Community Education (CLD Standards Council approved qualifying route)

Overview

Throughout the MSc Community Education (CLD Standards Council approved qualifying route)  course from University of Dundee  you will identify, reflect on, develop and appraise critical community-based practice, while integrating your learning and practice with theoretical studies and investigative techniques.

Your commitment to community education values, ethical codes of practice, and ongoing professional development will be enhanced. You will also be encouraged to engage in processes of active learning, involving cyclical processes of action and reflection with participants.

You will contribute to the ongoing construction of theory and practice by engaging in investigations and development projects.

The course is suitable for returning students who already have a PG Diploma in CE/CLD, and want to complete the Masters qualification.

This course is also ideal for distance learners as classroom teaching is hosted on campus and in the virtual environment.

Teaching

This course can take two to three years to complete, depending on your own circumstances, and it will build on your initial training and professionalism which has developed throughout your work experience.

Some modules are taught entirely online, while some combine both online learning and workshops on campus. The course is available online anywhere you have access to the internet.

We offer you individual support through:

• online tutorials and workshops
• study guides
• telephone tutorials
• face-to-face tutorials
• emails
• written feedback
• an allocated Adviser of Studies

The course offers a professional qualification for those seeking practitioner and managerial posts in:

• local authority services and projects
• third sector organisations
• community learning and development services
• culture and leisure services
• community health
• youth work
• housing
• community development
• adult literacies and numeracies
• family learning
• community and adult learning
• local economic regeneration
• social enterprise development
• further & higher education