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Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet

i would not call it nature studies tho as it will be seen like RE or music as a lesson to muck about in

Call it Planet Earth Crisis studies or summat

AND replace RE with this new topic

absolutely no need now to study religion - cover it in an hour in History

I do somewhat agree that RE could be incorporated into History, i.e. you learn about the history of religion alongside the cultural history of whatever era/location you're studying.

Although on that note (and slightly off topic) I think there'd be some benefit in changing "RE" into "Cultural Studies" where the focus is learning about different cultures and any religion they may have hand-in-hand, e.g. you would learn about the modern Middle East and learn about this history of Islam at the same time as the two are interwoven, or for example there's a very specific brand of Catholocism in South American cultures, but you could also learn about modern Japan etc. which would largely be a non-religious conversation. I do think there's a bit of a gap in learning about non-British cultures in a modern context and not necessarily rooted in religion.

You could even do a module on Australia and learn all about barbequeues, Kylie Minogue, Dr Karl Kennedy and Married At First Sight. It would be great.