Youth Work & Community Practice (Foundation Entry)

This module provides you with a foundation in study skills by guiding you through the skills required to produce high quality academic work. Topics covered in the module include academic writing, referencing and critical analysis.

This interesting module will introduce you to critical thinking and discussion, and essential skills for success at university. A range of world issues and current affairs within broadly defined areas such as, political systems, environmentalism, law and justice, and culture and society, will be explored.

This module aims to develop your digital literacies. You'll have opportunities to focus on a topic within your intended honours degree (target award) Course. You will learn appropriate digital research skills, learn which digital tools and methods are suitable for your target award, and develop independent learning skills.

In this module you will explore group working, negotiating and task-based learning while building a reflective learning portfolio. You will choose a project to research, present your findings and exhibit your work as well as reflecting on your learning.

During the course of the module, you'll learn about the following topics and put them into a practical context. Health and safety in the workplace, child protection, the ethics of volunteering, disability awareness first aid training, race, ethnicity, and discrimination, dealing with difficult situations effectively.

This module will provide you with the practical experience of volunteering. This includes planning and arranging your placement as well as considering the ethics of volunteering. You will be expected to reflect on your practical volunteering experience.

You will complete a minimum of 200 hours placement, working as a youth worker. You will be supervised to work with young people both one-to-one and in groups and support them to engage in activities.

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.

In this second placement module, you will complete a minimum of 300 hours working as a professional youth worker. Exhibiting clear anti-oppressive practice, you will work with young people to plan activities and examine rights and responsibilities through informal education.      

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 sports development module gives you the opportunity to examine the logistics and impact of sports projects in schools and communities and the theory behind why sport is used as a tool to work with young people and communities.

This module is taught by tutors from out mental health team and teaches you about different perspectives on mental health including how society treats young people who have concerns about their mental health.

In this final compulsory placement module, you will complete a minimum of 300 hours placement working as a professional youth worker, supervising other youth workers, allocating resources, evaluating work and demonstrating anti-oppressive practice.     

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.