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2021-2022 CATALOG This Catalog Is a Contract Between St 2021-2022 CATALOG This catalog is a contract between St. John Vianney College Seminary, or the Archdiocese of Miami, and the student. The College Seminary reserves the right, at its discretion, to make changes in its educational, formational or financial policies, as dictated by changing circumstances. While placement services are offered, employment cannot be guaranteed. ST. JOHN VIANNEY COLLEGE SEMINARY 2900 S.W. 87th Avenue, Miami, Florida 33165-3244 PHONE: 305-223-4561, FAX: 305-223-0650 E-MAIL: [email protected] 1 Board of Directors Most Reverend Thomas G. Wenski Archbishop of Miami - Chair Reverend Monsignor Pablo Navarro Rector-President, St. John Vianney College Seminary Most Reverend Gerald Barbarito Bishop of Palm Beach Most Reverend Frank Dewane Bishop of Venice, Florida Most Reverend John Noonan Bishop of Orlando, Florida Most Reverend Felipe Estévez Bishop of St. Augustine Most Reverend Gregory Parkes Most Reverend Thomas G. Wenski Bishop of St. Petersburg, Florida Archbishop of Miami - Chair Most Reverend William A. Wack, CSC Bishop of Pensacola-Tallahassee, Florida Most Reverend Enrique Delgado Auxiliary Bishop of Miami Very Reverend Alfredo I. Hernandez Rector, Regional Seminary St. Vincent de Paul, Boynton Beach Very Reverend Thomas Barrett José Menéndez, C.P.A. Dr. Gislaine Marcelin, M.D. Sr. Elizabeth Worley, SSJ Reverend George Ratzman The institition’s legal name is St. John Vianney College Seminary, Inc. All references to St. John Vianney College Seminary in the catalog or any other publication refer to St. John Vianney College Seminary Inc. 2 | BOARD OF DIRECTORS Table of Contents GENERAL INFORMATION History and Development 5 Location 6 Institutional Mission 7 Institutional Goals 7 Nondiscrimination Policy 7 Accreditation and Membership 8 in Professional Associations PROGRAM OF PRIESTLY FORMATION The Tradition of Catholic 9 Computer Skills 20 Pre-theology Program 44 Education English Placement Testing 20 Mission 45 Priestly Formation 9 Entrance and Exit Testing 20 Student Learning Outcomes 45 The Four Dimensions of Academic Major 20 Formation 45 Formation 9 A Bilingual Program 20 B. Philosophy Plan of Studies 47 Community Life 10 Library 20 Human Formation 10 Financial Information 21 GRADUATE ACADEMIC PROGRAMS Spiritual Formation 10 Financial Aid 22 Pastoral Formation 11 Bachelor of Arts Degree 24 Master of Arts in Philosophy 48 Intellectual Formation 12 General Degree Requirements 24 Mission 48 B.A. Philosophy Plan of Studies 25 Admission Requirements 48 ACADEMIC INFORMATION Learning Outcomes 50 UNDERGRADUATE ACADEMIC Course Description 51 Admission 13 PROGRAMS AND DEPARTMENTS M.A. Philosophy Plans of Studies 52 Application Requirements 14 Registration 15 Philosophy Department 26 STUDENT SERVICES DIVISION Academic Advising 16 Mission 26 Student Responsibility 16 Learning Outcomes 26 Mission 53 Examinations and Reports 16 Requirements for the Major 26 The New Student Experience 53 Independent Study 16 Course Description 27 Student Housing 53 Grading System 16 General Education 31 Campus Safety 54 Unit of Credit 17 Mission 31 Health and Medical Services 54 Course Additions and 17 Learning Outcomes 31 Student Government 54 Withdrawals Theology 32 Alumni Association 54 Course Numbering System 17 English and General Speech 35 Policy Against Harassment 54 Classification of Students 17 Spanish 36 Drug-Free Environment 55 Academic Status 17 Latin 37 Policy on Hazing 55 Scholastic Year 17 Humanities 38 Placement Assistance 55 Course Load 17 Psychology 40 Complaints and Appeals 55 Class Attendance 18 History 40 Procedures Probation/Dismissal 18 Mathematics 40 Intellectual Property Policy 55 Repeated Courses 18 General Science 40 Re-admission 18 English for Academic Purposes 40 FACULTY 56 Honors 18 (Former ESL Program) Privacy Act of 1974 18 Mission and Learning 41 ADMINISTRATION 56 Academic Honesty and Integrity 18 Outcomes Copyright and Plagiarism 19 Instruction Levels 41 Grade Appeals Policy 19 Course Description 42 3 Rector-President Reverend Monsignor Pablo Navarro. Rector-President 4 | General Information of Florida. To meet this need, the College Seminary initiated its bilingual and multicultural program in 1975. Successive generations of faculty and students have cultivated and benefitted from this unique aspect of the College Seminary. Today St. John Vianney is among the few institutions nationwide offering a bilingual academic and formation program. The multicultural environment of the city of Miami and of the College Seminary community offers a unique formative opportunity to the students by teaching them to History and Development appreciate and value the richness of Archbishop Coleman F. Carroll, first Archbishop of Miami, founded cultures present in the Church they St. John Vianney in September of 1959, less than one year after the will serve. establishment of the diocese. He called the Seminary “the first and most Chartered in 1961 under important project of this new diocese.” From its earliest days, the Seminary the laws of the State of Florida, provided excellent priestly formation for the young diocese and other parts the college seminary is annually of Florida. Archbishop Carroll entrusted the Seminary to the care of the licensed by the Commission Congregation of the Mission – Vincentian Fathers – who remained at the for Independent Education. In Seminary until 1975. December 1970, the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges, St. John Vianney originally At this time, the Seminary was Inc., (SACSCOC) accredited the combined a four-year high school restructured to meet the changing two-year Associate in Arts degree with a two-year junior college needs of a rapidly expanding program. In December 1980, program preparing young men Florida Church. The high school SACSCOC accredited the college for major seminary studies. High program closed in 1976 and St. seminary to award a Bachelor school classes began in 1959 John Vianney developed a four-year of Arts Degree. Since then, the followed by the college program in college seminary program in 1977 institution has continued to be 1960. St. Raphael’s Chapel, famous focusing on a major in philosophy. accredited by SACSCOC; most for the beauty of its architecture With this change came the new recently, in June 2007. In 2019 the and artwork, was dedicated in 1966 name – St. John Vianney College institution was approved to offer as the centerpiece of the Seminary’s Seminary. a M.A. in Philosophy, both on campus and life. The College Seminary Campus and Online. In 1975, responsibility for the recognized early the great need for Archbishop Edward McCarthy, care and operation of the Seminary priests who could minister in both the second Archbishop of Miami, returned to the Archdiocese. English and Spanish in order to dedicated the Maytag Memorial serve in the multicultural parishes Library and Administration 5 Building in 1983. The modern of providing excellent priestly pastorally with an enormous influx library facility has become the formation to dioceses and religious of people. Even before the Cuban center of academic life and research communities. St. John Vianney refugee migration of the early for the college seminary’s faculty also meets the needs of a variety 1960s and the subsequent influx and students, as well as others of non-seminary students who of refugees from other parts of the outside the college seminary seek out superior academics in a Caribbean and Latin America, community. Through the years, bilingual, multicultural context. Florida had become an increasingly the Maytag Library has expanded Archbishop Thomas Wenski, like popular destination as a retirement to become the largest bilingual his predecessors has made sustaining and vacation site for countless collection of philosophy and the tradition of excellent priestly hundreds thousands of Americans. theology in Florida. formation at St. John Vianney The Church has continually In 1982, St. John Vianney one of the highest priorities of the attempted to keep pace with the began a Pre-Theology Program Archdiocese of Miami. growth and changes in the Catholic to serve the needs of those population throughout Florida candidates for the Roman Catholic and especially in Miami. St. John priesthood who have completed Location Vianney College Seminary and its their baccalaureate degrees and are sister institution, St. Vincent de St. John Vianney College preparing to enter graduate studies Paul Regional Seminary located in Seminary is located in metropolitan in theology. These candidates Boynton Beach, Florida – seventy Miami-Dade County, which enter this two-year degree program miles from Miami – are two of the includes the city of Miami. South (B. Phil) to fulfill the necessary ways in which the Catholic people Florida living offers a rich mosaic requirements in philosophy of South Florida have attempted of experiences and vistas. The local and theology laid down by the to respond to the pastoral needs Church is a dynamic microcosm Program of Priestly Formation of the faithful in this region of of the Universal Church, where and the Ratio Fundamentalis the country. the Mass is celebrated in seventeen Institutionis Sacerdotalis. In 1985, The enormous investment of different languages each Sunday. the College Seminary further personnel and resources to the The local community, which expanded its services by opening operation of St. John Vianney includes over two million people, its academic program to non- College Seminary reflects an is an American gateway to the seminary
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