BA Hons Children and Early Childhood

BA (Hons) Children and Early Childhood at Teesside University is a course dedicated to preparing students for a rewarding career working with children. This is a vocationally-focused course, embedded with real-world learning experience, allowing you to gain practical skills and theoretical understanding of how to work with children from birth to eight years.Course Content: The course offers a comprehensive overview of child development, safeguarding, diversity, and policy in the early years. Also, students will have opportunities to study both the therapeutic aspects of working with children and the backdrop of the wider family and society's influence on children. Key Modules: The course comprises different modules including Child Development, Understanding Society and Professional Development Planning in the first year. In the second year, students explore modules such as Investigating Childhood and Children's Health and Well-being. The final year covers modules like Independent Study, Children in Context and Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood.Accreditations: On successful completion of appropriate modules, students are eligible to apply for Graduate Practitioner Competencies from the Early Childhood Studies Degree network.Future Careers: This course perfects for those aiming for professional roles such as family support workers, community outreach workers, early years practitioners, children's center workers or roles within charities and non-government organisations dealing with children and families.For more information on this course, please visit the official course page_children_and_early_childhood.cfm).