Study at Cardiff | Postgraduate

Religious Studies: Religion in Late Antiquity (MA)

Course Aims

To offer knowledge and expertise for further research and/or a role in higher education, RE teaching, or a range of allied professions valuing a humanities postgraduate degree.

Special Features

• Draws on internationally-recognised expertise in religion from Late Antiquity to the contemporary era, across a wide geographical area and sensitive to issues in the public eye.
• Small student-focussed tutorials rather than formal lectures
• A flexible programme of study geared towards the individual student.
• Provides a subject-specific introduction to postgraduate study skills.

Course Description

Part 1 consists of a skills module and two optional modules which are flexible in order to permit the variability of content from year to year.

Current options include:

• Byzantine Christianity
• Byzantine Greek Texts
• Patristic Latin Texts
• Heresy
• Religion and Society in Late Antiquity
• Second Century Christianity
• Syriac Christianity
• Syriac Texts

Supporting languages are also available: Arabic, Greek, Hebrew, Latin and Syriac.

Assessment is via written assignments of approximately 5,000 words.

Part 2 consists of a dissertation of approximately 16,000 words on a topic of the student’s choice, to be submitted at the beginning of September.

Entry Requirements

The course is suitable for graduates in Religious Studies and a wide variety of Humanities disciplines and Social Sciences.

Applicants should possess a First or Second Class UK Honours degree, or equivalent.

Note: International students pursuing part-time programmes of study are not eligible for Tier 4 (General Student) visas and must have alternative leave to remain in the UK if they intend to study at the University in person.

Next intake: September each year

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