BA Religion, Society and Culture
Entry requirements
A level: AAB IB: 35 to include 665 in higher level subjects.
About this course
BA (Hons) in Religion, Society and Culture, a theology and religion degree examining religion as a lived phenomenon across social, political and cultural contexts. Core topics include research methods. Research training begins in the first year and continues through a second-year project module that prepares students for the final-year dissertation, in which they explore a topic of their choice under academic supervision. The first year lays foundations through compulsory modules including Research Workshop in Theology and Religion, Islam Observed: Ethnographic Accounts of Muslim Practice, Worldview, Faith and Identity, and Introduction to the History of Christianity, which traces Christianity's relationship with its social and cultural contexts. First-year options include New Testament Greek, Introduction to Christian Theology and Introduction to Bible: Texts, History, Culture. The second year builds research skills through Research Project and Colloquium, in which students plan a project in preparation for the final dissertation. Two exploration modules are drawn from Theology and Religion or the wider Arts and Humanities faculty, with options such as Themes and Theories in the Study of Religion and Religion in the Modern World, plus two further options including Decolonising the Bible and Religion in Contemporary Britain. The final year is centred on the Dissertation, plus four optional modules such as Religion and Film, The Reformation and its Legacy, Thomas Aquinas: Context, Background, Legacy, and Theology, Nature, Environment.
Modules
- Research Workshop in Theology and Religion
- Islam Observed: Ethnographic Accounts of Muslim Practice
- Worldview, Faith and Identity
- Introduction to the History of Christianity
- Example optional modules
- Research Project and Colloquium
- Example optional modules
- Dissertation
- Example optional modules