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.
• Understand the epistemological postures and the methodological tools human sciences related to issues of social transitions and innovations.
• Understand the methodological frameworks in human and social sciences in order to change practices.
• 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.
• Comparatively analyse the problems 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.
• 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.
• Collect data, analyse it qualitatively and quantitatively, and interpret the results adequately, taking into account the field in which the research has been developed.
• Intervene appropriately in concrete problems regarding transition, among other things, by developing answers and action plans from the creativity of local actors.
• Critically evaluate the scope, potential impacts and limitations of actions implemented in contexts 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.
• Communicate (verbally and in writing) with the different audiences concerned by issues of societal transitions.
• Work in an interdisciplinary team and collectively negotiate the stages of action-research from a transitional perspective.
• Listen to team members and encourage them to express a collective opinion on solutions to be implemented.

Learning Outcomes of UE

The target is to introduce the way of thinking of a determine thinker , how it influenced his period and how it is still influencing our way of thinking 

UE Content: description and pedagogical relevance

Evolution of the way of thinkings trhough the centuries 

Prior Experience

Not applicable

Type(s) and mode(s) of Q1 UE assessment

• Oral presentation - Face-to-face

Q1 UE Assessment Comments

Individual présentation of the way of thinking of one thinker 

Method of calculating the overall mark for the Q1 UE assessment

Non applicable 

Type(s) and mode(s) of Q1 UE resit assessment (BAB1)

• N/A - Néant

Q1 UE Resit Assessment Comments (BAB1)

Non applicable 

Method of calculating the overall mark for the Q1 UE resit assessment

Non applicable 

Type(s) and mode(s) of Q3 UE assessment

• N/A - Néant

Q3 UE Assessment Comments

Non applicable 

Method of calculating the overall mark for the Q3 UE assessment

Non applicable