B.A. Early Childhood Studies with Psychology

In each year you will spend two-thirds of your study time in Early Childhood Studies courses, with the remaining third in units offered by the Psychology department. In your first year, you will study this programme:

• Child and Youth Development
• The Young Child in the Family & Early Years Setting
• Key Ideas in Animal and Human Psychology
• Psychology of Everyday Life
• Developing Professional Perspectives
• Inclusion and Diversity

In your second year you will consolidate the work of your first year, while making choices to focus your degree on a specific area of interest. You’ll also have the opportunity to experience paid or voluntary work with children and young people as part of the Faculty electives programme.

• Just Playing
• Research with Children
• 1 option from the following:
  • Social and Developmental Psychology
  • Individual Differences and Psychometrics
  • Biological and Cognitive Psychology
• 2 x Options from the following:
  • Childrens Literature
  • Gender and Education
  • Digital Natives
  • Languages (University Wide Option)
  • Learning from Experience

Your third year will give you the opportunity to specialise through your choice of dissertation topic and a further range of optional units.

• Dissertation (Early Childhood Studies)
• Promoting Early Learning (0-3)
• Extending Thinking for Learning in Young Children
• 2 x Options from the following:
  • Health and Clinical Psychology
  • Self and Subjectivity
  • Language and Communication
  • Forensic Psychology