Programme summary for BA (Hons) Youth Studies

About the programme

The location: Within the UEL 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.

The programme: Explores Youth issues within the scope of a wide range of co-ordinates, embracing diversity, activism, citizenship, sociology, and safeguarding underpinned by the United Nations Charter on Human Rights and of the child.

Programme structure

The first year of the programme seeks to give students grounding in the theoretical concepts which effect young people and those who work with or support them. Students choose module option strands to explore interests in special needs, IT in education and Language in order to diversify and explore individual interests and career paths. The strands run through level 1, 2 and 3 options. In years two and three students will consolidate and develop both these aspects through core modules and module options at The Cass School of Education.

Career opportunities

A degree in Youth Studies from UEL will show a prospective employer that you have developed critical skills in the field, that you have a rounded knowledge of current and historical issues which affect young people and that you are able to be a thoughtful practitioner, and that you have also developed transferable practical skills in researching, writing and presenting .

Career paths: unqualified youth and community worker positions in private, national companies; local authorities and national government; jobs in regeneration zones with a community or youth focus.

Support

An enthusiastic experienced team
Provide up to date developments and recommendations in the field
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 240 UCAS tariff points.

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.

Youth and Community Work is professionally validated by the NYA on behalf of the Joint Negotiating Committee