About Youth and Community, MA - at University of Wales Trinity Saint David

Course Overview

The MA Youth Work offers both a professional qualification in Youth Work and opportunities for CPD. The programme can be undertaken through the medium of Welsh and bilingually.

It is run on a flexible, part-time bases (twilight sessions and Saturdays); as well as the opportunity to study the non-qualifying route on a full or part time bases via flexible and distributed learning.

Youth Work is a profession with a clearly stated purpose, values, and principles. The key purpose of Youth Work in the United Kingdom is to:

'Enable young people to develop holistically, working with them to facilitate their personal, social and educational development, to enable them to develop their voice, influence and place in society and to reach their full potential?

This statement refers to the holistic development of young people, recognising that personal, social and educational development can also include, for example, physical, political and spiritual development (LSIS, 2012).

Youth Work regards itself as rare among wider services for young people; being driven by a clear set of agreed values, these values are summarised in the National Occupational Standards for Youth Work and include:

• Participation and active involvement
• Equity, diversity and inclusion:
• Partnership with young people and others
• Personal, social and political development

The Programme is committed to a vision of Youth Work clearly based upon these principles, including the voluntary engagement of young people being fundamental to the process of Youth Work.

Additionally a form of Youth Work which empowers young people and adopts a stance where they are partners in the process of learning. The programme team are committed to teaching a form of Youth Work which has at its core the importance of providing safe environments for young people and of supporting the safety as well as their development and well-being. Fundamental to the MA in Youth Work are also the principles of equality and inclusion.

Key Features

• The MA Youth Work offers both a professional qualification in Youth Work and opportunities for CDD
• The programme can be undertaken bilingually.
• Fieldwork opportunities offering links to employment.
• Professionally Qualified staff who are research active.
• Opportunities to progress to PhD

Modules

• Researching and Reflecting upon Youth and Community Practice
• Social Education
• Professional Practice
• Sustainable Communities
• Outreach and Detached Youth Work
• Adolescent Psychology
• Supervision and support skills

Professional Accreditations

The programme is a professionally endorsed programme by the Education and Training Standards for Wales.

Course Tutor(s)

• Dr Nichola Welton
• Darrel Williams
• Alana Enoch
• Angharad Lewis

Assessment

Assessment methods:

• Field Work Portfolios
• Essays
• Seminar Presentations
• Online discussions

Career Opportunities

• Youth and Community Worker
• Community Worker
• Learning Support Worker
• Health Based Youth Worker
• Young people's Participation Worker
• Youth Justice
• Voluntary Sector

Related Courses

• MA Equality and Diversity in Society

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Entry requirements for this course

Contact University of Wales Trinity Saint David to find course entry requirements.

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