Youth and Community Work

Description

This course is aimed at those seeking to develop their skills in working with young people and adults in informal ways and community settings. Candidates applying for this route will build on their existing recognised professional qualifications in youth and community work at DipHE level in order to achieve an honours degree. There is a strong emphasis on equality and diversity, empowerment and transformation and we welcome entrants from diverse communities, neighbourhoods and groups. Teaching is delivered via a blend of university based training and learning on practice placement. Successful graduates can progress to our PG Diploma which leads to full JNC professional youth and community work status.

Features & benefits of the course

• This course aims to show you how to use educational approaches to promote inclusion, value diversity and enable individual and group empowerment.
• The course aims to develop transferable skills in communication and management of small organisations.

There are opportunities to specialise in particular aspects of youth work and community development, for example in mentoring, regeneration work, cultural and arts-based work, youth offending, sexual health education, participation and citizenship education.

Recent graduates have gained employment in local authorities, working with young people, and drug and alcohol abuse projects.

Detailed Course Facts

• EUR 9840 Year (EEA)
• EUR 11580 Year (Non-EEA)

UK and EU full-time students: £8,500 · Non-EU full-time international students: £10,000

• English

Course Content

93%* of education, early years, childhood, youth and community graduates go straight into employment and/or further study.

Our recent graduates have entered a wide range of careers in education, as teachers, early years professionals, administrators and managers, youth and community leaders and managers.

*Source: DLHE survey 2010 for all respondents available for employment or further study and whose destinations are known.

Units you will study

• Core Units Challenging Exclusion: Informal Learning,Citizenship and Political Education

  This course builds on the learning aboutcommunity and participation at Level Four. Itexplores what is means by political education andactive citizenship and develops students capacitiesto apply this understanding in practice through theconnection with an elective.

  Challenging Exclusion: Informal Learning:Personal, Social Health and Economic Education

  This unit introduces students to approaches to professional practice which emphasise personal and peer group and cultural development. Itexplores the connection between the personal and the political and enables students to develop a particular specialism linked to an elective choice.

  Community Based Participatory Enquiry:Community Audit

  The unit applies the principles of youth and community work to appropriate research methods for information gathering and evaluation with communities

  Organisations and the Reflective Practitioner

  The unit covers the management and structure of an organisation and relationship of the worker to it.

  Reflective Practice: Youth and Community Work Practice Placement 1

  This unit offers a toolkit of strategies for students to engage in practice-based learning on placement.

• Optional Units Community Based Active Learning

  An introduction to the practice of critical community education.

As part of our drive to deliver the very highest quality programmes we are reviewing our undergraduate courses to ensure an up-to-date curriculum supported by the latest online learning technology. Some of the details given here may not yet reflect these improvements and information will be updated as it becomes available.

Assessment details

Continuous assessment. There are no formal examinations.

English Language Requirements

IELTS band : 6

To study at this university, you have to speak English. We advice you to

Requirements

UCAS Tariff points/Grades required

A foundation degree (FdA)or equivalent in a related subject

Specific GCSE requirements

GCSE English language, mathematics and science at grade C or above.

Non Tariffed Qualifications

A relevant Access to HE Diploma will be considered for entry to this course.

International Baccalaureate points

25

Further information

DipHE in Youth and Community Work.

Work Experience

No work experience is required.

Related Scholarships*

• Academic Excellence Scholarship

  "The Academic Excellence Scholarship can provide up to a 50 % reduction in tuition per semester. These scholarships will be renewed if the student maintains superior academic performance during each semester of their 3-year Bachelor programme. The scholarship will be directly applied to the student’s tuition fees."

• Access Bursary

  Bursary for UK students all subjects where the variable tuition fee rate is payable.

• Alumni Bursary

  Alumni Bursary for UK Undergraduate students

* The scholarships shown on this page are suggestions first and foremost. They could be offered by other organisations than Manchester Metropolitan University.