BA (honours) Childhood Studies in Sheffield Hallam University, UK

BA (honours) Childhood Studies in Sheffield Hallam University

• Select modules that reflect your interests and career aims.
• Complete placements in settings with children and young people every year of the course.
• Be taught by tutors who have expertise in social work, health care, teaching, playwork and psychology.

This course introduces you to contemporary research in childhood and youth, which explores diverse aspects of children and young people's lives and considers their position in the family, their community and society more broadly. Key areas of study include children and young people's wellbeing, the experience of difference, health and wellbeing, safeguarding, psychological development, education, families, relationships with peers and community participation.

The teaching on this course demonstrates an emphasis on experiential learning and real life problem-solving which will help in making the links between academic study and future employment.

You learn through

• self-managed learning tasks
• group work learning tasks
• lectures and mini-lectures within seminars
• seminars
• workshops
• placement tasks and reflections
• student colleagues feedback and evaluation of individual and joint tasks
• work placements

Work placements

A variety of experience helps you to understand children and young people in different contexts, and allows you to explore different places you might want to work in.

Future careers

This course prepares you for a career in

• education
• teaching
• social work
• working with children, young people and families
• youth work
• health-related careers

Previous graduates of this course have gone on to work in

• primary schools
• special schools
• school pastoral care management
• colleges and universities
• local councils
• community sports centres
• hospitals
• community centres
• community organisations
• third sector
• children's charities
• nurseries and pre-schools

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