Why study this course with us?

• Chester is an exciting place to study History Ð a Roman and medieval town with a key role in the Civil War that remains the capital of Cheshire.
• At the University of Chester, the study ofÊHistory and Theology and Religious StudiesÊranges from the fall of Rome to Cold War America. You can explore turning points in history, the Vikings, the Crusades, the Consumer Revolution, the English Civil War, the Holocaust, and minorities and migration in the 19th and 20th centuries.
• The Department currently works with the Grosvenor Museum in Chester, and currently has use of the Cheshire Record Office and the Cheshire Military Museum archives.
• 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.