Youth Arts and Sports Education (MSocSc)
12 monthsProgramme duration
16,400 EURTuition Fee/year
SepStarting Month
Programme overview
Main Subject
Education and Training
Degree
Other
Study Level
Masters
Study Mode
On Campus
The Masters in Youth Arts and Sports Education is designed for creative, active, and enthusiastic people who enjoy working with young people. The course shapes innovative practitioners to engage in transformative work with young people, facilitating them to flourish, to be healthy, happy, and empowered, and to contribute to positive change in society. We welcome people with various interests, including artistic, musical, dramatic, or sports. Whatever their skill level, we want applicants who are fun-loving, open-minded, and experimental, who love learning, embrace challenge, and seek adventure. Our ethos builds on core principles of youth work practice, which are concerned with enhancing young people’s wellbeing through one-to-one and group activities. Students on the course will learn how:
- to devise, deliver, and evaluate arts- and sports-based opportunities for young people that are fun, engaging, and meaningful
- to promote values of environmental sustainability through youth-centred educational activities
- to contribute to social justice and global citizenship through youth-focused professional practice
- to collaborate with young people and with like-minded practitioners to articulate and achieve common goals
- to support young people’s digital wellbeing and digital creativity
- to contribute to research and policy-making relevant to young people’s well-being.
Programme overview
Main Subject
Education and Training
Degree
Other
Study Level
Masters
Study Mode
On Campus
The Masters in Youth Arts and Sports Education is designed for creative, active, and enthusiastic people who enjoy working with young people. The course shapes innovative practitioners to engage in transformative work with young people, facilitating them to flourish, to be healthy, happy, and empowered, and to contribute to positive change in society. We welcome people with various interests, including artistic, musical, dramatic, or sports. Whatever their skill level, we want applicants who are fun-loving, open-minded, and experimental, who love learning, embrace challenge, and seek adventure. Our ethos builds on core principles of youth work practice, which are concerned with enhancing young people’s wellbeing through one-to-one and group activities. Students on the course will learn how:
- to devise, deliver, and evaluate arts- and sports-based opportunities for young people that are fun, engaging, and meaningful
- to promote values of environmental sustainability through youth-centred educational activities
- to contribute to social justice and global citizenship through youth-focused professional practice
- to collaborate with young people and with like-minded practitioners to articulate and achieve common goals
- to support young people’s digital wellbeing and digital creativity
- to contribute to research and policy-making relevant to young people’s well-being.
Admission Requirements
Candidates should normally hold an honours primary degree with Second Class Honours Grade 2 (or equivalent) in any discipline.
Candidates with an honours primary degree lower than a Second Class Honours Grade 2 (or equivalent) or without a primary degree (NQF Level 8 award) are eligible to apply if they hold significant senior professional responsibility/experience in a related field. Such applicants may be invited for interview (which may be online or by phone) to satisfy the selection committee of their suitability for the programme under Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL). Admission of such applicants will be subject to the approval of the College of Arts, Celtic Studies and Social Sciences.
All applicants will be asked to evidence their commitment to working with young people and to document any experience and training relevant to the programme as part of the written application process.
Strong references and personal statements are an important part of the application, as is relevant work experience.
- Candidates are required to submit references or letter(s) of recommendation for acceptance
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