BA Pastoral Mission

Why choose this course?

This programme provides students who have successfully completed the Heythrop Foundation Degree (Arts) in Pastoral Mission (or a similar award studied elsewhere at the discretion of the College) with an opportunity to deepen their understanding of academic theology and also to pursue the development of their skills and understanding of pastoral issues to graduate level. The programme offers a wide choice of modules and different modes of study, allowing students, with guidance, to select subjects to suit their interests. The one calendar year programme (or part time equivalent) offers study by blended learning, features subject based modules, either studied on campus with daytime attendance or by distance learning, a work based module, which draws together the theoretical and practical theology in pastoral mission, and a dissertation, allowing students to investigate a particular topic at greater length. 

This programme, like the Foundation Degree (Arts) Pastoral Mission, has been developed in consultation with the Archdiocese of Westminster for lay people in voluntary or paid employment within the Church, mainly, but not exclusively, in a parish setting.

Heythrop’s friendly size, together with its focus on the academic disciplines of Theology and Philosophy, ensure a high level of individual support for students. Blended learning offers flexibility to students with work and other commitments.

What could I go on to do?

Some graduates progress may progress to postgraduate study. Others use their enhanced knowledge of religion and parish activities in the paid or voluntary service of their parish or elsewhere in the Church organisation. The transferable skills gained are invaluable in many spheres of employment.