Facilities

The UFT Office is located at the Uniting Church Centre for Theology and Ministry (CTM). The office may be entered from the doorway off the CTM car park, or as directed by the receptionist in the CTM. Also located at the CTM is the Dalton McCaughey Library (see below), classrooms, and the ‘Last Cuppa’ café (open Monday to Friday). The CTM includes a kitchen area for the use of UFT students.

Classes are normally held in the following locations:
•    Centre for Theology and Ministry (CTM)
•    Jesuit Theological College (JTC)
•    Trinity College Old Warden’s Lodge (OWL)
The UFT office and these classrooms are readily accessible from the city by public transport. The 19 tram along Royal Parade stops outside Trinity College and the Jesuit Theological College. The UFT office and the Centre for Theology and Ministry are a short walk from either Royal Parade or the University of Melbourne tram terminus in Swanston Street.

Children are permitted in UFT classes only by prior arrangement with the Dean and teaching staff. Subject to availability of places, UFT students may enrol young children (3 months to 6 years) at the University of Melbourne childcare centre: Queensberry Children’s Centre, 228 Queensberry Street, Carlton  VIC  3053, phone 8344 9470, email childcare-enquiries@unimelb.edu.au. 

Every effort is made to assist students with disabilities. Students are asked to make any special needs known to the UFT office at enrolment.
 
Theological study can be an intensely challenging experience at spiritual and personal levels as well as intellectually. The UFT makes no formal provision for counselling or spiritual direction, however students have informal access to a limited range of opportunities for support or pastoral care. These might include lecturers, the UFT Dean, their own ministers, and colleagues, but also fellow students, especially through the TSA.