Edge Hill University, BA (Hons), Childhood and Youth Studies and English

Childhood and youth studies Modules may include: International perspectives on children and families; youth transitions; safeguarding children youth services; practice/work experience; youth and community work; addiction studies; issues for professional practice; sociology of youth culture; child development; the social child; regulation and criminalisation of childhood; law and social policy for children and youth; education and childhood; educational psychology; social work with children and families. English Year 1: the student studies modules in both language and literature; modules in the 1st year may include: language foundation; language matters; texts and context; reading contemporary literature. Year 2: in the 2nd and 3rd years, the student can choose which modules to study and whether they wish to concentrate on language or literature; in the literature modules, the student is introduced to recent theoretical and critical approaches, as well as being offered a range of modules that include different periods, genres, topics and critical issues; literature modules allow the student to study both classic texts and popular writing; a creative writing option is also available; in the language modules, the student covers major aspects of English language: its structure, sound system and variation; the student also discusses social issues such as the implications of accent and dialect; the student studies various aspects of the history of the English language and English grammar, but can also choose between modules addressing particular issues in language study; vocational modules are also available; modules may include: history and development of English; approaches to sociolinguistic variation; language of Shakespeare and his time; child language acquisition; discourse analysis; early English; phonetics and phonology; modern English structure and usage; regional varieties; computers and language research; words; the renaissance; order and chaos; postcolonial literature; utopian and distopian fiction; green writing; the grand tour; 20th Century gothic; crime fiction; writing the female body; United States women's fiction. Year 3: modules may include: language and education; language and gender; language and word development; communicating sexuality; English in contact; bilingualism; literary stylistics; linguistic ethnography; teaching English to speakers of other languages (TESOL); forensic linguistics; beyond English; language and identity; language, nation and conflict in Europe; language dissertation; Victorian literature; make it new: modernism; special author; poetry now; the fantastic; contemporary poets and their ideas; flight from realism; the short story; empire and identity; sexuality and subversion; looking at London; beyond books; poets and places; literature dissertation.

This is a joint Honours scheme which allows the student to combine the 2 subjects, with approximately 50% of modules coming from each subject; the childhood and youth studies course is designed for anyone who wants a career involving children and young people; the course allows the student to study the development of children and young people alongside society's understanding of, and reaction to, them; drawing on a variety of disciplines, including sociology, education, psychology, social policy, and health, the student is able to fully explore the social and developmental contexts of childhood and youth from early years through to childhood and adolescence; the English course aims to give the student a firm grounding in English language and literature; the student develops attributes such as communication skills, independent thinking and self-expression.