Why study this course with us?

• You will be challenged to understand how development happens and what key stakeholders do. We aim for you to experience development first-hand through fieldwork, international experience, and meeting UN diplomats in Geneva.
• You will have opportunities to explore a range of development issues with members of the development community, and may be able to build your own network of development professionals during your course.
• The International Development Studies and Theology and Religious Studies course from the University of Chester has a strong vocational orientation, providing you with the opportunity to combine academic training with practical experience of development work in the UK and abroad.
• Chester is an exciting place to study Theology and Religious Studies. With a large team of religious studies scholars, theologians and biblical specialists working at the cutting edge of their fields, we are able to offer an excellent range of modules.
• You will have the opportunity to develop your own interests and engage contemporary questions with religious and theological texts and traditions.

Job prospects

This course develops skills in empathy, cultural sensitivity, and religious literacy valued by employers. Students go on to work in a number of professions, including teaching, banking and financial business, marketing and advertising, publishing, the civil service, health and social care, counselling, customer service, church and youth work, and ordained ministry.