Commit for the planet [SGOGB316]

Learning outcomes

The CE offers students the opportunity to :

1. experience participating in an associative project pursuing societal objectives (social justice, environment, etc.) or in the project of a company involved in the social and solidarity economy, and in which geographers are involved.

2. to reflect on their personal, professional, academic and civic itineraries.
The course will help students to give meaning to their university education and to reflect on their future career.
The proposed learning process involves service experience in two possible locations:

1. Associations pursuing social and/or environmental justice objectives with populations other than those usually encountered by the student;
2. Companies involved in the social and solidarity economy, i.e. with a social and/or environmental aim, where profits are reinvested in the project, with a participative operating mode (involving employees and the various stakeholders).
 

This experience will help students to question their training plans and future careers: why geography? And what for? What role will it play in society? This experience will only be meaningful for the student if it is well thought-out, enabling him or her to take stock of his or her personal and civic identity, academic training and future as a geographer.

 

Objectives

1. Reflect on one's academic training project
2. Reflect on the experience of commitment in relation to one's personal, civic, academic and future professional itinerary.
3. Articulate the engagement experience with the curriculum, identifying the resources it offers as well as its limitations.
4. Encourage the discovery of associative/social entrepreneurship projects with social and/or environmental objectives, through involvement in them.
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In concrete terms, the student, alone or in a group, commits to 30 hours (5 days or 10 half-days), spread over the period from the end of January to the end of April, depending on the schedule of the immersion place. FUCID, with the help of members of the Geography Department, will identify suitable places for this commitment.

 

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