Sociology and Early Childhood Studies
University of Derby
UCAS Code: L3X3 | Bachelor of Arts (with Honours) - BA (Hons)
University of Derby
UCAS Code: L3X3 | Bachelor of Arts (with Honours) - BA (Hons)
Entry requirements
A level
Access to HE Diploma
Pearson BTEC Level 3 National Extended Diploma (first teaching from September 2016)
T Level
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About this course
**BA (Hons) Sociology and Early Childhood Studies**
**Explore how society is developed, changed and empowered while exploring the context of early childhood in relation to advocacy, sustainability, and agency.**
**Why choose this course?**
Explore how society is developed, changed and empowered while exploring the context of early childhood in relation to advocacy, sustainability, and agency.
You will have the opportunity to take critical insight and apply it to life as it is lived today. You’ll learn to identify and propose solutions to issues of equality, opportunity and understanding against a range of social settings.
You will develop a broad knowledge base of theory and practice within the field of early childhood education and care, focussing on conception to the age of eight. This degree aims to develop your academic, critical and practical skills in a range of professional services related to early childhood in the disciplines of health, education and social care.
**How you will learn**
For your Sociology modules you’ll be taught through:
- lectures
- seminars
- multimedia presentations
- online collaboration
- guest lectures
- class debates.
For your Early Childhood Studies modules you’ll be taught through:
- lectures
- seminar activities
- tutorials to support you through your assessments and group work.
**Opportunities and experiences**
Real-world experience is embedded into your degree, so you’ll graduate with valuable experience in your field to add to your CV before you graduate. You could take a Sociology placement year between the second and third year of your degree, and our Early Childhood Studies modules have the option of completing assessed placement experiences within a diverse range of provisions.
**Careers and employability**
Due to the broad nature of Sociology, you’ll be well prepared for a range of roles within different sectors that value critical thinking, analytical skills and research abilities. Our graduates have used their degree to become teachers, lecturers, social workers, probation officers, civil servants, social researchers, business owners, marketeers, counsellors, charity workers, and community officers – to name but a few roles. They have also found work in retail management, public relations, banking, welfare advice, accountancy and systems analysis.
Our Early Childhood Studies graduates enter a diverse range of roles within the early childhood sector. Well qualified and dedicated early childhood professionals are in demand across health, education and social care settings. Our graduates are now enjoying successful careers as early years practitioners and managers.
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We have quite a lot of sociology graduates, although numbers fell last year. But graduates still do pretty well. Most sociology graduates go straight into work when they complete their degrees, and a lot of graduates go into jobs in social professions such as recruitment, education, community and youth work, and housing. An important option for a sociology graduate is social work - and we're short of people willing to take this challenging but rewarding career. Sociology is a flexible degree and you can find graduates from the subject in pretty much every reasonable job — obviously, you don't find many doctors or engineers, but you do find them in finance, the media, healthcare, marketing and even IT. Sociology graduates taking further study often branch out into other qualifications, like teaching, law, psychology, HR and even maths, so don’t think a sociology degree restricts you to just one set of options.
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