Objectives of Programme's Learning Outcomes

• Understand the epistemological postures and the methodological tools human sciences related to issues of social transitions and innovations.
• Mobilise the relevant analytical approaches and the appropriate methodological tools to analyse, rigorously, thoroughly and comparatively, the problems of social transitions and innovations, including their interactions and their spatial and temporal evolutions.
• Develop an interdisciplinary and multiscale approach that integrates complementary disciplines, such as anthropology, sociology, political science, psychology and education, urban planning and architecture, geography, and history, in order to analyse transitions and put them into context.
• Intervene appropriately in concrete problems regarding transition, among other things, by developing answers and action plans from the creativity of local actors.
• Take a critical and ethical approach regarding the challenges of societal transitions of the 21st century and raise awareness among society and within politics.

Learning Outcomes of UE

-        Comprehending the main theoretical debates that cross the fields of precariousness and interculturality.

  -        Integrating the principal results of recent ethnographical researches in those fields.

  -        Developing relational and intercultural abilities with precarious publics and/or migrants  

Content of UE

Important precariousness: trajectories, survival and new identities, privacy and social lifestyles, psychological casualization, forms of reconstruction.  

Casualizations of “new migrants”: pre-migratory experiences, tests of survival, social paths,  “being a family” outside the law, supports and accompanying.  

Descendants of immigrants and immigrant families: support of cultural mixes in working-class and immigrant areas of town.

Prior Experience

Not applicable

Type of Assessment for UE in Q1

• Presentation and/or works
• Oral examination

Q1 UE Assessment Comments

Personal work on basis of interviews among people living in precariousness.

Type of Assessment for UE in Q3

• Presentation and/or works
• Oral examination

Q3 UE Assessment Comments

Personal work on basis of interviews among people living in precariousness.

Type of Resit Assessment for UE in Q1 (BAB1)

• Presentation and/or works
• Oral examination

Q1 UE Resit Assessment Comments (BAB1)

Personal work on basis of interviews among people living in precariousness.