The module aims to enable students to:

(1)   critically explore and identify key aspects of  Christian spirituality

(2)   to introduce and critically engage with some  texts from the Christian  tradition

(3)    critically examine a variety of approaches to Christian spirituality 

(4)    identify and critically reflect on examine  how spirituality  may be shaped by such variables as  personality, tradition and context

(5)   Examine the historical context for the development of different spiritual writers

Learning Outcomes of the module

 By the time you finish the course, you should be able to:

Knowledge and Understanding:

1.Understand the way to approach an historical text and be able to offer an historical introduction to several examples of Christian devotional literature.

2.Identify some of the various ways of approaching Christian spirituality and define for yourself what spirituality means.

Intellectual Skills:

3.Critically evaluate some of the different ways of understanding Christian experience.

4.Critically examine some of the insights of some devotional writers in the Christian tradition.and appreciate the wide variety of interpretations of Christian experience.

Discipline Specific (including practical) Skills:

5. Represent their own views and those of others sensitively and  intelligently with fairness  and integrity

6. Expound some understanding of  the need to examine  the development  and expression of religious belief within  its particular historical context.

7. Offer an explanation and analysis of historical background

Transferable Skills:

8. Communicate information, ideas,  perceptions, arguments, principles and theories by a variety of means written and oral.

9. Successfully reproduce, reflect upon and interact  with the experiences, ideas and  arguments of others

10. Critical engagement with  and reflection  on  the convictions  and  behaviours of others

11. Use It skills to  enhance learning and understanding

12. Give some account of their own beliefs, commitments and prejudices

informal and formal lectures

-        small group enquiry, discussion and  feedback

-        prepared student contributions in module  meetings

-        teacher  initiated discussion

-      printed material