Community and Youth Work Studies (BA) - Sunderland

The bachelor in Community and Youth Work Studies (BA) will prepare you for a successful career in working with young people and in communities across a variety of settings, with a particular focus on personal and social development.

This bachelor in Community and Youth Work Studies (BA), which received 100% Overall Satisfaction in the National Student Survey 2022, offers you the opportunity to develop your ability to work with communities and young people (both theoretically and via extensive practice) and study the knowledge, skills and values of youth and community work in order to graduate with a professional JNC qualification in Youth Work alongside your degree.

Just like the practice of community and youth work, this bachelor in Community and Youth Work Studies (BA) has been designed in a creative way and offers much more than lectures and writing essays, by going beyond the theoretical. You will learn how to understand the problems faced by young people and communities and how to change situations and realities.

The curriculum focuses on achieving social justice and celebrating the assets that are abundant in communities and societies, particularly within those communities that have been disadvantaged. The bachelor in Community and Youth Work Studies (BA) covers everything from transformational informal education to organizational management.