introduction to Christian Ethics, sexual ethics, Bioethics, Catholic social teaching, special topics in moral theology.

* Spiritual theology: Methodology of spiritual theology, Theological history of the religious life, Theology of the Spiritual Exercises, Origins of the Apostolic Spiritualithy, spiritual discernment



3) Major fields include Biblical Theology, Dogmatic Theology, Moral Theology, Spiritual Theology and Ecotheology

4) The Master’s thesis counts for 6 credits.

5) Courses are periodically taught on the following basis:

2. The Doctoral Degree Program
1) At least 90 credits are required for a Doctoral degree in Theology, including those earned in the previous Master’s degree course in Theology. Among these credits, at least 12 credits must be taken in the other major areas of theology, chosen with the approval of the candidate’s supervisor.

2) Candidates for the Doctoral degree must satisfy the English proficiency requirement before taking the Doctoral Comprehensive Examination. This requirement may be fulfilled by obtaining a score of at least 80 out of 100 on the English examination administered by the GST, or by submitting an official TOEIC score of 800 or above or an official TOEFL iBT score of 94 or above. The TOEIC or TOEFL iBT score must have been obtained within two years prior to the date of submission, and the official score report must be submitted to the Administrative Office no later than the semester preceding the submission of the dissertation proposal.

However, the English proficiency requirement shall be waived for students who obtained a score of 80 or above on the English entrance examination at the time of admission, submitted an official TOEFL iBT score of 94 or above in lieu of the English entrance examination, or were exempted from the English entrance examination by the Admissions Committee on the basis of having published an academic thesis in English.

3) Candidates for the doctoral degree must pass an exam in the ancient languages needed for their major area: Latin, Greek, Hebrew, under the supervisor’s direction.

4) The major areas in the doctoral program are Biblical Theology, Systematic Theology, Spiritual Theology, Moral Theology and Ecotheology.