BEXP 13A05 - Ecological literacy

The overall aim of this course is to provide all students with the descriptive elements and the essential tools for analysis, so they all gain a foothold in the field of current environmental issues. The course seeks to demonstrate that the ecological/climate issue is omnipresent in the way society, the State and international relations work. Consequently, this issue involves the whole of the disciplinary fields that structure teaching material in Sciences Po. We will ground or progression mainly on the resources provided by environmental history, economic sociology, materialist approaches to humans relations and geopolitics. This course is fitted to first year students, as it is mainly of a descriptive nature and does not aim at digging deeper into one particular method or discipline.