Last modified: 31 May 2022 13:30
This course gives students the opportunity to study the views of the western theological canon by reading key historical texts that have shaped Christian thinking about human impairment and disability. Primary source texts will be discussed on their own merit as well as in relation to developments in the Christian tradition over time. During class discussions of core texts and historical trajectories will be critically assessed in light of contemporary questions and scholarship.
| Study Type | Postgraduate | Level | 5 |
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| Term | First Term | Credit Points | 30 credits (15 ECTS credits) |
| Campus | Aberdeen | Sustained Study | No |
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This course begins from the first Christian centuries until the modern period, tracing the development of Christian thinking about various sorts of human illnesses and impairments over the 2000+ years of the Christian tradition. Tracing the rise and eventual decline of Christian belief, it shows Christians through the centuries wrestling to give theological descriptions to a wide range of disabilities, and wrestling with how to understand their implications for Christian traditional church practices. In the Reformation and modern periods, new questions arise about how to understand the institutional response to disability, such as dedicated care homes or making churches accessible.
| Assessment Type | Summative | Weighting | 70 | |
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| Assessment Weeks | 10 | Feedback Weeks | 13 | |
| Feedback |
For this assessment, students will engage in more depth with one historical figure or time period. Written feedback will be provided. |
Word Count | 4000 | |
| Knowledge Level | Thinking Skill | Outcome |
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| Conceptual | Evaluate | By the end of this course, students can describe and evaluate core ideas of key historical texts that have shaped the context in which Disability Theology is undertaken. |
| Reflection | Analyse | By the end of this course, students can explain and justify their own position vis-à-vis influential historical texts, scholars, and developmental trajectories discussed in this course. |
| Assessment Type | Summative | Weighting | 30 | |
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| Assessment Weeks | 11 | Feedback Weeks | 14 | |
| Feedback |
Each of the journal entries should be a minimum 200 words and a maximum of 500 words, plus a final entry of min 500 words. Written feedback will be provided. |
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| Knowledge Level | Thinking Skill | Outcome |
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| Conceptual | Evaluate | By the end of this course, students can describe and evaluate core ideas of key historical texts that have shaped the context in which Disability Theology is undertaken. |
| Reflection | Analyse | By the end of this course, students can explain and justify their own position vis-à-vis influential historical texts, scholars, and developmental trajectories discussed in this course. |
There are no assessments for this course.
| Assessment Type | Summative | Weighting | 100 | |
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| Assessment Weeks | Feedback Weeks | |||
| Feedback | Word Count | 5500 | ||
| Knowledge Level | Thinking Skill | Outcome |
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| Knowledge Level | Thinking Skill | Outcome |
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| Conceptual | Evaluate | By the end of this course, students can describe and evaluate core ideas of key historical texts that have shaped the context in which Disability Theology is undertaken. |
| Reflection | Analyse | By the end of this course, students can explain and justify their own position vis-à-vis influential historical texts, scholars, and developmental trajectories discussed in this course. |
| Conceptual | Understand | Demonstrate a broad grasp of the history of thinking about disability in the Christian tradition, and some sense of what this reveals about the dominant ideas about disability in contemporary culture |
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