New undergraduate programme for 2020

Over the last year we have refreshed our undergraduate course programme in general and strengthened our connections with Manchester's Philosophy Department in particular. The full list of R&T courses is given below. We retain our most popular courses but introduce exciting new ones such as End of the World and Apocalypticism, Truth-Telling and Heresy, or replace one, such as Western Philosophy, with another, such as World Philosophies. We already have a joint degree with the Department of Anthropology, allowing our students to take courses such as Anthropology of Religion and Anthropology of Ethics. With the launch of the new degree in 'Philosophy and Religion', students gain even easier access to courses in the Department of Philosophy, such as Philosophy of Religion, Critical Thinking, and Philosophy of Mind.

First-year courses taught in our Department, 2020.

• What is Religion? Historical, Literary, and Anthropological Approaches NEW
• Truth and Truth Telling NEW
• Being Human(e): Theological Studies in Philosophy and Ethics  NEW
• Introduction to Christianity NEW
• New Testament Greek
• Introduction to Judaism
• Religion in Modern South Asian History
• Religion, Ethics and the Environment
• Bible in Ancient and Modern Worlds
• Standing on The Shoulders of Giants: Foundations for Study in The Arts

 

Second-year courses taught in our Department, 2020.

• End of the World and Apocalypticism  NEW
• World Philosophies: Ethics and Ideas in the History of Religious Thought NEW
• Evil as a Problem in Theology, Philosophy and Ethics NEW
• God at the Movies NEW
• Goddesses, Demons and Stories in South Asian History NEW
• Religion, Culture and Gender
• Biblical Hebrew
• New Testament in Greek II
• Interpreting Religion
• Jewish Philosophy and Ethics
• Jesus: From Jewish Messiah to Hollywood Idol
• Ethical Issues and the Bible
• All About Eve: Encountering the  First Woman from Antiquity to Today

 
Third-year courses taught in our Department, 2020.

• Science and Islam NEW
• Heresy and the Birth of Christian Controversy NEW
• Religions, Migration and Globalization NEW
• Dissertation on a topic of your choice
• Holocaust Theology and Ethics
• Radical Theologies
• Women and Gender in the Biblical World

 
Depending upon your degree programme...

• BA(Hons) in Religions and Theology
• BA(Hons) in Theological Studies in Philosophy and Ethics
• BA(Hons) in Philosophy and Religion
• BA(Hons) in Comparative Religion and Social Anthropology

... you can take other course unit options from outside our Department, such as Introduction to Islam, History of Religion in Japan, Women and Gender in the Middle East and North Africa, History of Modern Islamic Thought, and Contemporary Debates in Islam. (Note: Course unit availability is provisional and subject to change, and not all details of the curriculum changes are up online yet.) If you want to learn more, see our online Visit Day.