学士（荣誉）学士学位-包括预科课程

如果您的学历尚未达到我们三年制课程的入学要求，并且您想要一个可以增加学科知识的课程，我们的四年制BA童年研究（包括预科课程）将非常适合您。以提高您的学术技能，以支持您的学术表现。该四年制课程包括基础年（零年级），然后再学习三年。在您的零年级期间，您将学习与所选课程相关的三个学术科目以及必修的学术技能模块。
Our four-year BA Childhood Studies (including foundation year), will be suitable for you if your academic qualifications do not yet meet our entrance requirements for the three-year version of this course and you want a programme that increases your subject knowledge as well as improves your academic skills in order to support your academic performance.<br><br>This four-year course includes a foundation year (Year Zero), followed by a further three years of study. During your Year Zero, you study three academic subjects relevant to your chosen course as well as a compulsory academic skills module.<br><br>After successful completion of Year Zero in our Essex Pathways Department, you progress to complete your course with our Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies.<br><br>From year one you will continue developing your academic skills alongside discovering what drives children's development, what informs their behaviour and what shapes their identity.<br><br>The BA in Childhood Studies at Essex is an interdisciplinary degree where we explore the social and emotional worlds of children from birth to 25. It is a wonderful introduction for students wishing to deepen their knowledge about children's live and forge a career in children's education, health and well-being.<br><br>Are you fascinated by children's behaviour What drives their development, what informs their behaviour and shapes their identity Do you want to help children with emotional, social, behavioural and education difficulties Why do some children falter through life's ups and downs, whilst others seem to thrive in adversity and are more resilient Do you want to make a difference to children's lives If so, this course is for you.<br><br>Children today face a wide range of new and challenging experiences, including unprecedented access to media, wider cultural diversity, online bullying and larger school numbers. Their early experiences of childhood affect them for the rest of their lives. You can make a positive contribution to these formative years.<br><br>Childhood studies is a vibrant and exciting field which has expanded in recent years to include knowledge from psychology, sociology and psychoanalysis. This course lays the foundations for a career working with infants and children, whether in education, health care or children's services. It can also lead to further study in a range of courses from social work or teaching to speech and language therapy.<br><br>You gain a solid understanding of child development, the ecology of childhood (the place of children in different societies) and consider the way our concepts of childhood shape and condition children's lives. You will also learn about the direct work with children through undertaking a placement in each year of study where you can begin to make links between theory and practice, in year one this placement can be with children of any age, in year two this is focussed on infant observation. Assessment is mainly by course work.