Duration
36h Th
Number of credits
| Master in agroecology (120 ECTS) | 3 crédits | |||
| Master in environmental science and management (120 ECTS) | 4 crédits | |||
| Master in environmental science and management (60 ECTS) | 4 crédits |
Lecturer
Coordinator
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
Learning unit contents
The course aims at examining the representations of nature and environment at different times and in various places and at questioning the investigation tools and the representations of the students themselves. The main thread will be an "animal" entry. The squirrel, the elephant, the vulture , the beaver, the coypu, the bat, the fox (or other pests)... are considered to be frontier runners or to be linking different worlds, consequently allowing us to follow the natural balance, the exchanges as well as the conflicts, misunderstandings , adjustments, silences, contradictions or ruptures. Those are lines, threads or what G. Deleuze calls "des devenirs" , too, revealing the ambivalent , contradictory and ever changing character of the practices and cultural modes and showing as well - the possible conflicts linked to them, - the forms of running of the territory ( some of them may be incompatible), - the scientific controversies , the emerging points of incertitude, - the economic and social priorities, intermingled and sometimes contradictory.
Learning outcomes of the learning unit
The course purports to be gathering knowledge and questions connected with the anthropology of nature, socio-anthropology as well as with ecology, studies of animal populations , naturalistic knowledge and practices of territory management.
Prerequisite knowledge and skills
None
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
cffr
Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning)
Presentation of different case studies / Theoric classes / Flipped classroom
Recommended or required readings
Documents about various topics will be distributed for further reading.
Assessment methods and criteria
Homework 20%
Report 40%
Exam 40%
Work placement(s)
Organizational remarks
Contacts
Dr. Dorothée Denayer
Socioecology and Nature Management
Dpt Environmental Sciences and Management
d.denayer@ulg.ac.be
University of Liège - Campus d'Arlon
Avenue de Longwy 185, 6700 Arlon
Tél : 0032 63 23 09 44