Entry requirements

The L3 (3rd year) in Adapted Physical Activities is aimed at students who have completed the first two years of the STAPS Licence. It is also open to candidates with a 2-year higher education qualification in sport for all, health and sport or geronto-geriatrics.

Benefits of the program

The L3 in Adapted Physical Activities is a professional training programme with:

- Specialisation in the effects of ageing and chronic illnesses

- Teaching that combines biological knowledge with social and managerial knowledge

- A focus on motor, mental and social disabilities

- Close contact with the teaching team, which includes professionals from the health sector, through the various support mechanisms

- A work placement with a specialised or associative organisation

- Shared UPEC/UGE resources

Acquired skills

The Adapted Physical Activities Licence enables students to acquire a range of skills such as:

- Participating in project creation, where the action is located within a global project: policy and institutional, Prevention, Rehabilitation or Integration through physical activity.

- Creating and organising action programmes

- Running and assessing action programmes

- Participating in project management

Capacities

45

Course venue

Other course venue

UPEC (Créteil)

Your future career

Students with a STAPS Licence in Adapted Physical Activities either go on to study for a Master's degree or look for a job. After completing this degree, students may consider a career as:

- Coordinator of integration programmes through Adapted Physical Activities, Prevention and Health Education, Rehabilitation and Re-education

- Adapted Physical Activities teacher in a specialised environment

- Trainer in Adapted Physical Activities

- Specialist in prevention through physical activity

For more information, see the component's website: staps.univ-gustave-eiffel.fr

Professional integration

The professional's mission is to participate in creating, managing and assessing Rehabilitation and Integration through Adapted Physical Activity programmes for groups of people belonging to the following categories: functional and metabolic disorders, aging-related disorders, chronic or life-threatening illnesses, etc. The professional's mission is to participate in creating, managing and assessing Prevention, Monitoring and Health Education through Adapted Physical Activity programmes for the public in general.

Coordinator for Integration through Adapted Physical Activity programmes, Prevention and Health Education, Rehabilitation and Re-education.

Teacher of Adapted Physical Activities in a specialised environment

Trainer in Adapted Physical Activities

Specialist in prevention through Physical Activity

Executive trainer in Adapted Physical Activities, Physical Activity and health

Specialised educators in Adapted Physical Activities.

Study objectives

The Licence in Adapted Physical Activities provides students with the knowledge and skills required for creating, managing and assessing Prevention, Rehabilitation and/or Integration through Adapted Physical Activity programmes. Students will participate in creating projects by identifying the needs of the populations concerned by Prevention, Rehabilitation and/or Integration.

- Students will create and organise action programmes, will assess the abilities of those practising with appropriate methodologies, will plan the care management of individuals through sequences, sessions and situations, programme management and administration conditions, will ensure that the programmes comply with care safety and security conditions and with the health, physical and moral integrity of individuals and their interests.

- Students will manage and assess action programmes

- Students will manage sequences, sessions and situations which form the action arrangements

- Students will establish the assessment on the effects of the action, will report on their activity by making propositions for regulating care management

They will participate in project management, will present the programme they are in charge of in its context: to those practising, to institutions, to those in charge, to partners, families; they will communicate with the public or the family and the media with due regard for ethical standards and in the interest of those practising.

Major thematics of study

Physiology; neurophysiology; anatomy; knowledge about aging and chronic illnesses; nutrition; psychology; social sciences; theoretical approach to prevention: promoting health in the workplace; assessing and interpreting the characteristics of people with special needs; therapeutic education; care programmes for people with special needs; discovering intervention facilities and sites; law; project development; extensive range of adapted physical activities including muscle strengthening and improving aerobic exertion condition

Calendar

Courses from 04/09/23 to 15/03/24

Two-month work placement starting in March

Options

An option is proposed in “study and research in the Adapted Physical Activities sector” between research and social sciences and research in life sciences. Another option is proposed to understand the specificities of those with disabilities so as to be able to tailor actions and to identify priority objectives. Students can choose to focus on mental, physical or social disabilities.