Bachelor's degree in Social Education

Introduction

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

• Documents required for enrolment
• Procedure to formalize enrolment
• After enrolment
• Grants and financial aid
  

 

 

Welcome

Support and guidance

Pre-enrolment information and events

• Welcome portal
• Student Support Service (SAE)
• Open days
• Informative sessions

 

Course curriculum

Subjects and course plans

Distribution of credits

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

• Course plans 2021 - 2022
• Course plans 2020 - 2021
• Course plans 2019 - 2020

Teaching staff

List of spring and autum teaching staff at teaching on a current course

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

• Regulations on external placements
• FeinaUB

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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