Education Studies BA

University College London

Bachelor's degree

In London

£ 9,250 VAT inc.

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Description

  • Type

    Bachelor's degree

  • Location

    London

  • Duration

    3 Years

In each year of your degree you will take a number of individual modules, normally valued at 15 or 30 credits, adding up to a total of 120 credits for the year. Modules are assessed in the academic year in which they are taken. The balance of compulsory and optional modules varies from programme to programme and year to year. A 30-credit module is considered equivalent to 15 credits in the European Credit Transfer System (ECTS). Our first-year core modules establish a broad-based, globally oriented, interdisciplinary curriculum that provides our diverse cohort with the skills, perspectives and knowledge needed to succeed in higher education. In the second year, students combine core and optional modules to pursue their individual goals and interests. In their third year students choose all modules and have the opportunity to conduct their own research on an area they are passionate about.

Facilities

Location

Start date

London
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Gower Street, WC1E 6BT

Start date

On request

About this course

A broad-based education programme that introduces students to educational insights from traditional disciplines including history, sociology, philosophy, psychology as well as innovative fields such as media, communication and technology studies, race and ethnic studies, feminist and cultural studies. Develops students’ imaginative capacity and fosters critical understanding of education and society, enabling you to engage in social justice and equality agendas through education. Prepares students for careers in education and a wide range of other fields by providing you with an intellectual set of tools to take a lead role in transforming and improving society, no matter where you go next in your work, community and personal lives. Our teaching team is made up of leading academics who draw directly on their research expertise to inform their teaching and provide students with specialist interest modules.

We prepare students for careers in education and related fields, and provide students with the skills to lead in transforming how we think about and practise education, in your work, community and personal lives. Our unique placement offers the chance to practise this goal in a real life, educational setting. Many of our students are keen to train to become teachers and work directly as educators. Our programme is also ideal for students wishing to make and influence education policy at local and national levels, through research and consultancy (such as think tanks) or those who wish to develop careers in community and youth work, international aid and development, social care and inclusion, media and the arts, and other related fields. Our students have also been keen to continue their own education, going on to study for Master's and PhD qualifications in disciplines such as education, policy, international development and social science at the IOE and other prestigious institutions.

English Language and Mathematics at grade C or 5. For UK-based students, a grade C or 5 or equivalent in a foreign language (other than Ancient Greek, Biblical Hebrew or Latin) is required.

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2018

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Subjects

  • Education Studies
  • Sociology
  • Schooled Society
  • Narratives
  • Communication
  • Learning Sciences
  • Qualitative Methods
  • Social Sciences
  • Education
  • Feminisms

Course programme

Year 1

Core or compulsory module(s)
  • Introduction to Education Studies
  • Foundations in the Sociology of Education
  • Living in a Schooled Society
  • Understanding Education Research: Numbers, Narratives, Knowledge and Nonsense
Optional modules

You will choose optional modules from a list which may include the following:

  • Education in the Age of Globalisation
  • How People Learn
  • Literacy, Language and Communication
  • Representations of Education in Film and Literature
Year 2

Core or compulsory module(s)
  • Policy and Politics in Education

Optional modules

You will choose optional modules to the value of 3.5 credits from a list which may include the following:

  • Archival Research and Oral History in Education
  • Educating and Organising for Social Justice
  • The Learning Sciences
  • Philosophical Research in Education
  • Researching Education and Society: Qualitative Methods
  • An Introduction to Applied Quantitative Analysis in the Social Sciences
  • Social History of Learning and Learners
  • Ways of Thinking and Ways of Being
  • Sociology of Childhood
  • Creativity and Education
  • Literacies Across the Lifecourse
  • Educating Minorities, Migrants and Refugees
  • Children with Disabilities: Theory, Politics and Experience
Year 3

Optional modules

You will choose optional modules to the value of 4.0 credits from a list which may include the following:

  • Dissertation
  • Educating for Employment? Understanding Learning in the 21st Century Economy
  • Elites, Education and Inequalities
  • Gender, Sexuality and Feminisms in Everyday Lives
  • Media Production in Education
  • Radical Education
  • Rights, Equality and Justice in Education
  • Youth and Youth Movements in the Modern World
  • Youth in a Globalising World
  • Education, Religion and State: historical and contemporary developments
Your learning

The programme seeks to help each student acquire a common set of intellectual skills and develop their own unique and principled voice for writing and speaking about education in the world. It does this through a combination of lectures, seminars, tutorials, workshops, field trips, multimedia sessions, and individual and collective research and community organising projects.

Assessment

We use a wide range of assessment methods that are carefully developed across all our programme's modules. These include student journals and portfolios, empirical research assignments, multimedia projects, group discussions and debates, individual and collective presentations, writing drafts and outlines, formal academic essays and examinations.

Additional information

Overseas students fee

£17,890 (2018/19)

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