Religious Studies (with Foundation Year)
Liverpool Hope University
UCAS Code: RES2 | Bachelor of Arts (with Honours) - BA (Hons)
Liverpool Hope University
UCAS Code: RES2 | Bachelor of Arts (with Honours) - BA (Hons)
Entry requirements
A level
Credits gained must equate to at least 104 Tariff Points
This qualification can only be accepted in conjunction with other relevant qualifications
International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme
104 Tariff Points from Higher Level qualifications only
Pearson BTEC Level 3 National Extended Diploma (first teaching from September 2016)
Qualifications must equate to at least 104 Tariff Points
T Level
UCAS Tariff
UCAS Tariff points must come from a minimum of two A Levels (or equivalent). Additional points can be made up from a range of alternative qualifications
This qualification can only be accepted in conjunction with other relevant qualifications
About this course
This is a **four year degree** taught at our Hope Park campus. The Foundation Year aims to develop your skills so that after a year, you will be equipped with the necessary skills needed for studying the full BA Hons degree programme.
**Religious Studies**
This course leads you into a profound exploration of spirituality, wisdom, and mysticism across major religious traditions—Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Hinduism, and Buddhism—while emphasizing lived religious experiences and the search for meaning. But it also takes you beyond the traditional religious and philosophical perspectives. You'll examine contemporary spiritual identities, ethical and theological questions on life, death, gender, suffering, and pressing global issues like radicalization, ecology, and interfaith dialogue.
You'll engage with historical sacred spaces, exploring their continued relevance in an age of technology and climate crisis. The course also tackles how our beliefs shape our treatment of the planet and all life forms. In a world saturated with diverse worldviews, you'll investigate how people negotiate faith, philosophy, and media, critically engaging with Western and non-Western perspectives. Questions like "Does scientism limit human understanding?" and "Is Western secularism inherently colonialist?" will challenge you to rethink assumptions about spirituality and global citizenship.
By studying ancient wisdom, modern spiritual movements, and philosophical debates, you’ll develop a nuanced understanding of how people form and reform their worldviews—gaining essential insights for navigating today’s pluralistic world.
Liverpool is the perfect place to study how people today deal with the different ideas and conflicting opinions that pop into the apps on our phones and computers. The city will be a constant backdrop to our studies. It is home today to new and changing religious traditions. We will visit and take a close look at places of worship – both the traditional and the strikingly new. And we will also explore the other ways that people find meaning, hope and community here – looking at the ways they actively create and use different types of ritual performance and expression to shape their spiritual identity. In this city, that of course includes art, music and football!
Modules
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The Uni
Hope Park
Department of Theology, Philosophy and Religious Studies
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Theology can actually be a very vocational subject —by far the most common move for theology graduates is to go into the clergy and at the moment we have a serious shortage of people willing to go into what is one of the oldest graduate careers. If you want to study theology but don't want to follow a religious career, then there are plenty of options available. 2015 graduates went into all sorts of jobs requiring a degree, from education and community work, to marketing, HR and financial analysis. Postgraduate study is also popular — a lot of theology graduates train as teachers, or go into Masters or even doctoral study - where philosophy and law are very popular postgraduate subjects of study.
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