BSc Community Development
About this course
BSc (Hons) in Social Work, focusing on community development practice across Ireland and the UK. Core topics include Critical & Analytical Thinking and Global & Comparative Perspective. The course is endorsed by professional bodies in both jurisdictions and includes assessed practice placements with community organisations. In the final year, students complete an independent practice project within a community or youth work setting.
Modules
- Understanding Community Development: History, Context and Philosophy
- Community and informal education
- Applied Socio-Political Perspectives
- Assessed Practice 1: Developing Reflective Practice
- Transitioning Justice in Post Conflict Societies through a Global Lens
- Power; Inequality and anti-oppressive practice
- Assessed Practice 2 (Ex-Agency)
- The Northern Ireland Context - Transforming Communities
- Community Education: Just Practice
- Managing Community Projects
- Study Of Applied Practice (SOAP)
- Ex-Agency Placement
- Assessed Practice 3: In-Situ Placement