Programme summary for BA (Hons) Youth and Community Work
The programme explores youth and community issues within the scope of a wide range of co-ordinates, embracing diversity, citizenship, arts and education, underpinned by the United Nations Charters on Human Rights and the Child. This programme is professionally validated by the National Youth Agency.
About the programme
The location: Within the UEL Cass School of Education in the middle of the massive regeneration zone centred on Stratford , also the new gateway to Europe . You will be studying in the area where policy makers are exploring new ways of dealing with youth and community issues, from the inner city to the reaches of the Thames Gateway.
DBS Check
This programme involves working closely with children and/or vulnerable adults. Applicants are therefore subject to a satisfactory Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) Enhanced Disclosure check.
If you have any queries regarding this procedure, please contact Lucy Watson on +44 (0)20 8223 6271 or l.watson@uel.ac.uk
Programme structure
The first year of the programme seeks to give students grounding in the theoretical concepts involved in youth and community work and provides students with the chance to explore and reflect on their own practice through observation, and through work in the field. In years two and three students choose module options to explore interests in disability, citizenship, social movements and gender issues in order to diversify and explore individual interests and career paths. This is consolidated by field work placements in youth and community locations.
Career opportunities
- A degree in Youth and Community Work from UEL will show a prospective employer that you have developed critical skills in the field, that you are a flexible and thoughtful practitioner, and that you have also developed transferable practical skills in researching, leadership and management and writing presenting and organising ideas along side working in youth and community settings.
- Progression to further study at UEL: MA Youth and Community Studies
- Career paths: youth work and community work; children’s services, youth offending, local authorities and national government; jobs in regeneration zones with a community or youth focus.
Support
- An enthusiastic experienced team
- Professional mentors on placement
- Personal tutors at UEL
- Module tutors
- Student help-desk in-school
- State of the art specialist teaching facilities
- An excellent learning resource centre
Admission
Applicants need to have the following:
- 240 UCAS tariff points
- Substantial experience of youth or community work, voluntary or paid, and a reference to support this.
- No criminal record which would prevent the student working with children or young people and a current CRB check to support this.
Students may be admitted through Accreditation of Experiential Learning (AEL) or Accreditation of Certificated Learning (ACL) processes.
In the case of applicants whose first language is not English, then IELTS 5.5 (or equivalent) is required. International qualifications will be checked for appropriate matriculation to UK Higher Education undergraduate programmes.
Key facts
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