Youth Work & Community Practice (with Foundation Year), BA (Hons)

Foundation year degree courses are designed for students who have the ability to study for a degree, but don’t have the necessary formal qualifications to directly enter their chosen Honours degree programme. Upon successful completion of your foundation year course, you can progress to the BA (Hons) Youth Work & Community Practice course, or continue with a related degree.

Our Youth Work and Community Practice course is an exciting, innovative programme, in the full BA (Hons) degree there are placement opportunities available throughout the course. This course is delivered via block learning, making it flexible and achievable for someone working in the sector.

You will have the opportunity to study modules relating to young people in sport, or young people’s mental health, in addition to core modules in youth work and community practice making it a relevant and modern course.

The course has been developed closely with the team from CVCL, offering placements and opportunities in over 300 voluntary sector organisations and benefiting from the expertise of a team that has working with the voluntary sector for over twenty years.

In addition to the JNC professional qualification, you can gain a range of other awards through the course. These may include the following –

• First aid at work
• Writing risk assessments
• Safeguarding
• Sports coaching qualifications
• Mentoring
• Counselling skills

The course is also directly linked to the Journal of Community Research, you will have the opportunity to submit a research paper to this peer reviewed journal.

Diploma from a technical / vocational or health college / institute with a GPA of 2.0/5 or 60-64%

Successful completion of on year of appropriate study at a recognised KSA university with a GPA 2.5/5 (65-69%)

Diploma from a technical / vocational or health college / institute with a GPA of 2.5/5 (65-69%)