Child and Youth Care (Bachelor of Arts)
Curriculum Guideline
Applicants must meet the admission requirements listed below:
- General College Admission Requirements
- A current resume
- A Child and Youth Care Entrance Questionnaire
- Two reference letters (non-relatives) attesting to the applicant's suitability for the program
Following an offer of admission to the program:
- A Criminal Record Check (information will be provided by Enrolment Services)
Graduation Requirements:
- Successful completion of 120.00 credits
- A minimum of 45.00 upper-level (3000-level or higher) credits required
- A minimum program GPA of 2.00 is required
- A minimum of 40% (48.00 credits) of coursework must be completed at Douglas College
- A minimum of 50% of new Douglas College coursework to contribute to this credential
- Time limit to complete the program graduation requirements: 10 years. Any courses completed outside of that time limit will not be usable. Students may seek the permission of the Department/Program to complete a credential outside the approved time limits.
Course Requirements (see notes 1 and 2)
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Course Number |
Course Title |
Credits |
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Introduction to CYC Practice or Introduction to Indigenous Child and Youth Care Practice |
3.00 |
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CYCC 1110 or CYYC 1112 (see note 3) |
Introduction to Community or Working In Communities |
3.00 |
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Relationship Building with Children and Youth |
3.00 |
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Choose one from the following two options: |
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Change and Development: Lifespan |
3.00 |
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Lifespan Human Development |
3.00 |
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Choose one from the following three options: |
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Academic Writing |
3.00 |
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Workplace Writing for Applied Community Studies |
3.00 |
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Business Communication |
3.00 |
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Required Courses: |
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CYCC 2432 (see note 2 and 4) |
Indigenous Perspective and Experience |
3.00 |
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Continuum of Substance Use |
3.00 |
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Support Change in the Life-Space |
3.00 |
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Activity Programming with Children and Youth |
3.00 |
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Mental Health in Childhood and Adolescence |
3.00 |
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Working with Others in Groups |
3.00 |
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Change and Development Families: Working from a Family Perspective or Families:Working from an Indigenous Perspective |
3.00 |
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Diversity in CYC Practice |
3.00 |
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The Professional Community: Policies, Standards, Legislation and Children or Indigenous Children, Youth and Families: Transforming Legislation and Policies |
3.00 |
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Family Violence, Abuse and Recovery |
3.00 |
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Electives |
Any six 1000-4000-level elective credits from CFCS, CCSW, CSCT, DACS, ECED, AIST, INTR, SOWK, THRT, and YJWD |
6.00 |
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CYCC 1240 (see note 2) |
Practicum I |
4.50 |
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CYCC 2440 (see note 2) |
Practicum II |
4.50 |
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Professional Child and Youth Care: Theory and Practice |
3.00 |
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Research Methods in Child and Youth Care |
3.00 |
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Developmental Theory and CYC Practice with Children |
3.00 |
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Perspectives in International and Community Development |
3.00 |
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UT ENGL (see note 5) |
Any three University Transfer (UT) English credits |
3.00 |
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Critical Issues in Current CYC Practice |
3.00 |
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Data Analysis in Child and Youth Care |
3.00 |
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Developmental Theory and CYC Practice with Youth |
3.00 |
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Advanced Supervised Practicum I |
4.50 |
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Advanced Supervised Practicum II |
4.50 |
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Development of Attachment |
3.00 |
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Critical Issues in Mental Health and Substance Use for Child and Youth Care Practice |
3.00 |
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Advanced Skills with Individuals in Child and Youth Care |
3.00 |
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Advanced Leadership Skills with Groups in Child and Youth Care Organizations |
3.00 |
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Advanced Practice with Families in CYC |
3.00 |
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UT Electives (see note 6) |
Any 12.00 UT Arts credits |
12.00 |
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Total credits |
120.00 |
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Notes:
1. To complete the program efficiently, students should:
- Prioritize completing ENGL 1130, CMNS 1110, or CMNS 1115, in their first semester of study,
- Make note of courses that are not offered every term to adjust their plans accordingly,
- Take all pre-requisites prior to attempting to register for a given course,
- Understand which courses have additional minimum grade requirements in the prerequisites or graduation requirements, and
- As needed, retake courses to earn the grade required to meet pre-requisite and graduation requirements.
2. Graduates of the Douglas College Youth Justice Diploma program may receive the following course substitutions.
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Completed Youth Justice Diploma Credits |
Credits from Diploma that Can Be Used in CYCC Degree and Substituted Courses (in bold) |
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CFCS 2432 (3.00) |
CYCC 2432 (3.00) |
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YJWD 1240 (4.50) |
CYCC 1240 (4.50) |
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YJWD 2240 (4.50) |
CYCC 2440 (4.50) |
3. CYCC 1112, CYCC 1142, CYCC 2212, and CYCC 2232 are part of the Indigenous Pathway. The Indigenous Pathway is designed to be an introduction to post-secondary education. Students can take their time adjusting to college-level studying by taking four courses over the span of two semesters. These four classes can be used towards the CYC program (as described in the bullet points below) and other Applied Community Studies programs. This program welcomes all Indigenous and non-Indigenous students with priority spaces for Indigenous students.
- CYCC 1112 can be used instead of CYCC 1110.
- CYCC 1142 can be used instead of CYCC 1141.
- CYCC 2212 can be used instead of CYCC 2211.
- CYCC 2232 can be used instead of CYCC 2333.
4. Students who completed CYCC 1112, 1142, 2212, and 2332, as a part of the Indigenous Pathway (see note 3) are not required to take CYCC 2432. They must instead take any 3.00 credits of 1000-level or higher UT elective or 3.00 credits of 1000-level or higher CFCS, CCSW, CSCT, DACS, ECED, AIST, INTR, SOWK, THRT, or YJWD course in place of CYCC 2432.
5. UT English courses can include courses in English (ENGL), written Communications (CMNS), and Creative Writing (CRWR) that transfer to one of the BC research universities (SFU, UBCV, UBCO, UNBC, or UVIC) as English credit.
6. UT Arts - Arts courses must be in a subject area for which there is a Baccalaureate of Arts degree at one of the Research Universities. This can include most course subject areas offered by the Faculty of Languages, Literature, and Performing Arts and the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, as well as ECON and some MATH courses.
At the end of this program, successful students will be able to:
- Embody and enact a critical and ethical understanding of the Child and Youth Care identity and profession. This work takes place within a landscape of multidisciplinary human services guided by applicable legal and policy frameworks.
- Work within existing Child and Youth Care perspectives, models, and theories, while recognizing and honouring diverse worldviews and traditions, and advocating meaningful change to accepted approaches and systems.
- Locate, critique, use, produce, and present research relevant to Child and Youth Care practice through diverse styles of knowledge production, evaluation, and dissemination.
- Apply critical and contextual thinking in practice which is grounded in a critical understanding of marginalization, structural inequity, disability, colonialism, decolonization, intersectionality, power, and privilege.
- Engage in self-exploration of antiracist, anticolonial and anti-oppressive ways of knowing, being and doing as learners and as emerging practitioners and will continue their ongoing process of self-reflection, relational learning, and development.