Course List

This course will introduce students to the principles and methods in conflict resolution and mediation in order to enable them to support an agenda for peace in the Caribbean region. Students will engage in a study of the significance of peace to national and regional development. They will be trained as advocates for peace and as mediators, with skills in training youth as peer mediators. Practical application of mediation skills will be required through a mock training of a small group of youth in mediation and conflict resolution.

Competencies:

YDWCYP0564: Apply advanced advocacy skills

YDWCYP0674: Promote a culture of occupational health and safety in youth development work

YDWCYP0684: Develop and implement protocols and procedures to safeguard the welfare of young people in youth development work

YDWCYP0714: Manage the promotion of healthy lifestyles among youth

YDWCYP0724: Manage implementation of youth peace building agenda

YDWCYP0343: Promote equality of opportunity, participation and responsibility

YDWCYP0493: Work as an effective and reflective practitioner

This course will assist students in building the requisite skills in strategic planning and programme management in the youth development sector. Students will be introduced to the stages of the planning, programme and project cycles and will learn how to conduct activities in each. Special attention will be paid to research and project identification, programme formulation and design, implementation using results-based management (RBM) and monitoring and evaluation. Students will be required to write specialised project documents which demonstrate their understanding of tools for effective project and programme management. They will also conduct an evaluation of a youth-serving project or programme, as a group exercise.

Competencies:

YDWCYP0594: Coordinate and assess delivery of services to youth with special needs

YDWCYP0614: Design, develop and support the implementation of  community youth development programmes

YDWCYP0624: Optimise resource mobilisation opportunities to support youth development work

YDWCYP0634: Manage research projects

YDWCYP0644: Develop a strategic plan

YDWCYP0654: Plan, coordinate and review service delivery in youth development work

YDWCYP0664: Coordinate the implementation of youth development work projects

YDWCYP0684: Develop and implement protocols and procedures to safeguard the welfare of young people in youth development work

YDWCYP0744: Design, develop and support the implementation of programmes to enable young people to address their circumstances

YDWCYP0754: Coordinate the implementation of youth development programmes

YDWCYP0764: Design, develop and support the implementation of new opportunities for the development of young people

YDWCYP0493: Work as an effective and reflective practitioner

This course will raise students’ consciousness of youth in various life, work, and developmental contexts. Students will be introduced to the theory and practice of community development, with particular reference to the work of critical consciousness, appreciative inquiry and positive youth development theorists. They will examine how other people have worked in communities, and their theories about their work. There will also be an examination of institutions, community settings as well as settings in which ethnic, racial and religious minorities exist.

This course requires practical application of research skills learned at Level I of study. It is a study of Working with Youth Community and Organizational Settings. Learners will be required to implement a short project with young people to address a primary concern raised in a context or setting of their choice. Learners will use participatory methods to do research and identify concerns and problems in the chosen setting; develop an action plan; implement and evaluate their actions and interventions and report on the outcomes of the intervention and reflect on their role in the process. Learners who are employed in the youth sector may pursue a project related to their professional role, provided both the academic and work supervisors grant permission. However, students are not obligated to undertake their project within their existing organization or work place.

This course covers the concepts, principles, objectives and practical applications of sustainability and sustainable development from an environmental, social, economic, corporate and political perspective.  It seeks throughout to identify and analyse relationships between environmental sustainability and socio-economic factors, most centrally, the relationship between resource consumption (individual and collective) and sustainable livelihoods.

In this course students will learn to appreciate the value of qualitative research as it offers contextual meaning of social phenomena. Students will become familiar with the nature, assumptions and logic of qualitative research. They will understand the available techniques for designing a qualitative research study while identifying and constructing theory.

In this course students will learn to appreciate the value of qualitative research as it offers contextual meaning of social phenomena. Students will become familiar with the nature, assumptions and logic of qualitative research. They will understand the available techniques for designing a qualitative research study while identifying and constructing theory.

This course is premised on the rationale that ethics can be learned. Ethical literacy is a critical priority in a world where some of the greatest challenges graduates will face will not be matters of fact but rather matters of value and judgement. Knowledge of the ethical rules associated with the Behavioural Sciences will equip students with the necessary tools to engage the moral self with professional rules of ethics. Included in the concept of a psychologically literate citizen, for instance, is an expectation that undergraduates will learn to behave ethically and humanely at work and in other everyday contexts. The same holds true for other Behavioural Science areas. Learners will therefore be given the opportunity to relate practical solutions to ethical dilemmas. Students will be able to distinguish ethics from ethical literacy, apply ethical skills to current situations and issues, Use ethical actions to resolve conflict.