PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION AND ETHICS
OCR

This course is for everyone; you do not need a religious background or personal faith, you can be an atheist, agnostic or theist.  You must be willing to be open-minded, thoughtful and ready to meet the challenge of an exciting new area of study.

The course is seen by employers and people in higher education to be valuable because you will develop some very important skills:

• Communicating ideas orally and in written formats.
• Research and investigation.
• Use of IT.
• Open-mindedness and an ability to consider all points of view.
• Ability to be independent and think for yourself and reach your own conclusions.
• Responsibility and reliability to work with others and on your own.
• Selection and presentation of relevant information.
• Analysis and critical evaluation of text and different people’s ideas.
• Justification of your points of view.

It will deal with issues and questions which, when you have faced them and challenged the basic principles on which are lives are based, will make you prepared as a person to deal with anything life may throw at you.

There are two components to the course – ‘Philosophy of Religion’ and ‘Religious Ethics’.