本课程课程允许您学习心理学作为联合荣誉学位的一部分（50％心理学，50％儿童研究和青年）。该学位课程的心理学部分涵盖从婴儿期到老年的行为调查，并研究影响人类心理学的生物学，社会和个人因素。本课程为您提供尽可能广泛的模块选择，使您可以根据自己的兴趣来定制学习内容。对于本课程的“儿童与青少年”部分，您将遵循由经验丰富的教育学院工作人员领导的创新模块，以加深对儿童历史，儿童权利，儿童性质以及成年人与儿童一起工作的作用的了解在国家，欧洲和国际范围内。您将从事与儿童生活有关的心理学，社会学，社会政策，教育，健康和福
These subjects enable you to study the social and psychological processes that impact children’s lives today. You’ll engage with a broad range of topics relevant to 21st century childhood and youth and investigate behaviour and the biological, social and individual factors that affect human psychology. This can lead to a wide range of careers including teaching, social work, counselling and law where you’ll make a real difference to the lives of young people.The fields of Childhood and Youth Studies and Psychology complement each other naturally. They support a combined approach to understanding the development of children and young people from biological and psychological perspectives, whilst encouraging an understanding of these elements within areas that affect the lives of children and young people most, such as their education, their interaction with peers and adults, and their wellbeing. This course allows you to study Psychology as part of a joint honours degree (50% Psychology, 50% Childhood Studies and Youth).The Psychology part of the degree covers the investigation of behaviour from infancy to old age, and deals with the biological, social and individual factors that affect human psychology taught by psychology academics with renowned expertise in their fields. For the Childhood and Youth part of the course, you’ll follow innovative topics led by experienced education staff to develop your understanding of the history of childhood, children’s rights, the nature of childhood and the role of adults working with children in a national, European and international context. You’ll engage in academic study in the fields of psychology, sociology, social policy, education, health and welfare relating to children’s lives.Placement Year and International Experience Year AvailableCareersThe multi-disciplinary approach of the Childhood and Youth and Psychology degree offers a broad range of career choices in education and allied professions in the public and private sector, including health, social care, youth and community work. Alternately, some students continue their studies on a Masters programme or apply for a place on a PGCE Primary course.The combined Childhood and Youth and Psychology course appeals to a very broad range of future employment opportunities within fields related to supporting and working with children and young people. The ability of graduates from these combined disciplines to understand children’s development and to locate and apply this knowledge within the context of roles and institutions that support children and young people, is highly sought after by employers in the field, and is essential in supporting careers in education, child-centred psychology and care services for young people.