1
The Norbertines of St Michael’s Abbey in Silverado, California use this program as a transitional year for students who have completed a course in scholastic philosophy and plan to enter the theology cycle at St Philip’s Seminary, Toronto.
2
Diocesan seminarians who have completed the two-year philosophy cycle at St Philip’s Seminary but require additional university-level work for entrance to major seminary use the Map Year to complete their pre-theological studies.
3
Students with university training who have not yet studied philosophy or worked in the humanities use the Map Year as an intensive preparation for seminary studies.
4
Seminarians destined for advanced study in theology after ordination profit from the investigation of the philosophical foundations of contemporary Catholic theology, a topic stressed neither in university-level philosophy courses nor in seminary courses of dogmatic and pastoral theology.