Students are introduced to the methods of participations, observations, interviewing, and the compositions and evaluations of questionnaires. Subsidiary units, including New Religions in the West, Traditional Religions of Africa and the New World, Gender and Religion, and the Psychology of Religion, are generally available. The course offers students the opportunity to apply anthropological and sociological theory and method in a dissertation on a topic of the student's own choosing. For entry requirements, duration and location, assessment, funding, what to do next and application procedure see above, under taught programmes introduction . The Foundation course includes study of the literature and thought of the Jewish and Greco-Roman context, as well as practice in textual criticism.
Students develop their dissertation topics in consultation with the staff.
For entry requirements, duration and location, assessment, funding, what to do next and application procedure see above, under taught programmes introduction . Students with a working knowledge of Biblical Hebrew and some experience of studying Old Testament at undergraduate or equivalent level. By focusing on the text in this way the course aims to prepare students for advanced study in the field of Old Testament, for which a sound grasp of linguistic and critical hermeneutical skills is essential. For entry requirements, duration and location, assessment, funding, what to do next and application procedure see above, under taught programmes introduction . Those with an interest in Christian ethics and contemporary moral problems.