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Education with Psychology BA (Hons) – 4 years including placement year

Bachelor's degree

In Bath ()

£ 9,250 VAT inc.

Description

  • Type

    Bachelor's degree

  • Duration

    4 Years

Explore how young children and adolescents learn and develop. You’ll focus on contemporary society, both globally and in the UK.

In this course, you’ll study a range of social science content from the disciplines of education, psychology and sociology.

About this course

You’ll study the social and developmental contexts of childhood and youth in depth. During the degree, you’ll also explore government priorities relating to children’s lives and wellbeing, and the role of education.

In the first year, you’ll study core introductory units in education, psychology and research methods. In your second year, you’ll be able to choose from a diverse range of optional units. You will also study advanced topics in education and psychology.

The final year provides an opportunity to specialise according to your interests. This includes writing a dissertation.

This degree prepares you for employment within a range of services for children and young people. Recruiters include:

Trauma Recovery Centre
Kent County Council
Teacher Development Trust
With further studies you could go into teaching, counselling, youth work or special needs support. It also enables you to work with non-governmental organisations whose concern is the welfare of children, their families and young people. You could also go on to pursue further study or an academic career in the social sciences.

This degree is not accredited by the British Psychological Society (BPS). We choose not to be BPS accredited so we can draw on a range of disciplines when looking at education-related issues.

We are aware that the context in which you are studying can have an impact on your ability to perform your best in exams and coursework, or limit which subjects or qualifications you are able to study at your school or college.
GCSE English grade C or 4 (or equivalent from English category B).

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Subjects

  • Project
  • Psychology
  • Education Psychology
  • Behaviour
  • Methods
  • Schooling
  • Children's
  • Representations
  • Childhood and Youth
  • Philosophical
  • Sociological

Course programme

Year 1
  • Mind and behaviour
  • Introduction to research methods 1
  • Education and schooling: an introduction
  • Children's rights: a global approach
  • Representations of childhood and youth
  • Education and social justice - philosophical and sociological perspectives
  • Learning: theory and context
  • Deviance: psychological and sociological perspectives
  • The family as educator: cross-cultural issues
Year 2
  • Introduction to research methods 2
  • Intervention, organisation and practice
  • Psychology and educational policy: a critical perspective
  • Social psychology: traditional and critical approaches
  • Educational psychology
  • Developmental psychology
  • Education inequalities in low-income contexts
  • Contemporary issues in childhood and youth 1: theoretical perspectives
  • Plus optional units
Year 3
  • Placement year
Year 4
  • Dissertation part 1
  • Contemporary issues in childhood and youth 2: policy and practice
  • Contemporary educational psychology
  • Developmental psychopathology
  • Dissertation part 2
  • Children and technology: a global perspective
  • Plus optional units
Optional course units

You can choose from a number of optional units in years 2 and 4. Here are some examples of the units currently being studied by our students.

  • Talk and learning
  • Education inequality in high-income countries
  • Place and space in schooling and education
  • Psychology of creativity and innovation
  • Designing and analysing curricula
Learning and assessment

Learning
  • Lectures
  • Seminars
Assessment
  • Coursework
  • Dissertation
  • Essay
  • Oral assessment
  • Written examination

Additional information

Overseas students Fee - 

Tuition fee for the academic year 2020/21 - £18,000

UK/EU application deadline - 15 January 2020

Overseas deadline - 15 January 2020

Education with Psychology BA (Hons) – 4 years including placement year

£ 9,250 VAT inc.