Bachelor of Arts with Children's Studies

Course Overview
This program draws on the expertise from a wide range of areas including the Creative Arts, Law, Health Promotion, Literature, Sociology, Psychology and Human Rights. It provides students with an opportunity to examine the socio-cultural construction of childhood and the legal and policy frameworks surrounding children's lives. The programme combines a strong theoretical and academic focus with an applied and practical orientation and has both a historical and a contemporary perspective.
The BA with Children's Studies in NUI Galway is the only program currently on offer in Ireland or the UK that focuses on childhood from an interdisciplinary perspective, which enables students to take two traditional arts subjects alongside Children's Studies to Degree Level.
The third-year placement experience will allow students to gain practical experience in the specialist area of Children's Studies. The learning outcomes of this program include a theoretical and practical understanding of the issues relevant to the study of children and children's lives; competence in writing and communication skills; knowledge of social and communicty settings that have relevance to children's lives; reearch skills relevant to the study of children.