Free skills-based Religious Literacy course on FutureLearn

Why Religion Matters: Religious Literacy, Culture and Diversity (https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/why-religion-matters/2) has been designed by the Open University’s Religious Studies Department and showcasing current university-level approaches to Religious Studies.

This course highlights how religious literacy can perhaps best be understood as a skills-based approach to exploring religion within a particular social context. By applying the principles learned on the course, you may be able to more confidently engage with current events and controversies involving religious and non-religious worldviews in the classroom. You can access a sample step exploring how religion might relate to current environmental protest movements, like Extinction Rebellion here (https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/why-religion-matters/0/steps/73899).

The next moderated presentation begins on 11 May 2020. The course itself is free, but if you can receive a FutureLearn/Open University Certificate of Completion suitable for demonstrating CPD by paying £42 and successfully completing a short end-of-course test.