Childhood and Youth: Theory and Practice BA (Hons)
Bachelor's degree
In Brighton
Description
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Type
Bachelor's degree
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Location
Brighton
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Duration
3 Years
This course engages you in both a rich theoretical understanding of childhood and youth as well as observational experience.
It combines a strong academic foundation and clear professional focus, and gives you experience in a range of services for children.
All of this develops your skills for life-enhancing work in the UK or internationally.
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About this course
Recent Childhood and Youth: Theory and Practice graduates have found jobs as:
SEN assistant, EduStaff
children and young person worker, Rise
teaching assistant, Priory Education.
You should also have a broad range of GCSEs 9-4 (or A*-C), including good grades in relevant subjects.
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Subjects
- Childhood and Society
- Contemporary
- Youth and Transition
- Legal Frameworks
- Rights and Legal
- Professional Approaches
- Social Pedagogy
- Disabled Childhoods
- Childhood and Youth
- Health and Wellbeing
Course programme
Autumn teaching
- Childhood, Youth and Transition
- Contemporary Debates 1: Childhood and Society
- Children's Rights and Legal Frameworks
- Introducing Social Pedagogy: Professional Approaches
At Sussex, you can choose to customise your course to build the sort of degree that will give you the knowledge, skills and experience that could take you in any direction you choose.
Year 2 at sussex
Autumn teaching
- Disabled Childhoods
- Perspectives on Practice; Professional Approaches
- Research Methods For Childhood and Youth
- Health and Wellbeing
At Sussex, you can choose to customise your course to build the sort of degree that will give you the knowledge, skills and experience that could take you in any direction you choose.
Study abroad or Placement
Apply to study abroad – you’ll develop an international perspective and gain an edge when it comes to your career.
Observational placementsObservational placements help you to link theory and practice, and give you the opportunity to link your dissertation to a professional setting.
Year 3 at sussex
- Parents and Families
- Developing Your Research Proposal
- Global Childhoods
- Theraputic Work with Children and Young People (PA 3)
- Digital Childhoods
- Researching Childhoods: Dissertation
Additional information
Childhood and Youth: Theory and Practice BA (Hons)