Courses

The Study Plan gives a general overview of the programme.

Here is the course plan for students who are starting in September 2023;

Here is the course plan for students who started in September 2022;

And here is the course plan for students who started in September 2021.

In the spring semester 2024, the following courses are offered

Mandatory course for first-year students:
Holy Scriptures in Judaism Christianity and Islam

Furthermore, first-year students have to choose a language course, either:
Arabic or
Hebrew

and an interaction course, either:
Ritual in Early Judaism, Christianity and Islam or
Space, Art, and Identity in Synagogue, Church, and Mosque

In the autumn semester 2023, the following courses were offered

Mandatory courses for first-year students:

The Study of Ancient Religion
The Emergence of Judaism, Christianity and Islam

Mandatory courses for second-year students:

Interreligious Relations: Defining Moments, Current Encounters
Thesis Colloquium (for a description of this course see the course-lists of the individual partner universities)

In addition, the students have to choose one of the following text-courses:
Text, Jewish Tradition
Text, Islamic Tradition

Older courses

Mandatory interaction course for first-year students:
Holy Scriptures

Second interaction course: Mysticism, Philosophy and Wisdom Traditions 2023 (this course technically is not mandatory, but there are no alternatives this semester)

Furthermore, first-year students have to choose a language course, either:
Arabic or
Hebrew

In the fall semester 2022, the following courses were mandatory for first-year students:

The Study of Ancient Religion
The Emergence of Judaism, Christianity and Islam

In the fall semester 2022, the following courses were mandatory for second-year students:

Interreligious Relations: Defining Moments, Current Encounters
Thesis Colloquium (for a description of this course see the course-lists of the individual partner universities)

In addition, the students have to choose one of the following text-courses:
Text, Jewish Tradition
Text, Christian Tradition
Text, Islamic Tradition

In the spring semester 2022, the following courses were offered:

Mandatory course for first-year students:
Holy Scriptures

Furthermore, first-year students have to choose a language course, either:
Arabic or
Hebrew

and an interaction course, either:
Ritual in Early Judaism Christianity and Islam or
Space, Art, and Identity in Synagogue, Church, and Mosque

About the courses in general

Teaching combines distance learning, compact in-person seminars twice pr. semester, course assignments, tutorials and traditional teaching at the individual host institutions.

The courses range from optional ones:
– Classical languages: Hebrew, Arabic.
– Text courses where a given subject, such as Early Christian Martyrdom, The Qur’an, or Classical Rabbinic Texts, is studied through texts in the original language
– Interaction courses where the early interaction between the religions is studied by looking at themes such as Apologetics and Conversion or Space, Art and Identity.

to mandatory courses in:
The emergence of Judaism, Christianity and Islam
The study of ancient religions (a method course)
Inter-religious relations: Defining Moments, Current Encounters
– Holy Scriptures in Judaism, Christianity and Islam

Here is an introduction to what paper writing is like in our context

Example of the contents of an interaction course, The Quran and the Bible: Introduction to the Quran and its Biblical Contexts

Exams

Each course will be examined and marked according to the rules obtaining in the country and at the institution responsible for the course. The rules concerning re-examination and complaints likewise follow the rules obtaining in the country and at the institution offering any given course. Here are relevant links:

Grading system

For an explanation of the ECTS grading system we use, see here.