BA (Hons) Working with Young People and Communities (Youth Work or Community Development)

UCAS code: L530

Start date: September

Course length: full time: three years, part time: four to six years

Campus: Derby Campus, Britannia Mill

Faculty: Education, Health and Science

School: School of Education

This course is available to international students

You’ll explore how we enable people to learn in informal ways and in challenging contexts; this includes the study of health, research, community education and work with children, young people and families.

To take this course, you'll need to:

• have experience of work with young people or communities where you have responsibility for aspects of the work;
• show you are ready for study by completing a small piece of written work as part of your application;
• come to an interview to discuss your experience and your understanding of community and youth work;
• have achieved or be studying for 200 UCAS points.

Some people who join this course don't have formal qualifications and often doubt their ability to study, but they do have a good track record of working with young people and adults in the community. If this sounds like you, you can be sure that this course will build on the strengths you bring: your experience, your commitment and your willingness to learn.

Otherwise, our entry requirements are usually 200 UCAS points, of which at least 160 will be from your core A2s (full A levels) or equivalent qualifications such as BTEC Diploma, International Baccalaureate, Scottish Highers etc. We'll accept up to 40 points towards the total from level 3 qualifications such as AS levels (where those AS levels are not taken on to A2 level), the Extended Project or Music qualifications.

We don't accept points from Key Skills Level 3. If you have any questions about what is or isn't accepted, please contact our Admissions Tutor, Claire Ambrose on C.Ambrose@derby.ac.uk or 01332 594084.

We also accept the Access to HE Diploma.

Your points at level 3 will be in addition to 5 GCSEs at grade C or equivalent level 2 qualifications.

The UCAS tariff points and qualifications required are a guide - we'll also consider all the information that you've included in your application. We'll also want to see that you're enthusiastic and motivated to take this course and that you have the potential to benefit from coming to university.

Our entry requirements are usually 200 UCAS points, of which at least 160 will be from your core A2s (full A levels) or equivalent qualifications such as BTEC Diploma, International Baccalaureate, Scottish Highers etc.

We'll accept up to 40 points towards the total from level 3 qualifications such as AS levels (where those AS levels are not taken on to A2 level), the Extended Project or Music qualifications.

We don't accept points from Key Skills Level 3. If you have any questions about what is or isn't accepted, please contact our Admissions team.

We also accept the Access to HE Diploma.

Your points at level 3 will be in addition to 5 GCSEs at grade C or equivalent level 2 qualifications.

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The UCAS tariff points are a guide - we'll also consider all the information that you've included in your application. We'll also want to see that you're enthusiastic and motivated to take this course and that you have the potential to benefit from coming to university.

General undergraduate entry requirements

Fees for 2013/14

This is a resource intensive course.

UK/EU students

• Full time: £8,250 (each year)
• £1,030 per module (you usually take 18 of these modules in total)

International students

• Full time: £10,225 (per year)

*These fees apply if you're starting this course between September 2013 and August 2014. We recommend you check fee details with us though, as they can change. Costs can increase each year.

We understand the anxieties that studying can raise, so you’ll find there’s plenty of support for you. You’ll be taught in a range of ways, including lectures, tutorials, workshops,   activity based group work and you’ll also complete your own self-directed study. Your placements will give you an opportunity for learning through working, so you’ll put into practice the skills and knowledge you’ve developed.

How you're assessed

There are no exams; you’ll be assessed through work placements and assignments including essays, reflective diaries, reports, placement portfolios and posters.

Fieldtrips

Fieldtrip opportunities on the course, so list all the possible places they can go and if you have any pictures/quotes/case studies from any fieldtrips these would be great to have for the web.

The employment rate for community and youth work students is very high. Here are just some of the areas you could work in when you've completed the course:

• Multi-agency teams working with children, young people and vulnerable adults,
• Alternative curriculum projects,
• Teenage pregnancy projects,
• Voluntary sector youth work,
• Homelessness and social housing,
• Youth and adult offending and rehabilitation,
• Refugee and asylum-seeker support agencies,
• School and FE student support,
• Care-leaving and advocacy work;
• Faith-based community and youth work,
• Dual diagnosis youth support teams (mental ill health and drug use),
• Health promotion,
• Community mental health,
• Community development,
• Community arts,
• Outdoor education,
• Supporting young people and adults into employment.

If you're already employed in community and youth work, you can use this setting for most of your assessed placements.

Matt, Graduate

"The course helped me to build on my experience and understand the bigger picture of policy and theory, and how these can link with my practice."