Level 4

This module aims to support first year students in the transition into Higher Education and prepare them to succeed in their theological and philosophical studies. It provides the opportunity and time for students to acquire and/or develop the academic study skills, both general and subject-specific, on which they will need to draw throughout their programme, for example: research skills; bibliographic referencing; academic writing; reading and commenting appropriately on primary theological and philosophical texts; critical analysis; and summarising and evaluating sources. These skills will be taught in lectures and workshops, then practised and reinforced in seminars and through weekly written tasks. The development of these skills will be set within a coherent framework which also addresses key areas of subject knowledge, so that an overarching theme for the module will be chosen each year, for example, the environment.