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The Department of Theology and Religion offers four taught MA programmes and a Graduate Diploma in Theology and Religion. The four MA programmes are in Biblical Studies Christian Theology Religion and Society and in Theology and Religion. The MA in Christian Theology allows you to specialize in either Anglican or Catholic Studies. Each of the MA programmes involves five modules: a module in research methods three optional modules and a dissertation of 12-15,000 words, which is the outcome of your own research, and which contributes twice as much as any other module to your final result. Although the taught MA programmes are self-contained they are designed to serve as foundation programmes for higher research degrees. All programmes can be taken either full-time over 12 months or part-time over 24 months. MA in Biblical Studies Optional modules for 2008-09 include: Advanced Hebrew Texts Advanced Aramaic and Syriac The Septuagint The Dead Sea Scrolls and the New Testament The New Testament and the Social Sciences The Gospel of Mark (in Greek) Paul and His Interpreters Theological Interpretation of Scripture The Bible in the Cinema. MA in Christian Theology Optional modules for 2008-09 include: Theological Anthropology of the Fathers Transformative Listening Christian Northumbria 600-800 Worship and Reform in Britain 1530-62 Liturgy and Sacramentality Conceiving Change in Contemporary Catholicism Twentieth-Century Catholic Theology Principles of Theological Ethics Theology, Ethics and Medicine Christian Gender. MA in Christian Theology (Anglican Studies) Optional modules for 2008-09 include: Worship and Reform in Britain 1530-62 Liturgy and Sacramentality Ritual, Symbolism and Belief in the Anthropology of Religion Literature and Religion. For more information, please contact Dr Alec Ryrie. MA in Christian Theology (Catholic Studies) Optional modules for 2008-09 include: Contemporary Roman Catholic Understanding of Ordained Ministry The Roman Catholic Church and Pluralism in Modernity and Postmodernity Conceiving Change in Contemporary Catholicism Twentieth-Century Catholic Theology Transformative Listening (some of these modules are offered by Ushaw College). For more information, please contact Dr Paul Murray. MA in Religion and Society Optional modules for 2008-09 include: Social Scientific Methods in the Study of Religion Ritual, Symbolism and Belief in the Anthropology of Religion Literature and Religion Christian Formation, Faith Development and Critical Education The Public Understanding of Science and Religion. MA in Theology and Religion This general degree allows students who do not wish to specialize to choose modules from any of the above MA programmes.