Professional Practice: Child and Youth Studies  BSc (Hons)

Course Content

City University London plays a leading role in providing education, research and consultancy that crosses traditional disciplinary and professional boundaries. Through our Professional Practice programme you will enhance your knowledge and understanding of effective team and interprofessional working, you will be motivated in your own personal and professional development, and you will gain critical insight into the evidence-base surrounding your own area of professional practice.

The work-focused programme supports working practitioners by having a structured approach to study. The majority of study sessions are held on Wednesday, so you can plan your studies to fit in with your work and your life.

It involves much more than just classroom-based education: encompassing work-based projects, online learning and interprofessional participation to create a rich and dynamic experience that will develop your skills as a reflective and critical practitioner.

The team delivering the programme draws on expertise from departments across the University to ensure a vibrant and stimulating approach to learning. The programme has been designed to allow practitioners who already have a Diploma in Higher Education or Foundation Degree to develop their learning and in so doing qualify for a BSc degree.

We offer a number of routes through the Professional Practice programme, which will enable you to select specialist modules suitable for your area of professional practice. Students on all routes will benefit from interprofessional learning opportunities on the core modules. All course work and assignments on sharedlearning modules will be applied to your area of professional practice and be relevant for the route you are studying.

Course Structure

The programme consists of six modules plus a dissertation module.

Core modules

Integrated working
This work-focused module will enable you to explore the complexities of integrated working and in so doing, develop your understanding of the challenges and opportunities in using an integrated approach to service development and delivery. Personal and people development This work-focused module will enable you to develop your understanding of the factors that enable personal and professional development within the work place and to apply this to your own area of professional practice. 

Using research knowledge
This module will give you the tools to understand how research knowledge can be effectively used to inform professional practice. You will develop your understanding of the research process and enhance the critical skills required to evaluate, discuss, teach, disseminate and implement research findings.

Reflective and critical practice (Dissertation module)
This module will help you become a reflective and critical practitioner and an independent learner. You'll achieve this either by conducting a work-based project, the results of which will make a difference to both to you and your organisation, or through the completion of a portfolio of evidence that maps your learning achievements in a work-based situation and on which you critically reflect on your personal and professional development.

Work-based project
This module will provide an opportunity to undertake continuing professional development in the work environment. In conjunction with your employer and the University, you'll identify a project that will facilitate the development of specific skills in relation to an area of professional practice.

Route-specific modules
You will be directed by your personal tutor to help determine the most appropriate modules for your area of professional practice. Route-specific modules: Students will be able to choose, based on their own professional experience and role, from either existing Child and Adolescent Mental Health (CAMH) modules or the module on Management, Leadership and Change.

CAMH modules
Full details of the modules on offer are available on our website.

Management, leadership and change
This module will support you as you learn to develop and deliver appropriate services in the context of constant change. This will be achieved through the study of effective management, leadership and change models and strategies and their application to your own area of professional practice.