Bachelor of Youth Work and Youth Studies

Youth workers provide support, advocacy and contribute to creating environments in which young people thrive, feel confident, connected and safe.

This course equips graduates to work ethically and in youth-centred ways with all young people including those experiencing trauma, exclusion, and disadvantage. Students are encouraged to consider youth work as also being about advocacy for social change and justice. The course explores young people’s lives in all their rich diversity, engaging in critical debate and investigation of young people’s experiences of policies, space, culture, peers, family, and the law.

In two supervised work integrated learning placements, with opportunities in many and varied settings in the youth sector, students can put theory into practice, build skills and develop networks. Interdisciplinary breadth and context studies provide the opportunity for specialisation in areas such as justice, Indigenous and community services.