OVERVIEW

If you're interested in learning more about children and childhood and you envisage a career working with and for children and their families, this course will give you an excellent foundation.

Studying by distance learning allows you to study at your convenience. It gives you the flexibility to study from any location within a structured and supported framework. It also gives you the opportunity to combine gaining an academic qualification with your work or family commitments.

Our course will give you a fascinating insight into the way children experience their childhoods and how that experience influences them as they develop.

You'll look at childhood from a range of different critical perspectives and explore the factors that influence the childhood experience. You'll examine issues such as health, early-years legislation and global inequalities in childhood.

Students on the online learning course come from all over the world, including the Middle East, Southeast Asia and Australasia, as well as the UK.

HOW YOU'LL BE ASSESSED

The course is assessed entirely by coursework such as essays, video presentations and a research dissertation. Coursework will include presentations, software demonstrations, research-based assignments and practical exercises involving system or program specification, coding and testing.

The approximate percentages for this course are:

• Year 1: 100% coursework
• Year 2: 100% coursework
• Year 3: 100% coursework

Assessments are set at the end of each term and include group works and individual work including essays, presentations, case studies, professional development and practical activities depending on the nature of the course. All grades count towards your module mark. More details will be included in the student handbook and module guides.
Feedback is provided within 15 working days in line with UEL's assessment and feedback policy.