About Youth Work And Community Development BA (hons) in De Montfort University

Youth work has been described as ‘the science of enabling young people to believe in themselves and build positive futures’ (National Youth Agency).

Working with people primarily aged between 11 and 25 is both a challenging and rewarding career choice and the professionals specialising in this field aim to support a young person to develop both personally and socially.

On this course, you’ll cover the history and development of youth and community work, explore the self, groups and learning, society and social policy, and develop your understanding of social science.

You’ll also be looking at oppression, globalisation, how agencies work together, and community development and management, as well as enhancing your research, practical and managerial skills.

Compulsory work placements in youth and community centres, and schools and voluntary organisations, provide ample opportunity to achieve hands-on experience working alongside professional youth and community workers. And you’ll see, first-hand, some of the issues that can affect young people and their communities.

Key features

• Professionally recognised by the Joint Negotiating Committee and validated by the National Youth Agency.
• Throughout the course you will undertake up to 800 hours of practical work placements as well as volunteering opportunities, in a range of relevant organisations and projects, to enhance your learning experience in areas such as mentoring, advice and guidance, youth justice, drug and alcohol misuse work and sports-based work.
• You will study a range of topics including learning, education and youth work, youth and community work in context, developing the professional practitioner and globalisation and global youth work.
• Gain an international perspective on your studies through our DMU Global programme. Recent trips have seen Youth Work and Community Development students focus on the role of young people as change-makers to create positive social change in India and The Gambia, and consider poverty, health and social problems in Florida.
• Graduate employment opportunities include detached youth work, community development, Schools and colleges, work with refugee and asylum seekers and mentoring.
• We have one of the UK’s largest youth work teaching and research teams, with an established reputation of more than 55 years’ experience.

Entry criteria

• A typical offer is a minimum of 104 from at least two A-levels with a subject at grade C or above PLUS work experience, or
• BTEC National Diploma — Distinction/Merit/Merit, or
• BTEC Extended Diploma — Distinction/Merit/Merit PLUS work experience

Plus five GCSEs at grade C/4 or above including English.

Alternative qualifications include:zz

• Pass in QAA Access to HE overall 104 UCAS tariff with at least 30 level 3 credits at Merit.
  PLUS work experience 

We will normally require students to have had a break from full-time education before undertaking the Access course.

• International Baccalaureate: 24+ Points. PLUS work experience

We may still consider applicants that do not meet the GCSE requirements providing they can demonstrate ability or attainment in these subjects in an alternative way; usually through work experience, alternative qualifications or by a University admissions test or interview. All such applicants will be considered on a case by case basis.

Interview: Yes. Professional conduct during the event will also contribute to the decision making regarding an applicant’s application. Interviews are currently being conducted remotely via Microsoft Teams.

English language requirements:

If English is not your first language an IELTS score of 6.5 or equivalent when you start the course is essential. English language tuition, delivered by our British Council accredited Centre for English Language Learning (CELL), is available both before and during the course.

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