Objectives of Programme's Learning Outcomes

• Understand, thoroughly and critically, the basic theoretical frameworks on social transitions and innovations.
• Analyse social, political and economic change.
• Analyse a situation by critically selecting the appropriate theoretical frameworks.
• Understand the epistemological postures and the methodological tools human sciences related to issues of social transitions and innovations.
• Understand the epistemological frameworks in human and social sciences in order to change thought patterns.
• Conduct research/projects in the context of social transitions and innovations by selecting appropriate epistemological approaches and methodologies.
• 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.
• Appropriately apply analytical approaches and methodological tools in contexts of social transitions and innovations.
• Understand the changes specific to transitions and social innovations.
• 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.
• In an interdisciplinary framework, analyse social transitions by applying acquired knowledge of human sciences and put them into context.
• Articulate reflection, research and action in order to design and carry out an innovative research project.
• Understand the different steps and methods necessary to conduct scientific research on issues regarding social transitions and innovations.
• Construct a frame of reference and formulate an innovative issue based on the analysis of scientific literature and observations in the field.
• Collect data, analyse it qualitatively and quantitatively, and interpret the results adequately, taking into account the field in which the research has been developed.

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.