BA Early Childhood Studies
Canterbury Christ Church University
Entry requirements
A level: BBC IB: 29 Points BTEC: DMM Access to HE: 15 Distinctions and 30 Merits 112 UCAS tariff points. DBS clearance A Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check is not an entry requirement. However if you take part in work-related experience, visits, or placements to settings where you are undertaking regulated activity, the setting may determine that a DBS check is required. You will be required to undergo a DBS check and arrange this through the University before undertaking the activity.
About this course
BA (Hons) in Children, Schools & Families (Graduate Practitioner) and Education. Core topics include Ethics & Professional Practice and Critical & Analytical Thinking. The course examines early childhood development from before birth to age eight. A second-year employability module offers a Client Project or Innovation Challenge, and the final year includes an independent Major Project.
Modules
- 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
- Constructing Childhoods: Identity, Community, Society
- Play With Me! Creativity & Learning in Early Childhood
- Interdisciplinary modules
- Employability Modules
- 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