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Features
• Opportunity to undertake a placement in a local secondary or primary school to develop your communication skills and be assessed by a professional educator.
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Integrated programmes combine foundational courses with flexibility of choice.
• Learn to think critically about truth-claims and how people live in the light of faith.
• A closely-knit community provides a context in which to engage in stimulating theological explorations.
• Choose options rarely available in other UK universities, e.g. Dead Sea Scrolls, the Pseudepigrapha and Hebrew at Honours level.
• Small-group work is built into the style of learning, ensuring that students are actively involved in the crafting of their education.
• Develop existing IT skills – several modules use a Virtual Learning Environment to deliver core reading materials.
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Intellectual abilities are promoted as part of a broad package of development, including the enhancement of effective communication and leadership skills in preparation for your future career.
• Personalised attention from teaching staff benefits students as letters of reference for future employers can be more discerning and effectual.
Teaching at First and Second levels is mainly by lectures, supplemented by regular small-group tutorials. Honours teaching is primarily by seminars, in groups rarely larger than 15 and often much smaller. At this level, greater emphasis is put on individual study and on students taking a major role in preparing for, and conducting, seminars.
Dissertation In the final year students write a dissertation on a topic of their choice under the personal supervision of a member of staff. The great advantage of the Scottish four-year Honours programme over three-year programmes elsewhere in the UK is this extra freedom to arrange your final two years to develop broad interdisciplinary interests and to achieve a greater depth of understanding in your chosen subjects.
Bursaries
A number of bursaries are made available each year within the School of Divinity. The awards are competitive, and the primary consideration is academic merit at secondary school level and at Junior and Senior Honours. Essay prizes are also offered.
Study Abroad There are opportunities for Divinity students to apply to study abroad as part of their four-year programme. The School of Divinity participates in an Erasmus exchange with the University of Leiden in the Netherlands. For more information on European or North American Exchanges, see pages 20-21.
Careers Graduates with qualifications in the theological and biblical disciplines are highly attractive to potential employers looking to fill people-oriented positions. Accordingly, employment prospects are usually wide ranging. Recent graduates from the School of Divinity include a quality improvement officer with an English local council, a nursery nurse, an administrator with the Financial Services Agency (FAS), an officer in the accounts department of Nexus Communication, a policy officer with the Scottish Executive, a teacher, a trainee accountant with KPMG, an assistant minister with the Church of Scotland and a Youth Pastor with the Free Church of Scotland. Previous graduates have become lawyers, a corporate banker, a marketing manager, a social worker, a language therapist, even a wine taster, as well as vicars, chaplains and school teachers. Graduate-level employers have included the BBC, Royal Bank of Scotland, IBM, The Body Shop, Bristol-Myers Squibb Pharmaceuticals and Standard Life Assurance. Many graduates also go on to do further study.
Please see page 42 for details of the University’s Careers Centre.
New Developments One module in fourth year may be taken as a placement at a local school where students develop their skills in communicating one or more aspects of divinity under the mentoring and guidance of a professional class-teacher. Entry to this module is by interview and of particular value to those considering either primary or secondary education as a career.
Many modules reflect new and exciting ways of teaching and assessment. A number of biblical studies modules make use of novels, arts and film as a way of engaging with major issues of interpretation. The introductory course in New Testament includes the opportunity to examine two contemporary novels about Jesus and the early Church with a view to understanding how the New Testament is being interpreted.
The growing prominence of religious concerns in public life is reflected in sub-honours and Honours modules that engage in dialogue with the sciences, art and politics.
Increasing use of electronic journals and digitised reading materials offers students more convenient and flexible ways of learning.
More information on the structure and details of the degrees offered within the School of Divinity can be found on the following pages.
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