Comparative approach to national and international democratic challenges

Teacher(s)

Bottin Jehan (compensates Rihoux Benoît); 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 :
1	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

Continuous assessment: this teaching unit is based on the individual and group writing and defence of analytical documents, as well as their presentation and oral discussion. There is no final examination. Assessment is divided equally between individual work (written and oral) and group work (written and oral), each accounting for 50% of the final mark.

Other information

This course demands active student participation and a reading, writing and speaking command of English.

Bibliography

Students will have to do other readings according to the themes that they have to analyse and discuss.
Les étudiant-e-s devront réaliser d’autres lectures en fonction des thèmes qu’ils/elles doivent analyser et discuter.

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