WHAT COURSE AM I DOING?

I am currently at university studying for a BA (hons) degree in Early Childhood Studies. 

In my first semester I am currently doing the units:

• Child Development
• Critical Reading and Writing
• Sociology
• Staying Safe

These units will take me through until the Christmas break and when I come back in January I will have four different units to study.

Each unit is graded differently. Child development has an exam. You receive the exam question 2 weeks before the exam and you can take a page of A4 notes - with 300 words on - into the exam with you (pretty handy for me as I suck in exams). Critical Reading and Writing has a 2,500 word essay to be handed in. I have already written 1,000 words and have handed them in to be marked in order to see whether I have written them okay! I didn't get any guidelines for this essay so it was really difficult - hopefully I get a first (here's to hoping). Sociology is based on an essay and a presentation. You present your findings in your essay to the whole class and then write a 2,500 word essay about your findings - it's rather complicated and we haven't really discussed this very much yet, but it sounds like it could be fun. Staying safe is my favourite unit, it's very interesting. It's graded through a 2,500 word essay you have written based on a case study you've been given. As we're studying early childhood studies our case study is based on the possibility that a child has been abused. It's not a real story but obviously these things happen and our lectures are taught in a way that's good to learn how to deal with these things in a professional environment. 

So far I would really recommend this course. It's a three year course and at the end of it it opens up a load of choices for you to go on and do within the early years settings. For me personally I'm going to stay on at university for a fourth year and do a PGCE to become an infant school teacher.

Thank you for reading

xo