MAC
Contact / Information
Registrar's Office – Faculty of Education
Tel: +33 (0)4 67 61 82 83
fde-scolarite@umontpellier.fr
Course manager
Registration
Montpellier Faculty of Education
Training location
Montpellier
Training origins
Education and Training Sciences specialization
The Master's degree in Education and Training Sciences is aimed at people interested in educational issues in the broadest sense of the term (school education, informal education, adult training, etc.). Within the specialization, each pathway targets a more restricted audience, in line with the professional and scientific goals of each. The four tracks - EIFALLE, MAC, ReSoDDE-ESEC and TransForM - are organized around a common core in M1, as each, in one or more specific fields, trains trainers, training engineers, facilitators or mediators. The common core is organized around training engineering, project management, interculturality and research methodology. In M2, each course focuses on its own specificities.
Research support
The Education and Training Sciences specialization is supported by LIRDEF, the Interdisciplinary Research Laboratory in Didactics, Education and Training.
Course description
This Master's program trains artistic and cultural mediators, specializing in childhood, adolescence and young adulthood, with a dual background in education and culture.
They will be able to design and implement innovative teaching and learning initiatives and projects in partnership with public or private cultural institutions, associations or local authorities, and to conduct training courses.
This two-year course is designed for students who choose to work in the fields of education, animation and mediation.
General objectives
The pedagogical program is designed to alternate periods of teaching, projects, workshops, independent work and professional contacts.
The teaching team is multi-disciplinary and multi-category. It is made up of teacher-researchers, trainers and external contributors from the professional world (art centers, theaters, local authorities, museums, etc.).
The Master's program is firmly rooted in partnerships with local artistic and cultural structures and institutions, both public and private.
Although this is a professional course, it also offers the possibility of pursuing doctoral studies for research in the field of mediation.
The course content is taught through an active pedagogical approach designed to develop students' creativity and autonomy. Tutored projects in partnership and workshops enable students to learn how to implement projects as part of their future career.
The aim is to develop specific mediation skills, encourage interdisciplinary dialogue and build cross-disciplinary and linguistic skills in a collaborative environment. Acquiring knowledge of artistic and cultural education in schools, extracurricular activities and extracurricular structures enables us to understand the needs of children, teenagers and young adults.
The design of mediation projects is based on knowledge of artistic and cultural mediation: developments, transformations, current events and issues. Multi-disciplinary teaching enables the articulation of artistic and cultural proposals (painting, photography, poetry, theater, dance, etc.) with educational issues.
The course also includes theoretical insights into current issues in the arts, culture and sciences as they relate to education and mediation.
Building on their knowledge of national and international artistic and cultural policies, students develop their professional skills in mediation, designing and communicating artistic and cultural projects in partnership with an institution.
English applied to the profession and a mediation workshop in English prepare students for the international dimension of the profession.
The course is closely linked to the LIRDEF's Education, Politics and Society axis. Research is carried out throughout the master's program.
Organization
The course will take place exclusively at the Montpellier Faculty of Education.
In the first year of the Master's program, a third of the student's hours are shared with other courses. In the second year, all hours are specific to the MAC course.
Audience
Students with a bachelor's degree in education or an education-related discipline (psychology, sociology, philosophy, etc.) or an artistic discipline (visual arts, performing arts, etc.), or mediation or cultural professionals.
Open to initial training.
Licence level
Access by VAE or VAP is possible, depending on the specific elements of each course.
For further information, please contact the course leader.
| Semester 1 | ECTS | Total student hours | |
| EU 101 | Development of training projects | 6 | 36 |
| EU 102 | Introduction to research | 4 | 30 |
| UE 10M1 | Introduction to research workshop | 2 | 10 |
| EU 104 | LV2 English | 2 | 15 |
| EU 105 | Artistic and cultural education at school | 4 | 30 |
| EU 106 | Artistic and cultural mediation: approaches and diversity | 6 | 33 |
| EU 107 | Professional dimensions of the mediation professions: workshops & representations | 6 | 34 |
| ECUE 107.1 | Mediation & digital | ||
| ECUE 107.2 | Practical workshop | ||
| Total semester 1 | 30 | 188 | |
| Semester 2 | |||
| EU 201 | Pedagogical engineering and training activities | 6 | 36 |
| EU 202 | Research methodology | 3 | 15 |
| UE 20FI | Intercultural training | 4 | 20 |
| EU 203 | Memory project workshop | 3 | 15 |
| EU 204 | Artistic and cultural education in extracurricular structures | 4 | 36 |
| EU 205 | Artistic and cultural mediation: challenges and transformations | 4 | 33 |
| EU 206 | Professional dimensions of the mediation profession: workshops & systems | 6 | 54 |
| ECUE 206.1 | Communication & digital | ||
| ECUE 206.2 | Practical workshop | ||
| ECUE 206.3 | Mediation workshop in a foreign language (English) | ||
| Total semester 2 | 30 | 209 | |
| Total Master 1 | 397 |
| Semester 3 | ECTS | Total student hours | |
| EU 301 | Arts, culture, science: specific issues | 4 | 26 |
| EU 302 | Project design: methodological dimensions and complexity | 6 | 30 |
| UE 303 | The professional dimension of the job of cultural mediator for young audiences | 4 | 30 |
| ECUE 303.1 | Graphic communication | ||
| ECUE 303.2 | Practice workshops | ||
| UE 304 | Tutored project in partnership with the professional world: design | 4 | 30 |
| UE 305 | Memory workshop | 10 | 24 |
| UE 306 | English reinforcement | 2 | 15 |
| Optional EU | Internship abroad | 2 | 8 |
| Total semester 3 | 30 | 155 | |
| Semester 4 | |||
| EU 401 | Arts, culture, science: intersecting issues | 4 | 26 |
| EU 402 | Project design: local, national and international cultural analyses and policies | 6 | 30 |
| EU 403 | The professional dimension of the public outreach professions | 4 | 30 |
| ECUE 403.1 | Digital innovation | ||
| ECUE 403.2 | Practical workshop | ||
| UE 404 | Tutored project in partnership with the business world: implementation | 6 | 30 |
| UE 405 | Thesis: seminar and defense | 10 | 15 |
| ECUE 4051 | Research seminar | ||
| ECUE 4052 | Thesis defense | ||
| Total semester 4 | 30 | 131 | |
| Total Master 2 | 294 |
All applications will be examined by a commission. Answers will be communicated to all applicants from Monday June 2, 2025. As with Parcoursup, you can either be admitted, put on the waiting list or rejected. If you are admitted, you will have a period of time in which to accept or reject the admission offer. If you are definitively accepted, all other offers that may be made to you are cancelled. Full information on this subject is available on the Mon Master portal.
Candidates on the waiting list will be called as and when they drop out.
No ranking on the waiting list will be communicated to interested parties.
All responses will be sent to candidates via the Mon Master platform.
You will be notified directly of the procedure for your final registration as soon as you have accepted an offer of admission to the master's program.
Applications (also known as pre-registration) will be open from Tuesday February 25 to Monday March 24, 2025, for all our Masters programs.
Enrolment in these four Master's courses is only possible in the M1 year; to find out about prerequisites and conditions of access, please consult the corresponding section on the Faculty of Education website.
The process is identical for each of the four Master's courses in "Education and Training Sciences". As with other courses offered by the Faculty of Education, enrolment is a two-stage process: first, you must submit an application via the Mon Master portal; a link to this application is already available on our website, under the "Enrolment" heading.
To support your application, you'll need to submit a cover letter detailing your background and career plans, as well as a CV, via the Mon Master portal.
