Component
Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences
Location(s)
Orleans
Presentation
This course is particularly aimed at students with a passion for environmental protection policies, who are keen to understand the relationship between nature and society, and who wish to put their knowledge and skills to work in the field of regional planning and sustainable development. Geography is at the heart of contemporary issues in local development, urban planning, risk prevention and more.
At the crossroads of the social sciences and the environmental sciences, the Bachelor's degree in Geography and Environmental Planning provides students with the necessary scientific foundations and training in essential analysis methods: cartography, spatial analysis, qualitative and quantitative data processing, conducting and exploiting surveys and interviews, territorial diagnosis... This course introduces students to Geomatics _informatics applied to the geographical sciences. Skills in cartography, administration and the processing of geographic information are now required to work in the fields of planning and the environment. This bachelor's degree prepares students for entry to the specialized professional training courses at Professional Degree and Master's level, which provide training for these territorial professions.
Skills
Disciplinary skills
- Describe and analyze the ways in which societies in the major geocultural areas occupy their territories, in order to understand a geographical issue.
- Identify the major environmental issues at spatial, social, economic and cultural levels.
- Characterize the organization, functioning and interaction of the environment and societies at different scales.
- Implement elements of design, planning and programming related to a development project.
- Mobilize theoretical and methodological models specific to the discipline, mobilizing statistical, bibliographic and cartographic knowledge. Mobilize theoretical and methodological models specific to the discipline, as well as statistical, bibliographic and cartographic knowledge.
- Mobilize theoretical and methodological models specific to the discipline (statistical, bibliographic and cartographic), as well as tools for analyzing spatially-referenced information (GIS geographic information systems).
- Be comfortable with the notion of scale.
- Carry out reasoned field data collection using survey tools (drawing up and analyzing in-depth interview schedules and questionnaires).
Pre-professional skills
- Situate one's role and mission within an organization in order to adapt and take initiatives.
- Identify the process of producing, disseminating and valorizing knowledge.
- Respect the principles of ethics, deontology and environmental responsibility.
- Work as part of a team as much as independently and responsibly in the service of a project.
- Identify and situate the professional fields potentially related to the skills acquired in this field, as well as the possible pathways to access them.
- Characterize and develop one's identity, skills and professional project in relation to a given context.
- Step back from a situation, evaluate oneself and question oneself in order to learn.
Cross-disciplinary and linguistic skills
- Use reference digital tools and IT security rules to acquire, process, produce and distribute information, and to collaborate internally and externally.
- Identify and select various specialized resources to document a subject.
- Analyze and synthesize data with a view to exploiting it.
- Develop arguments with a critical mind.
- Use the different registers of written and oral expression of the French language with ease.
- Use written and oral comprehension and expression in at least one modern foreign language with ease.
Useful contacts
INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
02 38 49 47 73
international.llsh[at]univ-orleans.fr
https://www.univ-orleans.fr/fr/lettres/international/presentation
ORIENTATION AND
PROFESSIONAL INTEGRATION
DOIP
Tel: 02 38 41 71 72
E-mail : doip[at]univ-orleans.fr
Organization
Special features
The UFR Lettres Langues et Sciences Humaines encourages mobility for all its students. There are several possibilities: study at a foreign university through the ERASMUS program or non-European exchanges, do an internship in a company abroad, or work as a language assistant with the CIEP (Centre International d'Etudes Pédagogiques).
Students can benefit from various types of grants to finance their mobility.
Program
The "Géographie et Aménagement" general bachelor's degree is organized over 3 years (6 semesters-180 European credits). The introduction of portals in the 1st year enables students to progressively specialize and offer a wide choice of orientations.
As they progress through the cycle, students can choose their pathway towards a professional training diploma at Master's level (Bac + 5) or Professional Degree (BAC +3).
In the 1st semester, the portal allows students to choose a combination of 2 teaching disciplines leading to 2 different bachelor's degrees.
At the Université d'Orléans, the Geography and Planning major is combined with the History major in a common portal.
In the second semester, you choose one major and one minor between the two, and your final choice of degree will be made when you register for your 2nd year.
The diploma is based on the progressive acquisition of teaching units (UE), leading to the acquisition of ECTS credits and the gradual validation of the 6 semesters of training.
- Semester 1 - Common core Geography - History
Approaches to modern history (48h)
Introduction to human geography (20h)
Climate, oceans, climate change (20h)
Cultural geography (20h)
Introduction to ancient history (20h)
Notions and methods of history (30h)
Methods of geography (30h)
Modern foreign language (German, English or Spanish) (18h)
Writing workshops (15h)
- Semester 2
Approches de l'histoire contemporaine (48h)
La France régionale (45h)
Approches de l'histoire médiévale (48h)
Fondamentaux de l'Histoire des religions (24h)
Atelier d'histoire ancienne (30h)
Introduction aux Sciences Humaines et Sociales (24h)
Modern foreign language (German, English or Spanish) (18h)
- Semester 3
Urban geography (30h)
Biogeography (30h)
North America and the challenges of sustainable development (30h)
World agriculture and food (30h)
Statistical and graphic data processing (24h)
Modern foreign language (German, English, Spanish) (18h)
Environmental Planning
Forms and processes of erosion (30h)
Planning and environmental professions (20h)
Teaching and training courses
Ancient history: institutional and socio-cultural foundations (24h)
Knowledge of educational institutions (20h)
- Semester 4
Rural geography (30h)
Continental hydrology (30h)
Africa and Latin America facing the challenges of sustainable development (30h)
Europe: the stakes of territorial development (30h)
Cartography and GIS (24h)
Modern foreign language (German, English, Spanish) (18h)
Planning - Environment
Regional and urban planning (30h)
Local development and solidarity (24h)
Teaching and training course
Medieval history: socio-cultural foundations of the medieval West (24h)
Internship (12h)
- Semester 5
Transport systems and networks (30h)
Geography of risks (30h)
The Russian world and the challenges of sustainable development (30h)
Issues, conflicts and the protection of nature (24h)
Field methods (24h)
Field school No Presential - package organization - supervision - evaluation 24 HeqTD (24h)
Modern foreign language (German, English, Spanish) (18h)
Environmental planning course
Territorial development tools (30h)
Geographic information systems (24h)
Teaching and training course
Social and cultural history of modern Europe (24h)
Psychology and sociology for teaching (22h)
- Semester 6
Human environmental geography (30h)
Water territories (30h)
The Chinese world and the challenges of sustainable development (30h)
History, epistemology and didactics of geography (36h)
Tourism development (30h)
Foreign languages: German, English, Spanish (18h)
Environmental Planning
Spatial hydrology (30h)
Observation period in a professional environment (2 weeks) (6h)
Teaching and training course
Powers and Societies in the Western World in Contemporary Times (24h)
Teaching History-Geography (1st and 2nd grades) (20h)
Admission
Admission requirements
This Bachelor's degree is accessible via the Geography and History portals for students with a French Baccalaureate entering the 1st year of the Bachelor's program for the first time.
"training expectations
Applicants for the Geography and Planning degree are expected to :
- Mobilize written and oral expression skills to support a line of reasoning
This specialization requires a keen ability to understand texts of all kinds, as well as solid expressive skills, both written and oral, so as to be able to analyze, argue, construct a line of reasoning, synthesize, produce, edit and process diversified content.
- Good command of at least one foreign language (level B)
This specialization must include modern languages. Mastery of at least one language at baccalaureate level is therefore essential.
- An interest in the scientific process
This specialization requires the ability to understand and produce logical, reasoned arguments based on data and concepts from different disciplines.
- Demonstrate intellectual curiosity, particularly in the human sciences
The aim of the Geography and Planning degree is to study and understand human phenomena in all their richness, spatiality, temporality, diversity and complexity.
- An interest in documentary research
Training requires the combined analysis of numerous sources of a very diverse nature, which need to be understood and put into perspective.
- Be able to work independently and organize your work
This expectation underlines the importance of the candidate's ability to work independently in a Geography and Urban Planning course. Like many university courses, this program places considerable emphasis on organization and personal work.
- An interest in social and environmental issues, land use and planning
An interest in geography is of course essential, but the transdisciplinary nature of the Licence Géographie et Aménagement also requires a curiosity for the environment, regional planning and social links, which call on concepts from law, life and earth sciences, sociology and the digital world.
How to register
Licence application procedures for (future) baccalaureate holders with a French baccalaureate obtained in France and applying for the 1st time: https: //www.parcoursup.fr
Enrolment in JULY, as soon as the results of the baccalauréat are known, in accordance with the procedures communicated at the time of pre-registration.
Tuition fees
For students:
https://www.univ-orleans.fr/fr/univ/formation/droits-dinscriptions
For adults returning to school; consult SEFCO.
And then
Further studies
3rd year :
- Professional Degree Cartography-topography Geographic information systems (GIS)
- Professional Degree Town and country planning Rural development specialization
At the end of a 3-year Bachelor's degree, students can continue their studies at the University of Orléans in one of the following Master's programs:
- Master "Géographie, Aménagement, Environnement, Développement"
"Géomatique, Limnologie, Environnement, Territoires" (Geomatics, Limnology, Environment, Territories)
"Développement Durable, Local etSolidaire" (Sustainable, Local and Mutually-Supportive Development)
The "Aménagement et Environnement" (Planning and Environment) pathway (2nd and 3rd years of the bachelor's degree) prepares students for further study in this or any other professional or research Master's degree in Geography or Planning.
- Master "MEEF 1er degré" prepares students for the teaching profession. "The "MEEF 2nd degré" History and Geography course.
This preparation for the teaching profession in Lycées and Collèges is specifically aimed at holders of a History or Geography and Planning bachelor's degree.
In the bachelor's degree, the shared History & Geography "Métiers de l'Enseignement et de la Formation" course (2nd and 3rd years) prepares students for further study in this Master's program.
Professional integration
Target professions:
Project manager, Development officer, Cartographer, Geomatician, GIS engineer, School teacher, High school teacher, Teacher-researcher.
The geography and planning professions fall into three areas:
- Territorial development professions.
These include: local civil servants (local authorities, public establishments for inter-communal cooperation -EPCI); territorial coordinators (territorial development agents, project managers in companies, NGOs, public establishments such as PNR or National Parks); specialists in territorial planning and development (planners, urban planners, environmental experts, tourism development experts, etc.);
- careers in cartography and geomatics with local authorities (public and semi-public), private companies (e.g. network operators, VEOLIA, GDF-SUEZ, ENEDIS, SNCF-Infra, Orange, etc.) and design offices. These professions are being developed and recruited after a degree from Professional Degree or a professional Master's degree.
- careers in teaching and research, following a Master's degree in MEEF for future teachers of Schools, Colleges and High Schools, or a Master's degree in Geography followed by a Doctorate for future teacher-researchers and researchers.