Distinctive Features

1. Weekly mentorship in which 15-20 students meet with a lecturer who serves as their academic advisor and spiritual mentor throughout the period while they are studying at Duta Wacana.
2. Contextual theological education at Duta Wacana is holistic and based on three pillars, namely, spiritual formation, ministerial formation, and academic formation. Students live together in dormitory in order to form their spirituality through daily structured activities such as communal prayer, worship, fellowship, leadership training, etc., annual retreat and recollection, choir and music practices (spiritual formation). Students also take part in various ministries of the churches from many denominations (ministerial formation). Students take obligatory courses and allowed to choose various elective courses according to their interest and passions, all taught by qualified lecturers. They also participate in researches conducted by the lecturers, as well as in interfaith dialogues and activities in society (academic formation).
3. Besides academic courses, students also take various courses that are specifically designed to equip them with necessary knowledge and skills for their intended future careers as pastors, educators or social worker.
4. Students organize their own academic journal, Wacana Teologi, to publish their writings.
5. Students may integrate their own theses or final projects with the research of the lectures in which they participate.

Concentrations

• Social Worker Program
• Christian Education Program
• Pastoral Program

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