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BA (Hons) Early Childhood Studies with Foundation Year

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The BA (Hons) Early Childhood Studies with Foundation Year is designed to help students develop the skills, knowledge, and confidence to succeed in their studies with the University of Wolverhampton at degree level.

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• BA (Hons)

Start date(s)

• 15 September 2025

UCAS Code

• X310

Course specifications

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Course length

• Full-time (4 years)

Campus location

• University: Walsall Campus

School

• School of Education

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Why choose this course?

• Our Foundation Year programme has been designed to prepare students for studying at undergraduate level and provide them with the required skills and knowledge to transition effectively into Level 4 study.
• Ranked 4th in the region for Graduate prospects
• Opportunities for students to interact, and to demonstrate practice, application, exploration, critique, dialogue and analysis of theory

What happens on the course?

• At level 3, students will develop their underpinning knowledge of studying in higher education, the developing child, and the principles of inclusive education.
• At level 4, students will have opportunities to develop their knowledge and skills of early years theory and practice.
• At level 5, students will begin to develop their critical capabilities through the selection, analysis and combining of relevant perspectives and be able to justify different positions on matters relating to early childhood studies.
• At level 6, students will be able to reflect on their own value systems, development and inclusive practices, question concepts and theories they have encountered in their studies and interrogate the assumptions underpinning research and their own practice.

Course Modules

Year 1

• Exploring Inclusive Education and Practice
• Interprofessional Working
• Preparing for Undergraduate Study
• The Developing Child in the World
• Valuing the Self & Others

Year 2

• Child Development
• Developing Professionals in Early Childhood
• Growing Up in the 21st Century
• Power, Inclusion and Diversity
• Role of Play in Childhood
• Safeguarding and Multi-Agency Perspectives

Year 3

• Becoming a Researcher
• Communication, Language and Literacy in Early Childhood
• Health in the Early Years
• The Enquiring Practitioner
• Understanding Children's Worlds
• Inclusion in the Early Years
• Young Lives, Parenting and Families

Year 4

• Dissertation
• Evaluating The Early Years Curriculum
• Leading Quality in Practice
• Childhood and Youth in a Global Context
• Learning in the Outdoor Environment
• Pedagogy of Play
• Perspectives on Children and Childhood

Potential Career Paths

• Early Years Teacher
• Nursery Manager
• Primary School Teacher
• Family Support Worker
• Youth Worker
• Play Worker/Play Therapist
• Social Worker

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• 87% of students say staff value students' views and opinions about the course
• 92% of students say teaching staff have supported their learning well
• 78% of students are in work or doing further study 15 months after the course

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• FD (Arts) Early Years Services
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• FD (Arts) Early Years Services
• BA (Hons) Special Educational Needs, Disability and Inclusion
• Undergraduate Credit Inclusive Practices in Lifelong Learning CPD