Content

This innovative, modern BA (Hons) in Education course will prepare you to enter a range of education-related professional careers. You might pursue opportunities in community learning and development, outdoor learning, museums, education administration, curriculum development, educational technology, international aid settings, policy work, and more. The course can lead to many postgraduate opportunities in areas such as: teaching, community learning or master’s level study in social science.

Year One: Introduction to education studies in the 21st century; Developing academic literacies for learning; Introduction to Psychology 1; Learning through the lifespan; Sustainable human behaviour; The socialogical imagination; Complete a 5-day community based education experience.

Year Two: Creativity, culture and learning in the 21st century; Early childhood development and learning in context; Education, reace and ethnicity; Society and sustainable lifestyles; Engaged sociology; Developmental and social psychology.

Year Three: Inclusive practice: difference and diversity; Research methods; Global health and international education; Comunity education and the organic intellectual; Class, poverty and social exclusion; Social psychology and social justice OR developental psychology.

Year Four: Peer relations in childhood and adolescence; Planning places for outdoor learning; Inequality, poverty, and social policy in comparative perspective; Community based education; Dissertation.

Entry Requirements

2026 entry requirements:

4 Highers at BBCC (standard entry) or BCCC (widening access entry) plus English and preferably National 5 Maths or Applications of Maths.