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What does the Religious Studies Department offer?

The department is offering a variety of courses that will suit students who wish to pursue the subject over either one or two years of study.

Level	Subject	Course components	Assessments
AS*	Philosophy of Religion & Ethics	Foundation module Philosophy module Ethics module	3 x 90 minute examinations
AS*	Philosophy of Religion	Foundation module 2 x Philosophy modules	3 x 90 minute examinations
AS*	Ethics	Foundation module 2 x Ethics modules	3 x 90 minute examinations
A2**	Philosophy of Religion & Ethics	Philosophy module Ethics module Synoptic unit	3 x 90 minute examinations
* These options are all available as discrete one year AS courses ** This option is available as a one year A2 course which provides progression to the completion of a full A Level in Religious Studies. Entry requirement is the completion of the AS subject in Philosophy and Ethics.

"And careerwise, at least, theology has stood us in good stead .... Between us, there is a television researcher, a theatrical agent, a Walt Disney producer, an artist, a court reporter, a primary school teacher, a financial journalist, a literary agent, a night club singer, and a spy."

Clare Garner, journalist with The Independent on her university theology classmates.

Below are just some examples of areas of study:

AS Philosophy of Religion

• major influences on the philosophy of religion
• arguments for the existence of God
• Aristotle, Plato
• challenges to religious belief from the problem of evil to science & psychology

AS Ethics

• ethical language
• concepts within ethical theory, e.g. Natural Law
• medical ethics, e.g. abortion, euthanasia

A2 Philosophy of Religion

• life after death
• nature of religious experience & miracles
• religious language

A2 Ethics

• freewill
• conscience
• religious ethics
• practical ethics - sex, war, peace, justice, the environment

A2 Synoptic unit

The compulsory synoptic unit tests your understanding of AS & A2 & your ability to make connections between two areas of study - in this case, Philosophy and Hinduism:

• free will, conscience & human responsibility
  
• implications for ethics of theories of psychology & sociology
• relation between ethical language & religious language existence of suffering

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