There are 4 major elements in all years of the course; professional education studies: gives students the general professional training to be a class teacher in a primary school; school experience: students work in schools in all years for block periods of between 5 & 10 weeks and on occasional days throughout the course; special subject: religious studies are studied in depth; includes: different approaches to the study of religions; great religious traditions of the world; contemporary approaches to the Bible; primal religions; science and religion; women and religion; liberation theologies; Christian mysticism; the Gospels; philosophy of religions; ethics; nature and religion; new religious movements; mythology; Buddhism; religion in Britain since 1945; Judaism after the holocaust; contemporary Christian theology; Zen Buddhism; applied studies: students learn how to teach that subject as a specialism; successful completion of this course leads to a recommendation for Qualified Teacher Status (QTS) after completion of skills tests.