Youth Work and Community Development MA
De Montfort University
Key Information
Campus location
Leicester, United Kingdom
Languages
English
Study format
Distance Learning
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Pace
Full time, Part time
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Introduction
Youth Work and Community Development MA
Designed for graduates or existing practitioners, this course helps you to gain extensive knowledge of working with young people and community groups alongside providing professional qualifications to practise as a youth and community development worker in the UK.
Professionally validated by the National Youth Agency and the Endorsement and Quality Standards Board for Community Development Learning, this course will help you master skills to support young people and communities and handle the complexities of social justice. Our program is ideal if you’d like to pursue a career in areas such as education, sexual health, housing and homelessness, and mental health.
Benefit from inter-professional learning, with the course attracting professionals from a variety of settings including youth work, parenting education, children’s centres, sexual health, drug abuse, housing and homelessness, youth offending, mental health, community development and domestic violence.
On this program you’ll explore the theory and practice of a range of topics including community development, anti-oppressive practice, and health and social research methods. You’ll also develop your practical and professional skills by putting theory in to practice with dedicated work placement modules and a range of specialist option modules which have been specifically designed for staff in local authorities, the NHS, voluntary, third sector and non-governmental organisations, ensuring your learning is relevant to current practice.
This course is only available for UK/EU students.
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Curriculum
Core modules include:
- Theory and Practice of Youth Work
- Theory and Practice of Community Development
- Anti-oppressive Practice
- Health and Social Research Methods
- Field Practice - is practice
- Management of Services and People
Plus choose one module from a range of specialist modules, depending on your specific career interests:
- Mental Health
- Contemporary Social Issues
- Global Issues in Youth and Community Development
- Managing Race and Diversity
- The Negotiated Module
Program Tuition Fee
Career Opportunities
Graduates go into a wide range of senior posts in youth work and community development work and in other related health and educational services in both the public and voluntary sector, all over the world.
An MA is a recommended qualification for workers who want to hold senior positions.
Program delivery
- Two years part-time
- One year full-time