Understanding Youth and Community Work: This module will form a foundation of the historical philosophies, origins, policies and present-day contexts of youth and community work. It will aim to encourage you to begin to contextualise your own professional identity in relation to the broad range of areas that practitioners work with young people and communities. Finally, the module will critically analyse the inherent political nature of youth and community work practice.
Study Skills: Study skills is an important aspect of your university education and allows you to become an independent learner. This module therefore provides you with the space and time needed to practice and develop your interdependence. This will include exploring key university systems, processes and support mechanisms. You will also be encouraged to plan for the development of your individual skills and abilities to enable success at Newman University. There are four strands to the module; Learning about Education, Knowledge and Learning, Reading, Academic and Professional Writing, Reflecting, Planning and becoming a Professional.
Working with Children, Young People and Families, Key Thinkers and Their Big Ideas: WWCYPF is a multi-disciplinary subject that draws on key ideas from a range of different academic traditions – sociology, psychology, development studies, cultural studies and PPE. In this module students will be introduced to some of the key thinkers and the big ideas that have shaped the way these different academic traditions have characterised children, young people and families and what they have had to say about working professionally in that field. The module will seek to give students a broad foundation in the theory that has shaped and influenced service developments and delivery and introduce them to the way conflicting ideas help to shape the way we think about basic questions like what we mean by notions of ‘family’, ‘childhood’, ‘kinship’ or our ideas about ‘need’, ‘vulnerability’ and ‘good’ or ‘bad’ childhoods.