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Overview of Year Group Curriculum Information
for JFS Website 2015-16
Subject:
YG
Year 12
Religious Studies ‘A’ Level
Autumn Term
Spring Term
Ethics Unit
Ethics Unit
 Absolutism and Relativism
 Religious Ethics
and related concepts such as
o Divine Command
o Objective
Theory
o Subjective
o Main Ethical
o Deontological
Principles of
o Teleological
Judaism
 Natural Law
 Practical Ethics
o Purpose and
o Ethical
perfection according
Approaches to
to Aristotle
Abortion
o Primary and
o Sanctity of Life
Secondary Precepts
o Personhood
o Ethical
 Utilitarianism
Approaches to
o Bentham
euthanasia
o Hedonic Calculus
o
Ethical
o Mill and qualitative
Approaches to
pleasures
genetic
o Preference
engineering
Utilitarianism
o Ethical
 Kant and Duty
Approaches to
o Categorical
war and peace
Imperative
o Just War
o Pacifism
Judaism Unit
 Ethical Monotheism and
Judaism Unit
Chosen People
 Worship in the home
o Nature of Ethical
o Prayer
Monotheism
o Shabbat
o The role of the
o Festivals
Chosen People
 Men and Women in
 Babylonian and Jerusalem
Judaism
Talmud:
o Mikvah
o Origins
o Roles of men and
o Contents
women
o Use
Summer Term
Ethics Unit
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Virtue Ethics
Modern
approaches to
Virtue Ethics
Judaism Unit
 Orthodox and
Progressive
Judaism history.
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Year 13
Halakhah and Mitzvot
o Principles of Mitzvot
o Kashrut (food,
objects clothes and
money)
Ethics Unit
Ethics Unit
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Meta Ethics
o Cognitivist theories
and
o non cognitivist
theories of meta
ethics
Free Will and Determinism
o Determinism
o Libertarianism
Conscience
o Augustine
o Aquinas
o Butler
o Newman
o Freud
o Fromm
o Piaget.
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Environmental and
Business Ethics
o Humans and the
Environment
o Gaia hypothesis
o Business
relationships and
ethics
o Business and
environment
Sexual Ethics
o Ethics around
Issues
surrounding
premarital and
extramarital sex,
contraception,
homosexuality
Judaism Unit
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Developments in Judaism
o Orthodoxy
o Neo-Orthodoxy
o Conservative
o Reform
o Progressive and
Liberal; Hasidic
Tradition
o Ashkenazi and
Sephardi Jews
Messiah and Messianic Age
o Messianic hope, with
reference to Isaiah
and Malachi
o Jewish belief in Life
after death
Judaism Unit
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The twentieth-century
Holocaust and postHolocaust theology
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The concept of the Land
of Israel from Jewish
teachings and its
relationship to the State
of Israel