Course Overview

- The objective of this course is to offer to students a more
comprehensive, ethical and socially engaged training, which will
ultimately help them to face and overcome current and future global
challenges.
- Learning objectives:

- 1) Working as a team in the service of a project: integrate, take
position, collaborate, communicate and report.
- 2) How to collect information, capacity of analysis and synthesis
skills.
- 3) Develop an argument with a critical mind
- 4) Practice of English in relation to the social and multicultural
aspects of scientific communication in an international context

Learning Achievement

Competence

Course prerequisites

- Having completed L2 in the College of ST 
- Advanced level of English 
- Access to internet for zoom meetings with camera and microphone
open

Grading Philosophy

- Students will be evaluated throughout the semester and their final
grades will be based on: Assiduity (10%); English communication skills
(10%); Active participation in the discussions (10%);  - Pre-project
(20%); Final report (50%).- Pre-project consists of the first dossier
of two pages about the scientific personality who has been chosen**
(in the case of Sci-Trip), or a two-page plan for developing and/or
perfecting a new and/or an existing teaching tool (in the case of
Teaching-tool Dev).  - Final report consists of a five-page document
describing the scientific, cultural and social-engagement aspects
regarding the special guest interviewed** (in the case of Sci-Trip),
or the prototype of the teaching tool developed and/or perfected (in
the case of Teaching-tool Dev). **Because a maximum of two pairs of
students will be assigned to each of our special guests, we cannot
guarantee that any student will be able to investigate and interview
his/her first-choice personality

Pre-projects, based on literature search, will be handled before the
first contact with the scientist (mid-November), whereas the Final
report will be based on the accomplished interview (mid-December). 

- Failures will be given a chance to recover by writing a newreport on
one of the eight themes of the course

Course schedule

Combining theoretical and practical approaches, this course will
address the role of science in society and the role of the public in
scientific debates, from an international and sustainable perspective.
Through innovative and multiculturalstrategies, our goal is to lead
participants to reflect about their role in the democratization of
knowledge, while connecting and applying it to major global issues. 

A THEMATIC MENU AVAILABLE ON MOODLE WILL INCLUDE 8 THEMES: 

A) Climate Change and Biodiversity; 

B) Renewable Energy; 

C) Education; 

D) Science and Society; 

E) Science and Gender; 

F)Science and Ethnicity; 

G) Neuroscience; 

H) Science of Natural Products.

Course type

At the end of a first theoretical part based on a series of seminal articles about the interface between science and society and on approaches regarding science communication (10 h), each student will have to choose a practical project. All projects will be supervised by the course teachers. *To learn more about the three types of practical projects (Sci-Trip, Teaching-tool Dev, and Rural Workshops, see: https://projetoimagine.paginas.ufsc.br/files/2021/04/PROJECTRELEASE.pdf 

Online Course Requirement

Instructor

Other information

- A maximum of 20 L3 students will be acceptedB. 
- If there are more candidates than places, a selection will
becarried out based on: letter of motivation, university grades record
and English level. Out of the 20 places for UB students, 10 will be
reserved to the Life Science program. 

Duration: 12 weeks

Language of instruction: English
Mode of delivery: Blended learning

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