MA in Liberal Studies Childhood and Youth Studies

Childhood and Youth Studies engages the issues, concepts and debates that illuminate the lived experience of children and the wider social, economic, cultural and political factors that condition that lived experience, as well as childhood itself as a social and historical construct. Drawing on methodologies and approaches from the humanities, social sciences, medicine, law, and education, it encompasses the study of children s cognitive and physical development; children s psychology; histories of childhood and adolescence; legal and social policy pertaining to childhood and adolescence; educational theory and approaches; social class and childhood; literacy and language acquisition; transnational and global childhood; and the analysis of children s literature, media and culture (including film and digital media).