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BA (Hons) Child and Youth Studies

University of the Highlands & Islands, United Kingdom
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Course Overview

A career in child and youth work is always going to present a diversity of situations and challenges. Add to this the unique urban and rural issues that evolve from a Highlands and Islands environment and you have another set of complex issues with which to engage.

This leading BA (Hons) Child and Youth Studies degree will give you a rigorous understanding of the specific concerns associated with child and youth issues in this region and within the broader context of the UK and Europe.

The course is taught entirely online via the university's virtual learning environment (VLE) and you will be supported locally by your academic tutor face-to-face, via email, telephone, and online, which means that you can fit your studies around your personal and professional commitments.

General Eligibility

  • 3 Scottish Highers at grade C or above OR

  • 2 A levels at grade C or above

  • Applicants with relevant professional qualifications or experience are also welcomed and will be considered on an individual basis

  • Alternatively, completion of Foundation Apprenticeship Social Services (Children and Young People) PLUS an additional Scottish Higher at Grade C or above

  • You are required to attend an interview, in person or by telephone, to discuss the course in detail and to explain the method of teaching

Part Time Work Details

20 hours work permit for international students

What You'll Study

1 Year 1 - CertHE

Core modules are:

Semester one:

  • Nature of health

  • An introduction to health and social policy

  • Introduction to early childhood philosophy and practice

Semester two:

  • Psychology of developmental and individual differences

  • Sociology of the family

  • The enquiring student

2 Year 2 - DipHE

Core modules are:
Semester one:

  • Recognizing and challenging discrimination and disadvantage

  • Working in partnership

Semester two:

  • Adolescence

  • Researching the social world

Option modules include:
Semester one:

  • Play and Childhood

  • Providing a curriculum for life

  • Care and Control

  • Health psychology

  • The enquiring student

Semester two:

  • Principles and foundations of health promotion

  • Specialist provision

  • Youth behaviour and society

  • The individual, society, and the health continuum

  • Urban-rural divide

  • Cognition

3 Year 3 - BA

Core modules are:
Semester one:

  • Legislation and childhood

  • Comparative childcare: a European perspective

Semester two:

  • Ethical issues

  • Literature review

Option modules include:
Semester one:

  • Introduction to effective management and leadership

  • Promoting and enhancing parenting

  • Promotion of diversity and equality

  • Developmental psychology: birth to death

Semester two:

  • Acquisition of language

  • Alcohol and drug studies

  • Healthy people, healthy places: challenges for public health

  • Issues of risk

  • Developing professional practice through placement

  • Digital futures in health and social care

4 Year 4 - BA (Hons)

Core modules are:

  • Dissertation (both semesters)

  • Professional reflection (semester one)

  • Personal and professional reflection (semester two)

Option modules include:
Semester one:

  • Comparative health studies

  • Developmental disorders

  • Child and adolescent mental health

  • Food and behaviour

Semester two:

  • A globalized view of childcare

  • Disability and society

  • Psychopathology: mental health and wellbeing

  • Communication, cognition, and e-learning

  • The UNCRC: investigating exploitation, youth justice and education about children's rights

Language Requirement

  • IELTS6.0
  • TOEFL80
  • PTE58

  • Applicants must have an IELTS score- 6.0 or equivalent

  • English (PTE) Academic-58 average with 51 in each component

  • TOEFL (Test of English as a Foreign Language) iBT4-Min 80 or above with min 18 in each section

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