Religious Studies
Landau Forte Academy Tamworth Sixth Form - Staffordshire
01827301820
Ashby Road, Tamworth, B79 8AA
Course summary

To consider the world around you, to consider whether there is a spiritual element to life, to be enquiring, critical and reflective, to learn and understand how people make moral decisions, to formulate your own opinions on various current ethical issues, identify, investigate and analyse current questions and issues Philosophy and the existence of God – Evil and suffering, religious experience and language, Miracles, Self and life after death. Ethics and religion – Ethical theories, issues of human life and death, issues of animal life and death, introduction to meta ethics, free will and moral responsibility, conscience, Bentham and Kant. Study of religion – Sources of wisdom and authority, God/gods/ultimate reality, self, death and the afterlife, good conduct and key moral principles, Expression of religious identity, Religion gender and sexuality, Religion and science. The dialogue between philosophy of religion and religion. The dialogue between ethical studies and religion.

Entry requirements

Minimum Grade 4 English Language

How you'll be assessed

You will have 2 examinations at the end of year 13. Paper 1 – Philosophy and Ethics – worth 50% of overall grade. Paper 2 – Study of religion – worth 50% of overall grade.

School Info

About Education Provider

RegionWest Midlands
Local AuthorityStaffordshire
Ofsted RatingGood
Gender TypeCo-Educational
AddressAshby Road, Tamworth, B79 8AA