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Childhood Studies at University of Essex at Colchester

This MA Childhood Studies offers a unique psychosocial focus, seeking to understand not only the outer social experience of children but also their complex inner, emotional worlds.

Building upon the existing expertise in postgraduate courses like refugee care, psychoanalytic studies and psychodynamic counselling, this programme offers much more than students would find in other MA Childhood Studies courses.

This inherently interdisciplinary programme is rooted in psychosocial, sociological and psychodynamic approaches. Drawing on the history of Childhood Studies and the best contemporary research, including the excellent research and practice experience of the University of Essex's academics, modules will explore a variety of subjects, including:

  • Families and peer relationships
  • Emotions and the inner worlds of children
  • Education
  • The role of play and leisure
  • Generation and intergenerational relationships
  • Gender and sexuality
  • Race and ethnicity
  • Cross-cultural experiences of childhood
  • Children, popular culture and literature,
  • Children with disabilities
  • Children and the state
  • Ethical research with children and young people
  • Spaces and places of children’s lives
  • Intersectionality

This MA Childhood Studies programme will equip students for a career in sectors including education, health, international fields such as the charitable sector and NGOs, social care including children’s homes, therapeutic communities and supporting children and their families. This course also acts as a stepping stone to further qualifications in specific professions such as social work or counselling as well as PhD study.

Level Masters
Discipline Arts and Humanities
Duration 12 months
Intakes Oct
Application Fees GBP 0
Tuition Fees GBP 20700
Campus Colchester
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Admission Requirements
Language proficiency (minimum)
IELTS 6.5
TOEFL 88
PTE Not Required / Waiver
Duolingo Not Accepted
Exam proficiency (minimum)
SAT Not Required / Waiver
ACT Not Required / Waiver
GRE Not Required / Waiver
GMAT Not Required / Waiver
Requirements

Minimum GPA - 70.0%

Rankings
QS Ranking 472
Times Higher Education 301-350
ARWU 501-600
Webometrics 447
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