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YSED300 Social Action 10 cp
Prerequisites YSED100 History of Young People and YSED101 Principles and Practice of Youth Work
Teaching Organisation A variety of formats will be used throughout the course of the unit including workshops and seminars, one-to-one supervision sessions, group work and experiential learning techniques. Duration: 3 hours per week.
This unit will examine theories of social organisation and strategies of social change. It provides an historical overview of social movements and campaigns which have impacted on young people and the development of youth services. The unit will provide an insight into the democratic processes and structure of our political system. The focus will be on developing competencies in assessing and responding to the needs of young people, further developing advocacy skills, facilitating community participation in social change, and the strategic development, coordination and delivery of relevant social service responses.
YSED301 Youth Policy 10 cp
Prerequisites YSED100 History of Young People and YSED101 Principles and Practice of Youth Work and one youth studies unit at 200 level
Teaching Organisation 3 hours per week for 12 weeks or equivalent of library literature searches and lectures, workshops and seminars.
This unit will help students to develop a critical and practical appreciation of how policy is made, gaining basic analytic, research and policy development skills and a capacity to intervene in policy debates and processes impinging on young people. The unit will also assist students to develop the skills to engage young people in policy processes which are of significance to them, which should include the ability to help young people understand some of the key policy institutions and policy frameworks which impact on their lives.
YSED302 Practicum 3: Interface with Youth 10 cp
Prerequisites YSED202 Practicum 2: Evaluation Skills
Teaching Organisation A variety of formats will be used throughout the course of the placement including workshops, seminars, incursions and excursions conducted in the 36 hours of classes during semester. Students are also required to undertake 50 days of placement experience (approx 380hrs) in a supervised, field-based youth work organisation.
This unit will provide students with an opportunity to transfer knowledge and skills developed in the university to the agency context. Students will be expected to work with the youth work agency to identify a project of value to the agency and with beneficial learning and skill development opportunities for the student. Students will be challenged to consider their own values and beliefs through purposeful, reasoned and goal directed critical thinking, and in consultation with field educators apply adult learning principles and experiential learning techniques to develop self-directed learning and autonomous work practices.
Individualised field education plans will be negotiated between the student, agency and university. Students will revisit their career plan and consider exit options into their chosen field of work. Students will continue developing their resources in preparation for entrance into the field.
YSED600 Principles of Effective Youth Work 10 cp
Prerequisites Nil
Teaching Organisation Students will participate in the equivalent of 24 hours class contact in a semester. This will be organised by drawing upon a range of face-to-face and flexible-delivery approaches including, for example, lectures, seminars, tutorials, workshops, workbooks, email and teleconferencing.
This unit introduces students to the variety of fields, organisations and principles of youth work, teaching and more broadly human services. Particular attention is given to the practical considerations of making positive change. It, also sets out to establish the possible rationales for interventions into young peoples lives, to examine the legitimations typically deployed and the validity of any/or all of those rationales. This unit involves a mapping exercise in which students establish a framework for identifying different types of practice when working with young people, the sites in which such work takes place and some of the main contemporary issues facing workers. It will develop a framework that assists students to begin to develop principles for effective practice. The relationship between the capacity to critically reflect on practice issues, to develop sustainable and effective forms of practice and relate both capacities to ethically responsible practice is central to this unit.
YSED601 Critical Issues, Young People and Schooling 10 cp
Prerequisites Nil
Teaching Organisation Students will participate in the equivalent of 24 hours class contact in a semester. This will be organised by drawing upon a range of face-to-face and flexible-delivery approaches including, for example, lectures, seminars, tutorials, workshops, workbooks, email and teleconferencing.
This unit explores the ways academic disciplines such as psychology, sociology, education, legal/law studies, welfare and health/medicine have researched and come to conceptualise young people. In this unit consideration is given to the ways that research and theoretical knowledge produce and shape various styles of practice and programs that target young people, their families and communities. Consideration is given to the various ways welfare work, youth work, classroom teaching, nursing, counselling services and police work structure relations between workers and young people. The idea of the ‘school as a community’ and the implications of this approach for working with young people is also examined.
YSED602 Discourses of “Risk”: Reframing Young People 10 cp
Prerequisites Nil
Teaching Organisation Students will participate in the equivalent of 24 hours class contact in a semester. This will be organised by drawing upon a range of face-to-face and flexible-delivery approaches including, for example, lectures, seminars, tutorials, workshops, workbooks, email and teleconferencing.
In this unit consideration is given to young people in two ways: what do we know about the experience of young people and how have youth as vulnerable and as a threat been represented. particular attention is given to the constitution of the categories of ‘adolescence’, ‘delinquent’, ‘maladjusted youth’, ‘deviant youth’, ‘youth at risk’, drawing on the work of people such as Burt, Homel, Catalono, Dryfoos, Rutter as well as critics like Kelly and Rose. Insights will also be provided regarding actual risks associated with being young in various contexts, and how those risks are experienced and portrayed within those context environments. This unit will include material on young people at risks of abuse, neglect, substance abuse, homelessness, as well as young people who present as risks to others in terms of various ‘anti-social’ activities such as violence and criminality.
YSED603 Field Practicum – Interface with Youth Agency 10 cp
Prerequisites Nil
Teaching Organisation Successful completion of 10 days (7 hours per day) or 70 hours in a youth agency undertaking a negotiated learning experience.
The practicum aims to provide students with the opportunity to apply knowledge and skills derived from components of the curriculum in an agency context. Students will be challenged to develop new knowledge and to demonstrate their ability to understand a youth agency setting and to consider their own values and beliefs through purposeful, reasoned and goal directed critical thinking. In consultation with field educators apply adult learning principles and experiential learning techniques to develop self directed learning. Individual field education plans will be negotiated between the student, agency and the University.
YSED604 Youth Cultures 10 cp
Prerequisites Nil
Teaching Organisation Students will participate in the equivalent of 24 hours class contact in a semester. This will be organised by drawing upon a range of face-to-face and flexible-delivery approaches including, for example, lectures, seminars, tutorials, workshops, workbooks, email and teleconferencing.
This unit offers sociological and anthropological insights into youth cultures. The unit explores historical and the lived experiences of collective youth action. It considers both legitimate youth cultures (e.g., scouts, schools) and those with a deviant status. Questions are asked about the distinctive features of each. The role of the media and professionals are evaluated in respect to various state and institutional responses to collective youth action. Similarly the role of the economy, and particularly the fashion and music industries, is analysed in respect to young people’s collective identities and action.
YSED605 Gender and Sex in School 10 cp
Prerequisites Nil
Teaching Organisation Students will participate in the equivalent of 24 hours class contact in a semester. This will be organised by drawing upon a range of face-to-face and flexible-delivery approaches including, for example, lectures, seminars, tutorials, workshops, workbooks, email and teleconferencing.
This unit is designed to introduce students to sociological understandings of the development of young people’s sexuality and evaluates how the construction of gender impacts on young people in the education system. The subject involves the examination of the development of young people’s sexual selves and therange of messages they receive about their bodies and about sex. The unit also examines the gendered nature of the education experience. It sets out to explore the discourses surrounding masculinity and femininity. Current debates about boys in education will be included as well as the ongoing issues of girls’ educational outcomes.
YSED606 Young People and Social Policy 10 cp
Prerequisites Nil
Teaching Organisation Students will participate in the equivalent of 24 hours class contact in a semester. This will be organised by drawing upon a range of face-to-face and flexible-delivery approaches including, for example, lectures, seminars, tutorials, workshops, workbooks, email and teleconferencing.
The purpose of the unit is to critically examine current social issues affecting young people within frameworks of social and political theories. The unit provides a framework with which to show how these approaches translate into policies and will help students to develop a critical and practical appreciation of how policy is made. It includes material that explores current social issues within a social policy framework. It introduces different approaches to interpreting policy issues and examines policy making through government and non-government spheres. It examines particular youth social policies that allows for an analysis of the values, assumptions
and roles and rights of young people embedded.
YSED607 Justice and Young People 10 cp
Prerequisites Nil
Teaching Organisation Students will participate in the equivalent of 24 hours class contact in a semester. This will be organised by drawing upon a range of face-to-face and flexible-delivery approaches including, for example, lectures, seminars, tutorials, workshops, workbooks, email and teleconferencing.
The purpose of this unit is to introduce students to the youth justice system. Theories of juvenile delinquency have existed for more than 50 years and the separate justice system for young people originated in the late 1890s in the
YSED608 Learning that Works: Diversifying the Curriculum for Successful Outcomes 10 cp
Prerequisites Nil
Teaching Organisation Students will participate in the equivalent of 24 hours class contact in a semester. This will be organised by drawing upon a range of face-to-face and flexible-delivery approaches including, for example, lectures, seminars, tutorials, workshops, workbooks, email and teleconferencing.
The purpose of the unit is to develop an understanding of the processes of educational change, including current conceptualisations of learning as a life-long process, and studies the implications of these for the provision of authentic learning environments that encourage the adoption of a self-directed approach to learning. From a social-psychological perspective, this unit studies the significant influences that impact the learning process including motivational, contextual, and personal factors. Further, study in the unit focuses on the holistic nature of the learning process and explores the value of cross-curriculum perspectives, field-based learning, community networks, and team building for the production of positive and creative learning outcomes.
YSED609 Special Topics in Youth Studies 10 cp
Prerequisites Nil
Teaching Organisation Students will participate in the equivalent of 24 hours class contact in a semester. This will be organised by drawing upon a range of face-to-face and flexible-delivery approaches including, for example, lectures, seminars, tutorials, workshops, workbooks, email and teleconferencing.
The purpose of the unit is to allow students to explore a particular area of youth studies which, whilst fully corresponding to the aims of the Master of Youth Studies course, falls outside the specific prescriptions of any of the other designated units. The occasion for offering this unit may be the availability to the University of visiting academics and/or special facilities. The unit may also be invoked in the case of students wishing to deepen their understanding of a topic that they may not otherwise have an opportunity to investigate. Whether or not the unit will be offered in a particular semester is at the discretion of the Course Management Committee.
