Careers

There's no end of rewarding careers you could go into with a degree from us. The kind of transferable skills you'll develop in your degree in Religion, Theology and the Bible will set you up perfectly for a huge range of work settings. You'll see different perspectives, ask the right questions. You'll be a team worker, a problem solver, a project planner, a pattern spotter, a fluent and powerful communicator. Our graduates go into a wide variety of industries including journalism, social, cultural industries and the arts, teaching and pastoral wo

Your study will include modules like Religion, Theology and the Bible at Work, and The Bible, Religion and Education. We've developed these specifically to strengthen your workplace skills.

Some of our graduates go on to work within faith communities. The possibilities are much wider than that, though. Journalism, social work, the media, cultural industries and the arts, web design, charity, teaching, retail management, healthcare, banking, advertising, public relations. Or you might carry on studying at postgraduate level. Our degree courses have a superb track record of employability, with virtually all our students securing jobs or continuing to study.

Wherever you want to go, however high you set your goals, a degree from Sheffield can be the launchpad for your dreams.

So what can you do with a degree in Religion, Theology and the Bible?

Our graduates are unusually versatile, and adapt well to the demands of further study or employment in a wide range of different sectors; your future career options certainly won't limit to just becoming a Minister of Religion.

Recent graduate destinations include:

• Research
• Education
• Management
• Advertising, PR and journalism
• Social work
• Postgraduate studies.

Developing skills and preparing you for employment The skills that you'll acquire—clear analytical thinking, precise and persuasive presentation, project creation, group work,time management, computer literacy and information gathering, clearly structured writing—will be vital in getting a job and in keeping you employable. During your course you'll become adept at analysing, evaluating and synthesising information from a range of sources. You'll learn to see, understand and explain ideas and opinions from very different perspectives. You'll also be encouraged to identify patterns, solve problems and develop original responses to the questions posed. Our mixture of learning and teaching methods will hone your presentation skills, so you can be both persuasive and precise. Several modules include group-work components, while at level 3 the dissertation module (compulsory) gives you experience of project planning. You will also need good time management skills, and a coherent writing style, to get your coursework completed successfully. The opportunity to learn Hebrew and Greek gives you access to individual biblical texts and their ambiguities; this will also require you to develop a good eye for detail.

Student-centred learning Our approach ensures that the skills you gain in this Department are just as valuable as the information you acquire.  By the end of your course, you'll be able to examine and analyse the Bible at an advanced level and have a degree from one of Britain's top universities, but you also will have gained valuable job skills that employers are looking for when hiring and later, when promoting.