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Course Registration

Registration for Spring (and Summer) 2026 

Registration Deadline: Thursday, October 23
Drop-Add Deadline: Friday, January 23

Students who are enrolled in residential degree programs are to submit the completed registration form (with attachments for special registrations, if required) to registrar@svots.edu by the registration deadline. Students who register after the registration deadline will be charged a late registration fee of $50. Subsequent requests to change registration are emailed to registrar@svots.edu.

Course Registration Form

Course Registration Instructions
 

Registration for Doctoral of Ministry Students

Doctor of Ministry students are automatically registered by cohort for courses and final project as long as they are making satisfactory progress toward completing program requirements and financial obligations to the seminary are paid in full one week before the beginning of a semester or term.

Registration for Non-Degree Students

The registration deadline for non-degree students is the last Friday before the semester begins. 

  • If a student has NOT previously registered for a course at St. Vladimir's Seminary, then he or she must (1) complete the seminary's basic application form and (2) submit the completed registration form to registrar@svots.edu.
  • If a student HAS previously registered for a course at St. Vladimir's, then he or she must (1) contact the registrar to reactivate the account by providing current contact information (name, address, phone, email address) and (2) submit the completed registration form to registrar@svots.edu.

As soon as the registration request has been processed, the seminary's tech department creates an electronic account authorizing the student to access Canvas, the electronic forum for seminary courses, and notifies the student of his or her login and password.
 

Resources for Course Registration

In accordance with the Higher Education Opportunity Act of 2008 and "to the maximum extent practicable," St Vladimir's Seminary discloses the ISBN and retail price information of required textbooks and supplemental materials for each course listed on our course schedule. If the ISBN number is not available, the seminary discloses the author, title, publisher, and copyright date.

Booklist (MA, MDiv, ThM)

Booklist (DMin)

Elective Courses (MA, MDiv, ThM)

Additional Forms

Students who would like to cross-register for a course at one of the schools of the New York Theological Consortium or to register for a unit of ACPE-accredited Clinical Pastoral Education (CPE) must begin the process of registration by completing the appropriate form. Students who complete a unit of ACPE-accredited CPE may be eligible to receive reimbursement of the hospital fee. Students in the MDiv program who complete the unit of CPE before beginning third-year courses may also be eligible to receive a stipend.

CPE Registration Form

CPE Reimbursement Form

NYTC Cross-Registration Form
 

Special Registrations

The following registrations carry certain restrictions or require special permission to enroll. 

Students who have finished all coursework but have not completed their thesis or final project by the thesis submission deadline, which is posted on the academic calendar, or other program requirement, e.g., CPE or the M.Div. Senior Oral Exam, by the deadline for graduating students must register for continuation and pay the continuation fee in the following semester(s) in order to remain degree candidates. Failure to register for continuation and pay the fee will cause the student to be administratively withdrawn from the program. In the event that the student is unable to complete the thesis or project even after continuation registration(s), the permanent grade W (Withdrawal) will be entered on the student's transcript.

Hybrid courses are comprised of online learning and a seminar-style onsite intensive. During the first eight weeks of a hybrid course, students complete weekly assignments, working with the course instructor through recorded lectures and threaded discussions in Canvas. The instructor is available for "virtual office hours" via Zoom and phone calls. In the ninth week of the course, students prepare for an onsite intensive session during the following week, when the instructor joins the students on campus for seminar-style presentations. After the intensive, students complete the course online and conclude the hybrid term with a summative paper or project. Auditors are not permitted in hybrid courses.

Qualified M.A./M.Div. students (i.e., those with second- or third-year standing and a minimum cumulative GPA of 3.5) are permitted to register for Th.M. seminars, as long as these courses do not conflict with degree program requirements. Students must also meet the normal prerequisites for the course in which they seek to enroll and receive permission of the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs. Auditors are not permitted in Master of Theology seminars.

Th.M. students and qualified M.A./M.Div. students (i.e., those with second- or third-year standing and a minimum cumulative GPA of 3.5) are permitted to take up to six credits of course work at Union Theological Seminary and the other schools of the New York Theological Consortium (the Theology Department at Fordham University, the General Theological Seminary, New York Theological Seminary, and Hebrew Union College), as long as these courses do not conflict with seminary program requirements. (See also NYTC criteria, obligations, and privileges.) Students must meet the normal prerequisites for the courses in which they seek to enroll and comply with the enrollment procedures required by St. Vladimir's Seminary and consortium schools. Permission of the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs is required before St Vladimir's students may begin the enrollment process using the NYTC Cross-Registration Form.