Theology and Religious Studies

The Graduate Diploma in Theology & Religious Studies is designed as a bridge from undergraduate to master's study and may be used as a qualifying course for study at MA level. It offers a flexible structure where you can select modules from Theology, Religion, Politics & Society, Theology, Religion & Culture and Religion, Philosophy & Ethics.

Key benefits:

• Theology & Religious Studies is taught in the very centre of one of the world's most dynamic cities.
• It is one of the largest and most wide-ranging departments of Theology & Religious Studies, and is ranked in the top 10 in the UK (QS World Rankings by Subject 2018).
• Unparallelled access to specialist libraries, including the Maughan Library at King's, and other religious and cultural resources in central London.
• A supportive educational environment within a department that specialises in the three 'Abrahamic' faiths.

For applicants of graduate or equivalent status in areas of study other than Theology & Religious Studies. The Graduate Diploma may be used as a qualifying course to enable study at MA level, as it is especially designed to ease the transition to Theology & Religious Studies from another subject.

Grad Dip

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.

Optional Modules:

• 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)

Fees:

• Full time overseas fees:

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