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Domain - Understanding Religion
All unit standards registered on the Directory of Assessment Standards may be accessed here.
TOP > Humanities > Religious Studies > Understanding Religion
| 0 Qualifications | 59 Assessment Standards (41 Units & 18 Achievements) | View Education Organisations with Consent to Assess |
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| Level 1 | ||||||
| 5997 | Unit |
Describe the development and use of sacred writings in world religions This standard has expired and is no longer available. |
3 Credits | |||
| 5998 | Unit |
Present sacred text and outline its meaning for members of a religion This standard has expired and is no longer available. |
3 Credits | |||
| 5999 | Unit |
Show how the religious nature of people is expressed through a dimension of selected religions This standard has expired and is no longer available. |
4 Credits | |||
| 6000 | Unit |
Outline how people can become members of a religious group This standard has expired and is no longer available. |
3 Credits | |||
| 6001 | Unit |
Explain the importance of festivals and celebrations in a religion This standard has expired and is no longer available. |
1 Credits | |||
| 6002 | Unit |
Outline a worldview and its consequent lifestyle This standard has expired and is no longer available. |
2 Credits | |||
| 6003 | Unit |
Outline the contribution of major historical figures to the story of a world religion This standard has expired and is no longer available. |
2 Credits | |||
| 90816 | Achievement |
Describe the purpose of a sacred text within a religious tradition |
6 Credits | Internal |
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| 90817 | Achievement |
Describe a significant development within a religious tradition |
6 Credits | Internal |
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| 90818 | Achievement |
Describe the application of the key ethical principle(s) of a religious tradition to an issue |
6 Credits | Internal |
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| 90819 | Achievement |
Describe key beliefs of a religious tradition |
6 Credits | Internal |
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| 91916 | Achievement |
Demonstrate understanding of the development of a community that shares religious or spiritual beliefs |
5 Credits | Internal |
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| 91917 | Achievement |
Demonstrate understanding of how a significant narrative relates to a religious or spiritual tradition |
5 Credits | Internal |
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| 91918 | Achievement |
Demonstrate understanding of a characteristic of religious or spiritual traditions |
5 Credits | External |
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| 91919 | Achievement |
Demonstrate understanding of a religious or spiritual community's perspective on an issue |
5 Credits | External |
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| 9748 | Unit |
Explain the importance of festivals and celebrations in a religion This standard has expired and is no longer available. |
3 Credits | |||
| 9749 | Unit |
Outline a world view and its consequent lifestyle This standard has expired and is no longer available. |
3 Credits | |||
| 9750 | Unit |
Outline the contribution of major historical figures to world religions This standard has expired and is no longer available. |
4 Credits | |||
| Level 2 | ||||||
| 6004 | Unit |
Explain the processes and results of different approaches to interpreting sacred writings This standard has expired and is no longer available. |
3 Credits | |||
| 6005 | Unit |
Explain the functions and describe the dimensions of religion with reference to different religions This standard has expired and is no longer available. |
4 Credits | |||
| 6006 | Unit |
Identify the importance of continuity to a religious group with reference to one feature of its life This standard has expired and is no longer available. |
4 Credits | |||
| 6007 | Unit |
Describe benefits and responsibilities of religious membership according to beliefs of a religion This standard has expired and is no longer available. |
3 Credits | |||
| 6008 | Unit |
Explain the significance of story and symbol to believers in a selected religion This standard has expired and is no longer available. |
2 Credits | |||
| 6009 | Unit |
Explain the perspective of selected spiritual traditions on loss, death, dying, and associated grief This standard has expired and is no longer available. |
4 Credits | |||
| 6010 | Unit |
Compare how a Christian worldview and one other influences views on a range of issues This standard has expired and is no longer available. |
2 Credits | |||
| 6011 | Unit |
Identify the influence of worldviews in a range of media presentations This standard has expired and is no longer available. |
2 Credits | |||
| 6012 | Unit |
Describe and account for the impact of major historical figures on the story of a world religion This standard has expired and is no longer available. |
4 Credits | |||
| 6013 | Unit |
Explain a major historical movement with particular reference to a religion This standard has expired and is no longer available. |
3 Credits | |||
| 90820 | Achievement |
Examine the meanings within a sacred text This standard has expired and is no longer available. |
6 Credits | Internal | ||
| 90821 | Achievement |
Explain the changes in an expression(s) of a religious tradition |
6 Credits | Internal |
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| 90822 | Achievement |
Explain how a contemporary social action derives from the ethical principles of a religious tradition |
6 Credits | Internal |
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| 90823 | Achievement |
Explain the key beliefs within two religious traditions in relation to a significant religious question |
6 Credits | Internal |
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| 91724 | Achievement |
Explain a significant theme in a sacred text within a religious tradition |
6 Credits | Internal |
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| 9747 | Unit |
Describe religious sources of morality and their application within a religion This standard has expired and is no longer available. |
4 Credits | |||
| 9751 | Unit |
Tell the 'story' of a religion and explain believers' responses to it and to associated symbols This standard has expired and is no longer available. |
4 Credits | |||
| 9752 | Unit |
Explain how world views influence responses to a range of issues This standard has expired and is no longer available. |
4 Credits | |||
| 9753 | Unit |
Identify the influence of world views in a range of media presentations This standard has expired and is no longer available. |
3 Credits | |||
| Level 3 | ||||||
| 6014 | Unit |
Investigate the origin, structure, literary form, transmission, and preservation of a sacred writing This standard has expired and is no longer available. |
5 Credits | |||
| 6015 | Unit |
Account for the place and authority of a sacred writing in branches of the religion which claim it This standard has expired and is no longer available. |
2 Credits | |||
| 6016 | Unit |
Describe religious groups and the response of one religious group to another This standard has expired and is no longer available. |
4 Credits | |||
| 6017 | Unit |
Examine the effects of diversity of belief, lifestyle and practice within a religious group This standard has expired and is no longer available. |
4 Credits | |||
| 6018 | Unit |
Explain ways in which the faith of believers is strengthened This standard has expired and is no longer available. |
1 Credits | |||
| 6019 | Unit |
Describe the plausibility of major beliefs of a religion from the perspective of believers This standard has expired and is no longer available. |
2 Credits | |||
| 6020 | Unit |
Explain the impact of a selected worldview on one feature of society This standard has expired and is no longer available. |
2 Credits | |||
| 6021 | Unit |
Explain how different answers to an ultimate question support world views and shape lifestyles This standard has expired and is no longer available. |
4 Credits | |||
| 6022 | Unit |
Explain the significance of selected women in the history of a religion This standard has expired and is no longer available. |
2 Credits | |||
| 6035 | Unit |
Examine religious responses to ethical issues This standard has expired and is no longer available. |
4 Credits | |||
| 90824 | Achievement |
Analyse a significant theme in a sacred text This standard has expired and is no longer available. |
6 Credits | Internal | ||
| 90825 | Achievement |
Analyse a religious tradition(s) in Aotearoa New Zealand |
6 Credits | Internal |
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| 90826 | Achievement |
Analyse the response of a religious tradition to a contemporary ethical issue |
6 Credits | Internal |
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| 90827 | Achievement |
Analyse the key beliefs of a religious tradition and a secular world view in relation to ultimate questions |
6 Credits | Internal |
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| 91725 | Achievement |
Analyse the meanings in a sacred text within a religious tradition |
6 Credits | Internal |
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| 9754 | Unit |
Account for the place and authority of a sacred writing in branches of the religion which claim it This standard has expired and is no longer available. |
4 Credits | |||
| 9755 | Unit |
Explain ways in which the faith of believers is strengthened This standard has expired and is no longer available. |
4 Credits | |||
| 9756 | Unit |
Explain the plausibility of major beliefs of a religion from the perspective of believers This standard has expired and is no longer available. |
3 Credits | |||
| 9757 | Unit |
Explain the impact of a selected worldview on one feature of society This standard has expired and is no longer available. |
4 Credits | |||
| 9758 | Unit |
Explain the significance of selected women in the history of a religion This standard has expired and is no longer available. |
4 Credits | |||
| Level 4 | ||||||
| 9821 | Unit |
Describe, compare, and discuss the effectiveness of foundational beliefs of selected worldviews This standard has expired and is no longer available. |
4 Credits | |||
| Level 5 | ||||||
| 9822 | Unit |
Analyse and describe a range of worldviews and explain their consequences This standard has expired and is no longer available. |
5 Credits | |||