BA Childhood and Youth Studies and Sociology (English medium)
Entry requirements
Offers are tariff based, 96 - 120 tariff points from a Level 3 qualification* e.g.: A Levels: General Studies and Key Skills not normally accepted BTEC National Extended Diploma: MMM - DDM Cambridge Technical Extended Diploma: MMM - DDM City & Guilds Advanced Technical Extended Diploma (1080): MMM - DDM International Baccalaureate Diploma Access to Higher Education Diploma NCFE CACHE Level 3 Extended Diploma Irish Leaving Certificate: 96- 128 points from a minimum of 4 Higher Subjects Welsh Baccalaureate Applicants are required to undergo an enhanced DBS check for the child workforce including a check of the children’s barred list. Applicants who have lived or worked outside the UK are also required to undertake a criminal records check in their countries of residence .
About this course
BA (Hons) in Childhood and Youth Studies and Sociology, combining the study of children and young people with sociological inquiry. Core topics include Social & Cultural Analysis, Research Methods, Human Behaviour, and Communication & Writing. The programme includes a community enterprise project and a work placement module, with previous placements in schools, charities, and local organisations.
Modules
- Children's Rights: Perspectives and Practice
- Adventures in Growing Up
- Skills for Learning and Work
- Enterprise, Innovation and the Community : CYS Project
- Social Divisions
- Introduction to Sociology
- Sociology and the Contemporary World
- Social Policy and Society
- The Welfare State and Social Policy in Wales
- Inclusion and Learning Needs
- Social and Political Research
- Research Methods
- Classical Social Theory
- Power, Capital and Society
- Emotional Health, Mental Health and Wellbeing
- Parenthood
- Introduction to Positive Behavioural Support
- Poverty and Inequality
- Gender Perspectives
- Contemporary Social and Political Debates
- Injustice and Protest
- Policing, Security and the State
- The Police and Contemporary Society
- Work Placement
- Globalisation and Social Change
- Theorizing Society and Politics Today
- Sociological Theory
- Core Concepts in Counselling
- Working with Vulnerable Families
- Multilingualism in Childhood
- Identities in Childhood and Youth
- Substance Abuse in Families
- Serial Killers
- Language Rights
- Sociology of Music
- Housing Policy
- Climate Change and Environmental Politics
- Crime and the Media
- Perspectives on Youth Crime
- Work Placement