The MA in Transdisciplinary Childhood Studies is an inter-Faculty, interdisciplinary programme studies consisting of 90 ECTS taught study units and dissertation spread over three years of part-time study. It provides course participants with an in-depth, advanced study of childhood studies from a transdisciplinary, children's voice perspective. The critical, reflexive, and research skills and the expert and detailed knowledge in childhood studies facilitated during the course, will enable you to inform related policy, practice and research and ensure that children's voices and perspectives as well children's interests, wellbeing and welfare, will help to drive policy and practice in services and systems working for and with children in social welfare, care, education, health and community services. The programme also provides an opportunity to engage in research with children with a particular focus on the use of participatory research methods.
| Semester 1 | |||||||||||
| Compulsory Units (All students must register for this/these unit/s) | |||||||||||
| CVL5047 | Contemporary Debates and Issues in Children's Rights | 5 ECTS | |||||||||
| PSY5800 | Child Development and Learning | 5 ECTS | |||||||||
| RSE5010 | Historical and Cultural Perspectives on Childhood | 5 ECTS | |||||||||
| Semester 2 | |||||||||||
| Compulsory Units (All students must register for this/these unit/s) | |||||||||||
| RSE5011 | Children's Voices, Participation and Agency | 5 ECTS | |||||||||
| RSE5012 | Children Resilience and Wellbeing | 5 ECTS | |||||||||
| SWB5008 | Research Methods | 5 ECTS | |||||||||
| Semester 1 | |||||||||||
| Compulsory Units (All students must register for this/these unit/s) | |||||||||||
| EPE5015 | Participatory Methods with Children: Enabling Children's Voice in Research | 5 ECTS | |||||||||
| HSC5007 | Children's Health: Supporting Optimal Development | 5 ECTS | |||||||||
| RSE5013 | Contexts of Childhood, the Family, the School and the Community | 5 ECTS | |||||||||
| Semester 2 | |||||||||||
| Compulsory Units (All students must register for this/these unit/s) | |||||||||||
| TEM5012 | The Digital Child | 5 ECTS | |||||||||
| Elective Units (Elective units are offered subject to availability, a minimum number of student registrations and time-table constraints)Students are required to choose TWO elective study-units from the following. | |||||||||||
| CMT5050 | Developmental Speech and Language Disorders in Childhood | 5 ECTS | |||||||||
| EDU5919 | Strategies for Inclusive Practices, Early Intervention and, Inclusive Schooling and Vocational Designing | 5 ECTS | |||||||||
| SWB5006 | Poverty, Social Exclusion and Risks to Children's Wellbeing | 5 ECTS | |||||||||
| Year (This/these unit/s start/s in Semester 1 and continue/s in Semester 2) | |||||||||||
| Compulsory Units (All students must register for this/these unit/s) | |||||||||||
| RSE5020 | Dissertation | 30 ECTS | |||||||||
This programme of study is governed by the General Regulations for University Postgraduate Awards, 2021 and by the Bye-Laws for the award of Master of Arts in Transdisciplinary Childhood Studies - M.A. - under the auspices of the Centre for Resilience and Socio-Emotional Health.
