Course Content Ethics: Ethics is about moral choices, the values that lie behind them, the reasons people give for them, and the language they use to describe them. The course aims to develop a questioning attitude and to raise awareness of the role of ethics in modern society. The content of the Ethics component will include: A study of ethical language: the different meanings which scholars have given to terms such as “good”, “bad”, “right” and “wrong”. . . What is conscience? . . . Are we free? Students will study in detail: Moral Relativism, Natural Law, Categorical Imperativism, and Utilitarianism. Applied ethics includes topics on euthanasia, business, and sexual ethics. Philosophy of Religion: Philosophy of Religion considers issues surrounding the existence of God, and how people seek to argue how we may begin to talk about God. As with the ethics course, the aim is to develop an inquiring mind, open to debate on a range of related topics. Philosophy of Religion focuses on key areas including; the traditional arguments for the existence of God, and the challenge to religious belief (examining the issue of evil, faith, the function of religious belief within society, the challenge facing religion today, and religion and science). Development in Religious Thought: Buddhism. Development in Religious Thought provides an opportunity for the systematic study of one religion (Buddhism). This includes an in-depth study of Religious beliefs, values, and teachings, interconnections historically and in contemporary society, sources of wisdom and authority, identity; practice, and social/historical developments.