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Overview

This course is designed to provide students with the opportunity to follow a coherent in-depth course in religious studies. The course is distinctive in that it enables students to study the philosophical and ethical aspects of one, two or three religions.

This course complements, and may be delivered in conjunction with, courses in Personal, Social and Health Education and/or Citizenship, and provides a potentially rich source of evidence for attainment in five of the six Key Skills; it also contributes to cross-curricular areas of health education, personal and social education, gender and multi-cultural issues.

The course allows students to progress either directly to employment, or to study for an Advanced level qualification.

Specification aims

The aims of this specification are to encourage students to:

• Acquire knowledge and develop understanding of the beliefs, values and traditions of one or more religions.
• Consider the influence of the beliefs, values and traditions associated with one or more religions.
• Consider religious and other responses to moral issues.
• Identify, investigate and respond to fundamental questions of life raised by religion and human experience, including questions about the meaning and purpose of life.
• Develop skills relevant to the study of religion.