(Award available for year: Bachelor of Arts)
Subject Specific Learning Outcomes
1. Engage critically with debates and positions in self-selected areas of specialisation in the study of religion.
2. Apply social and political insight to discussions of religion.
3. Synthesise your understanding of areas of enquiry, concepts, and methodologies in the study of religion to effectively develop and defend a sophisticated view of your own.
4. Undertake an extended piece of independent research in the study of religion or analysis of the relevance of the study of religion to a real world, non-academic context.
Skills Learning Outcomes
1. Express yourself orally and in writing in a clear, concise, focused and structured manner (Academic and Work Ready skill)
2. Search for, evaluate and use a range of relevant sources to strengthen the quality of academic work and independent research (Academic, Work Ready and Enterprise skill)
3. Plan and execute a self-guided project (Academic and Work Ready skill)
4. Identify when, why and how to appropriately acknowledge someone else’s work and ideas (Academic and Work Ready skill)
5. Communicate complex information, ideas, problems, and solutions in a variety of ways to a variety of audiences (Academic and Work Ready Skill)
Competence Standards
1. Demonstrate in-depth knowledge of the concepts, theories, and arguments in the study of religion and effectively explain your own viewpoint.
2. Demonstrate understanding of the concepts, theories, and arguments of a wide range of areas within the study of religion
3. Identify how the study of religion can be relevant to examples outside the academic context.
4. Make and justify decisions about choice of sources and arguments in the study of religion.
5. Identify and reflect on your own positionality in relation to the field of study
Achievement will be assessed by a variety of methods in accordance with the learning outcomes of the modules specified for the year and enable students to demonstrate they have achieved the programme level learning outcomes through their optional and core modules. Assessments may include essays, reports, learning logs, blogs, literature reviews, presentations, poster-presentations, and podcasts.
Core modules and any combination of optional modules will enable students to achieve all the learning outcomes.
Students will be provided with a range of unassessed formative exercises, allowing them to make progress with the learning outcomes and skills outside an assessment context. Opportunities for explicit discussion and support will be made available by module leaders in office hours and in routine meetings with academic personal tutors.
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