ABSTRACT

The Oratory and Professional Practice course is a course that is taught in the faculties

of theology and can be considered as the showcase of the faculty. Because the

theoretical and practical subjects covered in this course are the most visible face of

the faculty. Many subjects such as performing prayers, performing the muezzin,

reading the sermon, preaching, praying in certain ceremonies are within the scope of

this course. The Oratory and Professional Practice course, which assumes an

important function for all theology students regardless of which institution they will

work in after graduation, is a 2-credit compulsory course taught only for one

semester in the faculty curriculum. However, both the researcher's own

determinations and many other studies on the subject show that the expected function

from this course is not fully realized, so there is a problem. By determining the source

of this problem, "How can we make the related course more functional in the current

conditions?" This question is the starting point of the research. Researches generally

attribute the failure of this course to fully serve the expected purpose, due to the lack

of practice. How will this practice be possible in the faculty of theology, where the

number of students is quite high? This is an important question to ponder. This

research, which was conducted to seek answers to these questions, is a qualitative

study and was carried out in the scanning model. As a data collection technique,

literature review, which is a type of documentary review, was used. At the end of the

study, suggestions were made regarding the solution of the problem.

Keywords: Religious Education, Faculty of Theology, Oratory, Vocational

Practice, Religious Services