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Since you're expressed that this is a strong interest of yours, I suggest you go to CARA and look up their research. http://cara.georgetown.edu/ (Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate)

Are these the Jesuits?

This doesn't look like a seminary. I don't find a list of classes. It look more like a social policy research group.

CARA is a non-profit research organization that conducts social scientific studies for the Catholic Church. It is listed in The Official Catholic Directory and is affiliated with Georgetown University. CARA’s goal is to deliver high-quality applied research or consulting services on Church issues. Members of CARA’s research team have graduate degrees in their academic specialties and are Georgetown university faculty members. Their objective is to deliver practical answers to real pastoral questions and provide Church policymakers with the factual basis for informed decisions. CARA conducts major studies of Church-wide significance, but much of its work is custom designed for individual clients. A brief overview of the history of CARA is provided below.

http://cara.georgetown.edu/about-us/cara-story/

I'm not the one who made an outlandish charge based on a Free Republic representative survey of one person! LOL!

Is this the same priest who has had a significant number of posts pulled?? I recall one very specifically but we cannot publish. I will send the topic via freepmail to you.

I checked Notre Dame's Seminary's Master of Divinity Requirements for Fall 2017.

I did not see one class for either Greek or Hebrew. I did see a class on Christology and...wait for it....MARIOLOGY!

There were a number of classes in Ecclesiastical Spanish.

Looking at St Mary's Master of Divinity program:

This appears to be a bit better than Notre Dame's.

22.5 hours are spent in Sacred Scripture.

And yes...there's a course on Marian Theology.

However, no requirement involving Greek or Hebrew.

If you're going for the Licentiate in Sacred Theology there is a requirement for Greek and/or Hebrew. There seems to be a more urgent requirement for fluency in Latin...understandable considering the Roman Catholic reliance upon Latin.

The seminaries I'm familiar with require at minimum two Greek and two Hebrew.

There are a number of theology-related degrees, not all of which have the same requirements. There's Bachelor's Master's and Doctor's Degrees, plus sometimes Licenciates, in Divinity, Religious Education, Sacred Theology, Religious Studies, Biblical Studies, Sacred Scriptures, Ancient Middle Eastern Languages, Religious Studies, Canon Law, Pastoral Ministry, Pastoral Counseling, Koine Greek, Classical and Scholastic Latin, Patristics, -- and on and on. You've got religious Houses of Study for the various Orders (such as Dominican, Franciscan, Benedictine, etc.) plus University and non-Universtsity based seminary programs, plus Pontifical Institutes. They all have their own sets of requirements, and their own areas of specialty.

It may be more complicated than you think.

PFFT!