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| SPOL2315-2 | Risk and politics
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| Duration : | 30h SEM |
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| Lecturer : | Sébastien Brunet |
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Language(s) of instruction :
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| English language |
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Organisation and examination :
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| Teaching in the first semester, review in January |
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Course contents :
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| This course aims to make the students familiar with the concepts of risk, whistle-blower, precautionary principle and governmentality. |
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Learning outcomes of the course :
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| The aim of this course is to give to the students the opportunity to discuss concepts such as "risk society" and "modernity". |
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Prerequisites and co-requisites/ Recommended optional programme components :
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| No prerequisites. |
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Planned learning activities and teaching methods :
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Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning) :
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| 4 october 2012 :
General introduction: risk, danger, perception of risk
11 october 2012 :
Precautionary principe - modern risks - risk analysis
18 october 2012 :
Case study (Bhopal - BP - H1N1)
25 october 2012 : Alert and planification
8 november 2012 :
Foucault - political dimension
29 november 2012 : Students' presentation Group 1 + Group 2
6 december 2012 : Students' presentation Group 3 + Group 4
13 december 2012 : Students' presentation Group 5 + Group 6
20 december 2012 : Students' presentation Group 7 + Group 8 |
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Assessment methods and criteria :
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| A case study will be presented by the students (in small groups). The work will be based on key-texts on risk and politics (15 pages, Times New Roman) and will count for 30%. The oral presentation will count for 30% of the final grade. Eventually, an oral examen will take place (40% of the final grade). |
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Organizational remarks :
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Contacts :
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| Prof. Sebastien Brunet
Email: sebastien.brunet@ulg.ac.be
04/366.31.02 |
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