Course Title: Principles and Practice of Youth in Development Work
Part A: Course Overview
Program: C5001
Course Title: Principles and Practice of Youth in Development Work
Portfolio: DSC
Nominal Hours: 70.0
Regardless of the mode of delivery, represent a guide to the relative teaching time and student effort required to successfully achieve a particular competency/module. This may include not only scheduled classes or workplace visits but also the amount of effort required to undertake, evaluate and complete all assessment requirements, including any non-classroom activities.Course Code |
Campus |
Career |
School |
Learning Mode |
Teaching Period(s) |
HWSS5099 |
Bundoora Campus |
TAFE |
365T Global Studies, Soc Sci & Plng |
Distance / Correspondence |
Term1 2012 |
Course Contact: Jennifer Brooker
Course Contact Phone: +61 3 9925 4115
Course Contact Email: jeninfer.brooker@rmit.edu.au
Course Description
This module is designed to introduce the student to a range of different approaches to work with young people. It will provide a clear understanding of several of the key practices in youth work, thus helping the student to develop their insight and skills by drawing on a rich frame of reference.
Pre-requisite Courses and Assumed Knowledge and Capabilities
Working with young people
Learning Outcomes
In this unit the student will study the topics of
1. Youth development work: history and traditions
2. Youth development work: models and approaches
3. Youth work practise
4. Face-to-face skills
5. Social change or social control?
6. Professional conduct
Overview of Assessment
Project/essay
Learning Journal