Overview

All Professional Naval Chaplaincy – Resident Training Courses focus on preparing students who attend with the requisite Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities to provide religious ministry in the sea services. The needs of the Department of Navy (DoN) and the student are served through the careful alignment of training requirements of the occupation filled by each individual. Curriculum is aligned with identified training requirements through the Instructional System Design (ISD) process. The Navy's ISD process includes Planning, Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation, and Evaluation (PADDIE) of courses of instruction, as found in the NAVEDTRA 130 series.

Professional Naval Chaplaincy – Resident Training Courses are administered by the Naval Chaplaincy School and Center’s Training/Operations Department and overseen with the approval of the Command Officer. All courses and/or programs are qualitatively consistent, regardless of training location, with the policies and procedures established by NCSC and higher authority guidance in accordance with NAVDTRA 135 and 140 series.

Initial Skills / Accessions

Professional Naval Chaplaincy Initial and Accessions level skills training exist to fulfill the journeyman training requirements for 1945, 4105 and 4100 naval officer designators and Religious Program Specialists (RP).

Intermediate and Advanced Leadership

Professional Naval Chaplaincy Intermediate and Advanced level training is available at significant career milestones to support ministry at intermediate leadership (O4 and E5/E6) and advanced leadership (05/06) levels in areas of professional competence.

Individual Student Records

Individual student training documentation is maintained electronically in the Corporate enterprise and Training Activity Resource System (CeTARS). These records document reservations for a course, enrollment date, graduation date, performance data, and any event that may cause interruption of instruction, such as medical or legal hold. Information on courses attended by students, graduation information, and other data become a permanent part of the student electronic Training Jacket (ETJ). Student files are also maintained on site at NCSC for a minimum of two years, which document the student's personal contact information, course information and performance data.

Initial Skills / Accessions:

Class times may be obtained from your recruiter (officer/enlisted). Because you must attend either Recruit Training Command or Officer Development Course, we do not publish this information for new Chaplains or Religious Program Specialists. For informational purposes, our initial skill's courses typically convene four times (February, June, August, and September) per calendar year. Dates and Times are subject to change without notice.

Intermediate and Advanced Courses:

Class schedules may be obtained using the following source links:

• List of NCSC CANTRAC Course Links <- preferred method CANTRAC is updated daily
• My Navy Portal (cac req’d)
• Emailing NCSC Student Management

Accreditation / Recommendation

NCSC is accredited by the International Association for Continuing Education and Training (IACET). For more information about IACET, click here.

• Notes:
• CIN: Course Identification Number - A CIN is a unique number identifying a formal Navy Course.
• CDP: Course Data Processing Code - The code assigned to uniquely identify each Course of instruction and its location.
• Course Length - The number of days encompassed by Convene (Start) Date, Instructional Days, weekends, official holidays and Graduation Date, The Course Length is usually the same for all CDPs within a Course Identification Number (CIN); however, in the event an Activity has a need to teach the course over a shorter or a longer period of time, the Constrained Length is entered, along with the Capacity Type that is responsible for the duration difference.
• Mobile-Training-Team - Training is taught at fleet locations world-wide.