BA Childhood and Youth Studies and Psychology
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 Psychology and Child and Family Studies. Core topics include Research Methods, Fieldwork, Human Behaviour, Ethics & Professional Practice, Critical & Analytical Thinking, and Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning. This joint degree examines childhood and youth from conception to the transition to adulthood. Opportunities for work placements or voluntary experience are available.
Modules
- Adventures in Growing Up
- Literacy for Life: Developing Children's Communication, Language and Literacy
- Brain and Mind
- Children and Society
- Foundations of Criminal and Forensic Psychology
- Development and Individual Differences
- Cognitive and Developmental Psychology
- Human Behaviour: From the Individual to the Group
- Inclusion and Learning Needs
- Emotional Health, Mental Health and Wellbeing
- Parenthood
- Neurobiology of Cognition
- Psychology in Action: Using Psychology in the Real World
- Core Concepts in Counselling
- Cognitive Neuroscience
- Critical Approaches to Forensic Psychology
- Language, Literacy and Numeracy Development
- Stress, Health and Anxiety
- Psychology of Teaching and Learning
- Beauty and the Brain
- Counselling Skills
- Applied Behaviour Anaylsis
- Cognitive Neuropsychology and Clinical Neuroscience
- Mindfulness
- Neurodiversity and Neurodevelopmental Assessment
- Psychopathology Across the Lifespan
- Social Neuroscience
- School-Based Interventions
- Working with Vulnerable Families
- Multilingualism in Childhood
- Children with Communication Difficulties
- Identities in Childhood and Youth
- Substance Abuse in Families