Childhood: Health and Wellbeing, BA (Hons)

Course summary

Ready to take the next step towards providing children with a healthy start in life? Our unique BA (Hons) Childhood: Health and Wellbeing degree will equip you with the knowledge and skills needed to help you achieve your goals. Focusing on childhood from conception to 14 years, this degree is for those planning a rewarding future in a variety of areas including education, social care and health care.You’ll develop a solid understanding of the role of health and wellbeing in childhood in the contexts of both physical and mental health within families. In addition to studying the core themes, you’ll focus on modules related to health and wellbeing.Give real-life context to your studies and become even more attractive to future employers with our enhanced placement opportunities. You’ll be well prepared for the world of work with our extensive network of 600 partnerships in a wide range of settings. There’s even the opportunity to take your placement overseas.Why study Childhood: Health and Wellbeing at NTU?

• You will have the opportunity to undertake placement and work-like experiences through over 600 partnerships with local schools, colleges and organisations.

• Take your placement overseas with optional opportunities from teaching in Sri Lanka, to working with young children in a Ghanian orphanages.

• Study an interdisciplinary course ideal for students from a range of different backgrounds looking to pursue a career in a range of sectors.

• Receive a guaranteed interview for a PGCE Primary teacher training course at NTU on completing your undergraduate degree (terms and conditions apply).

What you’ll studyGiving children a healthy start in life is crucial to their future health and wellbeing - and that’s what makes this course so engaging. You will gain a broad view of childhood and child development with an emphasis on achieving healthy lifestyles for both physical and mental health. Alongside this, you will develop a critical awareness of current issues and concerns regarding healthy childhoods. This will support you to work within the health professions as well as those seeking careers within the child wellbeing sector.PlacementYou will have the opportunity to undertake a placement in Year One and Year Two. Placements can be in a wide range of educational settings, locally, regionally, nationally or even internationally. Placement options include working with disadvantaged children at a local authority provision; educational and support provision in a hospital context; supporting the provision of activities for children / young people with a range of disabilities and additional needs at a local charity or experiencing an outdoor Kindergarten in Denmark.Putting your studies into practice helps you to understand your subject and its application in real-life. Placement opportunities support you both professionally and personally by ensuring you develop the key skills that will make you more employable at the end of your studies.

Modules

Year One: Academic Focus (20 credit points); Environments for Learning (40 credit points); Understanding Children’s Holistic Development (20 credit points); Contemporary Childhoods (20 credit points); Health Determinants in Childhood (20 credit points).Year Two: Supportive Environments for Children and Communities (20 credit points); Researching Contemporary Childhoods (20 credit points); Social Constructions of Childhood (20 credit points); Global Childhoods (20 credit points); Nutrition in Childhood (20 credit points); Supporting Healthy Lifestyles (20 credit points).Year Three: Research Dissertation (40 credit points); Leaderful Practice (20 credit points); Sustainable Childhoods (20 credit points); Children’s Emotional and Social Wellbeing (20 credit points); Media, Childhood and Health (20 credit points).

Assessment method

There are no formal exams during this course; we use a variety of assessment types to allow you to demonstrate your strengths across a number of skill sets.

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Year One: Academic Focus (20 credit points); Environments for Learning (40 credit points); Understanding Children’s Holistic Development (20 credit points); Contemporary Childhoods (20 credit points); Health Determinants in Childhood (20 credit points). Year Two: Supportive Environments for Children and Communities (20 credit points); Researching Contemporary Childhoods (20 credit points); Social Constructions of Childhood (20 credit points); Global Childhoods (20 credit points); Nutrition in Childhood (20 credit points); Supporting Healthy Lifestyles (20 credit points). Year Three: Research Dissertation (40 credit points); Leaderful Practice (20 credit points); Sustainable Childhoods (20 credit points); Children’s Emotional and Social Wellbeing (20 credit points); Media, Childhood and Health (20 credit points).