AS level Religious Studies OCR

AS level Religious Studies OCR

Dates Available

• Week 1: Monday 27 March – Friday 31 March
• Week 2: Monday 3 April – Friday 7 April (including Good Friday)
• Week 3: Monday 10 April – Friday 14 April (including Easter Monday)

Boards

OCR H173 only

Length of Course

5 half-day sessions

This course is board-specific for the OCR specification (H173) and is for Year 12 students only.

Please note that the Developments in religious thought topic will be covered in relation to Christianity only.

The following topics will be covered:

Philosophy of religion

• Ancient philosophical influences
• The nature of the soul, mind and body
• Arguments about the existence or non-existence of God
• The nature and impact of religious experience
• The challenge for religious belief of the problem of evil

Religion and ethics

• Normative ethical theories
• The application of ethical theory to two contemporary issues of importance

Developments in religious thought

• Religious beliefs, values and teachings, their interconnections and how they vary historically and in the
  contemporary world
• Sources of religious wisdom and authority
• Practices which shape and express religious identity, and how these vary within a tradition