Objectives of Programme's Learning Outcomes

• Provide clear, accurate, and reasoned information
• Summarise the contributions of different sources to justify an opinion or decision
• Act ethically and professionally
• Name, and be familiar with, legal frameworks and ethical principles that govern research and practice in psychology and educational sciences, and implement them in studies in a reflexive manner (exams, work, etc.)
• Grow personally and professionally
• Develop their scientific curiosity and open-mindedness
• Understand the various means available for documentation, to promote self-learning and lifelong learning
• Understand the fundamentals related to the scientific approach in psychology or educational sciences
• Identify and describe the specific characteristics of scientific processes
• Identify and explain the main methods (including limitations) specific to the scientific process
• Give a critique and argue a point of view as part of a scientific approach

Learning Outcomes of UE

The aim of the course is to equip students with conceptual and reflective tools from philosophy and ethics, enabling them to take a critical approach to contemporary issues linked both to their discipline and to social, political and ethical questions, and to adopt a reflective stance on the construction of knowledge. It aims to develop tools for analysing, synthesising, reading and understanding texts and argumentation, making it possible to highlight the visions of the world or the values underlying a line of reasoning, as well as the presuppositions of a thesis or an opinion.

UE Content: description and pedagogical relevance

The course presents an introduction to the philosophical and ethical process, through a problematic approach to the specificity of philosophy as a reflective activity, a journey through the history and concepts of philosophy, as well as an opening to contemporary ethical issues. The course aims to approach the way in which philosophy can allow to reflect on contemporary contemporary problems, both general and related to the the students' discipline.The course progresses through chapters devoted to themes that address these philosophical concepts, showing how they can be used to reflect on contemporary issues: the individual as subject, the ecological question and the concept of nature, democracy, and ethics. These questions allow us to address the issues linked to contemporary ecological, social and technological transitions, which are explicitly addressed in the course.The pedagogical approach of the course (in which ex cathedra lectures are supplemented by exercises, group discussions, etc.) is designed to enable students to assimilate the conceptual and methodological tools.

Prior Experience

Non applicable.

Type(s) and mode(s) of Q2 UE assessment

• Written examination - Face-to-face

Q2 UE Assessment Comments

Written examination consisting of a multiple-choice questionnaire, eventually supplemented by one or more open-ended questions designed to assess the explanation of a concept or reasoning, the construction of a comparison between two authors, or the commentary of a brief excerpt from a text.

Type(s) and mode(s) of Q3 UE assessment

• Written examination - Face-to-face

Q3 UE Assessment Comments

Idem Q2