Postgraduate Study

Religion at Hull offers a range of opportunities for postgraduate study. For those interested purely in a research degree, we provide supervision in all the major areas of the subject to doctoral level. But we also offer a highly flexible, modular, taught course. This attracts both Religion graduates wishing to investigate certain topics in greater depth than they did as undergraduates (perhaps with a view to research), and as graduates of other disciplines who wish to study Religion intensively.

Postgraduate Religion at Hull is supported by a well-stocked library, which has particular strengths in Biblical studies, Indian religions and church history. The library and archive collections contain some notable resources, ranging from medieval ecclesiastical records, through religious pamphlets from 16th- and 17th-century England on microfilm, to the papers of Conrad Noel, the influential Christian Socialist of this century. For more elusive items, the University benefits from its proximity to the British Library's reserve depository at Boston Spa.

Opportunities exist in the department to learn Hebrew and related Semitic languages, Greek, and Sanskrit, at beginners' or more advanced level. The University's language Institute provides for the self-study of modern European and other languages. The facilities of the Computer Centre are also available to Religion postgraduates.

The Department is closely involved with a number of activities of particular interest to its graduate students. In particular, the Hull and District Theological Society, as well as inviting speakers from around the country, has provided our graduate students with the opportunity of presenting papers before an informed but friendly audience.