GCE A level Religious Studies

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. What do you study? The Course will be divided equally between Philosophy of religion, and Religion and ethics, and Developments in religious thought. 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.

The minimum entry requirement is AAAABB at GCSE including English Language and Mathematics. Furthermore, students will be expected to achieve Grade A or A* in each GCSE subject they are currently taking which they wish to continue at A Level

The Course will be divided equally between Philosophy of Religion, and Religious Ethics,