Bachelor of Arts (Children and Youth Studies) Three streams – Arts (Children’s Studies); Arts with Children Studies and Arts (Child, Youth and Family: Policy and Practice)

Arts with Children’s Studies (GY110 – AWC) is the only degree in Ireland and Europe that enables students to combine an Arts degree with a specialism in Children’s Studies. It enables students to take two traditional arts subjects alongside Children’s Studies to Degree Level. The expertise acquired through a BA in Children’s Studies will assist students in identifying the career path that best suits their particular talents and ambitions.

It is the perfect platform from which to pursue careers in social care work, advocacy, the creative arts, education, and community development. It provides an excellent basis for postgraduate study in social work, play therapy, speech and language therapy, and primary and/or post-primary teaching, and our graduates are very successful in gaining entry to these competitive programs.

Recent graduates are currently working in speech and language therapy, play therapy, social work, and public policy, as well as in teaching and educational support in Ireland and abroad. A unique feature that sets it apart from the other GY110 streams (ACS and APP) is that it allows students to study two teachable secondary school subjects, in addition to studying childhood, ideally positioning them to apply to the PME in post-primary school teaching.

Subjects in this course are:-

YEAR ONE 

• Children’s Literature
• Children in Social Contexts
• Children and Health
• Irish Childhoods

YEAR TWO 

• Child Law
• Developmental Psychology
• European Educational Approaches

 YEAR THREE

• Connecting Research, Policy and Practice in Children’s Services
• Children’s Rights
• Theatre for Children and Young People
• Children and Transition
• Twenty-First Century Young Adult Literature
• Work Placement and/or Study Abroad

YEAR FOUR 

• Completion of studies in your two core degree subjects.
• Modules offered may change from year to year, depending on availability

We recommend that students of Children's Studies include a modern language among their other subjects so they can significantly broaden employment options (students interested in Primary School teaching should take Gaeilge).