BA (Hons) Youth Work and Communities
Course Overview
This BA (Hons) Youth and Community degree equips you to make a significant impact on the lives of young people and their communities through applied, real-world learning. You will graduate with substantial professional experience from 800+ hours of placements and a critical understanding of key issues like mental health, crime, and housing. The programme is designed to create versatile, JNC-accredited professionals ready for careers in youth work, community development, social justice, and education.
Key Program Highlights
- Gain over 800 hours of professional placement experience with youth and community organisations in Birmingham and the West Midlands.
- Graduate as a JNC-accredited youth worker, a recognised professional qualification in the sector.
- Explore critical contemporary issues affecting young people, including mental health, substance use, crime, and homelessness.
- Benefit from international opportunities, such as overseas travel scholarships and study exchange programmes.
- Study in a vibrant research-focused school and engage with local community projects like the Birmingham 2029 initiative.
Course Overview
This BA (Hons) Youth and Community degree equips you to make a significant impact on the lives of young people and their communities through applied, real-world learning. You will graduate with substantial professional experience from 800+ hours of placements and a critical understanding of key issues like mental health, crime, and housing. The programme is designed to create versatile, JNC-accredited professionals ready for careers in youth work, community development, social justice, and education.
Key Program Highlights
- Gain over 800 hours of professional placement experience with youth and community organisations in Birmingham and the West Midlands.
- Graduate as a JNC-accredited youth worker, a recognised professional qualification in the sector.
- Explore critical contemporary issues affecting young people, including mental health, substance use, crime, and homelessness.
- Benefit from international opportunities, such as overseas travel scholarships and study exchange programmes.
- Study in a vibrant research-focused school and engage with local community projects like the Birmingham 2029 initiative.
Requirements
Modules
- Introduction to Youth and Community Work
- Working with Individuals, Groups and Communities
- Social Policy: Inequalities and Inclusion
- Equality, Diversity, Values and Social Justice
- Placement: Foundations in Practice
- Identities, Self and Intersectionality
- Researching with Youth and Communities
- Global Youth and Community Development
- Placement: Reflexive Practice
- Leadership, Management and Enterprise Skills in Youth and Community Contexts
- Mental Health, Wellbeing and Counselling
- Crime Media Culture: Representation, Consumption and Production
- Placement: Critical Operational Reflexive Practice
- Multi and Intra-professional Working Project
- Leadership, Networking and Partnership Building in Youth and Community
- Violence, Conflict and Mediation
- Rehabilitation, Reintegration, Re-Entry, and Therapeutic Communities
- Black Arts Movement
- Counselling and Wellbeing Support Skills for Youth and Community
