Childhood Studies with Integrated Foundation Year

This is a four-year version of our popular BA (Hons) Childhood Studies, with an Integrated Foundation Year. Help give children the best start in life. Qualify for a lifelong career in a fulfilling field. Discover new abilities and capacities you didn't know you had.

If you're interested in a career engaging with families, children and their communities, the BA (Hons) Childhood Studies degree will provide you with skills, knowledge and understanding in a range of subject areas that combine to form childhood studies. You will learn about child development, children's needs, and the historical, social, and cultural issues that impact their lives. You will also develop your knowledge and understanding of the child as an individual and the position of the child in society and family.

You will have the opportunity to register on an exciting pathway during your first semester, Early Childhood Graduate Practitioner Competencies. This will allow you to become a practitioner and assures employers that you have completed relevant practice experience. If you choose to take this pathway, you will graduate with the degree title BA (Hons) Childhood Studies with Early Childhood Graduate Practitioner Competencies.