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DR505D: NEW TESTAMENT STUDIES IN PROCESS: CURRENTS AND THEMES (2024-2025)

Last modified: 06 Aug 2024 11:16


Course Overview

This course will engage a significant area of debate in New Testament Studies by means of close and sustained evaluation of a particular work, or by a thematically arranged series of discussions. This will allow students to develop awareness of the major questions currently dominating the discipline and their backdrop in scholarship, thus helping students to identify ongoing challenges and prospects for future inquiry. The topic under consideration will vary in each delivery of the course.

Course Details

Study Type Postgraduate Level 5
Term First Term Credit Points 30 credits (15 ECTS credits)
Campus Aberdeen Sustained Study No
Co-ordinators
  • Dr Katherine Hockey

What courses & programmes must have been taken before this course?

  • Distance Learning
  • Any Postgraduate Programme (Studied)

What other courses must be taken with this course?

None.

What courses cannot be taken with this course?

Are there a limited number of places available?

No

Course Description

This course will engage a significant area of debate in New Testament Studies by means of close and sustained evaluation of a particular work, or by a thematically arranged series of discussions. The course will contextualize the scholarly debate in relation to relevant socio-historical backgrounds that have given rise to particular approaches and will evaluate the currents or developments within New Testament scholarship themselves. It will also examine, where pertinent, the influence of one scholarly trajectory on other areas of development in New Testament studies. The course will therefore allow students to develop an awareness of the major questions currently dominating the discipline of New Testament Studies and their backdrop in the history of the discipline, as well as helping students to identify ongoing challenges and prospects for future research. The particular topic(s) under consideration will vary in each delivery of the course.


Details, including assessments, may be subject to change until 30 August 2024 for 1st term courses and 20 December 2024 for 2nd term courses.

Summative Assessments

Essay

Assessment Type Summative Weighting 50
Assessment Weeks Feedback Weeks

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Feedback

Written feedback

Word Count 3000
Learning Outcomes
Knowledge LevelThinking SkillOutcome
ConceptualCreateAn advanced ability to communicate one’s own position in relation to the debate and to argue its merit in relation to alternatives.
ConceptualEvaluateAn emergent, informed position on the debate(s) in question, shaped by a detailed grasp of the relevant data and the theoretical accounts in which these data are interpreted.
ConceptualUnderstandAn understanding of the methodological principles involved in the evaluation of contemporary debates and how these have resulted in divergent positions.
ConceptualUnderstandA knowledge of significant debates in the field of New Testament studies, the background to these, the material data, the current theoretical developments, and the representatives of various positions
ProceduralAnalyseAn ability to analyse the various representative arguments and their capacity to explain the relevant data.
ProceduralCreateAdvanced, subject-specific research-writing skills, through designing of essay topic; locating relevant primary & secondary literature; writing an essay that accords with discipline expectations

Essay

Assessment Type Summative Weighting 30
Assessment Weeks Feedback Weeks

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Feedback Word Count 1000
Learning Outcomes
Knowledge LevelThinking SkillOutcome
ConceptualCreateAn advanced ability to communicate one’s own position in relation to the debate and to argue its merit in relation to alternatives.
ConceptualEvaluateAn emergent, informed position on the debate(s) in question, shaped by a detailed grasp of the relevant data and the theoretical accounts in which these data are interpreted.
ConceptualUnderstandA knowledge of significant debates in the field of New Testament studies, the background to these, the material data, the current theoretical developments, and the representatives of various positions
ProceduralAnalyseAn ability to analyse the various representative arguments and their capacity to explain the relevant data.
ProceduralCreateAdvanced, subject-specific research-writing skills, through designing of essay topic; locating relevant primary & secondary literature; writing an essay that accords with discipline expectations

Reflective Report

Assessment Type Summative Weighting 20
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Feedback

Reflective Report (comprising about 10-11 weekly reflections of about 200 words each).

Feedback will take two forms. First, because journal entries will often the seminar discussion, that discussion will include consideration of students' reactions and questions. Second, formal written feedback will be supplied after the entire journal is submitted.

Due at end of term, with possible supportive checks throughout at discretion of coordinator. Relevant dates will be announced with publication of course guide.

Learning Outcomes
Knowledge LevelThinking SkillOutcome
ConceptualCreateAn advanced ability to communicate one’s own position in relation to the debate and to argue its merit in relation to alternatives.
ConceptualEvaluateAn emergent, informed position on the debate(s) in question, shaped by a detailed grasp of the relevant data and the theoretical accounts in which these data are interpreted.
ConceptualUnderstandA knowledge of significant debates in the field of New Testament studies, the background to these, the material data, the current theoretical developments, and the representatives of various positions
ProceduralAnalyseAn ability to analyse the various representative arguments and their capacity to explain the relevant data.

Formative Assessment

There are no assessments for this course.

Resit Assessments

Resubmission of coursework

Assessment Type Summative Weighting
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Learning Outcomes
Knowledge LevelThinking SkillOutcome
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Course Learning Outcomes

Knowledge LevelThinking SkillOutcome
ProceduralCreateAdvanced, subject-specific research-writing skills, through designing of essay topic; locating relevant primary & secondary literature; writing an essay that accords with discipline expectations
ConceptualUnderstandAn understanding of the methodological principles involved in the evaluation of contemporary debates and how these have resulted in divergent positions.
ConceptualEvaluateAn emergent, informed position on the debate(s) in question, shaped by a detailed grasp of the relevant data and the theoretical accounts in which these data are interpreted.
ConceptualUnderstandA knowledge of significant debates in the field of New Testament studies, the background to these, the material data, the current theoretical developments, and the representatives of various positions
ConceptualCreateAn advanced ability to communicate one’s own position in relation to the debate and to argue its merit in relation to alternatives.
ProceduralAnalyseAn ability to analyse the various representative arguments and their capacity to explain the relevant data.

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