Working with Children and Young People (Top-Up)

The focus of the course is on recruiting more people to the children's workforce, developing skills for partnership working and developing and enhancing leadership, management and supervision skills within the children and young person's workforce.

You will undertake five modules including a dissertation and will be able to specialise in a particular area through option modules.

Course Modules

All students take a total of 120 credits per level.

Level 6 Modules (there are 3 mandatory modules and 1 optional modules out of a choice of 4 as indicated by *) include:

Dissertation
Management and Organisations
Professional Development
International Perspectives in Work with Children and Young People*
Contemporary Psychotherapies*
Contemporary Issues in Working with Children and Young People*

Optional Modules

If we have insufficient numbers of students interested in an optional module, this may not be offered. If an optional module will not be run, we will advise you as soon as possible and help you choose an alternative module.

During the course you'll be assessed through a variety of methods. These include:
Essays
Seminars
Examinations
Portfolios
Dissertations
Reports
Group presentations
Projects and mini-dissertations
In class tests
Peer assessment
Group assessment

This formal assessment will count towards your module mark and feedback is usually given within 3 weeks following the submission of your formal submission of work.

Additionally, some lecturers will provide informal feedback, for example, following an examination they may choose to work through the exam paper in a tutorial. It should be noted that feedback is part of the ongoing learning cycle which is not limited to written feedback. Other forms of feedback include one-to-one meetings with a personal tutor, dissertation and project supervision meetings, a lecturer responding to learner questions or responses during topic or situation discussions.

Feedback is intended to help you learn and you are encouraged to discuss it with your module tutor.