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.

Learning Outcomes of UE

At the end of the course, students will be able to: (a) know the theories and debates on society-environment relationships in sociology, anthropology and philosophy; (b) apart from the technical aspects of transition issues, they will also be able to identify the power relations behind societal choices and the political means to face them; (c) they will be able to detect, in the political proposals linked to ecological issues, the ideological, theoretical and utopian aspects and the way in which they structure these political offers.




 

UE Content: description and pedagogical relevance

This course will allow students to: (a) know the ideological and theoretical foundations of current debates on ecological transition from a genealogical approach; (b) know and discuss the dominant approaches of current debates on ecological transition as well as their critiques; (c) know, locate and discuss new ecological social models from a theoretical, conceptual and practical point of view and consider alternative courses of action. The first part of the teaching will be given ex cathedra. The other two parts will consist of individual assignments and class presentations. The course will cover the following topics: technical illusions; quarrel within ecology; ecological awareness; approaches to transition; ecological transition; new socio-ecological models; the outlook from bottom up.

Prior Experience

Not applicable