Objectives of Programme's Learning Outcomes

• Understand the fundamentals (theories and tools) in human and social sciences
• Identify and explain the basic theoretical trends in various fields of human sciences (law, economics, management, history, psychology, etc.) and their applications.
• Understand the social environment and the way it works, as well as the role played by different social, economic and political agents
• Analyse historical and contemporary phenomena of societies.
• Sociology and Anthropology option : Understand the fundamentals in the field of sociology and anthropology
• Have a critical view of theories, concepts and methods specific to sociology and anthropology.
• Describe and analyse contemporary, minority or distant human societies; decipher speeches and social and cultural representations.
• Avoid the pitfalls of ethnocentrism, sociocentrism and chronocentrisme.

Learning Outcomes of UE

At the end of the course, students will be able to: (a) expose the major theories and debates on the nature anthropology (situating them in their currents); (b) synthesize its specific visions by linking them to the broader socio-political context; (c) by criticizing the anthropo-centered, euro-centered and colonial foundations (where applicable).

UE Content: description and pedagogical relevance

This course will allow students to know, understand and criticize: (a) the major theoretical currents and major themes of the anthropology of nature as well as the construction of the nature and culture dichotomy to which they gave rise; (b) the debates they raise about the relationship between nature and culture today, their possibility conditions and their challenges; (c) the plurality of relationships with nature and conditions of anthropocentrism and eurocentrism. A first part of the course will be given ex cathedra. The second part will be based on readings, the summaries of which the students will present in class. The course will cover the following topics: philosophical anthropology, anthologies of the nature, anthropology of environmental policies as well as practical cases exercise.

Prior Experience

Not applicable