BA (Hons) Youth and Community Work
Delivered by experienced and award-winning youth workers, this youth and community work degree will prepare you for a career working with children and young people in a range of settings, helping them to enhance their personal, social and educational development.
Throughout the youth and community work qualification you will expand your knowledge and skills to include critical, analytical and reflective thinking within a youth and community work setting. Our strong partnerships with local employers provide work placement opportunities to enhance your learning and employability.
On successful completion of our youth work course, you’ll not only graduate with a degree, but with a professionally recognised qualification that is recognised UK-wide by the Joint Negotiating Committee (JNC) and endorsed by Education and Training Standards Wales (ETS). Covering everything from youth and community work to informal education methods and facilitation skills, your study here will prepare you for this rewarding profession.
You will learn how to support and motivate young people to access opportunities that will enhance their development. As well as attaining professionally qualified youth worker status, you could also qualify as a specialist in youth justice by choosing a specific pathway, which includes a bespoke Youth Justice module.
What you will study
Year One: Youth and Community Work Degree
- Adolescence and Well-Being
- Academic Digital Skills for Research and Study
- Professional Values and Ethics in Youth Work
- Young People and Society
- Role of Youth and Community Worker 1
- Role of Youth and Community Worker 2
Year Two: Youth and Community Work Degree
- Youth Work Management Skills and Integrated Practice in the Community
- Developing Effective Youth and Community Work (2)
- Developing Effective Youth and Community Work (1)
- Global Youth Work and Community Development
- Research Methods
- Individual and Group Facilitation Skills
Year Three: Youth and Community Work Degree
Your final year explores how to become a critical and reflective professional. You can also specialise in the area of work with young people that interests you most through a research project and dissertation
Interprofessional Practice
- Becoming a Critical and Reflective Practitioner 1 (Leadership)
- Becoming a Critical and Reflective Practitioner 2 (Supervision)
- Dissertation
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