BA Religion, Politics and Society

Year 3

(Award available for year: Bachelor of Arts)

Learning outcomes

On completion of the programme students will be able to demonstrate coherent and detailed subject knowledge and understanding, informed by recent research/scholarship in the study of Religion, Politics and Society both locally and globally. Students will demonstrate a conceptual understanding which enables the development and sustaining of an argument, which may be original, and which demonstrates a balancing of critical enquiry with sensitivity to multiple and conflicting interpretations and to the uncertainty, ambiguity and limitations of knowledge in the study of Religion, Politics and Society. Students will be able to effectively deploy standard techniques of analysis, evaluation and enquiry, be able to identify and select relevant scholarly and primary sources, and make appropriate use of them in the initiation and completion of an extended piece of independent research. Students will be able to show appreciation of the complexity and inter-relatedness of religion, politics and society in contemporary public life, and an ability to engage with cross-disciplinary themes in analysis of this complexity. Students will communicate effectively, using a range of relevant formats, to a range of relevant audiences.

Transferable (key) skills

Students will have had the opportunity to evidence and develop:
- independent, original, analytical and critical thinking;
- higher level ability to communicate information, ideas, problems and solutions in a variety of ways to a variety of audiences;
- qualities and transferable skills necessary for employment in a plural society with an expert subject specialist knowledge of religion, politics and society;
- high level skills necessary for the exercising of personal responsibility.

Assessment

Achievement of the programme learning outcomes, and evidence of transferable skills, will be assessed by a variety of methods through the modules specified for the level, and may include essays, reports, exams, group work, presentations, reflective writing. Assessment will focus on providing opportunities for students to evidence their higher level skills and demonstrate their growing independence of thought and critical ability.
Students will demonstrate their ability to undertake extended independent study and will be encouraged to explore cross-disciplinary perspectives.
Assessment will be designed in order to assess programme level, as well as module level, learning.