Year 12
Religious Education

Course Content

Church History through Art, Architecture and Music explores expressions of Christian faith throughout the centuries, through art, architecture and music.  The topic aims to engender an appreciation of the contribution of Christianity to the arts.  The content includes a general overview of the following periods/styles and deals with at least three of them in detail: The Earliest Christian Period; Byzantine; Romanesque; Gothic; Renaissance; Baroque; 19th-20th century; post-Vatican II.

Loss, Death, Grief and Dying looks at these universal human experiences from a Christian perspective and considers a variety of religious and cultural experiences associated with death and dying, including the work of Elisabeth Kubler-Ross.

World Religions allows students the opportunity to study the nature and function of religion as a phenomenon common to all cultural groups throughout human history.  It explores the main characteristics of religions by a study of the following dimensions of religion: sacred text, sacred symbol, sacred story, sacred ritual, sacred ethics, religious social structures, religious experience, sacred beliefs and sacred history.  At least three of the following religions are studied in some depth:   Austalian Aboriginal Spirituality; Traditional Maori Spirituality; Hinduism; Buddhism; Judaism; Islam.