Religious Studies
A level Religious Studies at The Perse focuses on the study of Ethics and Philosophy of Religion and follows the new AQA syllabus. Throughout the course students are encouraged to adopt an enquiring, critical and reflective approach and reflect on and develop their own values, opinions and attitudes. Students do not need to have taken a GCSE in Religious Studies in order to take the subject at A level but they should be interested in philosophical ideas and writing evaluative essays.
The course is fully supported with recently published syllabus-specific textbooks and online resources. Both AS modules are taken at the end of the academic year in June. Both A2 modules are taken at the end of the course, again in June.
At AS level students take a module in Religion and Ethics (RSS01) which includes the study of Utilitarianism, Situation Ethics, the nature and value of human life and abortion and euthanasia.
There is also a module on the Philosophy of Religion (RSS03) which includes the study of Religious Experience, the Cosmological Argument for the Existence of God, Psychology and Religion, and Atheism and Postmodernism.
