If you want to help children have the best start in life, there are questions you need to explore. For example: how is their wellbeing affected by factors like digital technologies, race, culture and globalisation? On this course, you'll look for answers across a child's crucial first 8 years.

 

On your BA (Hons) Early Childhood Studies degree, you’ll discover how a child develops physically, emotionally and mentally. And with plenty of opportunities to work with children, you’ll practice how to make a positive difference for them. You can customise your degree and develop specialist skills that are valued in a variety of professions, such as therapeutic play.

 

Course highlights

• Learn different ways to measure children’s development from birth to age eight, which you can apply in all kinds of careers
• Choose to do a different work placement in every year of study – from local schools, early childcare settings or health and social care environments that put young children first
• Have the opportunity to do an additional work placement year after your second or third year on this Connected Degree - we're the only UK university to offer flexible sandwich placements for undergraduates
• Develop new skills in support of children's social, emotional and mental health by working with them in our Teacher Education Centre, and in outdoor environments such as forests and beaches
• Look at how children are affected by society and politics, and discover what psychology and philosophy teach us about early years
• Have the option to work towards achieving Early Childhood Graduate Practitioner Competencies (GPC) alongside your degree
• Be taught by experts and hear from guest speakers, with unique insights into childhood and education based on their lived experience
• Help tackle inequality by taking part in local initiatives that make a difference to children and families
• Gain transferable skills in psychology, sociology, teaching and learning, leadership and management, and creative thinking
• Take advantage of our Institution-Wide Language Programme and learn a foreign language for free as part of your degree, choosing from Arabic, British Sign Language, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Mandarin or Spanish