The bachelor's degree in Social Education aims to train professionals for socio-educational action who are able to contribute to the development of social cohesion and participation through education, and are able to undertake their functions in an intercultural and diverse context, taking into account fundamental rights, equal opportunities, and democratic values and the values of the culture of peace.
The degree programme provides students with knowledge of the reality on the ground, in the closest context (Catalonia and Spain) using the instruments that will enable students to work professionally in other contexts, promoting student mobility over the course of the degree programme.
Skills acquired
The skills acquired will allow the following tasks:
- Prevention of situations of social risk, exclusion and maladjustment.
- Vocational training and professional insertion of groups in situations of social exclusion.
- Promotion of individuals, groups and communities to improve their quality of life.
- Promotion of education in free-time.
Social educators will be able to work, as direct-assistance professionals or as part of a multidisciplinary team, in three major areas of action:
- The social services (primary-care social services; prison services; juvenile, infants, adolescence and family justice; people with disabilities; elderly people; drug addictions; mental health and so on).
- Sociocultural animation and leisure-time education (areas of youth, culture and leisure of several authorities, leisure-time services and programmes, community-development programmes and services and promoting citizen participation, services aimed at sociocultural promotion etc.)
- Ongoing education (transition-to-active-life programmes and occupational vocational training centres, refugee reception and training programmes, ethnic minorities and foreigners, participation in social and cultural community-promotion and revitalisation programmes etc.)
University master’s degrees
The UdG offers an extensive master’s-degree programme. Master's degree courses offer advanced, specialised or multidisciplinary training, aimed at providing students with an academic or professional specialism or an introduction to research. These are official courses that enable students to move on to study for a doctoral degree.
Doctorate degree programmes
The doctoral studies are aimed at providing students with advanced training in research techniques and include the preparation and presentation of a doctoral thesis, consisting of original research work. To join a doctoral programme you need to have a minimum of between 60 and 120 ECTS credits at official university master's degree level or equivalent.
Postgraduate courses and specialisation
The University of Girona Foundation: Innovation and Training is the centre that plays host to and organises ongoing educational activities to meet the needs ongoing higher-level education. If offers own masters, postgraduate courses, specialization courses and other postgraduate activities covering all areas of knowledge.
Through the following links you can access the calendars and timetables that correspond to this bachelor's degree.
The academic calendar marks the beginning and end of classes, non-teaching days, holidays, exam periods, and so on. The administrative calendar marks the periods to make the different formalities administrative.
External placements, that is, internships in socio-educational area centres, are one of the key elements in social-educator training at the University of Girona. We call these placements "practicum": Practicum 1 is carried out in the third year, and Practicum 2 in the fourth. Next you will find a summary of the basic characteristics of each work placement.
The bachelor's thesis (TFG) is a project where the student applies, integrates and develops the expertise, capacities, competencies and skills required in the Bachelor's Degree in Social Education.
The objective of the bachelor's thesis is to produce a piece of individual written work on a specific issue related to social education and the working areas of the educator. The work has to show that the student has analysed documentation about the subject of the work, has reflected on it and is able to formulate a specific proposal.
Projects can be carried out based on one of the following proposals, whose feasibility will depend on the subject chosen. These can be:
- Research with a methodology that includes collecting, analysing and interpreting data.
- Designing an intervention proposal or a project.
- Preparing educational material.
- Preparing a needs diagnosis or analysis of a group or community, to be used as basis for a project.
- Designing tools for recording information or documents.
- A proposal for improving a project or service.
- Any other proposal agreed to with the project's tutor.
The bachelor's thesis is worked on during the second semester and supervised by a teacher who monitors it through group tutorials or seminars with students working on similar subjects. The work will be consolidated in an article and it will be publicly exhibited.
The Bachelor's Degree in Social Education promotes the option to study at other universities, both in Catalonia and Spain or other European countries. The UdG has signed bilateral agreements as part of the student mobility programmes. The SICUE programme gives you to places on the exchange programmes with the following universities: University of Malaga, University of Extremadura, University of the Basque Country, University of the Balearic Islands, Complutense University of Madrid, University of Santiago de Compostela, University of Lleida, Universitat Rovira i Virgili and Universitat de València.
Under the European Erasmus programme you can carry out part of your course at several universities and social-educator training centres in cities such as Eindhoven and Rotterdam (the Netherlands), Gant and Hasselt (Belgium), Marseille (France), Perpignan and Toulouse (France), Helsinki (Finland).
You will also have a possibility to do placements abroad in your 4th year course in centres and organisations in Latin American countries such as Mexico, Guatemala, Peru, Bolivia, Uruguay, Argentina, Nepal, Morocco.