Theology & Religious Studies

Year 1 Teaching Style

We will teach you through lectures, seminars and feedback on your assignments. We will also expect you to undertake a significant amount of independent study to compliment our teaching. Typically, one credit equates to 10 hours of work.

Assessment

We will assess your performance through a combination of examinations and coursework. You will also write a dissertation.

Regulating body
King’s College London is regulated by the Higher Education Funding Council for England.

Courses are divided into modules. You will normally take modules totalling 120 credits.

You are required to take:

• Independent Study Project – Dissertation (30 Credits)

If you are a part-time student, you will take this in your second year.

You are required to take 90 credits from a range of optional modules. At least 60 credits from this total must be taken from level six modules (more advanced) with the remainder coming from modules at either Level 5 or 6.

If you are a part-time student, you will take 60 credits in your first year and 30 in your second from either list.

The lists of modules may typically include:

Level 5

• Modern Islam I: History & Politics (15 credits)
• An Introduction to the Doctrine of the Person of Christ (15 credits)
• Intermediate Greek with Texts (15 credits)
• Religion in Different Social & Geopolitical Contexts: Anthropological Perspectives (15 credits)
• Modern Islam II: Sociological & Intellectual Practices (15 credits)
• Paul in Context (15 credits)
• Religion, Culture & Society in Reformation Europe (15 credits)
• Ritual in the Old Testament (15 credits)
• Salvation & the City: Christian Faith & the Arts in London (15 credits)
• Applied Ethics (15 credits)
• Philosophy & Film (15 credits)
• Religion & Politics in International & Transnational Contexts (15 credits)
• Religious Difference: Jewish, Christian & Other Perspectives (15 credits)
• New Testament Greek & Exegesis A (15 credits)
• The Bible in Modern Imagination (15 credits)
• Theological Themes of the Hebrew Bible (15 credits)
• ‘What is Christianity?’: Patristic Perspectives (15 credits)
• Between Revolutions: British Christianity 1689–1860 (15 credits)
• Faith and Enlightenment: Philosophies of Religion from Anselm to Kant (15 credits)
• Buddhist Ethics (15 credits)
• Introduction to Biblical Hebrew (30 credits)

Level 6

• Hebrew Texts: Prose (15 credits)
• Principles of Systematic Theology (15 credits)
• Women & Gender in the Bible (15 credits)
• Varieties of Religious Experience: Christianity in Britain 1850–1970 (15 credits)
• Contemporary Theology & Philosophy (15 credits)
• Philosophy of Religious Life (15 credits)
• Anthropological Approaches to Religious Innovation & Questions of Being (15 credits)
• Theravada Buddhism (15 credits)
• The English Reformation (15 credits)
• Exploring New Testament Theology I (15 credits)
• Special Questions in Social Ethics (15 credits)
• Contemporary Thought in the Muslim World (15 credits)
• Law & Ethics in the Old Testament (15 Credits)
• European Jews & the ‘Orient’ (15 credits)
• The Search for Meaning (15 credits)
• Religion, Politics & Global Media (15 credits)