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
- Strategies for Social Change - 20 credits
Optional modules
- Children's Literature - 20 credits
- Gender, Race and Education - 20 credits
- Introduction to Teaching - 20 credits
- Just Playing? - 20 credits
- Youth Culture - 20 credits
- Children's Social Minds - 20 credits
- Development of Learning - 20 credits
- Professional Experience - 20 credits
- The Sociology of Education - 20 credits
- Understanding Personal Life - 20 credits
- Empire and its Afterlives in Britain, Europe and Africa - 20 credits
- Engaged Citizenship in Humanities and Social Sciences - 20 credits
- Global Security - 20 credits
- Intercultural Perspectives on Communication - 20 credits
- Marketing and Communication - 20 credits
- Modernity and Globalisation - 20 credits
- Nationalism and Migration: Chaos, Crisis and the Everyday - 20 credits
- News, Discourse and Media - 20 credits
- Principles of Economic Crime Investigation - 20 credits
- Puritans to Postmodernists: American Literature - 20 credits
- Transitional Justice and Human Rights - 20 credits
- Wildlife Crime: Threats and Response - 20 credits
Year 3
Core modules
- Behaviour Matters - 20 credits
- Professional Themes in Supporting Young People's Relationships and Interactions - 20 credits
Optional modules
- Dissertation (Childhood Studies) - 40 credits
- Major Project - 40 credits
- Introduction to Teaching - 20 credits
- Promoting Confident, Capable Learners - 20 credits
- Psychology in Practice - 20 credits
- Aspiring Leaders and Managers - 20 credits
- Going Outside: Pedagogies for Outdoor Learning - 20 credits
- Professional Experience - 20 credits
- Supporting Children and Young People's Mental Health - 20 credits
- Working with Looked After Children - 20 credits
