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Humanities for engineering (01_XASHI)

  • Coefficient : 2
  • Hourly Volume: 28h (including 18h supervised)
    Labo : 18h supervised (and 3h unsupervised)
    Out-of-schedule personal work : 7h

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Description

Epistemology for the engineer. Themes:

  • Doubt and science
  • the post-truth era
  • introduction to epistemology
  • pseudosciences, ideologies, discrimination and stereotypes, fake news, scientific impostures and conspiracy theories

Terms:

  • Conferences, presentations, debates, group and individual work

Learning Outcomes AAv (AAv)

  • AAv1 [15,B3, G1] : At the end of the semester the student must be able to distinguish scientific thinking from other modes of thinking and to exercise it with humility in the analysis of the information chosen by the student. teacher

  • AAv2 [13,F1,F2] : At the end of the semester the student must be able to produce a complete oral synthesis in a professional manner (adapted to the requested communication situation and intended to be retained) using all the resources of communication.

Assessment methods

Average of several short continuous assessments

Key Words

Critical thinking, doubt, epistemology, scientific method, metacognition

Prerequisites

Level of general culture corresponding to final year class.

Resources