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BA (Hons) Childhood

University of Suffolk, United Kingdom
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Course Overview

The BA (Hons) Childhood program explores the well-established academic discipline of Childhood Studies. The program focuses on the multi-disciplinary nature of the study of childhood, which embraces diverse academic disciplines such as sociology, education, psychology, history, philosophy, social policy, and health. Such inclusion allows for the diverse, multi-faceted experiences of children to be explored, contextualized, and interrogated through the application of social science perspectives. This approach has a proven record of supporting you to develop and follow particular interests in this diverse field.

General Eligibility

112 UCAS tariff points (or above), BBC (A-Level), DMM (BTEC). All applicants are required to hold GCSE English and Maths at Grade C/4 or above.

Part Time Work Details

20 Hours of Work permit weekly for international students.

What You'll Study

1 Year 1

  • Understanding University (requisite)

  • Health and Wellbeing (requisite)

  • Child Development in Context (requisite)

  • Childhood, Care and Education (requisite)

  • Children in Society (requisite)

  • Diversity, Rights and Inclusion (requisite)

2 Year 2 - Pathway 1

  • Children’s Ecologies (requisite)

  • Safeguarding (requisite)

  • Understanding Research (requisite)

  • Disability, Health and Wellbeing Pathway: Developmental Disabilities (optional)

  • Disability, Health and Wellbeing Pathway: Children’s Mental Health (optional)

  • Disability, Health and Wellbeing Pathway: Principles of Intervention and Participation (optional)

3 Year 2 - Pathway 2

  • Children’s Ecologies (requisite)

  • Safeguarding (requisite)

  • Understanding Research (requisite)

  • Education Pathway: Language and Literacy (optional)

  • Education Pathway: SEN and Inclusive Education (optional)

  • Education Pathway: Creative Learning (optional)

  • Education Pathway: Developing Practice GP1 (optional)

4 Year 2 - Pathway 3

  • Children’s Ecologies (requisite)

  • Safeguarding (requisite)

  • Understanding Research (requisite)

  • Society and Welfare Pathway: Sex and Gender in British Society since 1500 (optional)

  • Society and Welfare Pathway: Alternative Perspectives of Welfare in Childhood (optional)

  • Society and Welfare Pathway: Children’s Material Worlds (optional)

  • Society and Welfare Pathway: Childhood since 1500 (optional)

5 Year 3 - Pathway 1

  • Independent Project (requisite)

  • Decolonisation and Difference (requisite)

  • Disability, Health and Wellbeing Pathway: Contemporary Disability Studies (optional)

  • Disability, Health and Wellbeing Pathway: Therapies and Counselling (optional)

  • Disability, Health and Wellbeing Pathway: Child Public Health (optional)

6 Year 3 - Pathway 2

  • Independent Project (requisite)

  • Decolonisation and Difference (requisite)

  • Education Pathway: Outdoor Learning and Environment Education (optional)

  • Education Pathway: Current Debates in Schooling (optional)

  • Education Pathway: Children and STEM (optional)

  • Education Pathway: Professional Practice GP2 (optional)

7 Year 3 - Pathway 3

  • Independent Project (requisite)

  • Decolonisation and Difference (requisite)

  • Society and Welfare Pathway: Peripheral childhoods (optional)

  • Society and Welfare Pathway: Gendered Violence, Vulnerability and Voice (optional)

  • Society and Welfare Pathway: Families and the State (optional)

Language Requirement

  • IELTS5.5
  • TOEFL59
  • PTE50
  • Duolingo69
IELTS 6.0 overall (minimum 5.5 in all components) where English is not the students' first language.

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