{"id":722,"date":"2018-05-10T13:29:19","date_gmt":"2018-05-10T13:29:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/religious-studies\/?p=722"},"modified":"2018-05-10T13:29:19","modified_gmt":"2018-05-10T13:29:19","slug":"rs-options-for-arts-and-humanities-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/religious-studies\/?p=722","title":{"rendered":"RS Options for Arts and Humanities Students"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Did you know there are a variety of ways you can take Religious Studies modules as part of an Arts and Humanities qualification at the Open University? In this podcast, Stefanie Sinclair and John Maiden talk you through the different options, and the different Religious Studies modules on offer.<\/p>\n<p>Religious Studies is a great addition to other Arts and Humanities subjects. As John Maiden puts it:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"Transcript\">Religions are an important aspect of all human cultures past and present. And Religious Studies is not just about world views or internalised beliefs though we do look at belief very carefully. It\u2019s also about great works of art, popular culture, national and international politics, public and private practices, the kind of everyday doing of religion. So, whether you\u2019re studying music or literature or philosophy or history, you name it, you\u2019ll find that Religious Studies links really well with any other Arts and Humanities discipline.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-722-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/religious-studies\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/nc_artsugquals_2018j_aug002-1.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/religious-studies\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/nc_artsugquals_2018j_aug002-1.mp3\" >https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/religious-studies\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/nc_artsugquals_2018j_aug002-1.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/religious-studies\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/nc_artsugquals_2018j_aug002_TRANSCRIPT.docx\" >Click here to download a transcript.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did you know there are a variety of ways you can take Religious Studies modules as part of an Arts and Humanities qualification at the Open University? In this podcast, Stefanie Sinclair and John Maiden talk you through the different options, and the different Religious Studies modules on offer. Religious Studies is a great addition [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[220,94,222,219,120,221],"class_list":["post-722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-media","tag-arts-and-humanities","tag-john-maiden","tag-modules","tag-podcast","tag-stefanie-sinclair","tag-teaching"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/religious-studies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/religious-studies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/religious-studies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/religious-studies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/religious-studies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=722"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/religious-studies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":723,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/religious-studies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722\/revisions\/723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/religious-studies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/religious-studies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/religious-studies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}