Advanced Mentoring Certificate of Credit PG

pg00004 EDUCATIONAL AIMS OF THE PROGRAMME This Programme Specification covers a broad range of short awards collectively known as the Creative Communities Short Course Programme. The Educational Aims have been developed with reference to all awards in the programme. The aims of the Creative Communities Short Course Programme are: 1. To provide a rigorous academic education designed to contribute to continuing professional development for persons who are in paid employment or who are volunteering and who are working with communities, broadly defined, in a variety of capacities to facilitate their development. For Short Course subjects, please refer to specific module descriptors. 2. To provide short courses taught at Levéis 3, 4, and 7 that constitute awards in and of themselves. The final awards are Certificates of Credit (15 credits) or Certificates of CPD (30 credits). These provide an opportunity for non-standard students to undertake an HE "taster" which will be useful as a form of CPD, but may also encourage students to return to HE for under- or post-graduate study. 3. To provide the opportunity to develop knowledge of key government policies, enhanced skills for community work, and skills of reflection on your practice. 4. To provide a multi-disciplinary education that draws on a variety of cognate fields to provide a holistic approach to understanding communities. What is Distinctive about this Programme? 1. Who is the Programme for? The Short Courses provide opportunities for non-traditional students to develop their full potential by providing a high quality educational environment for teaching and learning. The CCU underpins these unique learning opportunities with high quality pastoral care and academic support and guidance. The Short Courses are timetabled specifically to meet the needs of part-time students, with day-long sessions and múltiple entry points throughout the year. The bite-sized nature of the Certificates means that local students who are not sure that they can sustain a commitment to a lengthy part-time course will still be able to access accredited CPD in the HE sector. The compact nature of the courses also means that some students are able to travel long distances to particípate in the courses. We frequently have students who travel in from Manchester, Birmingham, London, and the Northeast. 2. What do you study? This wide-ranging programme is designed to maintain a high quality academic experience that is relevant to your practical work. All of the modules are designed to enhance your work-related skills and thus to provide continuing professional development for students already in employment or volunteering. We try to follow the guidance of the Egan Report (2004) which argües that practitioners who work with communities need "a broad range of generic skills, behaviour and knowledge - such as governance of communities, economic planning for prosperity, communication (especially listening to and selling to communities), risk taking, and above all leadership and partnership working." (p. 4). The programme seeks to provide such skills and knowledge for a range of professionals and practitioners working with communities in a variety of contexts. Moreover, the advent of the Big Society now enhances the need for a greater understanding of and skills for promoting the involvement of communities in all aspects of the development of policies and the delivery of se rv i ees. The CCU Short Course Programme reflects both the recognition of the need to develop a </div>