GCE A level Religious Studies

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In Religious Studies, we provide students with an opportunity to understand and reflect on both religious and secular beliefs and values that people hold in the world today. Religious Studies offers a creative and informative way for students to understand and evaluate complex ideas in a wide range of areas concerning belief in God, the nature of God, lifestyle choices and ethics. We explore why people are Religious and we consider the big issues such as whether God exists and why is there suffering in the world. We ask whether people really have free will, and we consider the implications of deterministic and fatalistic approaches to life. By the end of the Religious Studies programme students will have developed a good level of understanding of religious beliefs and why people hold them, as well as the logical and critical skills to assess and evaluate belief and value claims and their significance in people’s lives today.

Course information

Name: GCE A level Religious Studies Qualification title: GCE A Level in Religious Studies Qualification type: Assessment We anticipate continuing to follow the OCR Examination Board. The Course will be divided equally between Philosophy of Religion, and Religious Ethics, and will include the following; Philosophy of Religion 1. Arguments for the existence of God. 2. The Nature and influence of Religious Experience. 3. Challenges to Religious Belief such as the problem of Evil and Suffering. 4. Philosophical/Religious language. 5. A comparison of the significant ideas presented in the works of at least two key scholars. 6. How Philosophy of Religion has been influenced by developments in religious beliefs and practices, ethics or textual interpretation. Religious Ethics 1. Ethical language, Meta Ethics. 2. Three normative ethical theories, such as deontological, teleological or character-based ethics. 3. The application of ethical theory to two personal, social or global issues. 4. The study of Free Will and the role of Conscience. 5. A comparison of the significant ideas presented in the works of at least two key scholars from the field of Ethics. 6. How the study of Ethics has, over time, influenced and been influenced by developments in Religious beliefs and practices, the Philosophy of religion and/or textual interpretation Awarding Oxford Cambridge & RSA Examinations Created 20151211 12:03:38 Updated 20161110 12:30:13

Entry requirements

None

Provider

Colchester County High School for Girls
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Address

Norman Way Town: Colchester