YEAR 11 SYLLABUS

Religion and the Media

The variety and range of specifically religious programmes (religious broadcasts) on BBC1, BBC2, ITV, Channel 4 and Channel 5. Students should be aware of the general contents of such programmes and must study ONE programme in depth to assess the reasons for its popularity/unpopularity.

How either TV soap operas or the national daily press deal with religious and moral issues, including an in-depth study of ONE religious or moral issue that has been dealt with.

A specifically religious theme or themes as explored in ONE film or TV drama. Students will be required to understand why the theme is important, how it is dealt with, whether the treatment was fair to religious people, and how the treatment of the theme could have been improved.

Through this coverage, students will be expected to be able to deal with evaluation questions which require them to look at the way in which religion is dealt with in the media in a general way.

Our Focus Points

Religious Programmes

• Songs of Praise
• The Heaven and Earth Show
• Heart of the Matter

Soap Opera Issues

• Abortion - Carol, Dann, Bianca episodes
• Euthanasia - Dot and Ethel episodes
• Domestic Violence - Trevor and Mo episodes (Current area of study)

Films

• Chariots of Fire - religious principles (Sunday observance) and religious/racial prejudice (against Jews)
• Schindler's List - hatred and religious/racial prejudice as manifested in the holocaust of WWII. Christian ideas of "Love your neighbour", self-sacrifice and the sanctity of life.