BA (Hons) Community and Youth Work (Integrated Degree Apprenticeship)

In this module, you'll learn about the history and evolution of community and youth work as a distinct profession, enabling current contexts to be understood through historical and developmental lenses with a focus on social justice.

This module will help you focus more directly on the profession of community and youth work in its contemporary context. You'll develop your academic confidence and skills in reading, writing, group work, presentation skills, analysis of information, use of library resources, academic referencing, and other study skills, to enable you to fulfil your academic potential.

This module will allow you to reflect on the concepts of "self", "young people", "community", and "professionalism" alongside your experiences in the workplace. You'll build your confidence in applying theory to practice and gain early formation of professional identity.

In this module, you'll gain an understanding of theorising as a useful, everyday practice rather than as a remote academic pursuit, bridging the transition to Year 2 while consolidating learning from across Year 1.

This module will help you gain an understanding of workplace experience reflections, exploring the concept and practice of reflexivity. You'll optimise your learning via teaching inputs, workplace activity (including the development of a specific piece of work), supervision, and reflection on your progress in meeting the professional expectations embedded in the NOS for Youth Work and Community Development.

In this module, you'll focus on the impact of multiple forms of oppression, linking the local with the global and the personal. You'll develop an appreciation and understanding of how oppression serves to exclude and subjugate young people and communities in different ways, considering how you risk enhancing rather than transforming oppressive forms of practice and how this can be resisted.

This module will give you the chance to analyse the leadership of self, organisations, practice, and change through the lenses of rights, empowerment, equalities, ethics, and professionalism. You'll compile a reflexive account of your journey with leadership and create a plan for your further development and associated support needs.

In this module, you'll explore the complex cultural landscape in which the identities of young people and members of communities are formed and through which their lives get played out. You'll also explore forms of resistance through subcultures, cultural movements, and collective action for social change.

This module will help you demonstrate your capacity to undertake a research project, benefitting your learning, your employing organisation, and the needs of young people in the community.

Exploring how "knowledge" and "truth" are experienced using analytical explorations of everyday literacies, you'll synthesise theoretical understandings with criticality in pursuit of your individual, critical praxis.

In this module, you'll use techniques of reflexivity that enable you to appraise your progress to consolidate your identity and growth as a professional and critical practitioner, ready to bring about transformative change in the field.

Following successful completion of the first three modules of Year 3, you'll have achieved sufficient academic credits to reach the End Point Assessment (EPA). You'll get support to work towards the EPA tasks: observation of practice with questions, professional discussion underpinned by a portfolio of evidence, and presentation and questioning.