BA HONOURS DEGREE IN CHILDREN & FAMILY WORK AND PRACTICAL THEOLOGY

The course will enable you to view core topics such as Family, Community, Mission, and Values through the lens of the child, interweaving the golden threads of creativity, play, development and spirituality.  Specialist modules will develop your knowledge and skills to work with children and families, including the Common Core of Skills and Knowledge for the Children’s Workforce that complements the Every Child Matters Agenda.

The qualification provides a foundation as a practitioner and manager in this rapidly developing area of practice. Graduates of this course would be expected to be employed by churches, Christian charities or voluntary sector organisations working with children and families or within partnerships between churches and the statutory sector.

The course will be offered at the CYM Regional Delivery Centres in Bristol, Cambridge, the Midlands and Oxford. Accreditation with an appropriate body is being pursued.
 

Structure of the course:

YEAR ONE

• Professional Practice (Basic)
• Biblical Studies
• Group Work and Teams
• Human Development
• Children in context ~ Family
• Spirituality & Pastoral Care
• Approaches to Pedagogy

YEAR TWO

• Professional Practice (Intermediate)
• Children in Context ~ Culture & Communities
• Practical Theology
• Management
• Children in Context ~ Mission and Church
• Working with diversity
• Ethics and Values

YEAR THREE

• Dissertation or Professional Practice Evaluation
• Leadership and Ministry
• Research Methods
• Social Policy & Professional Practice
• Faith and Justice

Plus two optional modules drawn from the following list

• Interpretation and Exegesis
• Counselling Skills
• Training Skills
• Peace & Reconciliation
• Ministry and Rites of Passage
• Art, Identity and Theology
• Worship & Spirituality
• Supporting Parents
• Working with Extended Schools
• Cross-Cultural Mission
• Non-Managerial Supervision
• Schools Chaplaincy
• Play & Creativity
• Religious Education
• Baptist History & Principles
• Events Management in Youth Work