Religious Studies – Protestant Institute of Arts and Social Sciences

PROGRAM OUTLINE FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF RELIGIOUS STUDIES (DT)

1 . Module titles and components for Level 1

Module code	Module Title	Credits	Module components	Semester
GEN 101	General English I	Not credited	Listening and speaking skills reading and vocabulary writing skills	Year I Semester 1
IPL 102	Introduction to Philosophy and Logics	10	General introduction to philosophy Introduction to logic Ancient and medieval philosophy	Year I Semester 1
ICT I 103	Information and Communication Technologies I	10	Introduction to hard and soft ware Introduction to Microsoft word Introduction to internet	Year I Semester 1
NTG 104	New Testament Greek I	15	Preliminaries and Declension Conjugation I	Year 1 Semester 1
ERC 105	Ethics and Rwandan culture	10	General Introduction to ethics Introduction to Christian ethics Ethics and Rwandan culture	Year I Semester 1
PTH 106	Practical Theology	15	Introduction to PTH Worship study Church Music	Year I Semester 1
SSK 107	Study Skills	10	Study Skills and Strategies Introduction to Scientific Research Writing Techniques	Year I Semester 1
BMS 108	Basic Managerial Skills	10	General Accounting principles of management	Year I Semester 2
ITB 109	Introduction To The Bible I	15	History of the Bible and its transmission Introduction to the Pentateuch Introduction to the New Testament narratives and Johannine literature	Year I Semester 2
BIH 110	Biblical Hebrew I	15	Basic morphology Conjugation	Year I Semester 2
CHS 111	Church History I	10	Early church Middle age Renaissance	Year I Semester 2
Total		120

Award:Diploma of Arts in in Religious Studies

2 . Module titles and components for level 2

Module code	Module Title	Credits	Module components	Semester
NTG 201	New Testament Greek II	10	Declension and Syntax Conjugation	Year II Semester1
CHS 202	Church History II	10	Reformation Enlightenment era Modern and post-modern period	Year II Semester1
HSR 203	History of Regions	10	Abrahamic Religions : Judaism, Christianity, Islam Asian Religions African Traditional Religions	Year II Semester1
SPH 204	Systems of Philosophy	10	Modern and Contemporary philosophy African philosophy	Year II Semester1
ENG 205	English II	Not credited	Grammatical structures Conjugation Language in use	Year II Semester1
WOS 206	Worship study	15	Worship Study Church music	Year I Semester 2
ICT 207	Information and Communication Technology II	10	Microsoft Office Excel &access Microsoft office PowerPoint Microsoft office Publisher	Year I Semester 2
ITB II 201	Introduction to the Bible II	15	Latter Prophets Introduction to the Sacred Writings Introduction to Epistles Writings	Year I Semester 2
BIH 202	BiblicalHebrew II	10	Conjugation Syntax and semantics	Year II Semester2
CED 209	Christian Education	15	General pedagogy and Methods of teachings Group dynamic and facilitation Christian Education	Year II Semester2
STH 211	Systematic Theology	15	Introduction to Dogmatics Doctrine of God Christology & Pneumatology	Year II Semester2
Total		120

Award:Diploma of Arts in in Religious Studies

3. Module titles and components for Level 3

Module code	Module Title	Credits	Module components	Semester
BTH 301	Biblical theology and hermeneutics	15	Introduction to Biblical Exegesis and Hermeneutics Exegetical Analysis of Genesis 33 Exegetical Analysis of the Epistle to the Romans (Day)	Year II Semester2
TFP 302	Theory and Field Practice	10	Field practice Evaluation of the Field Practice Advanced Worship Study	Year II Semester2
ACE 303	Applied Christian Ethics	15	Advanced Christian Ethics Political Ethics Christian Ethics in context	Year II Semester2
MSG 304	Missiology	10	Introduction to missiology Theories of mission	Year II Semester2
STH 305	Systematic Theology II	10	Ecclesiology eschatology	Year II Semester2
Total		120

Award:Advanced Diploma of Arts in in Religious Studies

4 . Module titles and components for level 4

Module code	Module Title	Credits	Module components	Semester
AMC 401	Arabic and Modern Culture	15	Koranic Arabic Classical Arabic Muslim Culture	Year II Semester2
AFR 402	African Religions	15	Traditional Religious Systems in Rwanda Dialogue with other African Religious systems	Year III Semester 1
ACH 403	Advanced Church History	15	Church History in Rwanda Ecumenical Issues Sects Issues	Year III Semester 1
IRM 404	ICT and Research Methodology in Arts and Social Sciences	15	ICT II Research Methodology II	Year III Semester 1
Total		60

Award:Ordinary Degree of Arts in in Religious Studies

5 . Module titles and components for level 5

Module code	Module Title	Credits	Module components	Semester
MRE 501	Major Religions	20	Christianity Judaism Islam Other major Religions	Year III Semester 1
HRE 502	Human and Religion	15	Epistemology of Religions Psychology of Religions Sociology of Religions	Year III Semester 1
ENR 503	Ecumenism and New Religious Movements	15	Transverse and Marginalized Religions New Religious Movements Ecumenical Movements Interreligious Dialogue	Year III Semester 1
EGY 504	Egyptology	15		Year III Semester 1
WPL 505	Work Placement (Internship)	15		Year III Semester 2
RER 506	Research Report	30		Year III Semester 2
Total		120

Award: Ordinary Degree with Honor of Arts in Religious Studies