Studies in Religion Table
Unit outlines will be available through Find a unit outline two weeks before the first day of teaching for 1000-level and 5000-level units, or one week before the first day of teaching for all other units.
| Unit of study | Credit points | A: Assumed knowledge P: Prerequisites C: Corequisites N: Prohibition | Session |
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Studies in Religion |
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Major |
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| A major in Studies in Religion requires 48 credit points from this table including: | |||
| (i) 12 credit points of 1000-level core units | |||
| (ii) 12 credit points of 2000-level selective units | |||
| (iii) 18 credit points of 3000-level selective units | |||
| (iv) 6 credit points of 3000-level Interdisciplinary Project units | |||
Minor |
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| A minor in Studies in Religion requires 36 credit points from this table including: | |||
| (i) 12 credit points of 1000-level core units | |||
| (ii) 12 credit points of 2000-level selective units | |||
| (iii) 12 credit points of 3000-level selective units | |||
1000-level units of study |
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Core |
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| RLST1002 Religion: Texts, Life and Tradition |
6 | Semester 1 |
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| RLST1005 Atheism, Fundamentalism and New Religions |
6 | Semester 2 |
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2000-level units of study |
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Selective |
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| RLST2614 Philosophy of Religion: Reason and Belief This unit of study is not available in 2021 |
6 | P 12 credit points at 1000 level in Studies in Religion N RLST2014 |
Semester 1 |
| RLST2624 The Birth of Christianity |
6 | P 12 credit points at 1000 level in Studies in Religion or 6 credit points at 1000 level in in Studies in Religion and 6 credit points at 1000 level in Ancient History N RLST2024 |
Semester 1 |
| RLST2639 Secular Religion: Faith in Modernity |
6 | Semester 2 |
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| RLST2640 Contemporary Religious Trends This unit of study is not available in 2021 |
6 | P 12 credit points at 1000 level in Studies in Religion N RLST2627 or RLST3603 |
Semester 2 |
| BBCL2610 The New Testament Literature |
6 | P 12 Junior credit points including at least 6 in BBCL1001, BBCL1002, HBRW1111, HBRW1112, RLST1002 and 6 from Hebrew, Biblical and Jewish Studies, Ancient History, Anthropology, Archaeology, History, English, Philosophy, Studies in Religion, Arabic Studies or 6 Senior credit points in BBCL2603, BBCL2607, BBCL2609 or 12 credit points at 1000 level in Biblical Studies and Classical Hebrew or 12 credit points at 1000 level in Jewish Civilisation, Thought and Culture or Studies in Religion |
Semester 2 |
| CLST2614 The Celtic Otherworld This unit of study is not available in 2021 |
6 | P 12 credit points at 1000 level in the Celtic Studies minor or 12 credit points at 1000 level in the Studies in Religion major N CLST3616 |
Semester 1 |
3000-level units of study |
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Selective |
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| RLST3601 Rethinking Religion |
6 | P 12 credit points at 2000 level in Studies in Religion |
Semester 2 |
| RLST3604 Ancient Egyptian Religion and Magic |
6 | P 12 credit points at 2000 level in Studies in Religion or 12 credit points at 2000 level in Ancient History N RLST2636 |
Semester 2 |
| RLST3605 Sex, Desire and the Sacred This unit of study is not available in 2021 |
6 | P 12 credit points at 2000 level in Studies in Religion N RLST2635 |
Semester 2 |
| RLST3606 Sacred Creativity: Text, Image, Film |
6 | P 12 credit points at 2000 level in Studies in Religion N RLST2628 or RLST2625 |
Semester 1 |
| RLST3607 Witchcraft Paganism and Western Esotericism |
6 | P 12 credit points at 2000 level in Studies in Religion N RLST2626 |
Semester 1 |
| RLST3608 Religion and Violence, Faith and Blood This unit of study is not available in 2021 |
6 | P 12 credit points at 2000 level in Studies in Religion N RLST2620 |
Semester 2 |
| RLST3609 Religion and the Medieval World This unit of study is not available in 2021 |
6 | P 12 credit point at 2000 level in Studies in Religion N RLST2605 |
Semester 1 |
| RLST3610 New Discoveries in Religion in Antiquity This unit of study is not available in 2021 |
6 | P 12 credit points at 2000 level in Studies in Religion |
Semester 2 |
| JCTC3602 Contemporary Jewish Identities |
6 | P 12 credit points at 2000 level in Jewish Civilisation, Thought and Culture or European Studies or History or Government or Modern Hebrew or Biblical Studies and Classical Hebrew |
Semester 1 |
Interdisciplinary project unit of study |
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| If you are completing two majors and both of your majors are from the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, please select the Interdisciplinary Impact unit of study for your first major, and the Industry and Community Project unit of study for your second major. | |||
| If you are completing two majors but only one of your majors is from the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, please select the Interdisciplinary Impact unit of study for that major. | |||
| If you are completing one major only and that major is from the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, please select the Interdisciplinary Impact unit of study for your major. | |||
| RLST3999 Interdisciplinary Impact |
6 | P Completion of at least 90 credit points N Interdisciplinary Impact in another major Note: Department permission required for enrolment in the following sessions:Intensive December |
Intensive December Semester 1 Semester 2 |
| RLST3998 Industry and Community Project |
6 | P 72 credit points C Interdisciplinary Impact in any major. |
Intensive February Intensive July Semester 1 Semester 2 |