BA (Hons) EARLY CHILDHOOD STUDIES (ONLINE LEARNING)
Bachelor's degree
Online
Description
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Type
Bachelor's degree
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Methodology
Online
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Duration
3 Years
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Online campus
Yes
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Delivery of study materials
Yes
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Support service
Yes
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Virtual classes
Yes
If you’re interested in learning more about children and childhood and you envisage a career working with and for children and their families, this course will give you an excellent foundation.
Studying by distance learning allows you to study at your convenience. It gives you the flexibility to study from any location within a structured and supported framework. It also gives you the opportunity to combine gaining an academic qualification with your work or family commitments.
Our course will give you a fascinating insight into the way children experience their childhoods and how that experience influences them as they develop.
You’ll look at childhood from a range of different critical perspectives and explore the factors that influence the childhood experience. You’ll examine issues such as health, early-years legislation and global inequalities in childhood.
Students on the online learning course come from all over the world, including the Middle East, Southeast Asia and Australasia, as well as the UK.
About this course
Early Childhood Studies prepares you to be a thoughtful and flexible early years practitioner, working with and for children and families in a range of settings and professional roles.
You’ll come to understand that there are many different ways of understanding early childhood. We give you a range of academic and professional perspectives on childhood, then ask you to explore the deeper philosophies, beliefs and attitudes that underpin them.
You’ll learn how children develop, from conception onwards, how they experience life and how that experience forms the basis of their later development. You’ll develop an understanding of the factors that influence childhood, and of how this knowledge is critical in supporting the learning and development of children.
We’ll teach you about how early years services are structured in this country, and how to work across the system to get the best results for children.
You’ll also benefit from field-based learning as you carry out the third-year research project which you’ll devise yourself.
Early Childhood Studies gives you the skills and knowledge to work in a wide range of jobs with children and for children and their families.
Graduates have taken jobs in local government, the NHS, charities, housing associations and day nurseries.
Their roles have included childcare project managers, family support workers, play coordinators, out-of-school project managers and classroom/education assistants.
UEL has strong and trusted relationships with local schools, childcare organisations and loyal alumni.
If you already work, the degree will enhance your enjoyment and boost your progress because you will have a deeper understanding of what you do. You may find it easier to move into a management role, for example.
Early Childhood Studies also equips you with transferable skills such as working to a deadline, giving presentations and project management, which are beneficial in many other careers.
You may wish to further your journey in childhood studies on one of UEL’s postgraduate courses.
As well as our Early Childhood Master’s course, this degree allows you to qualify as a social worker by taking an approved postgraduate degree or as a primary school teacher by taking a postgraduate teacher training course. It also prepares you to train as a speech and language therapist.
FROM
A LEVEL
Must include passes at A2 in at least two subjects.
FROM
BTEC
Extended Diploma or Diploma
FROM
INTERNATIONAL BACCALAUREATE
Diploma with 24 points including a minimum of 15 points at Higher Level
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Subjects
- Media
- Advertising
- Industry
- Production
- Works
- Branding
- Market Research
- Market
- Global
- Professional
- Worlds
- Principles
- Research
- Communities
Course programme
FOUNDATION YEAR (IF REQUIRED)
- Mental Wealth: Academic and Professional Skills for Life 1 (Core)
- Exploring Social Worlds (Core)
- Key Principles for Inclusion (Core)
- Emerging Research Communities (Core)
- Practice module Part 1 (Core)
- Practice module Part 2 (Core)
- Mental Wealth: Academic and Professional Skills for Life 1 (Core)
- Exploring Social Worlds (Core)
- Key Principles for Inclusion (Core)
- Emerging Research Communities (Core)
- Practice module Part 1 (Core)
- Practice module Part 2 (Core)
- Mental Wealth: Academic and Professional Skills for Life 2 (Core)
- Identity and Social Justice (Core)
- Building Research Communities (Core)
- Contemporary Issues in Education (Core)
- Practice module Part 3 (Core)
- Practice module Part 4 (Core)
This course offers the opportunity of year-long placement between years two and three. If you choose to take this option, you’ll spend your third year on a placement with a relevant company or organisation, adding valuable practical experience to your growing academic knowledge.
The extra placement year means it will take four years to complete your studies, instead of three.
YEAR 3
- Mental Wealth: Academic and Professional Skills for Life 3 (Core)
- Critical and global perspectives on education (Core)
- Practice module Part 5 (Core)
- Practice module Part 6 (Core)
- Active Research Communities (Core)
BA (Hons) EARLY CHILDHOOD STUDIES (ONLINE LEARNING)