5.00 credits
15.0 h
Q2
Teacher(s)
Rihoux Benoît;
Language
English
Main themes
In this course, students will study national and international democratic challenges through a world parliament simulation.
Learning outcomes
At the end of this learning unit, the student is able to : | |
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At the end of this course, the students will be able to: - Analyse democratic challenges and provide alternative solutions - Discuss and defend a position in a written and an oral way Summarise in a both written and oral way discussions and provide an analytical overview. |
Content
This course deals with national and international democratic challenges, with inputs from the students themselves.
Teaching methods
The course relies on a problems-based approach in the format of a world parliament simulation. Students, in groups and individually, will have to search for information about democratic challenges, provide alternative solutions and discuss them.
Evaluation methods
This course is based on writing individual and collective analytical documents and on their oral presentation and discussion. There is no exam, the evaluation is based on the individual and collective assignements. 50% for individual writing an oral assignements, 50% for collective writing and oral assignement.
Other information
This course demands active student participation and a reading, writing and speaking command of English.
Bibliography
The background reading for this course is the book:
D. Held, Models of Democracy, 2006 (3rd edition), Cambridge, Polity (available on Moodle).
Students will have to do other readings according to the themes that they have to analyse and discuss.D. Held, Models of Democracy, 2006 (3rd edition), Cambridge, Polity (available on Moodle).
Un livre fait office de lecture de base :
D. Held, Models of Democracy, 2006 (3rd edition), Cambridge, Polity (disponible sur Moodle).
Les étudiant-e-s devront réaliser d’autres lectures en fonction des thèmes qu’ils/elles doivent analyser et discuter.D. Held, Models of Democracy, 2006 (3rd edition), Cambridge, Polity (disponible sur Moodle).
Faculty or entity
ESPO
