DPT: Philosophy and Theology (MA Hons) (UTPHITH)

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Year 1 Academic year: 2024/25, Starting in: September

Students who do not pass Logic before progressing to Honours may apply to transfer to the MA Theology.

Compulsory courses

Morality and Value

Logic 1

Must be passed

Introduction to the History of Philosophy A

Course options

AND

Year 2 Academic year: 2024/25, Starting in: August

For entry to honours, students much achieve (1) an *average* of 50% at the first sitting across the mandatory Philosophy courses taken in the second year, ie Mind, Matter and Language (MML) and Knowledge and Reality (K&R); and (2) a minimum of 40% in each of these courses (MML and K&R) achieved at the first sitting.

Compulsory courses

Mind, Matter and Language

Must be passed 1st time

Knowledge and Reality

Must be passed 1st time

Course options

AND

An overall maximum of 40 credits at level 7 is permitted across years one and two.

Students CANNOT take Introduction to the History of Philosophy A (PHIL08019) if they have already taken Introduction to the History of Philosophy (PHIL08018).

Year 3 Academic year: 2024/25, Starting in: August

During Year 3 students must prepare for their dissertation. Further information about this will be provided. In Divinity there is no formal preparation course but equivalent support is provided.

There are no compulsory courses in this year of this programme.

Course options

Students who plan to undertake a Philosophy dissertation must complete this dissertation preparation course in year 3.

Philosophy Dissertation Preparation Course

AND

Adam, Eve and LGBT+: Sex and Gender in the Hebrew Bible

The Dark Lord: God and Violence in the Hebrew Bible

Religion and the Climate Crisis

Emotion, Spirituality and Mysticism in Early Modern Christianity

Theology in the Age of Technology

Ancient Wisdom: Biblical sages and their writings

Buddhist Literature

Islamic Theology: Classic and Contemporary Perspectives

Christianity in Africa to 1500

Lived Theology

The New Testament in the Graeco-Roman World

The Apostle Paul in and beyond the New Testament

The Holocaust in History and Culture

Jews and Non-Jews: Co-existence, Conflict, Co-operation

Religion and Ethics in Literature

Church, Conflict and Community in Britain and Ireland 1850-1914

Christianity and Colonialism in Africa, 1800 to the present

Augustine in his Age

Paradise Lost? Christianity in the Pacific 1668-1999

The Making of Christian Orthodoxy 325-451

Early Christian Writers

Byzantine Church and Society 451-1672

Church, Sacraments and Ministry

Pastoral Care and Theology

Modern Christology

Christian Ethics

Homiletics

Science and Christian Theology: Historical and Theological Perspectives

Theology and Contemporary Science

Mission in Contemporary Scotland

Scottish Theology

Film, Religion and Ethics

Food in Christian Religion

Theological Ethics in Continental European Perspective

Reformations: Britain and Ireland 1475-1600

Hindu Traditions: History, Power and Agency

Field-Work Approaches for the Study of Religion

New Spiritualities: from New Age to Holistic

Religions in Africa

Buddhist Ethics

Christian-Muslim Relations: diatribe, discourse and dialogue

Contemporary Systematic Theologies

Literature of the Islamic World

Islamic Law: From Prayer to Politics

Scottish Literature and the Religious Imagination

Muslim and Christian Perspectives on Jesus

God of the Oppressed: Liberation Theologies in Christianity and Islam

Peacebuilding, Religion and the Arts

Biblical Hebrew Texts A

Biblical Hebrew Texts B

Advanced Greek Texts

The Dead Sea Scrolls

Jesus in Film

Women and Gender in the New Testament World

The Hebrew Bible and Contemporary Issues

The Gospels

Hebrew Prophecy

Aramaic

Early Christian Greek Texts

Early Jewish Texts

Old Testament Texts

Old Testament Texts 2

Second Temple Judaism

Historical Jesus

Old Testament Theology

New Testament Themes

Parables in Practice

Bible and Archaeology

Introducing New Testament Greek (Honours)

Introducing Biblical Hebrew (Honours)

Jesus in and beyond the New Testament

Newman - Anglican and Catholic

Reformations: Continental Europe 1475-1600

Religion, Covenants and Revolution in Britain and Ireland c. 1600-1660

Theravada Buddhism

The Hindu Epics: Mahabharata and Ramayana

Atheism, Humanism and Non-Religion

Lives of the Buddha: Jataka Stories and Early Buddhism

Indigenous Futures: Knowledge, Ecology and Politics

Religion and Nationalism in the Contemporary World

Theories of Religion

Metaphysics and Morality

Doctrine of Creation

The Theology of Karl Barth

Body, Soul and Self: Theological Anthropology

Modern Theology: From the French Revolution to the First World War

Theatre, Religion and the Search for Peace

Theology that Liberates: From Latin American to Queer Theology

Conflicts and Controversies in Islam: Theology, Law and Politics

The Importance of Being Islamic: Explorations in Premodern Muslim Thought

Public Theologies: Thinkers and Themes

Pioneers of Political Islam

Political Theologies: Thinkers and Themes

Intermediate Biblical Hebrew (Honours)

Christianity and Politics in Latin America, 1800 to the present

Christians and Other Animals

The Future of the End of the World: Interdisciplinary Interpretations

Science, Sorcery and Wonder in Islam

Apocalypse: The Book of Revelation in History and Culture

Intermediate New Testament Greek (Honours)

Introducing Classical Syriac (Honours)

Introducing Sanskrit (Honours)

Intermediate Sanskrit (Honours)

Religion and Culture in the Modern Middle East

Buddhist Monasticism Across Time and Place

Christianity and the Crisis of Faith in Nineteenth-Century Scotland

Gender in Islam

Christianity in Ukraine (988 to the present)

Race and Religiosity

AND

Philosophy of Language

Philosophy of Religion

Themes in Epistemology

Metaphysics

Logic 2: Modal Logics

Topics in Mind and Cognition

Philosophy, Science and Policy

Philosophy of Time

AND

Applied Ethics

Normative theory

Political Philosophy

Aesthetics

Philosophy of Well-Being

Social Philosophy

Moral Philosophy

Feminist Philosophy

Philosophy of Technology

AND

Normative theory

Late Modern Philosophy

Ancient Philosophy

Early Modern Philosophy

Japanese Philosophy

Year 4 Academic year: 2024/25, Starting in: August

All students choosing the Dissertation in Philosophy must have completed the Year 3 Philosophy Dissertation Information Course.

Students MUST pass DIVI10001 Theology & Religious Studies: Final Dissertation or PHIL10026 Dissertation in Philosophy in order to be awarded an honours degree.

Please be aware that, unlike single honours Philosophy students, all joint honours Philosophy and Theology student must take the full-length Dissertation in either Philosophy or Theology and Religious Studies.

There are no compulsory courses in this year of this programme.

Course options

Where the dissertation is taken in Philosophy, students must register for the dissertation completion course and write one 8000 word essay on a topic to be arranged with the department. All students choosing the Dissertation in Philosophy must have completed the Year 3 Philosophy Dissertation Information Course.

Selected courses must be passed

Theology and Religious Studies: Final Dissertation

Dissertation in Philosophy

AND

Adam, Eve and LGBT+: Sex and Gender in the Hebrew Bible

The Dark Lord: God and Violence in the Hebrew Bible

Religion and the Climate Crisis

Emotion, Spirituality and Mysticism in Early Modern Christianity

Theology in the Age of Technology

Ancient Wisdom: Biblical sages and their writings

Buddhist Literature

Islamic Theology: Classic and Contemporary Perspectives