Basic information

TypeBachelor's degrees
Faculty or schoolFaculty of Education
Branch of knowledge
  • Social Sciences
  • Arts and Humanities
Mode of delivery

face-to-face

Credits240
Number of places available

180

Length of course4 academic years
Language(s) of instructionCatalan 71.9%, Spanish 28.1%
Admission grade

8.990 (July 2022, start of process, via official entrance examinations/vocational training)

Approximate price per credit17,69 €
Compulsory placementsYes
CoordinatorMIQUEL GOMEZ SERRA
Course detailsIndicators

Objectives and competences

Objectives

Three basic objectives are central to the bachelor's degree in Social Education:

  1. Provide the scientific knowledge required to understand, interpret and analyse theoretical and practical principles of social education in various contexts and times.
  2. Teach the knowledge, abilities, attitudes and skills that are required to design, develop and assess socioeducational resources, programmes and projects, and offer a comprehensive view of educational practices throughout life and particular sensitivity to the processes of change and social participation.
  3. Train students to work in the field of social education, a profession in which educational contexts are created and mediation and training are undertaken. These are the areas in which a social educator works, which enable:
  • The subject of the education to be incorporated into a wide range of social networks, considered as the development of sociability and social movement.
  • Cultural and social promotion, considered as the opening up of new opportunities to acquire cultural assets that expand the perspectives of education, labour, leisure and social participation.

Competences

General competences
The general competences described in the report on the bachelor's degree in Social Education are focused on students developing a responsible, creative and enterprising attitude to learning, and taking into account teamwork, sustainability and ethical commitment.


Specific competences
The specific competences that students should develop in the bachelor's degree in Social Education are focused on key concepts such as knowledge of professional identity to analyse and interpret the processes of social, cultural and educational mediation, and thus discriminate between different responses of an educational nature. It is important to know the disciplinary and multidisciplinary theories and models in education, psychology and sociology that define the object of Social Education, in order to design, develop and monitor well-founded, transforming educational processes and promote social networks between people, groups and institutions.
 

Access and admission

Applicant profile and access requirements

Recommended applicant profile

If you wish to study Social Education you should have the following competences:

  • Communication, analytical and critical skills.
  • Teamwork skills.
  • Capacity to empathise and relate positively to others.
  • Ability to adapt to change, flexibility, entrepreneurship and creativity.

Access requirements and conditions

Admission for students with studies completed outside Spain.

Applicants holding higher educational qualifications from a university outside Spain should consult the page Admission with foreign qualifications to find out about specific admission requirements.
 

Pre-enrolment

Students that have studied abroad and who wish to study at the University of Barcelona may be admitted to EHEA bachelor's degree courses. Procedures for gaining admission will depend on the qualifications held by each applicant.

For further information about admission, consult the page Admission with foreign qualifications.
 

Enrolment

As a general rule, at the UB you will be required to enrol online via the Món UB portal. To find out the date and time you have been assigned, check the specific information for your course. Remember that you can lose your place if you do not enrol on the day you have been assigned.

Academic information

 

 

Welcome

Support and guidance

Pre-enrolment information and events

 

Course curriculum

Subjects and course plans

Distribution of credits

Type ECTS
Basic training 60
Compulsory 108
Optional 30
Compulsory placements 30
Compulsory final project 12
TOTAL 240

List of subjects

FIRST YEAR
Subject Language Type Credits
History of Social Education 1st semester Basic training 6
Identity and Professional Development 1st semester Compulsory 6
Social and Educational Policy 1st semester Basic training 6
Social Education: Issues and Challenges 1st semester Compulsory 6
Uses, Potential and Limits of Information and Communication Technology 1st semester Compulsory 6
Cultural Anthropology 2nd semester Basic training 6
Human Rights and Legal Frameworks in Social Education 1st semester
2nd semester
Basic training 6
Research and Evaluation in Socioeducation 2nd semester Basic training 6
Social Psychology and Industrial and Organizational Psychology 2nd semester Basic training 6
Sociology of Education 2nd semester Basic training 6
SECOND YEAR
Subject Language Type Credits
Community Development 1st semester Compulsory 6
Education Theory and Educational Institutions 1st semester Basic training 6
Established and Emerging Professional Areas 1st semester Compulsory 6
Principles of Teaching and Learning in Socioeducational Activity 1st semester Basic training 6
Social Exclusion, Conflict and Mediation 1st semester Compulsory 6
Adult Education 2nd semester Compulsory 6
Design and Innovation in Socioeducational Action 2nd semester Compulsory 6
Developmental Psychology 2nd semester Basic training 6
Sociocultural Promotion and Education in Leisure Time 2nd semester Compulsory 6
Socioeducational Action in Situations of Social Inclusion and Exclusion 2nd semester Compulsory 6
THIRD YEAR
Subject Language Type Credits
Institutional or Company Placement Annual Practices 24
Supervision of Institutional or Company Placement Annual Practices 6
Educational Relations Analysis 1st semester Compulsory 6
Ethics, Values and Social Education 1st semester Compulsory 6
Planning and Evaluation of Social and Educational Services 1st semester Compulsory 6
Social Pedagogy 1st semester Compulsory 6
FOURTH YEAR
Subject Language Type Credits
Final Project Annual Compulsory final project 12
Interpersonal and Social Communication in Professional Practice 1st semester Compulsory 6
Socioeducational Research 1st semester Compulsory 6
Socioeducational Service Management 1st semester Compulsory 6
Art and Culture in Social Education 2nd semester Compulsory 6
OPTIONAL YEAR
Subject Language Type Credits
Body and Theatre 1st semester
2nd semester
Optional 3
Conflict Resolution: Restorative Practices 2nd semester Optional 3
Disability and Mental Health 1st semester Optional 6
Education for Development and Cooperation 2nd semester Optional 6
Education, Learning and Health 1st semester Optional 3
Gender and Sexual Difference 1st semester Optional 6
Integration and Orientation in Society and Work 1st semester Optional 6
Interculturality and Immigration 1st semester
2nd semester
Optional 3
Music and Social Education 2nd semester Optional 3
Social Education in Europe 2nd semester Optional 3
Social Skills: Activities and Programs 2nd semester Optional 3
Society, Health and Drugs 2nd semester Optional 3
Socioeducational Action in Nursing Homes 1st semester
2nd semester
Optional 6
Socioeducational Action in Schools 2nd semester Optional 6
Socioeducational Action in the Social Services 2nd semester Optional 6
Socioeducational Action with Senior Citizens 2nd semester Optional 3
Socioeducational Care for the Family and Child 2nd semester Optional 6
Sport and Recreation 2nd semester Optional 6
Visual and Plastic Arts and Social Education 2nd semester Optional 3
Young People and Social Education 2nd semester Optional 3

Pathways and specializations

Social Education
Check the planning of the different pathways of the degree

Previous years

Placements

Placements are supervised by tutors and subject to assessment.They are therefore included in the academic record.  There is also an option to complete non-curricular placements of up to 500 hours, which can be extended to 900 hours. For both curricular and non-curricular placements, an educational cooperation agreement is signed between the UB and the company, institution or other organization at which the placement will be carried out.
 

Institutional information

Career opportunities

What can you work on ?

Social educators work in many different contexts and social and educational areas.

You could work on projects to promote a group or region (for example, a youth centre, a local development project or a sociocultural programme) or programmes for individual, family or group assistance that aim to foster the development of social skills and social movement (for example, programmes to prevent maltreatment, child protection centres or detention centres).

Although this is not an exhaustive list, the contexts and areas could include:

  1. Specific areas of intervention characteristic of the past development of the profession (sociocultural programmes, specialised social education, adult education and guidance, training and employment), and other emerging areas, such as artistic expression, urban space and mediation.
  2. Age groups: elderly people, adults, youths, adolescents and children.
  3. The existence of singular needs or social problems that increase the risk of exclusion or make it hard to develop sociability, social movement and social organisation of people and groups.
  4. The institutional context in which socioeducational actions are undertaken (social services, justice, official non-university education, culture, health, youth and free time, work, etc.).
  5. Socioeducational actions that could appear in the future that are determined by emerging social, technological, cultural or educational needs.
     

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