Social Movements (20163)
Degree/study: Degree in Humanities
Year: 3rd-4th
Term: 2nd
Number of ECTS credits: 5 credits
Hours of studi dedication: 125 hours
Teaching language or languages: spanish
Teaching Staff: Jordi Mir
1. Presentation of the subject
Transforming societies to make them more just: social movements in the contemporary world
What is a just society? How can our societies leave injustice behind? The subject seeks to help answering to these questions. Social movements have had a fundamental importance in the evolution of our societies. They have had, and still have, a leading role in the political, social and cultural transformations. This course proposes to discover some of these movements from the study of their ideas, their proposals, the actions they have carried out and the analysis of their impacts. From disciplines such as Philosophy, History, Political Science or Sociology, we can have an approach to the task developed by these groups, we can discover the thought that they generate, their transformative impact, and we can evaluate the recognition they deserve in the construction of our societies.
2. Competences to be attained
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· Understanding and interpreting in an appropriate and well-reasoned fashion written academic texts. · Being able to justify with solid arguments one's own positions, as well as to defend them in front of an audience. · Developing autonomous reasoning skills with an analytical distance to controversial topics or issues. · Accepting opinion diversity as a fundamental ingredient to academic life and as an integral part of contemporary society, and being able to express one's opinions within the respect to differing opinions. · Having a developed sense of curiosity and a wish for knowing the unknown, essential in any formative process and in any professional activity with some prospects. |
· Briefly knowing, situating and interpreting the main periods of human social and historical evolution, taking into account especially its impact on the understanding of the current world. · Briefly knowing, situating and interpreting the main spiritual, philosophical and scientific works and schools throughout history. · An approximation to first-hand knowledge of the main textual documentary and iconographic sources used for the elaboration of previous knowledge. · Knowing and managing monographic studies and substantial bibliography essential to give well-reasoned interpretations. · Being able to interpret written texts, iconographic evidence, statistic data and cartographic documents in a well-reasoned and competent fashion, with the prospect of writing an appropriately justified personal opinion. · Being aware of the transversal nature of knowledge and of the convenience of transcending the borders between academic specialities, and in particular the need to get over the division between the so-called two cultures, the Humanities and Science. · Developing a curiosity and interest for topical issues in the fields of the Arts, Thought, Literature, Science and Spirituality. · Being able to gather and interpret important data (usually within a field of study) to emit judgements that include a reflection on issues of a social, scientific or ethical nature. · Being able to transmit information, ideas, problems and solutions both to an expert and a non-expert audience. |
3. Contents
Unit 1: Societies and Social Justice
Unit 2: Subalternity or the Unheard Voices
Unit 3: Universities, Factories, Neighbourhoods and Churches as Contestation Spaces
Unit 4: Women's Liberation
Unit 5: Gay Pride
Unit 6: Anti-War, Pro-Peace
Unit 7: Green Movement
Unit 8: Alter-Globalisation and Global Justice
Unit 9: Answers to the present political and economical crisis.
*The full version with the sections 4. Assessment, 5. Bibliography and teaching resources, 6. Methodology, and 7. Planning of activities is available in the original version.
4. Assessment
5. Bibliography and teaching resources
5.1. Basic bibliography
5.2. Complementary bibliography
5.3. Teaching resources
6. Metodology
7. Planning of activities