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.
• 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.
• 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 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.
• 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.
• Intervene appropriately in concrete problems regarding transition, among other things, by developing answers and action plans from the creativity of local actors.
• Understand the tools of applied social sciences, and respond to social demands of actors concerned by issues of social transitions and innovations.
• Take a critical and ethical approach regarding the challenges of societal transitions of the 21st century and raise awareness among society and within politics.
• Refer to ethical principles by implementing innovative solutions for social and political actors.

Learning Outcomes of UE

At the end of the course, the students will be able to understand and analyse the processes of local and territorial development that can be and are implemented on micro territories. They will understand the various points of view issues at stake can be looked at and the goal of this exercise is to build territorial collective intelligence. Later on they will be able to study partnership processes and even accompany them. In this objective, they will be given the adequate tools so that they can define projects territory scales.

UE Content: description and pedagogical relevance

- Approach to territorial sustainable development (notions of leadership, of multi level governance, of citizen involvement, of strategic planning, of three-step assessment, territorial collective intelligence, etc. - Experimental iterative definition of local development - Analyses of significant cases

Prior Experience

Not applicable