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 social experiment processes.
• Analyse a situation by critically selecting the appropriate theoretical frameworks.
• 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.
• 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 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.
• Intervene appropriately in concrete problems regarding transition, among other things, by developing answers and action plans from the creativity of local actors.
• Apply acquired skills in professional contexts of social transitions and innovations.

Learning Outcomes of UE

The course will strengthen the analysing capacity of the students about contemporary great shifts, articulated to varying degrees in the globalization processes.

It will analyse the problems of exclusions and social inclusions and the connected community dynamics.

It will put in relation the factors of the exclusion, and its demonstrations on the social links (family, school, institutional, cultural), the relationship to the self and to the body.  

In parallel, it will explore the including dynamics and the alternative projects capable of developing the potentials of the places of life and the capabilities of populations.

UE Content: description and pedagogical relevance

This course will locate the analysis of the contemporary social transfers on various axes on which the recent monographs will be crossed:

- The combined effects of the work of world transformations and the social policies,
- The transformations of the academic worlds in connection with the social and ethnic polarizations of the urban spaces,
- The reorganizations of families and relation of genres (Diversifications of the familial structures, tensions/transformation of genre and families).

On these three axes, the course will explore the "arts to make" and the innovative projects in social context: the work of invention, of professionalism transformation, of innovation which has to take place at the heart of social transformations to produce inclusion: reliable links, habitable territories, inclusion capability and courses aiming for active participation of the targeted population.

Prior Experience

Not applicable