English Literature and Religious Studies (BA)

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    Cardiff (Wales)

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WBQ core will be accepted in lieu of one A-level (at the grades specified above), excluding English Literature or English Language and Literature, or Creative Writing for English Literature degrees.

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King Edward VII Avenue, South Glamorgan, CF10 3XQ

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29/06/2018
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Subjects

  • English
  • Religious Studies
  • Writing
  • Greek
  • Sanskrit
  • Arabic
  • Hebrew
  • Ethics

Course programme

This is a three-year degree programme comprising of some core modules that provide essential skills and training as well as a wide variety of optional modules for you to select from in order to tailor your degree to meet your interests.

The degree provides the training necessary for students who wish to study English Literature or Religious Studies at postgraduate level, and a valuable range of intellectual and transferable skills for students who enter other professions.

Year one

You will take 60 credits in English Literature and 60 credits in Religious Studies.

Core modulesModule titleModule codeCreditsIntroduction to Poetry and the NovelSE213620 creditsReading and IdentitySE213120 creditsOptional modules

Module titleModule codeCreditsIntroduction To Biblical HebrewRT210420 creditsFurther Biblical HebrewRT210520 creditsIntroduction To The BibleRT210320 creditsThe Story of ChristianityRT410320 creditsIntroduction to New Testament GreekRT310720 creditsFurther New Testament GreekRT310820 creditsIntroduction To ArabicRT110920 creditsFurther Elementary ArabicRT111020 creditsIntroduction To The Study of Religion 1RT111120 creditsIntroduction To The Study of Religion 2RT111220 creditsIntroduction To SanskritRT110620 creditsFurther Elementary SanskritRT110720 creditsTexts in Time 1500-1800SE213220 creditsLiterature, Culture, PlaceSE213320 creditsShakespeare and ChaucerSE213520 creditsMedieval Narrative and NationSE213720 creditsYear two

In Year 2, you take 60 credits of English Literature modules and 60 credits of Religious Studies modules.

Optional modules

Module titleModule codeCreditsElementary Sanskrit IRT120120 creditsElementary Sanskrit IIRT120220 creditsClassical Hebrew 1RT220120 creditsClassical Hebrew IIRT220220 creditsBeliefs in the CrucibleRT520420 creditsChristian 'Church' Today: Its Meaning, Life and MissionRT520520 creditsTheology On The Edge: Christian Thought in A Changing WorldRT531520 creditsChristian Social Ethics TodayRT731720 creditsUnderstanding Christian WorshipRT432020 creditsElementary Arabic IRT120320 creditsElementary Arabic IIRT120420 creditsArabic Texts IRT131020 creditsArabic Texts IIRT131120 creditsFiction of The Indian SubcontinentSE228320 creditsCreative Writing ISE241720 creditsMajority World Voices: Global South TheologiesRT734220 creditsShakespeare and Renaissance DramaSE244220 creditsReading Old EnglishSE244120 creditsElizabethan ShakespeareSE244320 creditsModernist FictionsSE244520 creditsModern Welsh Writing in EnglishSE244820 creditsTwentieth-Century Crime FictionSE245520 creditsIntroduction to Romantic PoetrySE245020 creditsBuddhism: The First Thousand YearsRT122720 creditsEarly Hindu Texts in SanskritRT132820 creditsThe Life of the BuddhaRT135220 creditsModernism and the CitySE246320 creditsThe Post-1945 American NovelSE256620 creditsImaginary Journeys: More to HuxleySE245720 creditsIntroduction to Visual CultureSE246120 creditsHellenistic Greek IRT320120 creditsHellenistic Greek IIRT320220 creditsEarly HinduismRT133820 creditsOpen Choice TranslationRT134920 creditsContemporary Women's WritingSE244620 creditsHistory of EnglishSE139820 creditsAfrican-American LiteratureSE245120 creditsChildren's Literature: Form & FunctionSE244720 creditsEmotions, Symbols, and Rituals: Studying Societies Through FilmRT121520 creditsIslam in the Contemporary WorldRT132720 creditsBodies, Spirits, and Souls: The Person, Ethics, and ReligionRT133920 creditsReligion in the WorkplaceRT135420 creditsThe Most Famous Hindu Text: Bhagavadgita, Text & ContextRT135520 creditsFoundational EthicsRT135620 creditsGod, Good and the Ugly: Topics in Applied Islamic EthicsRT135720 creditsMedieval Church in the Latin WestRT135820 creditsExploring GnosticismRT135920 creditsUnderstanding Muslim ScripturesRT136020 creditsHebrew TextsRT230420 creditsAncient, Mediaeval and Modern JudaismRT230620 creditsNew Testament Gospels and ActsRT320720 creditsNew Testament Greek Texts IIRT332720 creditsHistory of Christian Spirituality 1550 - Present DayRT432120 creditsMoney, Sex and Power in the Early ChurchRT432520 creditsFictive Histories/Historical FictionsSE246720 creditsGothic Fiction: The Romantic AgeSE246820 creditsSocial Politics and National Style: American Fiction and Form 1920-1940SE247020 creditsWays of ReadingSE244920 creditsThe Robin Hood TraditionSE236720 creditsRomanticism, Politics, AestheticsSE246920 creditsYear three

In Year 3, you take 60 credits of English Literature modules and 60 credits of Religious Studies modules. If you wish, you can write a dissertation on a topic of your choice in either discipline.

Optional modules

Module titleModule codeCreditsElementary Sanskrit IRT120120 creditsElementary Sanskrit IIRT120220 creditsClassical Hebrew 1RT220120 creditsClassical Hebrew IIRT220220 creditsHellenistic Greek IRT320120 creditsHellenistic Greek IIRT320220 creditsBeliefs in the CrucibleRT520420 creditsChristian 'Church' Today: Its Meaning, Life and MissionRT520520 creditsTheology On The Edge: Christian Thought in A Changing WorldRT531520 creditsOpen Choice DissertationRT731620 creditsChristian Social Ethics TodayRT731720 creditsUnderstanding Christian WorshipRT432020 creditsElementary Arabic IRT120320 creditsElementary Arabic IIRT120420 creditsArabic Texts IRT131020 creditsArabic Texts IIRT131120 creditsCreative Writing III: Special TopicsSE237320 creditsHitchcockSE254420 creditsDissertationSE252420 creditsCreative Writing II: Special TopicsSE237020 creditsOpen Choice TranslationRT134920 creditsMajority World Voices: Global South TheologiesRT734220 creditsLove, Death and Marriage in Renaissance LiteratureSE258320 credits

English Literature and Religious Studies (BA)

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