ENVT3028-1 : Citizen science

Study Programmes 2015-2016

ENVT3028-1

Citizen science

Duration :

18h Th, 18h Pr

Number of credits :

Master in environmental science and management (120 ECTS)		3
Master in environmental science and management (120 ECTS)		3
Master in environmental science and management (60 ECTS)		3

Lecturer :

François Melard, Pierre M. Stassart

Coordinator :

Pierre M. Stassart

Language(s) of instruction :

French language

Organisation and examination :

Teaching in the first semester, review in January

Units courses prerequisite and corequisite :

Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program

Course contents :

This course on Citizen science proceeds from a reflection on old and new experiments on the place citizens from inside the scientific activity to activism.
The course deals with several issues:

a presentation of the controversy on the place of the public in the emergence of new forms of knowledge and actions between sciences and societies.

an introduction on the emergence and the development of alternative practices to more conventional scientific activity (Community-based-Science); and more precisely on distributed monitoring practices (Community-based-Monitoring), as in the fields of noise and olfactive pollutions, biodiversity, or electromagnetic fields management).

This seminar will be the occasion to meet experts or witnesses of concrete experiments of monitoring of local environments and their articulation to regional, national or international public policies.

Learning outcomes of the course :

Prerequisite knowledge and skills :

There are no prerequisites

Planned learning activities and teaching methods :

Elaborations on the basis of scientific litteratures and professional and amateur practioners.

Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning) :

Face-to-face