Health and Community Development Studies MA/PG Dip/PG Cert

Postgraduate

In Leicester

Price on request

Description

  • Type

    Postgraduate

  • Location

    Leicester

  • Duration

    1 Year

From mental health support services to housing and homelessness, youth offending, and drug abuse, this course attracts professionals with expertise in diverse health and community settings.

Our core modules will give you an insight into the theories and practices of community development, introducing key concepts in practice, policy and National Occupation Standards. You will explore this in relation to issues surrounding health and wellbeing and discover new strategies and methods of social science research.

You can then expand your expertise in areas that interest you most, with modules covering topics in mental health, contemporary social issues, youth and community development, anti-oppressive practice, race and diversity, and management of services and people.

You may wish to learn about non-clinical health and wellbeing, health education, or development projects focusing on a social model of health and wellbeing. The content of this programme is also relevant for those wishing to explore social health and community provision in developing countries.

Ideal candidates will have an interest in group work, informal learning and activity, and outreach and community work, particularly with young people and adults identified as ‘hard to reach’ and ‘excluded’.

Your studies will benefit from a flexible blended learning approach, where the majority of modules are taught via distance learning with two block teaching weeks per academic year.

Facilities

Location

Start date

Leicester (Leicestershire)
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The Gateway, LE1 9BH

Start date

On request

About this course

Many of our graduates work in a wide range of senior posts in community health, youth work and community development work in both publicand voluntary organisations, all over the world.

An MA is a recommended qualification for workers who want to hold senior positions. The MA is recognised internationally as a valid postgraduate level of study and its content is relevant for issues relating to a developing country’s health and community provision.

Demonstration of ability to work at master’s level which can be achieved through having a first degree, normally at 2:2 or above, or by having a range of academic and work experience
You are normally expected to have a professional qualification in an area related to work
You must be engaged in at least four hours’ appropriate work, paid or unpaid, per week

We have a global reputation within the sector, with years of professional training experience and international work to draw upon.
Benefit from the flexibility of being able to tailor your learning to your career interests, with a choice from two pathways
Study part-time via distance learning alongside your work commitments, reinforced by two face to face teaching weeks per academic year.
Our teaching staff are experienced practitioners and researchers. Their expertise in delivering a diverse range of practice-related modules will ensure your learning is relevant to current practice and initiatives.
Our expert academic team have published several books and a wide range of research papers on key topics relating to your learning.
Explore knowledge across professions. The course attracts professionals with expertise in a variety of settings, including sexual health, mental health, disability, drug abuse, parenting education, youth work and community development, children’s centres, housing and homelessness, youth offending and domestic violence.

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Subjects

  • Mental Health
  • Management
  • Staff
  • International
  • IT Development
  • IT Management
  • IT
  • Teaching
  • Social Science
  • Health
  • Development

Course programme

Course modules

Students will follow a generic pathway; offering the greatest flexibility.

Core modules include:

Theory and Practice of Community Development - introduces students to key concepts explored in relation to practice, policy and National Occupation Standards

Issues of Health and Well-being - introduces key concepts of health and well-being and the context of youth work and community development

Health and Social Research Methods - introduces strategies and methods of social science research commonly used in social and healthcare settings

You will also choose from a diverse range of option modules, (some are offered biennially) depending on your preferred pathway and specific career interests, including:
  • Mental Health
  • Contemporary Social Issues
  • Global Issues in Youth and Community Development
  • Managing Race and Diversity
  • Anti-oppressive Practice
  • Management of Services and People
  • The Negotiated Module
Teaching and assessment

All core and most optional modules are launched during one of two block teaching weeks held each year, usually in September and January. These modules are supported by a wide variety of written material, individual and organisational tasks. Students are required to engage in a number of online seminars in each module. Contributions to them are compulsory and are an attendance requirement.

The course aims to build a learning community, from the initial contact during the induction block teaching week onwards. Assessment is usually by written assignment of 4,000 words per 15 credit module.

Teaching contact hours

This course is taught via distance learning. Compulsory attendance, when there are direct contact hours with staff, is for two block teaching weeks per year when teaching is timetabled for seven hours each day, and when the dissertation is launched.

Following each block week tutors teach via module guides and their integral activities, directed reading, e-seminars or on line action learning sets. Typically this means there is weekly tutor contact via written interventions in the seminars and oral interventions in the sets which are normally for student groups of between six and sixteen students. Personal tutorials and dissertation supervision are either conducted by telephone, or face to face for students studying full time and based in or near Leicester. Contact hours per week depend on the teaching method used, whether students are studying full or part time and which modules they are studying. The majority of the learning is via personal study – typically twenty hours studying and revising in your own time each week for full time students (less for part time students), including substantial guided study using module guides, directed readings, online activities,

Academic expertise

The department is home to the National Youth Work Collection and has one of the largest teams in the UK. In the past six years, the authors in the division have published nine books. Staff work with a range of organisations that work with young people and communities including charities, voluntary and statutory agencies at local, national and international levels.

Thematic areas of interest include:
  • A specialist expertise and interest in global youth and community development work (resulting in numerous conferences and publications by Dr Momodou Sallah, a leading expert in this area, who has also been recently awarded The Times Higher Education Most Innovative Teacher of the Year
  • Work with black young people (again, resulting in key conferences and texts byDr Carlton Howson and Dr Momodou Sallah)
  • Youth participation and citizenship
  • Anti-oppressive practice (Dr Jagdish Chouhan )
  • Hospital and other health-related youth work (Dr Scott Yates)

Additional information

Duration: One year full-time via distance learning or two years part-time via distance learning (with occasional attendance)

Fees and funding: If you work in the NHS you may be eligible for funding from the Education Commission Unit of the East Midlands Strategic Health Authority.

Health and Community Development Studies MA/PG Dip/PG Cert

Price on request