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.