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Diploma in Youth Development Work is a programme offered by the Open University of Sri Lanka (OUSL) in collaboration with the Commonwealth Youth Programme (CYP). This Diploma intends to empower young people to maximize their human potential and help in the transformation of youth as partners of development.
The key objective of the programme are:
to enable youth workers to gain professional credentials to practice this vocation nationally and internationally,
to equip practitioners with generic and core competencies, knowledge, values and skills needed for this field,
to enable youth workers to facilitate the national development process with enlightened youth policy development, implementation and evaluation.
Entry Requirements
(a) Three passes at the GCE Advanced Level in any stream OR
(b) Successful completion of the Foundation/Certificate in Social Sciences of the Department of Social Studies, OR
(c) Completion of any level 2 programme offered by the Open University of Sri Lanka OR
(d) An equivalent or higher qualification acceptable to the Senate of the Open University of Sri Lanka which includes occupational experience relevant to the field of youth work.
Medium: Sinhala, Tamil and English
Programme Structure
First Year
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Course Code
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Course Title
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| SSD 1201 |
Commonwealth Values in Youth in Development Work |
| SSD 1202 |
Young People and Society |
| SSD 1203 |
Learning Process |
| SSD 1204 |
Principles and Practices of Youth in Development work |
| SSD 1105 |
Personality Development and Communication Skills |
| SSD 1106 |
Management Skills |
| SSD 1107 |
Working with People in their Communities |
| SSD 1108 |
Population and Family Life Education |
Second Year
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CourseCode
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Course Title
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| SSD 2201 |
Policy Planning and Implementation |
| SSD 2202 |
Project Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation |
| SSD 2203 |
Conflict Resolution: Strategies and Skills |
| SSD 2104 |
Sustainable Development and Environment |
| SSD 2105 |
Promoting Enterprise and Economic Development |
| SSD 2106 |
Gender and Development |
| SSD 2107 |
Youth and Health |
| SSU 2208 |
Project (6 000 words on a topic inspired by the modules) |
Duration: 2 years
Fee Structure
Registration fee Rs. 225.00
Tuition fee (1st year) Rs. 7272.00 (Rs. 404.00 per Credit)
(2nd year) Rs 7992.00 (Rs. 444.00 per Credit)
Facility Fee Rs. 900.00
Library fees Rs. 100.00
Sports fee Rs. 25.00
Students can pay their fees in two installments.
For further details contact:
The Coordinator,
Diploma in Youth Development,
Department of Social Studies,
The Open University of Sri Lanka,
Nawala,
Nugegoda
Tel : 0112881427, 0112881403, 0112881417
Emails :
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Web : www.ou.ac.lk
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