BA Religion, Politics and Society

Year 1

(Award available for year: Certificate of Higher Educ)

Learning outcomes

By the end of level one students will demonstrate an appropriate level of proficiency in religious studies and key relevant areas of sociology and politics, including a familiarity with the basic concepts, information, practical competencies and techniques relevant to the area of study. Students will demonstrate a broad subject knowledge and understanding of theoretical and methodological issues involved in the study of religion in contemporary public life.
Students will demonstrate an ability to communicate the results of their work, to present a structured and coherent argument, to evaluate data, and to identify key relevant and recent research and/or scholarship.
Students will have acquired the essential academic skills to progress into level two by completing an academic skills training module.

Transferable (key) skills

Students will have had the opportunity to evidence and develop:
- a basic level of analytical and critical thinking;
- the communication of information, ideas, problems and solutions in a limited variety of ways
- qualities and transferable skills necessary for employment in a plural society with a basic subject specialist knowledge of religion, politics and society;
- 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 be designed in order to assess programme level, as well as module level, learning.