This programme draws on the expertise from a wide range of areas including the Creative Arts, Law, Health Promotion, Literature, Sociology, Psychology and Human Rights. It provides students with an opportunity to examine the socio-cultural construction of childhood and the legal and policy frameworks surrounding children's lives. The programme combines a strong theoretical and academic focus with an applied and practical orientation and has both a historical and a contemporary perspective.The BA with Children's Studies in NUI Galway is the only programme currently on offer in Ireland or the UK that focuses on childhood from an interdisciplinary perspective, which enables students to take two tradiational arts subjects alongside Children's Studies to Degree Level.