This is a joint Honours programme which allows the student to study 2 subjects in equal proportions; education studies (early childhood) offers in-depth study of educational processes and practices and specialises in analysing how themes including gender, race, citizenship, representation and power apply to education of the young child both in schools and in the wider culture; in addition, the student tailors the content by choosing from a range of optional modules employing specific critical approaches to the study of early childhood, including the philosophical, sociological and psychoanalytic; the theology and religious studies course explores the study of religion and religions in their contemporary as well as historical forms; the emphasis is always upon religion as something that is lived and which impacts upon cultures as well as something which is impacted upon by cultural texts and practices; religious studies explores religions and ideologies, practices and ideas and how they shape and have been shaped by past and contemporary culture; it does so by using methods drawn from cultural studies, phenomenology, sociology and anthropology; theology is primarily the critical reflection on the traditions of 1 religion, which could be Judaism or Christianity or Hinduism; it also draws on a number of methodologies including philosophy, history, politics and contemporary theologies, as well as some of those used by religious studies.