MODULES
Year 1
CORE MODULES
Mental Wealth: Academic and Professional Skills for Life 1
This module will provide students with the opportunity to identify the skills, competencies and experiences required for youth work and a range of potential future career areas.
Students will be supported to recognise the areas for their own personal professional development (including emotional, social, physical, cultural and cognitive intelligences) through taught and workshop activity.
Central to the developmental process is for each student to cultivate their reflective skills, openness and self-awareness to enable themselves to assess what they are doing, identify areas for improvement and confidently receive and give constructive feedback. Students will additionally develop knowledge and strategies for advancing their own emotional, social, physical, cultural and cognitive intelligences and improve their health and well-being.
Introduction to Youth and Community Work
Preparation for Working in Communities - Part One
Preparation for Working in Communities - Part Two
Communication for Helping Build Professional and Educational Relationships
Exploring Social Worlds
This module will develop students’ understanding of people’s social and cultural experience in a range of contexts. It will develop students’ ability to think about practical support for young people’s lives and rights. Students will learn about a range of theoretical perspectives that will help them understand the experiences of children, young people and young adults.
Year 2
CORE MODULES
Mental Wealth: Academic and Professional Skills for Life 2
This module seeks to develop the key psychological determinants of human performance which are increasingly critical for successful graduate-level employment, entrepreneurship and career progression in the 4th industrial era.
This module will provide students with the opportunity to apply several of the skills, competencies and experience required for successful development to, and in a range of potential career areas.
Students will continue to build upon and advance the skills and concepts they learnt in Level 4 to further develop their emotional intelligence, emotional literacy, reflective skills, and self-awareness.
Students will have the opportunity to explore the skills and knowledge involved in entrepreneurial activities by practising and engaging with self and others in analysis, critical-thinking, problem solving and research.
Social Policies impacting Children, Young People and Families
Work Based Learning Setting 1 - Part 1 Research Project Proposal
Work Based Learning Setting 1- Part Two Research Project Outcomes
Safeguarding Practice in a Digital Age
Identity and Social Justice
In this module students will extend their critical understanding of theory and research from a range of social science disciplines used to explore and analyse the lives and experiences of children and young people (including education, psychology, sociology, human geography and social policy). Students will explore issues of social justices, critically considering:
- how these aspects are addressed within key policies, organisations (including grassroots and third sector), and the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child;
- the micro- and macro- influences on the lives of children and young people, such as biological, social, economic, political, cultural and/or generational influences, with particular attention paid to issues of inequality and intersectionality;
- the extent to which educators/practitioners influence these aspects of the lives of children and young people;
- children and young people's rights and the extent to which they actively influence these aspects of their own lives.
During the module, students' campus-based studies will be complemented by engagement in educational and community settings, allowing them to develop a critical awareness of current issues relating to the lives of children and young people, and to actively engage in consideration of how drawing upon research evidence from social science disciplines can enable them to affect change in the lives of the children and young people with whom they work/may work in the future.
Year 3
CORE MODULES
- Leading and Managing in Children, Young People and Families Services
- Work Based Learning Setting 2 – Part 1 Intervention Project Proposal
- Work Based Learning Setting 2 – Part 2 Intervention Project Delivery
- Work Based Learning Setting 2 – Part 3 Intervention Project Evaluation
- Work Based Learning Setting 2 – Part 2 Intervention Project Delivery
OPTIONAL MODULES
- Targeted Interventions
- Radio Project
- Alternative Education Provisions
- Engaging Young People Through Outdoor Education
