Religious Studies

Course summary

Religious Studies provides an opportunity to: think, discuss, reflect, evaluate and understand your own views, ideas and opinions and those of others. Religious Studies offer you an interesting and intellectually challenging A Level. It helps develop understanding of spiritual, moral, ethical, social and cultural issues. Religious Studies develops a variety of skills, including those of discussion and debate. The valuable skills of logical argument and critical evaluation are also developed and can be transferred to other areas of study. Religious Studies is a useful stepping stone to many careers where it helps to understand what people believe and how it affects their lives. For example medicine, social work, law, the armed services, police force, journalism, teaching and many more.