Bachelor of Arts (Hons) in Youth Work and Community Development

at Leeds Beckett University - City Campus United Kingdom

Informed by research and led by practice, this course will see you explore contemporary three-dimensional design practice and gain a human insight into diverse design issues.

As part of your course, you'll:

• Engage in a reflective and iterative process of design development and learning through doing
• Communicate design ideas through compelling outcomes
• Develop transferable skills to work effectively as a designer in real-world settings

Innovative research methods will allow you to gain insights into user needs, economic, environmental and ethical considerations, and industry capabilities to inform your design outcomes. The importance of iterative modelling processes (making, testing and improving) will enable you to question, challenge, refine and propose appropriate design solutions that will make a positive contribution to the world around us.

This course recognises the breadth of professional and research-led opportunities within the subject area of 3D Design and supports a culture of discursive enquiry and debate. It aims to foster and nurture independent creative thinkers and will equip you with the necessary attributes to respond to the contemporary challenges undertaken by designers and researchers in the field.

This course gives you a gateway into a rewarding career, a career that can take you anywhere in the UK or overseas.

Locally, nationally and globally, young people and communities are having to deal with difficult and challenging situations. Learn the skills you need to help them, and yourself, rise to those challenges.

You’ll undertake placements in a wide variety of settings and work with individual young people, as well as with groups and the wider community. This includes young offenders, drug services, environmental agencies and outdoor education centres.

Your qualification is validated by the National Youth Agency (NYA) and recognised by the Joint Negotiating Committee (JNC). These bodies endorse professional qualifications for youth and community workers.

As part of this course, you’ll:

• Examine literatures past and present, and from around the world
• Be taught by award-winning writers
• Have the chance to work on an extended creative writing project as you collaborate with your peers to produce an anthology and plan a related launch event
• Explore a range of literary and writing contexts to develop the ability to respond creatively to the world around you
• Join a vibrant creative community of students and lecturers with connections to literary festivals and events in the region
• Get the chance to work with our range of industry professionals in the city and beyond 

We’ll nurture your passion by developing your creative and critical thinking. You’ll benefit from:

• Inspired teaching and intellectual debate
• Interaction with award-winning authors and playwrights
• A rolling programme of media industry professionals, published lecturers and world-renowned researchers

Leeds is the Northern heart of culture and the arts. Your campus sits in the very centre of the city, surrounded by museums, art galleries, theatres, film production companies and recording studios. We work directly with Leeds museums and galleries and many regional events, including Leeds Lit Fest, poetry performance events and the Leeds West Indian Carnival.

Your studies will start with a clear focus on local contexts. As you progress, you’ll learn the skills to address national and global issues and discover how complex contemporary society is and the impact it has on us all.

As part of your course, you'll:

• Undertake role-play with trained actors as part of your training. They’ll take on the role of vulnerable people and you'll be able to learn from their video diaries and blogs.
• Practice your skills in a safe, controlled environment and reflect on your learning
• Gain real life, practical skills and have access to a rewarding career.

The social care sector is growing. It gives you employment opportunities working with children, young people and families.

You’ll be given the chance to undertake an international volunteering placement in your second and third years. Previous students have volunteered in India, South Africa, Finland and the US, working with people from diverse and disadvantaged backgrounds.

You'll share modules with students from related courses. This helps you to learn about the different areas of social science. It also teaches you how specific environments and situations are handled.

There is an increasing demand for qualified project professionals to implement change across a diverse array of sectors including:

• Manufacturing
• The public sector
• Charities
• Asset management
• Utilities companies
• Finance
• Health management

As part of your course, you’ll:

• Develop the necessary skills, insight and practice to develop as a professional project manager
• Study the challenges that face project managers today and discover better ways to manage projects
• Enhance the critical management skills required for negotiation, innovation, decision-making, motivation, team management, contracts and procurement

Construction is witnessing a transformation to become a smart and technologically innovative industry. This course will provide you with the knowledge and skills to deliver effective innovation and successfully manage projects in this ever-evolving field.

As part of your course, you’ll:

• Gain expertise to manage smart construction and innovation, project procurement and the commercial and financial management of construction
• Learn to play a key role in shaping the future of a smart and innovative industry
• Use your experiences in the workplace to enhance your learning
• Reflect on challenges and problems with your peers and learn how theory can help you to improve your practice

As part of your course you’ll:

• Study sports journalism within the wider context of journalism as a practice
• Learn how to produce real journalism content within ethical, legal and institutional constraints and influences
• Practise assessing and analysing the developing market
• Gain a historical and theoretical understanding of journalism, and sports journalism’s rich past and challenging future
• Be encouraged to create content for traditional and emerging platforms
• Develop your transferable content production skills
• Start to build your professional contacts and confidence

If you’re an innovative thinker who thrives on the stimulating combination of English literature and history, this qualification will appeal to you.

As part of your course, you’ll:

• Learn about the relationship between the two subjects by critically and creatively focusing on specific time periods or themes
• Analyse the key genres of prose, poetry and drama
• Explore the relationship between historical developments and genres of creative literature, including detective fiction and postcolonial literatures
• Engage critically with literary texts from a variety of historical periods, cultures, and genres, from the early modern era to the present day
• Gain an understanding of human developments, ranging from the 17th century to the 20th century

You’ll learn from tutors who are widely published and actively researching new topics, providing fresh course content that is constantly evolving.

We regularly offer cultural studies seminars where visiting lecturers present and elaborate on their own literary or historical research.

Build upon your practical and theoretical experience of contemporary music production and apply a range of creative production approaches in industry-standard studio facilities. This course will help you to develop the skills and knowledge to take your production ambitions further, nurture your confidence to work within the music and media industries, and prepare you for further study.

As part of this course, you’ll:

• Learn from internationally-recognised researchers and experienced industry professionals
• Explore the technical and creative aspects of recording, arranging, mixing and producing
• Produce a wide range of commercial and non-commercial musical projects
• Critically analyse the productions of others in a variety of contexts
• Work with peers and collaborate with other artists and producers

Develop key marketing skills and learn to generate innovative solutions to complex challenges within an international setting.

As part of this course, you’ll:

• Gain a detailed insight of marketing in an international context and understand how to use your knowledge to help steer business success in a global economy
• Explore risk, nuances and complexities of operating in a global environment
• Examine the role that culture plays in decision making across a range of international settings
• Learn how to manage international brands and how to plan and implement effective PR campaigns in a global context
• Develop the tools and knowledge to make a valuable contribution to any organisation that operates in, or plans to develop, non-domestic markets
• Choose a topic with an international or global emphasis for your Postgraduate Marketing Research Project