Objectives of Programme's Learning Outcomes

• Understand the fundamentals (theories and tools) in human and social sciences
• Identify and explain the basic theoretical trends in various fields of human sciences (law, economics, management, history, psychology, etc.) and their applications.
• Understand the social environment and the way it works, as well as the role played by different social, economic and political agents
• Analyse historical and contemporary phenomena of societies.
• Sociology and Anthropology option : Understand the fundamentals in the field of sociology and anthropology
• Have a critical view of theories, concepts and methods specific to sociology and anthropology.
• Describe and analyse contemporary, minority or distant human societies; decipher speeches and social and cultural representations.
• Avoid the pitfalls of ethnocentrism, sociocentrism and chronocentrisme.

Learning Outcomes of UE

At the end of the course students will be able to: (a) understand the relationships and tensions between Western modernity and colonial reality, (b) know the critical theories that arise from these tensions, (c) know and discuss the relationship between these theories and social anthropology.

UE Content: description and pedagogical relevance

This course will allow students to know, understand and criticize: (a) the history of the global south (the case of Africa) underlying decolonial criticism (b) the Afro-critical tradition and its genealogy (evolution of a social and critical theory developed by African researchers and inspired by the experience of the plantation, the colony and the ghetto), (c) the dialogue between the Afro-critical tradition and social anthropology.

Prior Experience

Not applicable