MA Community Development & Youth Work
About this course
MA (Hons) in Community Development & Youth Work is an undergraduate degree focused on community education, youth work, and adult learning. Core topics include Policy Analysis, Environmental Analysis, and Ethics & Professional Practice. This degree is accredited by the Community Learning and Development Standards Council for Scotland. The first year covers foundational concepts through compulsory modules such as Introduction to Community Development, Youth Work and Adult Education, Building Relationships in Communities, Working Together, and Values: Self, Society and the Professions. Optional studies in the first year range from Environment, City and Society to Politics and Public Policy. The second year continues with Inquiry-Based Practice, Social Justice and Communities, and Youth Work in Practice, alongside optional modules like Engaging Communities and Art and Social Change. Year 3 builds competence through Critical Community Practice, Leading and Managing Community Projects, and Developing & Evaluating Community Work. The final year involves advanced study via the Practice Inquiry Project and Working in Diverse and Divided Contexts, where students complete a placement-based internship.
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Entry requirements
Higher / Advanced Higher, SQA (standard): BBBC (or ABB if you have three Highers) (View source data of all entry requirements for this course.).
Modules
- Introduction to Community Development, Youth Work and Adult Education
- Building Relationships in Communities
- Working Together
- Values: Self, Society and the Professions
- Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL) 60 credits
- Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL) 120 credits
- Environment, City and Society
- Social and Environmental Challenges in an Unequal World
- Humanities in Practice
- Politics and Public Policy
- The Science of You: Skills for Life, Work, and Wellbeing
- Inquiry-Based Practice
- Social Justice and Communities
- Youth Work in Practice
- Economics of an Unequal World
- Engaging Communities
- Art and Social Change
- Shaping the Environment: Politics, Environmentalism and Activism
- Critical Community Practice
- Leading and Managing Community Projects
- Developing & Evaluating Community Work
- Geographies of Children and Youth
- Practice Inquiry Project
- Working in Diverse and Divided Contexts