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

By the end of the course, students will be able to: (a) outline these theories and debates (situating them in their schools of thought and identifying their main authors); (b) synthesize their specific visions by linking them to the broader socio-political and historical context; (c) criticize them both epistemologically, politically and ethically.
Course objectives:
This course will enable students to know, understand and criticize: (a) the major theoretical movements and the main topics of decolonial thought; (b) the debates they raise, their conditions of possibility and their challenges; (c) the plurality of ways of thinking, of making society, of being and imagining the world implied by these debates.

UE Content: description and pedagogical relevance

The teaching will consist of readings and discussions by students and the professor around the main papers discussed in the seminar. The students will have complementary readings and assignments.

Prior Experience

Not applicable