Early Childhood and Health & Wellbeing BA
UCAS Code: CH01|Duration: 3 years|Full Time|Hope Park
UCAS Campus Code: L46
Work placement opportunities|International students can apply
EARLY CHILDHOOD
The early childhood degree builds advanced knowledge about young children. This early childhood course covers child development, interactions, and the effects of local and global inequalities. It prepares you to advocate for young children's needs and rights.
This early childhood degree provides a supportive learning environment. You'll get expert guidance, access to university resources, and teaching from a diverse team with experience in research, practice, and policy. Your learning includes guest speakers and field visits in Liverpool, a city rich in community and culture.
The early childhood course is taught by academics from sociology, education, philosophy, and psychology. They are active researchers who publish widely and attend national and international conferences. Their expertise creates a challenging, research-informed setting.
For Single Honours students, the early childhood degree has a required placement to apply theory in a professional setting. For Combined Honours students, the placement is optional.
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HEALTH & WELLBEING
Recent years have seen widespread recognition of the need to move beyond medicine with a greater emphasis on the promotion of health and wellbeing. New government initiatives and policies are giving this greater priority than ever before. Health and Wellbeing is a vibrant, multidisciplinary degree in which you will explore a range of issues and debates relevant to health and wellbeing in contemporary society.
The degree draws upon a range of disciplines, including sociology social policy and psychology to understand the key challenges to health and wellbeing in the 21st century. Throughout your studies, you will be considering key questions such as what factors influence health and wellbeing? How do social experiences impact upon health and wellbeing? Why do different social groups experience health and wellbeing differently? Alongside this, you develop the practical skills necessary for work in the field, through work on case studies and opportunities and applied research projects within the local community.
The degree provides you with the opportunity to develop practical skills, knowledge and insight into a range of issues relating to health and wellbeing in contemporary society. With its strong emphasis on social justice and welfare, you will be enabled to develop as critical social scientists who, as a graduate, will be able to use your skills and knowledge to the benefit of your local community and society more broadly.
Health & Wellbeing