EDUCATIONAL SCIENCES

The degree course in Educational Sciences is a three-year first cycle degree course allowing students to achieve the necessary expertise for future professions in the field of educational services and formative institutions, both for public and private bodies. The subjects of the course are divided into the pedagogical and the human sciences areas of study.
The pedagogical area provides a solid basic culture in educational sciences, developing didactic-pedagogical, relational-communicative and organizational competences, which are useful for further studies and for projecting, realizing and evaluating educational services and formative institutions.
The pedagogical subjects are enriched by human sciences competences, especially useful for graduates entering the productive system when having to deal with complex educational contexts. The human sciences area allows students to know and understand the processes leading to the creation of the different investigating areas, the essential elements characterizing the theoretical-conceptual frameworks of the subjects, the various methodological options and the diverse development perspectives in the main research programmes. Such essential background is fundamental for both interpreting the educational phaenomena under a multi-, inter- and trans-disciplinary approach and, above all, for better understanding the nature of such phaenomena.
Students have the possibility to choose among a series of elective subjects related to these two areas, in order to personalise their studying career according to their different interests and attitudes. The course also gives the opportunity to acquire basic linguistic competences and computer skills. Through laboratories and internships, students can develop their technical abilities and their capacity of autonomously dealing with the educational processes, but they can also measure themselves with team-working activities and understand how to learn from experience.