Objectives of Programme's Learning Outcomes

• Understand, thoroughly and critically, the basic theoretical frameworks on social transitions and innovations.
• Understand and appropriately apply highly specialised knowledge of human and social sciences.
• Analyse social, political and economic change.
• Analyse social experiment processes.
• 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.
• Understand the methodological frameworks in human and social sciences in order to change practices.
• 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.
• 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 social sciences and put them into context.
• In an interdisciplinary framework, analyse social transitions by applying acquired knowledge of human sciences and put them into context.

Learning Outcomes of UE

In the frame of this UE, students are firstly put into acknowledging that environmental changes actually exist and constitute a major contemporaneous stake. Secondly,  students are  put into understanding the role human sciences are apt playing with reference to that issue as well as capturing how they proceed in order to witness (and advocate, if necessary) such phenomenon and diagnose their consequences on Non Western people wellbeing. 

Content of UE

Review of the way Social Sciences have been tackling the issue of nature in general and of its transformation over time, in particular. Relying upon case studies, analysis of ecological transformations observed in various continents, in various environments (forests, deserts) and contexts (urban/rural/industrial, natural reserves) concerning i) indigenous discourses and representations; ii) responses and strategies implemented as a way to remedy such changes.

Prior Experience

Not applicable

Type of Assessment for UE in Q1

• Oral examination

Q1 UE Assessment Comments

None

Type of Assessment for UE in Q3

• Oral examination

Q3 UE Assessment Comments

None

Type of Resit Assessment for UE in Q1 (BAB1)

• N/A

Q1 UE Resit Assessment Comments (BAB1)

Not applicable