This is one of the new specification A levels, a 2 year linear course. Religious Studies offers students the opportunity to question the philosophical and ethical ideas that are present with in the British religious tradition. These are important as, even if we are not from this tradition, or any tradition at all, they inform and shape the society and the values that we live by. Everyday life, from news paper articles to social media, from arts and literature to celebrity culture reflects these dilemmas of thought. These problems have been the source for some of the most influential and persistent of human questions; how should we live? What are we here for? Are we free? Is there a purpose to it all? Religious Studies is of use to those students wanting to carryon in to higher education–particularly to those thinking of careers in Media, Law, Politics, Social work, Teaching and Community Work.