N4/5 RMPS

What will you learn?

Unit 1: World Religion

Pupils will be involved in an in depth study of Islam. This will involve a detailed examination of key beliefs and practices and will involve exploration of such topics within Islam such as; the nature of human existence, the nature of God, the Life of Muhammad, the Afterlife, submission to Allah and the Five Pillars.

Unit 2: Morality and Belief

Pupils will study Part A: Morality and Justice. or Part E Morality and Conflict.

For Part A: Morality and Justice, the following areas will be covered:

• the purposes of punishment: retribution, deterrence, reformation, protection

• causes of crime: poverty, environment, psychological factors

• UK responses to crime: custodial sentences, non-custodial sentences, crime prevention

• capital punishment and life tariffs: humaneness, human rights

For Part E: Morality and Conflict, the following areas will be covered:

• conflict: causes of war, types of war, Geneva conventions, justifications

• consequences of war: human cost, environment, economic

• modern armaments: weapons of mass destruction, smart weapons, conventional weapons

• alternatives to war: sanctions, diplomacy, pacifism

Unit 3: Religious and Philosophical Questions

Pupils will be involved in the study of an area of philosophy called Metaphysics. We will cover arguments concerning the existence of God.

This unit will cover the following areas:

• Can we prove or disprove the Existence of God?

• The Cosmological and Teleological Arguments for God’s existence.

• Responses to the Cosmological and Teleological Arguments from Science including Big Bang Theory and the Theory of Evolution.

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