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Honours Modules 2011-2012

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Please note that individual courses of study have to be approved by the relevant Faculty and your choice of modules may be restricted by the regulations. If in doubt, please ask for advice.

DI3601 Biblical Hermeneutics

30 Credits

This is one of the modules that serves to complete the General Degree (M.Theol.) and to prepare honours students for 4000-level modules in the general area of biblical studies. The content may vary from year to year, but will always include training in biblical interpretation and the exegetical study of specific texts from the Old Testament and the New Testament through lectures, seminars, student presentations, and the writing of a substantial exegesis paper on a biblical passage. Students wishing to pursue honours -level work in a biblical language must engage in exegesis of the passage in the original language in this essay.

DI3602 Theological explorations: texts, issues and applications

30 Credits

This is one of the modules which serves to complete the General Degree (M.Theol.) and to prepare Honours students for 4000-level modules. It will consider a range of issues fundamental to belief and practice which have been central to and have shaped the Christian theological tradition over the past two millennia. It will do this through the study of texts in seminars, through lectures, and through private study and written assignments. Issues selected for study will be considered both from a historical perspective, and with a view to contemporary criticisms and reformulations of them.

DI4015 Communication in Divinity

15 Credits

This module is part of ID4002 'Communication and Teaching in Arts & Humanities' in which students gain substantial experience of a working environment. This component offers the opportunity to further develop an area of interest in communicating themes of Divinity to contemporary contexts. It is available only to participants in the placement module.

DI4501 Honours Dissertation in Divinity

30 Credits

This project enables a student to research a special topic of his/her choice (in consultation with staff) and to develop it at length in dissertation form. The length of the dissertation should be approximately 10,000 words, and must not in any case exceed 12,000 words (to include text, footnotes and appendices). It must be submitted by the end of the semester.

DI4610 New Testament Christology and Pneumatology

30 credits

 

This module will examine the intertwined theologies of the person of Christ and of the person of the Spirit, as they develop in the New Testament. After a preliminary survey of the approaches taken to these theologies in Biblical Studies, particularly in recent years, the module will work through the key texts of the New Testament, examining what is said about Christ and the Spirit and asking how these texts relate to one another and to later theological developments, including the codifications of Christology and Pneumatology by the great church councils and in historical Christian theology, and the theologies that have emerged in the modern period.

DI4615 New Testament Special Topic

30 Credits

 

This module allows students the possibility of pursuing a special topic in the field of New Testament studies by arrangement with the staff of the subject area and the Head of School. The topic will be chosen from one of the areas of specialisation of teaching staff or of a visiting scholar. A written statement of teaching and assessment will be agreed with the student and lodged with the Dean of Divinity.

DI4711 Old Testament Special Topic

30 Credits

This module allows students the possibility of pursuing a special topic in Hebrew Bible Old Testament by arrangement with the staff of the subject area and the Head of School. The topic will be chosen from one of the areas of specialisation of the teaching staff or of a visiting scholar. A written statement of teaching and assessment will be agreed with the student and lodged with the Dean of Faculty.

DI4726 Hebrew Readings

30 credits

 

This module intends to acquaint the student with a range of Hebrew Readings. Three areas of specialisation will be pursued: text criticism, translation technique, and reading and translating texts from the Hebrew Bible, with a particular focus on the last of these. Text criticism is an advanced subject area, requiring cognate language skills and detailed work in the history of the Hebrew language. To this end, the module will familiarise students with the textual apparatus of (BHS) Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia and will attend to the logic of text-critical decisions deployed by the standard technical commentary series, like the Hermenia Commentary Series and International Critical Commentary Series.

DI4816 The Theology of the Musical

30 credits

 

This module is an Honours option which develops both theological and critical skills learned in first and second level courses in arts and theology and applies them to a specific genre, namely the stage and film musical. The module is designed to encourage and foster skills of critical theological awareness, close textual study and literary analysis and to develop a deeper understanding of a major contemporary cultural force.

DI4826 Themes in Postcolonial Theology

30 credits

 

This
 module
 is
 an
 optional
 Honours
 course
 available
 to
 Divinity
 and
 Arts
 students.
 It
 serves
 as
 a
 continuation
 of
 DI1012.
 It
 provides
 the
 students
 with
 methodological
 tools
 for
 the
 study
 of
 theology
 in
 the
 post‐colonial
 world
 and
 within
 its
 challenges
 to
 a
 unified,
 normative
 colonial
 theology.
 It
 challenges
 any
 ideas
 of
 a
 globalized
 theological
 ‘empire’
 and
 critically
 assesses
 the
 role
 of
 the
 church
 and
 theological
 models
 within
 globalization.
 It
 is
 designed 
to 
foster 
skills 
of 
information
-gathering, 
critical 
analysis 
and
 reflection
 and
 the
 coherent
 expression
 of
 research
 and
 opinion
 within
 a
 globalised
 and
 trans‐cultural
world.

DI4930 Christian Symbolics: Creeds and Confessions

30 credits

 

This module complements other core and optional modules in Theological Studies in offering an intentional focus on the use of formal dogmatic definitions in the theological tradition. By examining the history of confessional statements in general and focussing particularly on three examples, students are able to appreciate better how creeds and confessions have and should function within theological debate.

DI4932 Baylor University Module

15 Credits

Description to follow

DI4933 Colgate University Module

15 Credits

Lecture/Seminar based, 3 hours contact/week. Precise mix of lecture/seminar/other contact to be arranged each session the module is delivered in consultation with Divinity DoT.

ID4002 Communication in Arts & Humanities

15 Credits (participation by prior interview, applications invited in early Spring - see module home page)

This module provides final year students within the Faculties of Arts and Divinity with the opportunity to gain first hand experience of education through a mentoring scheme with teachers in local schools. This module will enable students to gain substantial experience of working in a challenging and unpredictable working environment, and to gain a broad understanding of many of the key aspects of teaching in schools.