Youth Work & Community Practice

This module involves the completion of 200 hours in a practice setting. You'll explore the relationship between youth work theory and practice whilst engaging in professional youth work practice. You'll also demonstrate relevant National Occupational Standards.

This module is designed to help prepare you for professional practice, with a focus on health and safety, child protection and equality and diversity.

You will gain an understanding of the legislation and policies around safeguarding and child protection and how this understanding translates to practical behaviours and actions.

This module introduces you to issues surrounding communication in youth work, education and care contexts and the importance of effective communication in ensuring good practice and outcomes for young people.

You will be introduced to the dialogue used by, about and with young people. It considers theory and research about young people, their relationships with each other, others, and between young people and society.

This module considers how current youth work has evolved and changed and how youth work interacts with other agencies and organisations. You will also access training and accreditations relating to current roles in youth work from external agencies and other departments within the University.

This second professional practice placement module allows you to continue to develop your youth work skills. It involves the completion of 300 hours in a practice setting where you will explore the relationship between youth work theory and practise whilst engaging in professional youth work practice. You'll also demonstrate relevant National Occupational Standards.

This module aims to introduce you to contemporary issues affecting young people today. Political, educational, and social issues are examined with a view to develop a better understanding of the world for young people.

This module explores primary theories and policies in youth work and community practice and gives you the theoretical basis through which to explore practical issues about your own work.

This module aims to give you a psychological perspective on youth and community. It examines different psychological models and theories of behaviour for events that occur in the community. It also develops your knowledge of the psychological development of individuals and groups and its practical implications when engaging in work with young people and communities.

This module uses the award winning, international Global Youth Solutions project to give you a practical experience in planning, delivery and evaluation of a peer leadership skills through a peer education project.

This module examines research with children and young people by studying a number of key research studies. You will gain insights into the research process and build your competence and confidence within yourself as a researcher.

This module aims to help you to continue to develop your youth work skills, including leadership and management skills. It involves the completion of 300 hours in a practice setting, allowing you to work as a senior youth worker, supervising other youth workers, allocating resources, evaluating work, as well as demonstrating relevant National Occupational Standards.

This module provides an opportunity for you to undertake independent study in an area of your choice. It will involve a particular issue of relevance to children and young people’s lives and services. You will be guided and supported by your dissertation supervisor to plan, carry out the project and write it up as an academic research.

The module aims to prepare you for some of the situations you may experience when working in management in youth work and community practice. You will consider theories of management, how to put them into practice, the challenges to management in a youth work setting and the importance of supervision and staff development.

This module joins all previous academic learning and explores theory around anti-oppressive practice. It aims to continue to build your understanding of common themes of prejudice, equality, diversity and oppression, particularly around gender, ethnicity, age, sexuality, class and disability.