Theology and Religion undergraduate study 2013 entry Key information

UCAS CODE TYPICAL OFFER BA Single Honours Theology V611 AAB-BBB; IB: 34-30 Theology with Study Abroad V610 AAB-BBB; IB: 34-30 BA Combined Honours QV85 AAB-ABB; IB: 34-32 Classical Studies and Theology Classical Studies and Theology with Study Abroad QV86 AAB-ABB; IB: 34-32 Philosophy and Theology VV56 AAB-ABB; IB: 34-32 Philosophy and Theology with Study Abroad VV5P AAB-ABB; IB: 34-32 Flexible Combined Honours Y004 A*AA-AAB; IB: 38-34 Flexible Combined Honours with Study or Work Abroad Y006 A*AA-AAB; IB: 38-34 Flexible Combined Honours with UK Work Experience Y007 A*AA-AAB; IB: 38-34

For further details on all our entry requirements, please see our Theology and Religion pages at: www.exeter.ac.uk/undergraduate/degrees/theology

Streatham Campus, Exeter Website: www.exeter.ac.uk/theology Email: [email protected] Phone: +44 (0)1392 724241

The Bible is probably the best known collection of texts in the Western world, and yet there’s still so much we don’t know about the cultures lying behind these texts. My research focuses on the cultures giving rise to the , in particular, the religious realities of these cultures – what people believed about the gods and other divine beings and how they expressed their beliefs through rituals, myths and social practice and this feeds directly into my undergraduate teaching.

Professor Francesca Stavrakopoulou 1st for Overall Satisfaction in the National Student

Survey (2011)p : top 5 for the past 4 years 5th for Theology in The Guardian and 7th in Why study The Times university guides 2012 Theology and 4th for graduate level employment and postgraduate study ratest Religion Varied programme including applied theology, at Exeter? philosophy of religion, science and religion, ethics, , Christian doctrine and history Theology is one of the most challenging and stimulating subjects you can study. Religion Flexibility to customise your degree around your is a major factor in shaping the world we live in and all religions raise ethical and own interests philosophical questions which are among the most basic and important we face as Opportunities to take a work placement, field trips human beings. Is there a meaning and purpose to human existence? Is there a or study abroad God or Gods? How should we understand good and evil? How do we decide what’s right or wrong in relation to war and peace, birth and death, sex, and the environment? Can we better understand the tensions in Eastern Europe, the Middle East or Our department of Theology and Religion Our undergraduate programmes’ main Northern Ireland if we first understand is intimate and involved, comprising a lively strength is the study of Christianity, the religious traditions that often separate and dynamic team of scholars of Christian which we approach from a wide range of communities from one another? theology, history and ethics, philosophy disciplinary angles: historical, linguistic, of religion and biblical studies. We pride sociological, philosophical, theological, Studying Theology and Religion at Exeter ourselves on the quality of our undergraduate cultural and textual. We’re particularly gives you the opportunity to wrestle programmes, and our highly qualified staff interested in studying theology in its with these questions in depth, through are at the forefront of innovative research. wider historical, social and cultural a disciplined and rigorous framework. In the latest Research Assessment Exercise contexts, and in understanding how We offer a demanding and rewarding (RAE) in 2008, 85 per cent of our work was theological questions matter in the programme enabling you to develop a recognised as being of international quality, contemporary world. We also offer the wide range of skills which will stretch and 50 per cent was rated as world leading or opportunity to study other religions, your intellectual abilities to the full. You’ll internationally excellent*. This research feeds through combinations of optional work as a historian, literary critic and directly into your undergraduate studies, modules. philosopher, all essential perspectives that ensuring you are taught cutting-edge ideas you’ll need as a theologian and which equip which are relevant to contemporary society. Good theology engages with the political, you well for a wide range of future careers. cultural and social issues which affect our Our research interests and teaching expertise lives, and this will stretch your intellectual span a wide range of subject areas, with abilities to the full. At Exeter, you’ll particular research and teaching strengths in acquire a variety of critical skills attractive four main themes: religion past and present; to employers and relevant for a wide range philosophy of religion and ethics; biblical of careers. studies; and Christian history and theology.

p  based on the percentage of positive responses for full service universities t  based on proportion of UK domiciled, full-time, first degree graduates in Theology with a known career or study destination (HESA 2009/10) * RAE 2008 based on the percentage of research categorised as 4*, 3* and 2* (world leading, internationally excellent or internationally recognised) Degree programmes Our degrees offer a stimulating and Single Honours Year 1 In your first year most of the rewarding combination of topics and modules are core in order to give you approaches. You’ll receive a solid BA Theology a solid grounding in the broad areas of grounding in the core subjects which are The BA in Theology gives you an excellent study essential to theology: philosophy fundamental to the study of theology grounding in all the subjects essential of religion and ethics, biblical studies, (for example, biblical studies, historical to a good understanding of the subject, and Christian history and doctrine. You and contemporary theology, and ethics), from biblical studies and church history to can also choose from a range of optional and you’ll also be able to explore more modern theology, philosophy and ethics modules to begin exploring more specific specialised areas through optional and gives you increasing flexibility and areas of enquiry. modules. These include familiar topics choice as you progress through the stages like the relationship between science and of the degree. The programme enables Year 2 Half your work in the second religion or feminist theology, and less you to explore the contexts, development year will be optional modules, enabling familiar ideas like the built environment and meanings of the texts of the Hebrew you to pursue your particular interests or depictions of heaven and hell Bible and the New Testament (with the across diverse areas including religion throughout the ages. option of studying the texts in their past and present, science and religion, original languages). You’ll also study the contemporary and applied theology, We’re concerned with understanding whole history of Christian theological religion and public issues, and biblical both tradition – what was thought then thought, including aspects of Christianity’s literature and languages. – and our own contemporary world in relationship to other religions; the critical Year 3 Your third year is about theological perspective. You’ll be taught questions – philosophical, political, ethical customising your degree to suit your by people who are active in research and and historical – raised in the modern and interests, and all your studies will be enthusiastic about their subject, so that post-modern world about religion in general chosen from our very wide range of you encounter the latest thinking and and the Christian religion specifically; and optional modules. You’ll also write a innovative approaches. the critical questions raised by the Christian dissertation on a topic of your choice. How your degree is religion about the world. structured You’ll be able to customise your Degrees are divided into core and optional degree by choosing from a long list of modules, giving you the flexibility to modules covering issues as diverse as structure your degree according to your sexuality, criminal justice, feminism, the specific interests. Individual modules are environment, science, anthropology, worth 15 or 30 credits each, and full-time evolution, art, the body, the soul, heaven undergraduates need to take 120 credits in and hell, heresy, morality and ethics, each year. Within Theology and Religion, martyrs and pilgrimage, life after death, and in addition to the core modules, you can the study of religions. choose from an extensive range of options in all three years, a few examples of which Opportunities are available to add value to are shown later in this brochure. your academic studies by undertaking field trips, a work placement, or studying abroad. For up-to-date details of all our programmes You can also take modules in Biblical and modules, please check Hebrew, New Testament Greek or take www.exeter.ac.uk/theology credits in subjects such as Arab and Islamic Studies, Sociology, Philosophy, Politics, History or Classics, many of which offer modules directly related to theology, world religions, ethics and philosophy. Combined Honours Degrees BA Philosophy and Theology BA Classical Studies and Theology This programme combines the perspectives of philosophy, theology and religion No previous knowledge of Latin, Greek or to enable you to develop a reflective Hebrew is required. understanding of some pervasive and problematic features of the world and This programme gives you a great ourselves. You’ll acquire a solid grounding opportunity to combine the challenge of in the main themes and methods of exploring the culture and thought of the philosophy and theology, equipping you ancient world with the study of theology. with the critical and analytical skills Both disciplines focus on literary, historical, necessary to engage with the key themes, religious, cultural, political, philosophical debates and methods of both disciplines. and ethical issues debated in the ancient Your studies are divided equally between the world – issues which continue to impact the two subjects, combining core modules in the world today. Your studies are divided equally first two years about classical epistemology, between the two subjects, combining metaphysics and moral philosophy with core modules drawn from Greek/Roman the philosophy of religion, Christian ethics philosophy or Greek/Roman religion, and doctrine. In the third year you’ll study biblical studies and the history and doctrine optional modules chosen from a diverse of Christianity in the first and second range across both philosophy and theology, years. You’ll also choose optional modules and you’ll also write a dissertation on a in both disciplines during years two and philosophical or theological topic of your three. Topics explored in both disciplines choice. include ancient religions, sexuality, politics, literature, art, philosophy and ethics. Full details of Philosophy modules can be found at www.exeter.ac.uk/philosophy For Classical Studies, texts are usually taught in translation, so you won’t have Flexible Combined Honours to study Latin or Greek language modules This innovative Combined Honours scheme unless you choose to. The same is true of enables you to combine modules from a biblical studies for Theology, although you number of different fields of study not can learn New Testament Greek and Biblical otherwise available through an existing Hebrew if you want to and read biblical texts Combined Honours programme. You in their original languages. can combine Theology with up to two Full details of the Classical Studies modules other subjects from an extensive list. can be found at www.exeter.ac.uk/classics Throughout your degree you will be given regular support to help you choose the most appropriate pathway for you. Further information and the full list of available subjects can be found at www.exeter.ac.uk/fch Learning and teaching We use a wide range of teaching and Research-inspired teaching For our other degree programmes, you may learning methods including lectures, study for half a year at a partner institution seminars, group-work, debates and one- We believe that every student benefits in Europe, North America or Australia to-one or small group tutorials. Your class from being part of a culture that is inspired or follow a four-year ‘with Study Abroad’ sizes will be on average 25-35 students for by research and being taught by experts. programme. You can apply directly for lectures and 10-15 students for seminars, Your lecturers will be contributing to the these four-year programmes or else transfer and you’ll have 10 hours of contact time latest developments in their field and from another programme once you’re with staff per week. You’ll also need to their teaching will be highly relevant to here. Full details of these schemes and our allow for additional hours of private study contemporary issues. We have a vigorous partner institutions can be found on our and should expect your total workload to research culture spanning a wide range of website at www.exeter.ac.uk/humanities/ average about 40 hours per week during subject areas with particular strengths in undergraduate/studyabroad term time. theology, ethics, social contexts and public issues. For full details please check the Strong emphasis is placed on acquiring International Office website at www.exeter. a variety of skills that will be attractive Academic support ac.uk/international/study/erasmus to employers in your future working All students have a Personal Tutor who is life. Modules are specially designed to available for advice and support throughout Assessment help you develop a range of intellectual, their time here. There are various other Assessment is based on essays, seminar transferable and personal skills services on campus providing advice, presentations and exams. In the second throughout your degree programme. Our information and support, including the and third years, coursework (including Staff-Student Liaison Committee meets Students’ Guild Advice Unit. You can assessed seminar presentations and essays) once a term to review existing modules, find further information about all the can account for well over half of your consider new ones and discuss ways the services in the University’s undergraduate assessment depending on which modules department can be improved. prospectus or online at www.exeter.ac.uk/ you choose. undergraduate Our approach to theology and religion is You must pass your first year assessment in interdisciplinary, and relates the broad areas Study abroad order to progress to the second year, but the studied to politics, social sciences, the arts, Studying at Exeter offers you the exciting results do not count towards your degree literary studies and more. We’re actively possibility of spending up to one year classification. For three-year programmes, engaged in introducing new methods of abroad studying at a partner institution. the assessments in the second and third learning and teaching, including increasing Last year our highly successful programme years contribute to your final degree use of interactive computer-based helped about 400 students study at one classification. For four-year programmes the approaches to learning through our virtual of our 180 partner universities. Studying assessments in the second, third and fourth learning environment where the details of abroad can help you learn a new language years all contribute to your final degree all modules are stored in an easily navigable and experience different cultures, become classification. website. Students can access detailed more self-confident and widen your circle information about modules and learning For full details of the assessment criteria of friends. You could get the chance to outcomes and interact through activities for each module, check the undergraduate specialise in areas not available at Exeter, such as the discussion forums. section of our website at www.exeter.ac.uk/ and when it comes to a career, your skills theology In your final year you’ll write a dissertation and knowledge of another country will on a topic of your choice, so you can prove invaluable to many employers. This of examine a question of interest to you in course applies equally to overseas students detail, and apply the skills you have acquired coming to study abroad at Exeter. during your degree.

Each year we also arrange various guest lectures and study days led by visiting speakers, including the series of Prideaux Lectures hosted every other year. Past lecturers have included Tom Wright, Sarah Coakley, Nicholas Lash, Robin Gill, James Dunn, John Rogerson and Christopher Rowland. Careers

Our programmes give you an excellent Many students from the department take Many employers target the University all-round education, where you’ll learn to part in the Exeter Award and the Exeter when recruiting new graduates. understand other people’s points of view, Leaders Award. These schemes encourage to communicate your own position clearly you to participate in employability related For further information about what the and to argue effectively. You’ll also learn workshops, skills events, volunteering and Employability Service offers at Exeter to collect, assess and present evidence and employment which will contribute to your visit www.exeter.ac.uk/undergraduate/ to work independently and in groups. Our career decision-making skills and success in employability programmes are demanding and encourage the employment market. initiative and open mindedness, helping to ensure that you’ll be well equipped Exeter has an excellent reputation with with a range of academic, personal and graduate recruiters and our students and professional skills that will prepare you for graduates compete very successfully in the future employment. employment market.

Examples of the destinations of our Examples of further study followed by recent graduates: our graduates: Occupations • MA Theology and Youth Ministry, Kings College London • MA Theology, Development Foundation Programme Tutor // Learning • MSc Development and Security, University of Bristol Support Worker // Lecturer // Ministry Trainee // Publicity • MA Applied Criminal Justice and Criminology, and Fundraising Manager // Registry Officer // Team Vicar Swansea University Youth and Families Worker • MA Religion and Culture, University of Birmingham Employers • MA Religious Conflict, University of Nottingham • PGCE Religious Education, Teach First // BBC // Devon County Council St Michaels and All Angels // Church Soho House Group Purple PR // Global Action Plan // Financial Times

Entry requirements and applying

You can find a summary of our typical entry We make every effort to ensure that the You can find further information about requirements on the inside front cover of entry requirements are as up-to-date academic and English language entry this brochure. as possible in our printed literature. requirements at www.exeter.ac.uk/ However, since this is printed well in undergraduate/international The full and most up-to-date information advance of the start of the admissions about Theology is on the undergraduate cycle, in some cases our entry For information on the application, website at www.exeter.ac.uk/ requirements and offers will change. decision, offer and confirmation undergraduate/degrees/theology and we process, please visit www.exeter.ac.uk/ strongly advise that you check this before If you are an international student you undergraduate/applications attending an open day or making your should consult our general and subject- application. Some programmes require prior specific entry requirements information for study of specific subjects and may also have A levels and the International Baccalaureate, minimum grade requirements at GCSE or but the University also recognises a wide equivalent, particularly in English Language range of international qualifications. and/or Mathematics. KEY C = Core Module details O = Optional

For up-to-date details of all our programmes and modules, please check www.exeter.ac.uk/theology

Year 1 Modules Year 3 Modules

Module Name Module Name Theology Theology Philosophy and Theology Philosophy and Theology Classical Studies and Theology Classical Studies and Theology

Introduction to Theology C O C Dissertation C C C Philosophical Questions about Religion C O C Optional Modules in Theology O O O Creation of a Nation in the Hebrew Bible C C O Gospels: Origins and Outlooks C C O Optional Modules Faith of the Fathers C C C Optional Modules in Theology O O O Module Name

Year 1 modules: Year 2 Modules Elements of New Testament Greek Introducing Biblical Hebrew Introduction to Biblical Hermeneutics Religion in the Modern World Year 2/3 modules: Module Name Encountering the Historical Jesus Theology Evolution, God and Gaia

Philosophy and Theology God and the Physicists Classical Studies and Theology God, Sex and Money: Topics in Christian Ethics Introducing Paul C C O Heaven and Hell Throughout the Ages The Divine World in the Hebrew Bible C O O Intermediate Biblical Hebrew Christian Moral Theory and Ethics C O O Intermediate New Testament Greek Modern Theology C O O Issues in Philosophical Theology Optional Modules in Theology O O O Life and Death in Ancient Israel New Testament Ethics Philosophy and the Spiritual Life Sacramental Theology and Social Justice Scribes, Apostles and Sages: Early Jewish Biblical Exegesis Theology and Aesthetics Theology and the Bios: Theological Explorations in Being, Living and Dying Theology, Art and Politics Theology, Culture, Ideology Theology, Gender, Race and Class Theology Work Placement Ways of Christian Living in the 4th and 5th Centuries Theology modules

Please note that availability of all modules is subject to timetabling constraints and that not all modules are available every year. For a full list and details of the individual modules, please check the undergraduate section of our website at www.exeter.ac.uk/theology Year 1 Introduction to You’ll be introduced to the main areas and issues Christian Moral You’ll explore key methods and themes in Theology of Christian systematic theology, including the Theory and theological and philosophical ethics by engaging question of theological method. Subjects explored Ethics with some of the challenges facing the Church. include perceptions of the nature and authority of Key topics include: gospel, law and why torture is Scripture, the relation of theology and ideology, wrong; poverty and injustice; peacemaking as a and the nature, role and place of eschatology, Christian vocation, and the relationship between Christology and atonement in both traditional and Christian ethics and public policy. contemporary discussion. Modern This module looks at theological thought from 1700 Philosophical This module introduces you to philosophical Theology to the present day, primarily in Western Europe and Questions about method and its role in thinking about religion. North America. You’ll examine texts and thinkers Religion You’ll explore the relationship between faith and in relation to their social and intellectual contexts, reason, arguments for and against the existence including the work of Kant, Schleiermacher, of God, and concepts of God in classical and Kierkegaard, and Nietzsche. contemporary philosophical theology. Year 3 Creation of a This module explores the origins of the texts Nation in the that comprise the Hebrew Bible. You will discuss Dissertation The dissertation is an opportunity for you to carry Hebrew Bible traditional and critical approaches to the history out independent research in a sustained way on a of ancient Israel, from its emergence until the topic of your choice. It allows you to put to use the destruction of the Second Temple. The Hebrew skills you’ve acquired in the first two years of the Bible will be set in the context of other ancient programme by thinking at length about a question Near Eastern texts, evaluations of archaeological that is of particular interest to you, whilst receiving evidence and the controversies debated in support and guidance from an academic supervisor. contemporary scholarship. Gospels: Origins This module gives a thorough introduction to Optional Modules and Outlooks the scholarly study of the four canonical gospels, Introduction Questions about the appropriate way to use the viewing each one from literary, theological and to Biblical Bible constantly arise in theology. Is it simply one historical perspectives. You’ll explore the gospels’ Hermeneutics fallible historical source among others? Is it the relationships, their historicity, their differing prime authority for Christian thought and practice? presentations of Jesus, and discuss the possible Is it historically trustworthy? You’ll explore these reasons for their different emphases. issues by investigating different forms of Biblical Faith of the Investigates the extent to which the early church interpretation, and in doing so, develop the means Fathers: God, developed systematic theories of salvation and the to articulate and critique your own approach. Christ and after-life. You’ll examine various understandings of Evolution, God This module examines the rise and development of Salvation in the salvation, focusing on the ideas of key figures, how and Gaia evolutionary theory and explores the challenges it Early Church salvation was thought to affect believers’ present continues to pose for Christianity. You’ll examine lives and how it was hoped to be perfected in the the issues evolutionary theory raises concerning the life to come. suffering of non-human creatures and the character Year 2 and behaviour of humans. Introducing This module explores the life, literature and God and the This module explores the philosophical and theological Paul theology of the apostle Paul within the context Physicists issues raised by physics since its origins in Pre-Socratic of critical scholarship. You’ll explore pre-Pauline philosophy. You’ll engage with classic controversies Christianity, Paul’s shift from Jew to Christian, such as the Galileo Affair, the quantum revolution and the controversies surrounding Gentile converts theories of the origin and end of the universe, and and the role and place of Israel and Jewish law, consider if and how God may be thought to act in the Paul’s views on ethics, Christology and the Spirit, world science describes. and Paul’s portrayal of Jesus Christ. God, Sex and You’ll be invited to engage with a wide range The Divine This module examines the theological perspectives Money: Topics of topics in practical Christian ethics. There is World in the and religious contexts of the Hebrew Bible, in Christian scope in this module to consider topics ranging Hebrew Bible including the relationship between ancient Israelite Ethics from abortion, assisted suicide, human genetic religion and its biblical presentation, myths manipulation, drones, other weaponry and military about creation, evidence of goddess worship, the interventions for ‘humanitarian’ reasons; trans- functions of temples and their symbolism, the role sexuality, gay marriage, capital punishment, climate of prophecy and divination, and the emergence of change, globalisation and international poverty. monotheism from polytheism Heaven and Hell This module traces the development of Christian Theology and This module explores the aesthetic dimension Throughout the doctrines of heaven and hell from the period of the Aesthetics of religious understanding. You’ll learn about Ages Early Church to the present day. You’ll assess the contemporary philosophical and theological social and political factors affecting belief in or the accounts of the nature of aesthetic understanding denial of hell, examine concepts such as purgatory and experience, and consider the role of the and the role of the Devil, and engage with debates emotions and embodied engagement in aesthetic about war, the holocaust, universal salvation, and understanding. Drawing on these ideas, you’ll evangelical views of hell. reflect on the material context of religious understanding and examine various treatments of You’ll examine philosophical treatments of a range Issues in the idea of divine beauty. Philosophical of Christian teachings on themes such as: Trinity, Theology incarnation, atonement, providence, scriptural Theology You’ll develop a theologically informed authority, and resurrection. You’ll consider the and the Bios: understanding of issues related to the human ‘bios’, coherence and plausibility of these doctrines and Theological broadly conceived of in terms of human being their relationship to Christian life and will also Explorations in (ontology), human living (sociality) and human consider the role of philosophical methods in Being, Living dying (suffering and eschatology). You will become theological enquiry. and Dying familiar with the ethical, moral, philosophical and theological implications of human being, living Life and Death In this module, you’ll explore ancient Israelite and dying within the context of contemporary in Ancient Israel concepts of life, death, and post-mortem existence, life, particularly as impacted by biomedicine and and examine topics including ritual prostitution, biotechnology. child sacrifice and the worship of the dead. This module also enables you to assess the impact of Theology, Art You’ll study the relationship between theology, these and other ancient Israelite beliefs on the Bible and Politics ethics and art and examine the work of particular and their influence on later concepts of fertility, artists up close as you visit art galleries in the UK death, resurrection and afterlife. and Europe. Subjects include God in the flesh, images of crucifixion, and landscape and creation. New Testament You’ll examine the ways New Testament texts Ethics construct patterns of morality and ethics, and Theology, This module introduces you to major questions and consider whether a ‘moral vision’ can be synthesised Culture, issues of cultural studies, such as the ideological from these writings. You’ll also appraise the Ideology impact of North on South, of class on theory, the interpretative issues involved in using the Bible nature of ideology and the relation of art and in ethics today, and examine some models for politics, and the questions raised by the interaction the application of New Testament ethics to of gospel and culture, in particular the question of contemporary morality. inculturation. Theology, You’ll be introduced to key texts in feminist and Philosophy and This module explores recent philosophical and Gender, Race queer theology, with particular emphasis on the Spiritual theological writing on ‘the spiritual life’. You’ll and Class those offering an analysis of race and class. These Life consider the relationship between religious belief are supplemented with further (non-feminist/ and the spiritual life, and the role of theological queer) readings on race and class from a range of assumptions in structuring some visions of the cultural backgrounds. You’ll engage in analysing spiritual life. It also considers non-religious emerging discourses in popular culture (including accounts of the spiritual life, and the contribution art, music, film and literature) as they relate to the to the spiritual life of practice, the emotions, and intersections of gender, race and class with and relationship to place. within theology. Sacramental This module provides you with a thorough Theology Work This module enables you to obtain valuable Theology and introduction to sacramental theology, including Placement experience of the work place within a local Social Justice both historical perspectives and contemporary organisation. You will gain skills in personal debates. It also gives you a set of frameworks with development planning and gain practical experience which to understand and query the relationships of writing CVs and putting together a job between worship and the rest of life, and thus also application. During your placement you will also some of those between religious ritual and social reflect on the links between an aspect of your work justice. placement and your studies in Theology.

Scribes, In this module you’ll explore scribal activity and Ways of You’ll learn about different forms of religious Apostles and Jewish biblical exegesis by examining various Christian Living life in the 4th and 5th centuries and explore the Sages: Early Jewish texts including the Bible, Pseudepigrapha, in the 4th and connections between early Christian beliefs and Jewish Biblical the Dead Sea Scrolls, Mishnah and the Talmud. 5th Centuries the implications of these for ethics and politics. Exegesis Linked themes and topics are considered at each Key topics include the idealisation of virginity; stage, providing a combination of a chronological the beginnings of Cappadocian monasticism; and thematic treatment of the various texts. almsgiving and the development of hospitals; martyr cults and pilgrimage; and the role of women and slaves in Christian communities. Academic excellence • We work with our students to continually Explore the possibilities improve the education on offer, via Open Days • We are in the top one per cent of initiatives which put students at the heart Come and visit our beautiful campuses. universities in the world, and a regular of our decision making process fixture in top 10 league tables of UK We hold Open Days twice a year in June universities • We’re a truly international community, and September. with students from over 130 countries and Campus Tours • You will receive an outstanding education staff of 50 different nationalities here; our teaching was voted fourth in the We run Campus Tours at the Streatham country in the latest National Student • Our students are consistently among the Campus every weekday at 2pm during term Survey most satisfied in the country, ranking us in time. You’ll be shown round by a current the top 10 of the National Student Survey student, who’ll give you a firsthand account • Our teaching is inspired by our research, each year since it began of what it’s like to live and study at Exeter. nearly 90 per cent of wh11ich was ranked as internationally recognised by the 2008 Ambition for the future For full details and to book your place, Research Assessment Exercise contact us on: • We equip you with the skills employers Website: www.exeter.ac.uk/opendays • We attract the best qualified students in need via business placements, Phone: +44 (0)1392 724043 the country; we’re in the top 10 for the study abroad schemes, volunteering Email: [email protected] number of students graduating with a first opportunities, careers advice from or 2:1 and for entry standards (students successful alumni and much more Offer-Holder Visit Days achieving AAB at A level and above) Once you receive confirmation of an offer • Despite tough economic times, we’ve we’ll contact you with an invitation to visit A vibrant community improved our employment record year-on- us on an Offer-Holder Visit Day, which year: more than 90 per cent of students • Our students are the most engaged in the will give you the chance to find out more get a job or further study place within six about your programme and department country, smashing participation records months of graduating in student elections for the last two years and decide whether to accept our offer. While this opportunity to visit includes a running • We’ve invested over £350 million in our campus tour and formal introduction to the three campuses, from new accommodation department, much emphasis is placed on • The Students’ Guild offers an unrivalled and research labs to state-of-the-art a more informal period for questions and selection of societies, from sport to culture lecture theatres and library spaces to community volunteering groups – 8,000 answers. A number of our current students students take part in 165 societies also take part on these days, leading tours and giving you the opportunity to ask them • We are a top 10 UK university for sport what studying at Exeter is really like! Offer- and provide excellent facilities and support Holder Visit Days take place during the whether you want to compete at the period January to April. highest level or just for fun www.exeter.ac.uk/theology

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