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Courses in Religious Studies

Click on a course’s title to read a short description. More detailed information about course contents, entry requirements, and how and when to apply is given at the end of each course’s description.

Undergraduate Courses

Introducing Religions (A217)

Religion in History: Conflict, Conversion and Co-existence (AA307)

Why is Religion Controversial? (A332)

Undergraduate Interdisciplinary Courses with Religious Studies Components

The arts past and present (AA100)

Voices and texts (A150)

Making sense of things: an introduction to material culture (A151)

From Enlightenment to Romanticism c.1780-1830 (A207)

Postgraduate Course

MA Religious Studies part 2 (A881). This course will start for the last time in May 2014. Please note that for the masters degree in religious studies you require 180 credits from the compulsory modules A881 (60 credits) and 120 credits from the discontinued A880 (MA Religious Studies part 1).

Religious Studies and Employability

Find out why graduates in Religious Studies are valued in an increasingly global economy.

Religion Today: A Reader


AA307 course book
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