MA Philosophy and Religion

How will I learn?

Teaching is based on a series of two-hour weekly seminars. Each session is designed to be interactive, with input from lecturers providing an overall perspective but incorporating discussion and presentations. Coursework tasks are designed to help you learn: for example book and article reviews help you get to grips with evaluating scholarly work, and issue reports develop your skills in research and analysis, and in choosing and developing a topic for research.  Much of your learning takes place through directed reading in preparation for or to follow up classes. Tutorials on work in progress contribute to deepening your understanding.  The skills you have developed will prepare you for a substantial individual task when you complete your dissertation. 

How much time will it take?

The weekly 2-hour classes fall on one evening a week if you are part-time and two evenings if you are full time. Additionally, you will attend tutorials to discuss work completed or in progress, and meetings with a supervisor in relation to the dissertation. You will need to spend about six hours in each week for each module on directed reading in preparation for classes, and a similar amount of time – some of it out of term-time – on researching for and writing your coursework assignments and essays. 

How will I be assessed?

Assessment is by a combination of coursework tasks completed during or shortly after the period of module teaching and an end of year essay for each module studied. The coursework tasks vary and could include reviews, and reports as well as essays. In addition, you complete a 12-15,000 word dissertation on a research topic agreed with your supervisor.

A preliminary reading list for the MA Philosophy and Religion is available to view online.

Further information can be found in the programme specification or you can contact the programme convenor (below

Programme Convenor
Dr Paul Rout OFM
Email: p.rout@heythrop.ac.uk
Tel: 020 7795 4228