Childhood Studies

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.

Course Modules

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Your progress will be assessed by essays, reports, group work, seminar presentations and self-evaluation. Throughout your degree
you will have one-to-one support from academic staff. During your first year you will demonstrate knowledge and awareness of
the various perspectives and skills needed for building of relationships with individual children and children in groups, and the
facilitation of building relationships with and between children as well as families, colleagues, other professionals and communities.

By the end of the course, you will apply multiple perspectives to childhood issues, recognising that childhood studies involve a range of research methods, theories, evidence and applications. You will begin to lead, support and work collaboratively with others and demonstrate an understanding of working effectively in teams with parents, carers and other professionals.