Course Content
Year 1
Core modules in this year include:
- Becoming a Researcher – 20 credits
- Child and Youth Development – 20 credits
- Educational Contexts – 20 credits
- Rights and Responsibilities – 20 credits
- Understanding Childhoods – 40 credits
Year 2
Core modules
- Global Childhoods – 20 credits
- Professional Practice with Children and Young People – 20 credits
- Research with Children and Young People – 20 credits
- Youth Culture – 20 credits
Optional modules
- Children’s Literature – 20 credits
- Children’s Social Minds – 20 credits
- Development of Learning – 20 credits
- Digital Natives – 20 credits
- Gender, Race and Education – 20 credits
- Introduction to Teaching – 20 credits
- Just Playing? – 20 credits
- Learning from Experience (LiFE) – 20 credits
- Modern Foreign Language (IWLP) – 20 credits
- Strategies for Social Change – 20 credits
- The Sociology of Education – 20 credits
- Understanding Personal Life – 20 credits
- Professional Experience – 20 credits
Year 3
Core modules are:
- Critical Leadership – 20 credits
- Critical Thinking and Research Skills – 20 credits
- Customer Relationship Management – 20 credits
- Strategic Management – 20 credits
- Contemporary Management In Practice – 40 credits
Sandwich Year (optional)
- Work Placement Year – 120 credits
- Study Year Abroad – 120 credits
Year 3
Core modules
- Families in Need – 20 credits
- Young People’s Relationships and Aspirations – 20 credits
Optional modules
- Behaviour Matters – 20 credits
- Children and Young People with Severe Learning Difficulties – 20 credits
- Crime, Justice and Young People – 20 credits
- Fairytales and Folktales for Children – 20 credits
- Going Outside Pedagogies for Outdoor Learning – 20 credits
- Introduction to Teaching – 20 credits
- Issues Relating to Children and Young People’s Mental Health – 20 credits
- Who's in Charge? – 20 credits
- Won’t Read, Can’t Read: Failing Readers – 20 credits
- Working with Looked After Children – 20 credits
- Major Project – 40 credits
- Risk, Relationships And Responsibilities In Universal Safeguarding – 20 credits
- Aspiring Leaders And Managers – 20 credits
- Dissertation (Childhood Studies) – 40 credits
