Bachelor universitaire de technologie (BUT) Carrières sociales – Parcours Animation sociale et socioculturelle at Université de Tours

Three-year BUT (licence level) that trains professional community and cultural workers (animateurs) for socio-cultural, social and medico-social and cultural settings, continuing the former DUT Carrières sociales (created in 1968). Tours offers only the Animation sociale et socioculturelle (ASSC) pathway.

Faculty: Institut Universitaire de Technologie de Tours (IUT Tours)  |  Duration: 3 years  |  Study mode: full-time; taught in French  |  Location: Tours, Centre-Val de Loire, France

What you will study

Teaching in sociology, psychology, economics, law, management, political science, photography, letters, documentation, physical education, geography, education sciences and history, exclusively in tutorial groups, around five competences (publics, institutions, public participation, animation techniques, valorising the profession), with many tutored projects and 26 weeks of placements over three years.

Career pathways

Community-work roles in leisure centres, holiday camps, social centres, youth and culture centres, boarding facilities, care settings for dependent older people and people with disabilities, hospitals, prisons and cultural mediation; further study towards social-work schools, the MEEF Master, sociology, education sciences or psychology.

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