Undergraduate courses Educational sciences

Course details

Together with the departments of Psychology and Sociology, the Bachelor in Educational Sciences trains students in Human and Social Sciences. Within this context, the progressive specialization in the degree can be partly organised.

Year 1 offers two minor courses (each semester), divided in year 1 of Psychology and year 1 of Sociology, which allows reorientations towards these departments at the end of year 1. Reciprocally, the teaching units offered by our department are shared with the faculty of psychology, which allows for cross-reorientations.

Year 2 offers in-depth study in the theoretical and disciplinary fields addressed in year 1.

The organization of the curriculum thus meets the objectives of progressive specialization and the possibility of reorientation during the course of training.

1- Firstly, it articulates the pluridisciplinary year 1 focused on the introduction to disciplinary fields (in psychology and sociology), but also on an approach using extended objects: general pedagogy, childhood.

2 - Year 2 is them introduced as a consolidation year, focusing on the deepening of educational theories. This is where the diversity of the constituent disciplines of psychology, sociology and educational sciences appears in the titles: sociology of education, philosophy of education, theories of learning, theories of motivation, etc...

3- Finally, in year 3, the courses of the common core tend towards a specialization in the audiences addressed by professionals and their specific needs, while offering training to and through research in a transversal way. Above all, year 3 introduces two study paths for professional purposes, including a compulsory internship.

Path 1 : "Teaching and school professions" (teachers and educational advisers), with courses in pedagogy, didactics, training in activity analysis and analysis of professional situations, dealing with fundamental questions of these professions: ethics, contexts, collaborative and partnership practices, innovative practices. The INSPE (French national institute for education and tecahing) is a partner for interviening in the course of this study path.

Track 2 : "Social, medico-social and integration professions". The field of insertion has been added, because we found out, thanks to students' feedback, that the professions of insertion-qualification advisor, VAE advisor turn out to be the main outcomes of the degree. The courses aim at understanding the contexts of social intervention, the preparation of social work exams, as well as the training in the expertise and project approach.