Youth and Community Work MA - Uxbridge - Greater London - Brunel University - I29850

This course has been designed to provide a two-year initial professional qualifying course (JNC recognised) for graduates and other well qualified individuals, who wish to acquire the skills and knowledge necessary for a career in youth and community work. By completing a third year of flexible study on a dissertation, participants can gain an MA. Attendance is one day each week, together with two study blocks. Participants will be employed in youth and community work as full-time or substantial part-time or voluntary workers in either a statutory or voluntary situation. Day-to-day work practice is incorporated into the ongoing programme work.

Entry Requirements A good first degree or appropriate professional qualifications or experience.

Youth and Community Work MA

Course Summary

This course has been specifically designed to provide a two-year initial professional qualifying course for graduates and other well qualified individuals, who wish to acquire the skills and knowledge necessary for a career in youth and community work. Professional qualification is attained after two years and by completing a third year of flexible study on a dissertation, participants can gain an MA. Attendance is one day each week, together with two study blocks. Participants must be employed in youth and community work as full-time or substantial part-time or voluntary workers in either a statutory or voluntary situation. Day-to-day work practice is incorporated into the ongoing programme of work.

Course Details

This course is JNC recognised and has professional accreditation from the National Youth Agency

Modules (all core)

    * Young People and Social Identities
    * Professional Work with Young People
    * Research Methods in Youth and Community Work
    * Working in Community Settings
    * Managing Professional Practice
    * Joint Assessments
    * Self Assessments
    * Dissertation

Dissertation

Recent examples of dissertations by students taking this course include:

    * Young people and the influence of race in the development of identity;
    * Is the concept of community relevant to young people in contemporary society?
    * Intercultural experience and its contribution to youth work.

Special Features

School of Sport and Education
Education at Brunel is at home in the stimulating, demanding and constantly changing world of education. From its solid foundation of experience, it has developed into a vibrant and dynamic community that is able to respond to external forces and internal developments with expertise and enthusiasm.

We are the product of two long and distinguished lines. The teacher training activity of Brunel University dates back to before its merger with Shoreditch College - now known as the Runnymede campus - in 1980. That College was at the time the country's leading provider of teachers of design and technology with a history dating back to 1889. The former West London Institute can lay claim to being the oldest teacher training institute in the British Commonwealth - one of its founding institutions, Borough Road College, was established in 1798 and another, Maria Grey College, in 1878.

Assessment

All course modules are assessed by coursework, and students’ informal practise is self-assessed and assessed by a fieldwork supervisor. Recent examples of dissertations by students taking this course include:

    * Young people and the influence of race in the development of identity;
    * Is the concept of community relevant to young people in contemporary society?
    * Intercultural experience and its contribution to youth work.