Leisure and Social Pedagogy

Animação Sócio-Educativa – ASE

(Leisure and Social Pedagogy)

The ASE course aims to provide a solid grounding in the area of recreation, directed towards intervention at an individual, group or community level, and the development of skills and capabilities.

· Goals:

This porgrammes aims to educate recreation specialists that are fully integrated and effectively involved with local development and community intervention. Graduates shall acquire skills for: developing sociocultural intervention projects; promoting educational work for the appropriate enjoyment of leisure time; implementing training programmes in the adult population, within the scope of non-formal education and lifelong learning; promoting social inclusion with regard to the diversity of specific population groups.

· Careers and Professional Opportunities:

Senior local development and community intervention specialist;
Senior recreation and sociocultural management specialist;
Leisure supervisor
Education and leisure project manager (with children and adults);
Adult educator, trainer and mediator;
Senior social inclusion specialist.

See below the study plan. FGT is a set of unit courses common to all ESEC degrees, aiming to promote transversal competencies basic to any profession. To see the unit courses click HERE. Not all Optional Unit Courses are available. International Office provides the unit courses available in the begining of each academic year.

CURRICULUM
Year	Semester	Code	Disciplina	Unit Course / Subject	ECTS	Contact Hours	Hours p/ week
1	S1	110002	Antropologia Social e Cultural	Social and Cultural Antropology	3	30	2
1	S1	100001	Fundamentos da Animação	Fundamentals of Social Pedagogy	6	60	4
1	S1	100003	Atelier de Análise Social da Educação	Workshop: Social Analysis of Education	3	60	4
1	S1	110001	História Regional e Local	Regional and Local History	6	60	4
1	S1	100002	Psicologia Social	Social Psychology	6	60	4
1	S1		FGT	Optional Transversal Course
1	S2	100006	Técnicas de Animação de Grupos	Group Dynamics Techiques	3	30	2
1	S2	100004	Educação e Intervenção Comunitária	Education and Community Intervention	6	60	4
1	S2	110004	Atelier de Animação Cultural do Património	Workshop: Patrimony and Leisure Cultural Activities	3	60	4
1	S2	100005	Psicologia da Aprendizagem	Psychology of Learning	6	60	4
1	S2	110003	Técnicas de Animação Comunitária	Techniques of Community Practice	6	60	4
1	S2		FGT	Optional Transversal Course
2	S1	110005	Sociologia do Desenvolvimento e da Mudança Social	Sociology of Social Development and Change	3	30	2
2	S1	990004	Atelier de Expressões	Workshop: Expression through Art	3	60	4
2	S1	100007	Concepção de Projectos e Intervenção Comunitária	Community-based Intervention Projects	6	60	4
2	S1	100008	Metodologia de Investigação - Acção	Methodology of Research - Action	6	60	4
2	S1		FGT	Optional Transversal Course
2	S1		Atelier de Expressões^*	Workshop: Expressions^*	3	60	4
2	S1		Opção Vocacional:A -Educação, Lazer e Animação de Tempos Livres OuB - Educação ao Longo da Vida +Exclusão e Inserção Social	Optional Vocational Course:A – Education, and LeisureOrB- Life Long Learning + Exclusion and social inclusion	6	60	4
2	S2	100011	Gestão de Equipamentos Recursos e Infraestruturas Locais	Facility Management	6	60	--
2	S2	100014	Atelier de Projectos de Intervenção	Workshop: Intervention Projects	6	60	2
2	S2	100013	Políticas Educativas e de Desenvolvimento Local e Regional	Educational Policies and Local Development	3	30	2
2	S2	100012	Análise de Necessidades e Potencialidades Educativas	Education Needs Analysis	6	60	4
2	S2		Opção Vocacional:Literacia +Actividades Lúdicas e Desportivas +Necessidades Educativas Especiais OuModelos e Práticas de Educação de Adultos +Desenvolvimento Local e Animação Comunitária	Vocational option:A – Literacy + Leisure and sports + Special NeedsOrB – Adult Education + Local Development	6	60	4
3	S1	100020	Seminário	Seminar	3	30	2
3	S1	100019	Educação Intercultural	Intercultural Education	6	60	4
3	S1	100018	Psicologia Ecológica e do Desenvolvimento Humano	Ecological and Developmental Psychology	6	60	4
3	S1		Disciplina de Opção ^**	Optional Unit Course ^**
3	S1		Opção Vocacional:Formação de Formadores/Animadores +Literatura Infantil e JuvenilOuFormação de Formadores +Museologia e Património Cultural	Vocational option:A – Trainers Traning + Child LiteratureOrB – Trainers Traning + Museology and Cultural Patrimony	6	60	4
3	S2	100040	Estágio	Internship	6	490	--

^*Workshop Expressions – 1st semester, 3 ECTS, 60 contact hours – choices include the following unit courses: Expressão Plástica (visual art), Expressão Dramática (Drama), Expressão Musical (Music), Expressão Corporal (Body expression), Expressão Literária (Creative writting), Dança (Dance), Teatro de Intervenção (Social Dramatization), Expressão Através da Multimédia (Multimedia)

^**Optional Unit Courses (3rd year, 1st Semester, 3 ECTS, 30 contact hours) – optional courses distributed through the following topics:Unidades de Desenvolvimento Cultural e Patrimonial / Culture and PatrimonyUnidades com Suporte Matemático /MathsAteliers de Apoio à Compreensão da Europa e da Lusofonia / Europe and LusophoniaUnidades de Aprofundamento no Campo da Educação / EducationOrganização e Animação de Centros de Actividades Educativas / Social Pedagogy