Pre-requisites

None.

Co-requisites

None.

Learning Outcomes

On successful completion of this unit, the student will be able to:

• Interpret biblical perspectives on spirituality and how they apply to youth

• Discuss how spiritual formation relates to the adolescent life-stage

• Explain how discipleship and faith formation relates to young people

• Engage in personal and corporate practices for nurturing youth spirituality

Unit Description

The unit will explore the human experience of faith and spirituality as it relates to youth. Students will grow in their appreciation of the biblical perspectives on spirituality, identity and vocation, and how these can be integrated with key developmental questions and tasks in a young person’s life-span development. The unit will also explore the connection between spirituality, discipleship and faith formation in young people. Various individual and corporate practices aimed at interacting with and developing spirituality in young people will be explored, with an emphasis on the role of the faith community.

Topics

• Biblical perspectives on spirituality and how they relate to youth
• Generational and cultural shifts and youth spirituality
• Spirituality and youth discipleship
• Introducing Faith development theory and nurturing youth spirituality
• Spirituality and the key adolescent developmental question: “Who am I?”
• Spirituality and the key adolescent developmental question: “What’s my place in the world?”
• Spiritual disciplines with and for youth
• Churchwide practices that nurture youth spirituality

Teaching Strategies

Teaching strategies include: lectures and tutorials; weekend schools; class discussions; presentation of instructional material in the form of printed documentation, DVD, video and audio tape and on-line interaction. This module is also available in flexible learning format.

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Unit offerings

Face to face: Semester 2, 2025 (Every Year, Semester 2)

Please note

The Unit Offerings listed above are a guide only and the timetable for any year is the final authority. The College may vary offerings based on demand, regulatory requirements, continual improvement processes or other conditions.

This unit may be available in different modes of delivery i.e. online and face-to-face as listed above. The unit content will not differ between these modes of delivery. There will possibly be a difference in the schedule and/or the prescribed assessment tasks, however both will cover and assess the same content.