Graduate Certificate in Religious and Values Education

About the course
This course offers opportunities for the development of pedagogical skills in the teaching of religious and values education. It also offers opportunities for professional development for teachers of Religious Education (K-12) from all educational backgrounds. The course arises from recent theoretical and practical movements in Australia and the United Kingdom to develop a broad-based religious and values curriculum incorporating the above discipline areas.

• provide knowledge of basic scholarship in biblical studies, philosophy, ethics, and world religions
  
• develop skills appropriate to the teaching of religion and philosophy
  
• foster a critical appreciation of the nature and purpose of religious values and philosophical education in the school curriculum
  
• provide materials for the development of subjects that incorporate academic rigour, philosophical reasoning, and opportunities for spiritual development
  
• examine assessment issues particular to the teaching of religion and philosophy.

Back to Charles Sturt University

To enrol and find out course fees, intake dates, entry requirements and more details about courses and the Institute please click on the Enquiry button and complete our form and one of our staff member will get back to you very soon.