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| ENVT0860-3 | Environmental Controversies
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| Duration : | 30h Th, 18h Pr |
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| Lecturer : | François Melard |
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Language(s) of instruction :
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| French language |
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Course contents :
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| The course on the controversies of the Master in Environmental Sciences and Management is grounded on a sociological approach of contemporary environmental issues. |
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Learning outcomes of the course :
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| To draw party from unfolding the controversies in order to seize their multiple and contradictory stakes. The objective is to train the students with a cross vision of problems by giving them the (theoretical and methodological) means to follow the coevolution of the actors and nature's beings. |
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Prerequisites and co-requisites/ Recommended optional programme components :
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| None |
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Planned learning activities and teaching methods :
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| Working groups will be setup in order to introduce in public and put into debat environmental's case studies (presented in scientific articles). |
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Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning) :
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| The course rests on an alternate of lectures and collective discussion of case studies. |
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Recommended or required readings :
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| A compilation of articles will be made available to the students. |
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Assessment methods and criteria :
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| The evaluation will take into acount...
- the group's work (presentation of the case study);
- the result of the individual oral examination.
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Organizational remarks :
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| A certain number of questions will come to structure the course, such as...
- Why can we learn from controversies?
- What are the relations between controversies and uncertainties?
- Who are the actors of a controversy?
- How to cartography a controversy?
- Quid of the artificial maintenance of a controversy?
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Contacts :
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| François Mélard - f.melard@ulg.ac.be
Phone: 063/230 901 |
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