BA (Hons) Early Childhood Studies with Foundation Year

A four-year route that begins with a foundation year to build academic skills and subject knowledge, then continues into the full Early Childhood Studies degree. Studies how young children develop, learn and play, with safeguarding and children's rights, identity and community, and leadership in early years practice. Careers: Early years practitioner or leader, family support, children's services, routes into teacher training or social work.

Foundation Year: The Big Picture; The Power of Arts, Humanities and Education; The Fearless Learner; Education: Transforming Lives; Student Success Modules

Year 1: Introduction to Early Childhood: Children's Worlds; Growing Up: Development and Learning in Early Childhood; Keeping Children Safe: Safeguarding & Rights in Early Childhood; Children at the Centre of Practice; Student Success Modules

Year 2: Constructing Childhoods: Identity, Community, Society; Play With Me! Creativity & Learning in Early Childhood; Interdisciplinary Modules; Employability Modules

Year 3: Re-imagining Early Childhood for Innovative Practice; Children Thriving: Opportunities and Well-being; Voices in Early Childhood Research; Leading the Future: Professionalism and Values in Early Childhood; Research in Early Childhood: The Major Project