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Honour School of Religion and Asian and Middle Eastern Studies

A

  • 1. The subjects of the Honour School of Religion and Asian and Middle Eastern Studies shall be 1 Religion and 2 Asian and Middle Eastern Studies. All candidates must offer both 1 and 2.

  • 2. The Honour School of Religion and Asian and Middle Eastern Studies shall be under the joint supervision of the Boards of the Faculties of Theology and Religion, and of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, which shall appoint a standing joint committee to make, and to submit to the two boards, proposals for regulations concerning the examination.

  • 3. No candidate shall be admitted to the examination in this School unless he or she has either passed or been exempted from the First Public Examination.

  • 4. The Public Examiners in this School shall be such of the Public Examiners in the Honour Schools of Theology and Religion and of the Honour Schools in the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies as may be required, together with any additional examiners who may be required who shall be nominated by the committee for the nomination of Public Examiners in one or both of those Honour Schools as appropriate.

B

  • Candidates are required to offer eight papers. Three papers must be in Religion and three in Asian and Middle Eastern Studies; the other two may be in either Religion or Asian and Middle Eastern Studies. All candidates will be required to submit as one of their eight papers either a thesis (in Religion) or a dissertation (in Asian and Middle Eastern Studies).

  • (a) Religion

  • Each year the Faculty will publish a list of available papers and specify the assessment mode for each as well as any restrictions pertaining to individual papers. 

  • (b) Asian and Middle Eastern Studies

  • Individual paper requirements can be found under Special Regulations for the Honour Schools in the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies.

    Candidates must take three papers and may take up to five, all of which must be drawn from either 1. Buddhism or 2. Eastern Christianity or 3. Hinduism or 4. Islam or 5. Judaism. Advanced language options are for candidates who have studied the same language for the First Public Examination. Each year the Faculty will publish a list of available papers in the handbook and specify the assessment mode for each, as well as any restrictions pertaining to individual papers.

    Candidates who offer any of papers Formation of Rabbinic Judaism; Modern Judaism; Foundations of Buddhism; and Buddhism in Space and Time must offer them as either Religion or Asian and Middle Eastern Studies papers.

    Regulations concerning theses and dissertations

    A thesis may be offered in Religion or a dissertation in Asian and Middle Eastern Studies. The regulations governing theses in Religion are the same as those specified for theses in the Special Regulations for the Honour School of Theology and Religion.  The regulations governing dissertations in Asian and Middle Eastern Studies are the same as those specified in Special Regulations for the Honour Schools in the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies.