Bachelor's degree

In Cardiff

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Description

  • Type

    Bachelor's degree

  • Location

    Cardiff (Wales)

Education is an exciting social science subject increasingly being presented as a principal means of fostering economic growth, social cohesion and personal well-being. The BA Education will provide you with a comprehensive understanding of contemporary developments and challenges in education. It will enable you to explore underpinning assumptions and to investigate the research basis of contemporary policy and practice.

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Location

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Cardiff
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Cyncoed Campus, Cyncoed Rd, CF23 6XD

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About this course

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Subjects

  • Social Policy
  • Sociology
  • Social Science
  • Joint
  • Psychology

Course programme

Course Content First Year Modules

For Education degrees (single hons) progression is accomplished as follows. In Year One, all students take three core modules:

  • Education and Society: this covers the role of education in society, the changing nature and management of educational institutions, and the wider impact of education policies.
  • Introduction to Psychology: this provides an introduction to the psychology of social life.
  • Introduction to Social Science Research: an introduction to the principles and skills that underpin social science research.

Single honours students will complete their programme of study with cognate modules from the Sociology and Social Policy schemes. Joint honours students will focus their remaining modules on those required by their partner subject.

Second Year Modules

The second year further develops the main themes introduced in the first year. Currently all Single Honours students must take:

  • Sociology of Education
  • Social Research Methods

Additionally, students must take two, but may take three of the following two modules:

  • Children and Childhood
  • Policy and Practice in Contemporary Education
  • Human Development

Students may make up their remaining modules from the list above or from other modules, such as:

  • Social Policy Analysis
  • Poverty, Social Policy and Income Maintenance
  • Learning, Biology and Cognition
  • Cultural Sociology
  • Ethnography and Everyday Life
  • Lies, Damned Lies and Statistics
  • Gender Relations and Society
  • Migration, Race and Ethnic Relations
  • Working Knowledge: Analysing and Experiencing Employment (with Placement)
  • Joint students will normally choose half their modules from each of the subject partners.

    Final Year Modules

    Depending on their particular degree programme (Single or Joint), Education students currently take a guided selection from the list below, with additional modules chosen from across the school’s Criminology, Psychology, Sociology and Social Policy modules:

    • Dissertation
    • Conflict and Change in Educational Policy
    • Equality and Diversity in Education and Work
    • Reflections on Teaching and Learning Practice, Theory and Experience

B.A. Education

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