Skip over navigation
Child Studies
|MA
|Part Time, Full Time
| Admissions status: OpenPURPOSE
Designed for professional and personal development, as well as academic. We aim to enable our students to develop a multidisciplinary approach to childhood issues within the context of current policy developments. Students come from a variety of disciplines and professions including medicine, education, law, social care, psychology and sociology.DESCRIPTION
Underpinned by a theoretical framework of children's rights, this multi-disciplinary programme is designed to encourage students to take a rigorous academic and analytical approach to contemporary issues in childhood which are of relevance to those working or intending to work with or on behalf of vulnerable children.
The curriculum is subject to change to keep up with policy developments.
KEY FACTS
Programme leader/s
Mrs Jenny Driscoll
Accreditation
Carries Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health and Law Society CPD points.
Awarding institution
King's College London
Credit value (UK/ECTS equivalent)
UK 180/ECTS 90
Duration
One year FT or two years PT, September to September.
Location
Waterloo Campus.
Student destinations
Our graduates frequently progress to senior practitioner posts involving child-related work. Many students have found that the multidisciplinary aspect of the programme has opened up unexpected or unique opportunities, including research or policy positions with some of the larger children's charities.
Year of entry 2013
Offered by