Community Development, BA (Hons)

About Community Development, BA (Hons) - at University of Glasgow

This work-based degree programme is for people with substantial, current practice working in the community in either a paid or unpaid capacity. It leads to the Professional Qualification endorsed by the Standards Council for CLD in Scotland.

What will I study?

Formal teaching takes place a day and a half per week between October and May in the first two years and a day a week between October and May in the third year. In the third year you will also be expected to undertake a work placement out with your normal workplace.

In the first year you will study:

• Transformational practice


• Community development and social action


• Local and global contexts


• Social theories I


• Practice methodologies.

In the second year you will study:

• Lifelong learning and social change


• Empowerment strategies and practice models


• Popular education practice


• Organisation, planning and evaluation


• Social theories II


• Critical practice.

In the third year you will study:

• Social theories III


• Research methods


• Research project


• Practice placement. This final placement may be an opportunity to experience work overseas or within a different environment.

How will I learn?

Teaching is delivered through a combination of lectures, work in groups and popular education methods. As this is a work-based learning programme, in addition to formal learning you will draw from your own practice in the community.

Entry requirements for this course

Contact University of Glasgow to find course entry requirements.

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