ENVIRONMENTAL AND URBAN SOCIOLOGY
- Overview
- Assessment methods
- Learning objectives
- Contents
- Full programme
- Delivery method
- Teaching methods
Basic knowledge of modern and contemporary history is a necessary requirement for successful participation in the teaching.
The method of verifying knowledge and skills consists of an oral exam,
including open questions based on the contents and approaches presented. For attending students, the final assessment will take into account the pro-active participation of students in class. A mark is given out of a maximum of thirty.
The teaching’s primary objective
is to learn the exercise of critical theory-based perspectives on the variety of topics introduced and discussed by the course. These include – but are not necessarily limited to – modernization processes, ecological crisis, tourism, local and urban development, interaction order, practices and everyday life.
Furthermore, the basic objective of the course is to familiarize students with the categories and the fundamental lexicon of classical sociological theory and contemporary social research on the subjects of the teaching program.
The main contents of the course concern modernization processes and contemporary tourism, everyday life and the social construction of reality, interaction order, urban dimension, ecological crisis, events and the study of social practices.
After an initial introductory part on modernization processes and their relationship with contemporary tourism, the course offers students the opportunity to co-define with the teacher the specific contents to be addressed in class in compliance with the teaching’s perimeter and general approach. The former has modernization processes and everyday practices as its main boundaries; while the latter refers to the adoption of critical theory-driven perspectives on the addressed topics.
Teaching methods include lectures by the teacher, readings and reworking of texts by the students, group researches, collective discussions and the students’ active participation in class through the proposal of new topics, doubts and research questions on the matters covered in class.