Theology and Religion UNDERGRADUATE STUDY • 2012 ENTRY STREATHAM CAMPUS, EXETER
Key Information
UCAS CODE TYPICAL OFFER BA Single Honours eology V611 AAB-BBB; IB: 34-30 eology with Study Abroad V610 AAB-BBB; IB: 34-30
BA Combined Honours Classical Studies and eology QV85 AAB-ABB; IB: 34-32
Philosophy and eology with Study Abroad QV 86 AAB-ABB; IB: 34-32
Philosophy and eology VV56 AAB-ABB; IB: 34-32
Philosophy and eology with Study Abroad VV5P AAB-ABB; IB: 34-32
eology and Arabic VQ64 AAB-ABB; IB: 34-32
eology and Arabic Studies VQ6K AAB-ABB; IB: 34-32
eology and Islamic Studies V690 AAB-ABB; IB: 34-32
Flexible Combined Honours V004 AAA-AAB; IB: 36-34
Flexible Combined Honours with Study Abroad Y006 AAA-AAB; IB: 36-34
Flexible Combined Honours with UK Work Experience Y007 AAA-AAB; IB: 36-34
For further details on all our entry requirements, please see our eology 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 Hebrew Bible
(Tanakh/Old Testament). In particular, I’m interested in 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.
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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, so that you gain a solid approaches. You’ll get a solid grounding in BA eology grounding in the broad areas of study the core subjects which are fundamental to e BA in eology gives you an excellent essential to theology: philosophy of religion the study of theology (for example, biblical grounding in all the subjects essential to a and ethics, biblical studies, and Christian studies, historical and contemporary good understanding of the discipline of history and doctrine. You’ll also choose theology, and ethics) but you’ll also have the eology, from biblical studies and church from a range of optional modules to begin flexibility to explore more specialised areas history to modern theology, philosophy and exploring more specific areas of enquiry. of interest through optional modules. ese ethics and gives you increasing flexibility Year 2: Half your work in the second year include familiar topics such as the and choice as you progress through the comprises optional modules, enabling you relationship of science and religion or stages of the degree. e programme to pursue your particular interests in a feminist theology, and less familiar ones enables you to explore the contexts, diverse range of areas including religion such as the built environment or depictions development and meanings of the texts of past and present, science and religion, of heaven and hell throughout the ages. the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament (with the option of studying the texts in the contemporary and applied theology, religion We’re concerned both with understanding original languages). You’ll also study the and public issues, and biblical literature and the tradition – what was thought then – and whole history of Christian theological languages. with understanding our own contemporary thought, including aspects of Christianity’s Year 3: In your third year, you’ll continue world in theological perspective. You’ll be relationship to other religions; the critical to ‘customise’ your degree to suit your taught by people who are active in research questions, philosophical, political, ethical particular interests because all of your and enthusiastic about their subject, so that and historical, raised in the modern and studies will be chosen from a very wide you encounter the latest thinking and post-modern world about religion in general range of optional modules. You’ll also write innovative approaches. and the Christian religion specifically; and a dissertation on a topic of your choice. the critical questions raised by the Christian How your degree religion about the world. Combined Honours Degrees is structured You will also be able to customise your e degrees are divided into core and BA Classical Studies and eology degree by choosing from a long list of optional modules, which gives you the No previous knowledge of Latin, Greek or modules covering issues as diverse as flexibility to structure your degree according Hebrew is required. sexuality, criminal justice, feminism, the to your specific interests. Individual environment, science, anthropology, is programme gives you a great modules are worth 15 or 30 credits each. evolution, art, the body, the soul, heaven opportunity to combine the challenge of Full-time undergraduates need to take 120 and hell, heresy, morality and ethics, exploring the culture and thought of the credits in each year. Within eology and martyrs and pilgrimage, life after death, ancient world with the study of theology. Religion, in addition to the core modules, and the study of religions. Both these disciplines focus on literary, you can choose from an extensive range of historical, religious, cultural, political, options in all three years, a few examples of Opportunities are available to add value to philosophical and ethical issues debated in which are shown at the back of this your academic studies by going on field the ancient world – issues which continue brochure. trips, taking a work placement, or studying to impact the world today. Your studies are abroad. You can also take modules in Biblical For up-to-date details of all our divided equally between the two subjects, Hebrew, New Testament Greek or take programmes and modules, please check combining core modules drawn from credits in subjects such as Arab and Islamic www.exeter.ac.uk/theology Greek/Roman Philosophy or Greek/Roman Studies, Sociology, Philosophy, Politics, Religion, biblical studies and the history and History or Classics, many of which offer doctrine of Christianity in Years 1 and 2. modules directly related to theology, world You’ll also choose optional modules in both religions, ethics and philosophy. disciplines in Years 2 and 3. Topics explored in both disciplines include ancient religions, BA eology and Arabic/Arabic Studies questions about social, philosophical, sexuality, politics, literature, art, philosophy BA eology and Islamic Studies religious, cultural and political issues. and ethics. For Classical Studies, all texts No previous knowledge of Arabic, Hebrew or You’ll also be able to learn Arabic, Biblical are usually taught in translation, so you Greek is required. Hebrew and New Testament Greek and to won’t have to study Latin or Greek language engage literature from a range of cultural Studying Arabic or Islamic Studies modules unless you choose to. e same contexts. will provide you with a thorough is true of biblical studies for eology, understanding of the culture and literature Full details of the Arabic, Arabic Studies although you can learn New Testament of the people of the Middle East alongside and Islamic Studies modules can be found Greek and Biblical Hebrew if you would developing skills of theological inquiry at www.exeter.ac.uk/iais like to and read biblical texts in their and analysis. The four-year programme original languages. with Arabic allows you to spend the Flexible Combined Honours Full details of the Classical Studies modules second year of your programme at one is innovative Combined Honours scheme can be found at www.exeter.ac.uk/classics of our accredited Arabic language study enables you to combine modules from a centres. The programmes with Arabic number of different fields of study not BA Philosophy and eology Studies and Islamic Studies are three-year otherwise available through an existing is programme combines the perspectives programmes without the year abroad. All Combined Honours programme. You can of philosophy, theology and religion to these programmes combine modules from combine eology with up to two other enable you to develop a reflective the disciplines of theology and religion subjects from an extensive list. roughout understanding of some pervasive and and Arabic and Islamic studies. You’ll your degree you will be given regular problematic features of the world and gain a broad knowledge of the Middle East support to help you choose the most ourselves. You’ll acquire a solid grounding and its history and social identities and appropriate pathway for you. Further in the main themes and methods of you’ll learn about the histories and information and the full list of available philosophy and theology, equipping you developments of Islam and Christianity subjects can be found at with the critical and analytical skills as world religions and civilisations. This www.exeter.ac.uk/fch necessary to engage with the key themes, learning will enable you to explore the debates and methods of both disciplines. inter-relationships between the study Your studies are divided equally between of the Middle East and the study of the two subjects, combining core modules Christianity and to engage with critical in Years 1 and 2 from the areas of classical epistemology, metaphysics and moral philosophy with the areas of philosophy of religion, Christian ethics and doctrine. In Year 3 you’ll study optional modules chosen from a diverse range in both philosophy and theology and you’ll also write a dissertation on a philosophical or theological topic of your choice. Full details of Philosophy modules can be found at www.exeter.ac.uk/philosophy
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Learning and teaching
We use a wide range of teaching and We have various guest lectures and study areas that are not available at Exeter, and learning methods including lectures, days led by visiting speakers, including the when it comes to a career, your skills and seminars, group-work, debates and one-to- series of Prideaux Lectures hosted every knowledge of another country will prove one or small group tutorials. Your class sizes other year. Past lecturers have included invaluable to many employers. is of will be on average 25-35 students for Tom Wright, Sarah Coakley, Nicholas Lash, course applies equally to overseas students lectures and 10-15 students for seminars Robin Gill, James Dunn, John Rogerson coming to study abroad at Exeter. and you’ll have on average two to three and Christopher Rowland. If you take eology with Arabic, you will hours of contact time per module per week. normally spend your second year abroad. You will also need to allow for additional Research-led teaching More information is available at hours of private study and should expect We believe every student benefits from www.exeter.ac.uk/iais your total workload to average about 40 being part of a research-led culture and hours per week during term-time. being taught by experts. Your teachers will For our other degree programmes, you may study for half a year at a partner institution Strong emphasis is placed on acquiring a be familiar with the latest developments in in Europe, North America or Australia or variety of skills that will be attractive to their field and their teaching will be highly follow a four-year ‘with Study Abroad’ employers in your future working life. relevant to contemporary issues. We have a programme. You may apply directly for the Modules are specially designed to help you vigorous research culture in the department four-year programmes or transfer from develop a range of intellectual, transferable spanning a wide range of subject areas with another programme once you are at Exeter. and personal skills throughout your degree particular strengths in theology, ethics, Full details of these schemes and of our programme and our staff-student liaison social contexts and public issues. partner institutions can be found on our committee meets once a term to review website at www.exeter.ac.uk/humanities/ existing modules, consider new ones and Academic support undergraduate/studyabroad discuss ways in which the department All students have a Personal Tutor who can be improved. is available for advice and support For full details please check the throughout their studies. There are also International Office website at We have an interdisciplinary approach to a number of services on campus where you www.exeter.ac.uk/international/ theology and religion – relating these broad can get advice and information, including study/erasmus areas to politics, social sciences, the arts, the Students’ Guild Advice Unit. You can literary studies and more. We’re actively find further information about all the Assessment engaged in introducing new methods of services in the University’s undergraduate learning and teaching, including increasing Assessment is based on essays, seminar prospectus or online at www.exeter.ac.uk/ use of interactive computer-based presentations and exams. In Years 2 and 3 undergraduate approaches to learning through our virtual coursework (including assessed seminar presentations and essays) can account for learning environment, where the details of Study abroad all modules are stored in an easily navigable well over half of your assessment website. Students can access detailed Studying for your degree at Exeter offers depending on which modules you choose. you the exciting possibility of spending up information about modules and learning You must pass your first year assessment to one year abroad. In 2010/11 Exeter’s outcomes and interact through activities in order to progress to the second year, highly successful programme helped about such as the discussion forums. but the results do not count towards your 400 students study at one of our 180 degree classification. For three-year In your final year you will write a partner universities. You could learn a new programmes, the assessments in the dissertation on a topic of your choice, language and experience different cultures, second and third years contribute to your so you can examine a question of interest become more self-confident and widen your final degree classification. to you in detail, and apply the skills you circle of friends. For four-year programmes the have acquired during your degree. You could get the chance to specialise in assessments in the second, third and fourth years all contribute to your final degree classification. For full details of the assessment criteria for each module, check the undergraduate section of our website at www.exeter.ac.uk/ theology Money matters e following are examples of initial jobs prior study of specific subjects and may secured by eology graduates who recently also have minimum grade requirements at At the time of printing, major finished undergraduate programmes: GCSE or equivalent, particularly in English Government reforms to student Language and/or Mathematics. finance are underway – these will • Events Management Internship, Global allow universities to charge tuition fees Action Plan, London For some Theology programmes where of up to £9,000 a year from 2012/13. • Registry Officer, Kings College London we receive a large number of applications Universities that want to charge more • Youth and Families Worker, St Michael from well-qualified applicants, we may not than the new basic fee of £6,000 will and All Angels Church, Exeter be able to make an offer to all those who are predicted to achieve (or who have have to meet additional conditions to • Voluntary Work, Voluntary Services already achieved) our typical offer. We will promote access for disadvantaged Overseas (VSO), Africa students. We have not yet confirmed therefore consider additional academic • Church Apprentice, St Helen’s Church, achievements alongside the personal our tuition fees and support levels for the Bishopsgate coming year, but, once we have done so, statement in deciding whether we are able • Assistant Youth Worker, Devon Youth we will update our website as soon as to make an offer. You can find further Service, Exeter possible. We therefore recommend you information about these additional criteria consult our website for this information • Graduate Trainee, Flagship Consulting, at www.exeter.ac.uk/undergraduate/ before you submit your UCAS application London degrees/theology for entry to university in autumn 2012. Examples of further study followed by We make every effort to ensure that the For further information, please see our graduates in eology are: entry requirements are as up-to-date as www.exeter.ac.uk/undergraduate/ possible in our printed literature. • MA eology and Youth Ministry, money However, since this is printed well in Kings College London advance of the start of the admissions Careers • MA eology, University of Exeter cycle, in some cases our entry • MSc Development and Security, Our programmes give you an excellent requirements and offers will change. University of Bristol all-round education, where you’ll learn to If you are an international student you understand other people’s points of view, • MA Applied Criminal Justice and should consult our general and subject- to communicate your own position clearly Criminology, Swansea University specific entry requirements information and to argue effectively. You’ll also learn to • MA Religion and Culture, University for A levels and the International collect, assess and present evidence and to of Birmingham Baccalaureate, but the University also work independently and in groups. Our • MA Religious Conflict, University recognises a wide range of international programmes are demanding and encourage of Nottingham qualifications. You can find further initiative and open mindedness, helping to • PGCE Religious Education, University information about academic and English ensure that you’ll be well equipped with of Oxford language entry requirements at a range of academic, personal and www.exeter.ac.uk/undergraduate/ professional skills that will prepare you For further information about what the international for future employment. Employability Service offers at Exeter visit www.exeter.ac.uk/employability For information on the application, Many students from the department take decision, offer and confirmation process, part in the Exeter Award and the Exeter En try requirements please visit www.exeter.ac.uk/ Leaders Award. ese schemes encourage undergraduate/applications you to participate in employability related and applying workshops, skills events, volunteering and You can find a summary of our typical employment which will contribute to your entry requirements on the inside front career decision-making skills and success cover of this brochure. in the employment market. The full and most up-to-date information Exeter has an excellent reputation with about Theology is on the undergraduate graduate recruiters and our students and website at www.exeter.ac.uk/ graduates compete very successfully in undergraduate/degrees/theology and we the employment market. Many employers strongly advise that you check this before target the University when recruiting attending an open day or making your new graduates. application. Some programmes require
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Dissertation C C C C C Optional Modules in Theology O O O O O Year 2 Optional Modules The Divine World in This module examines the theological perspectives An Introduction Questions about the appropriate way to use the the Hebrew Bible and religious contexts of the Hebrew Bible, to Biblical Bible constantly arise in theology. Is it simply one including the relationship between ancient Hermeneutics fallible historical source among others? Is it the Israelite religion and its biblical presentation, prime authority for Christian thought and myths about creation, evidence of goddess practice? Is it historically trustworthy? You’ll worship, the functions of temples and their explore these issues by investigating different symbolism, the role of prophecy and divination, forms of Biblical interpretation, and in doing so, and the emergence of monotheism from develop the means to articulate and critique your polytheism. own approach. Introducing Paul This module explores the life, literature and Evolution, God This module examines the rise and development of theology of the apostle Paul within the context and Gaia evolutionary theory and explores the challenges it of critical scholarship. You’ll explore pre-Pauline continues to pose for Christianity. You’ll examine Christianity, Paul’s shift from Jew to Christian, the issues evolutionary theory raises concerning the controversies surrounding Gentile converts the suffering of non-human creatures and the and the role and place of Israel and Jewish law, character and behaviour of humans. Paul’s views on ethics, Christology and the Spirit, God and the This module explores the philosophical and and Paul’s portrayal of Jesus Christ. Physicists theological issues raised by physics since its origins Christian Moral You’ll explore key methods and themes in in Pre-Socratic philosophy. You’ll engage with classic Theory and Ethics theological and philosophical ethics by engaging controversies such as the Galileo Affair, the with some of the challenges facing the Church. Key quantum revolution and theories of the origin and topics include: Gospel, Law and why torture is end of the universe, and consider if and how God wrong; poverty and injustice; peacemaking as a may be thought to act in the world science Christian vocation, and the relationship between describes. Christian ethics and public policy. God, Sex and Money: You’ll be invited to engage with a wide range of Modern Theology This module looks at theological thought from Topics in Christian topics in practical Christian ethics. There is scope 1700 to the present day, primarily in Western Ethics in this module to consider topics ranging from Europe and North America. You’ll examine texts abortion, assisted suicide, human genetic and thinkers in relation to their social and manipulation, drones, other weaponry and intellectual contexts, including the work of Kant, military interventions for ‘humanitarian’ reasons; Schleiermacher, Kierkegaard, and Nietzsche. trans-sexuality, gay marriage, capital punishment, climate change, globalisation and international Year 3 poverty. Dissertation This module provides an opportunity for you to Heaven and Hell This module traces the development of Christian carry out independent research in a sustained way Throughout the Ages doctrines of heaven and hell from the period of the on a topic of your choice. The dissertation is written Early Church to the present day. You’ll assess the in your final year, and will allow you to put to use social and political factors affecting belief in or the the skills you have acquired in the first two years of denial of hell, examine concepts such as purgatory the programme, by thinking at length about a and the role of the Devil, and engage with debates question that is of particular interest to you. about war, the holocaust, universal salvation, and evangelical views of hell.
Optional modules in eology – Years 2 and 3 Issues in This module examines philosophical treatments of Philosophical a range of Christian teachings on themes such as: Theology Trinity, incarnation, atonement, providence, • Encountering the Historical Jesus • Sacramental Theology and scriptural authority, and resurrection. You’ll • Evolution, God and Gaia Social Justice • Scribes, Apostles and Sages: Early consider the coherence and plausibility of these • God and the Physicists Jewish Biblical Exegesis doctrines and their relationship to Christian life God, Sex and Money: • Theology and Aesthetics Topics in Christian Ethics • and will also consider the role of philosophical Theology and the Bios: Heaven and Hell • methods in theological enquiry. • Theological Explorations in Throughout the Ages Being, Living and Dying Life and Death in In this module, you’ll explore ancient Israelite • Intermediate Biblical Hebrew • Theology, Art and Politics Ancient Israel concepts of life, death, and post-mortem existence, • Intermediate New Testament Greek • Theology, Culture, Ideology and examine topics including ritual prostitution, • Issues in Philosophical Theology • Theology, Gender, Race and Class child sacrifice and the worship of the dead. This • Life and Death in Ancient Israel • Theology Work Placement module also enables you to assess the impact of • New Testament Ethics • Ways of Christian Living in the these and other ancient Israelite beliefs on the • Philosophy and the Spiritual Life 4th and 5th Centuries Bible and their influence on later concepts of fertility, death, resurrection and afterlife.
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New Testament Ethics You’ll examine the ways in which New Testament Theology and the You’ll develop a theologically informed texts construct patterns of morality and ethics and Bios: Theological understanding of issues related to the human consider whether a ‘moral vision’ can be Explorations in ‘bios’, broadly conceived of in terms of human synthesised from the varied New Testament Being, Living and being (ontology), human living (sociality) and writings. You’ll also appraise the interpretative Dying human dying (suffering and eschatology). You will issues involved in using the Bible in ethics today, become familiar with the ethical, moral, and examine some models for the application of philosophical and theological implications of New Testament ethics to contemporary morality. human being, living and dying within the context Philosophical This module leads you into the contemporary of contemporary life, particularly as impacted by Questions about debate in the philosophy of religion and biomedicine and biotechnology. Religion philosophical theology. You will consider the latest Theology, Art and You’ll study the relationship between theology, philosophical work on issues such as the nature of Politics ethics and art and examine the work of particular religious experience, the relationship between artists up close as you visit art galleries in the UK different faith traditions, the connections between and Europe. Subjects include God in the flesh, religion and ethics, and religion and science. images of crucifixion, and landscape and creation. Philosophy and This module will explore recent philosophical and Theology, Culture, This option module introduces you to some of the the Spiritual Life theological writing on ‘the spiritual life’. The Ideology major questions and issues of cultural studies, module will consider the relationship between such as the ideological impact of North on South, religious belief and the spiritual life, and the role of class on theory, the nature of ideology and the of theological assumptions in structuring some relation of art and politics, and the questions visions of the spiritual life. It will also consider raised by the interaction of gospel and culture, in non-religious accounts of the spiritual life, and the particular the question of inculturation. contribution to the spiritual life of practice, the emotions, and relationship to place. Theology, Gender, This module introduces key texts in feminist and Race and Class queer theology, with particular emphasis on those Sacramental Theology This module will provide you with a thorough that also offer an analysis of race and class; it will and Social Justice introduction to sacramental theology, including supplement these with further (non- both historical perspectives and contemporary feminist/queer) readings on race and class from a debates. It will also afford them a set of range of cultural backgrounds. The module also frameworks with which to understand and query engages you in analysing emerging discourses in some of the relationships between worship and the popular culture (including art, music, film and rest of life, and thus also some of those between religious ritual and social justice. literature) as they relate to the intersections of gender, race and class with and within theology. Scribes, Apostles and This module explores scribal activity and Jewish Sages: Early Jewish biblical exegesis by examining various Jewish Theology Work This module enables you to obtain valuable Biblical Exegesis corpora including the Bible, Pseudepigrapha, the Placement experience of the work place within a local Dead Sea Scrolls, Mishnah and the Talmud. Linked organisation. You will gain skills in personal themes and topics are considered at each stage, development planning and gain practical providing a combination of a chronological and experience of writing CVs and putting together a thematic treatment of the various corpora. job application. During your placement you will also reflect on the links between an aspect of your Theology and This module explores the aesthetic dimension of work placement and your studies in Theology. Aesthetics religious understanding. You’ll learn about contemporary philosophical and theological Ways of Christian You’ll learn about different forms of religious life accounts of the nature of aesthetic understanding Living in the fourth in the fourth and fifth centuries and explore the and experience. You’ll consider the role of the and fifth Centuries connections between early Christian beliefs and emotions and embodied engagement in aesthetic the implications of these for ethics and politics. understanding, and drawing on these ideas, reflect Key topics include the idealisation of virginity; the on the material context of religious understanding. beginnings of Cappadocian monasticism; The module will also examine various treatments almsgiving and the development of hospitals; of the idea of divine beauty. martyr cults and pilgrimage; and the role of women and slaves in Christian communities.
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