Unit ENVIRONMENTAL AND SAFETY RISKS
- Course
- Socioanthropological studies for integration and social security
- Study-unit Code
- 40A00061
- Curriculum
- Migrazione e integrazione
- Teacher
- Fabio D'andrea
- Teachers
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- Fabio D'andrea
- Hours
- 54 ore - Fabio D'andrea
- CFU
- 9
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2019
- Offered
- 2020/21
- Learning activities
- Caratterizzante
- Area
- Discipline sociologiche
- Academic discipline
- SPS/07
- Type of study-unit
- Obbligatorio (Required)
- Type of learning activities
- Attività formativa monodisciplinare
- Language of instruction
- Italian
- Contents
- The course aims at making students aware of the complexity of the ecological relations that tie man to environment, of the fragility of contemporary equilibria and of the scientistic illusion that thinks man up to understand and manipulate them. It focuses particularly on the connections among Beck's three categories of global risks and their consequences on security.
- Reference texts
- L. Pellizzoni, G. Osti, Sociologia dell'ambiente, Il Mulino, 2008; U. Beck, Conditio humana, Laterza, 2011; research materials supplied by the teacher.
- Educational objectives
- Improvement of professional skills by means of direct involvement in research activities and theoretical elaboration; specific sensibility and proactive capacity in the application of the course's issues to security; start of development of specialized skills in fields in evolution and definition.
- Prerequisites
- Students must have a solid general knowledge and be familiar with the basic concepts of general and risk sociology.
- Teaching methods
- Academic teaching, workgroup, presentations.
- Other information
- The calendar of the exam dates is published on the Faculty site www.unipg.it/sdf. Attendance is not mandatory, but strongly recommended.
- Learning verification modality
- Oral interview with questions designed to assess critical understanding of the crucial issues discussed in the course and the ability to apply them to real case studies.
- Extended program
- Elements of sociology of the environment; Human condition in the XXI century as a consequence of modernity's achievements; Environmental risk as a new conceptual category in the comprehension of reality in its causes and effects; Necessity of ecological inteligence and correlated expectations.