University of Gothenburg

Courses in English

The department offers courses in History of Ideas as well as Religious studies and Theology, most of them at the advanced level (Second Cycle) in English.

The studies for a degree in the Second Cycle normally take one year – the Degree of Master (One Year/60 Higher Education Credits) – or two years – the Degree of Master (Two Years/120 hec). Courses in this cycle assume that you have studied in the First Cycle. To be qualified for a programme that begins in the Second Cycle, you must fulfil the degree requirements in the First Cycle of 180 hec, or have corresponding previous knowledge.

Courses – Autumn

History of Science and Ideas, second cycle

IL2114 Women and Intellectual Life in Early Modern Europe 7,5 credits, 50 % campus

Religious studies and Theology, second cycle

RT2416 Yoga: Historical and Critical Perspectives 7,5 credits, 50 % campus or 50 % online

RT2211 Global Religion, Migration and Diaspora 7,5 credits, 50 % campus or 50 % online

RT2212 Understanding World Religions 7,5 credits, 50 % campus or 50 % online

RT2213 New Atheism and Critique of Religion 7,5 credits, 50 % campus or 50 % online (cancelled fall 2023)

RT2214 Religious Fundamentalism and Violent Extremism 7,5 credits, 50 % campus or 50 % online

RT2411 New Religious Movements 7,5 credits, 50 % campus or 50 % online

RT2413 Occultism and Modernity 7,5 credits, 50 % campus or 50 % online

RT2710 Field Based Methods and Analysis in Religious Studies 7,5 credits, 50 % campus or 50 % online

RT2311 Systematic Theology: The Doctrine of God 7,5 credits, 50 % campus or 50 % online (offered odd fall semester)

RT2312 Ethics, Theology, and Society 7,5 credits, 50 % campus or 50 % online (offered odd fall semester)

RT2314 Theology and the Reading of Western History 7,5 credits, 50 % campus or 50 % online (offered even fall semester)

RT2320 Theology and Gender 7,5 credits, 50 % day or 50 % web based (offered even fall semester)

RT2321 Creation, Ecology and Humanity in Christian Theology 7,5 credits, 50 % campus or 50 % online (offered even fall semester)

RT2511 Manuscripts and Textual Criticism in Biblical Studies 7,5 credits, 50 % campus or 50 % online (offered even fall semester)

RT2525 God, Humanity, and Gender in the Hebrew Bible, 7,5 credits, 50 % campus or 50 % online

RT2513 Unity or Diversity? Story, History and Ideology in Primitive Christianity 7,5 credits, 50 % campus or 50 % online (offered odd fall semester)

RT2518 Crucifixion in Texts, Art and Archaeology 7,5 credits, 50 % campus or 50 % online (offered even fall semester)

RT2519 The Bible in Jewish and Christian Relations 7,5 credits, 50 % campus or 50 % online

RT2615 Hermeneutics: Theology and the Uses of the Bible 7,5 credits, 50 % campus or 50 % online (offered odd fall semester)

RT2714 Tradition, Reflection, Formation: Theological Method and Analysis 7,5 credits, 50 % campus or 50 % online (offered even fall semester)

RT2713 Historical Methods in Religious Studies and Theology 7,5 credits, 50 % campus or 50 % online

RT2901 Degree Project, Master of Arts (One Year), Religious Studies and Theology 15 credits, 50 % campus or 50 % online

RT2902 Degree Project, Master of Arts (Two Years), Religious Studies and Theology 15 credits, 50 % campus or 50 % online

RT2903 Degree Project, Master of Arts (Two Years), Religious Studies and Theology 30 credits, 100 % campus or online and 50 % campus or online

Courses – Spring

Religious studies and Theology, first cycle

RT1111 Religion in Scandinavia 7.5 credits, 50% campus (first cycle)

Religious studies and Theology, second cycle

RT2213 New Atheism and the Critique of Religion 7,5 credits, 50 % campus or 50 % online

RT2215 New Age, Folk Belief and the Spiritual Revolution 7,5 credits, 50 % campus or 50 % online.

RT2216 Digital Religion and Popular Culture 7,5 credits, 50 % campus or 50 % online

RT2613 Gender and Sexuality in Religious Studies 7,5 credits, 50 % campus or 50 % online

RT2417 Contemporary Esotericism 7,5 credits, 50 % campus or 50 % online

RT2315 Political Theology 7,5 credits, 50 % campus or 50 % online (offered odd spring semester)

RT2317 Christology and Salvation 7,5 credits, 50 % campus or 50 % online (offered even spring semester)

RT2318 Theology and Science: Common Roots, Conflicts, and Conversations 7,5 credits, 50 % campus or 50 % online (offered even spring semester)

RT2319 Reformation Theology 7,5 credits, 50 % campus or 50 % online (offered even spring semester)

RT2322 Spirit and Community: Pneumatology and the Theology of the Church 7.5 credits 50 % campus or 50 % online (offered odd spring semester)

RT2323 The Theology of the Early Church 7.5 credits 50 % campus or 50 % online (offered odd spring semester)

RT2516 The Prophets – Form, Intertextuality, and Reception 7,5 credits, 50 % campus or 50 % online (offered even spring semester)

RT2517 Jesus Among the Messiahs of Second Temple Judaism 7,5 credits, 50 % campus or 50 % online (cancelled)

RT2514 Early Jewish Interpretation of Texts - Principles and Techniques 7,5 credits, 50 % campus or 50 % online

RT2515 After Paul – the Later Epistolary Literature in the New Testament 7,5 credits, 50 % campus or 50 % online (offered even spring semester)

RT2521 Qumran and the New Material Philology - Text and Material Context 7.5 credits 50 % campus or 50 % online (offered odd spring semester)

RT2522 Apocryphal Gospels 7.5 credits 50 % campus or 50 % online

RT2523 The New Testament and the Origins of Supersessionism 7.5 credits 50 % campus or 50 % online (offered odd spring semester)

RT2901 Degree Project, Master of Arts (One Year), Religious Studies and Theology, Master's level 15 credits, 50 % campus, 50% online

RT2902 Degree Project, Master of Arts (Two Years), Religious Studies and Theology, Master's level 15 credits, 50 % campus, 50% online

RT2903 Degree Project, Master of Arts (Two Years), Religious Studies and Theology, Master's level 30 credits, 100 % campus, 50 % campus, 100% online, 50% online

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