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These subjects allow you to explore factors influencing children's lives within wider societal frameworks. You'll examine diverse topics pertinent to modern childhood and youth while analyzing social dynamics and their influence on behavior, values, and personal identity. Through studying both everyday interpersonal exchanges and larger social systems, movements, and global trends, you'll gain deeper insight into how society affects children and adolescents.
Childhood and Youth Studies and Sociology naturally reinforce each other. Together, they provide a unified approach to comprehending child and youth development from social viewpoints, while highlighting key areas that significantly impact young lives - including education, social relationships, and overall wellbeing. This program lets you combine Sociology with Childhood Studies in equal measure as part of a joint honors degree.
Sociology explores societal structures and their effects on human actions, belief systems, and self-conception. Its scope encompasses everything from daily personal interactions to major institutions, collective actions, and worldwide developments. Understanding social mechanisms helps us better comprehend ourselves and our circumstances. For the Childhood and Youth component, you'll study cutting-edge subjects taught by expert educators, covering childhood history, children's rights, childhood concepts, and professional roles with children across local and global settings. Your academic work will span psychology, sociology, policy, education, and health aspects relevant to children's experiences.
This program is delivered in Welsh. The English-medium version has a separate UCAS code.
Offers are tariff based, 96-128 tariff points from a Level 3 qualification* e.g.: A Levels: General Studies and Key Skills not normally accepted BTEC National Extended Diploma: MMM - DDM Cambridge Technical Extended Diploma: MMM - DDM City & Guilds Advanced Technical Extended Diploma (1080): MMM - DDM International Baccalaureate Diploma Access to Higher Education Diploma NCFE CACHE Level 3 Extended Diploma Irish Leaving Certificate: 96- 128 points from a minimum of 4 Higher Subjects Welsh Baccalaureate Applicants are required to undergo an enhanced DBS check for the child workforce including a check of the children’s barred list. Applicants who have lived or worked outside the UK are also required to undertake a criminal records check in their countries of residence . International Candidates: school leaving qualifications and college diplomas are accepted from countries worldwide English Language requirements – Students need to have IELTS score of  6.0 (5.5), TOEFL iBT - 75 overall , (L-17, R-18, S-20, W-18)