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Sociologist Philippe Riutort joins SKEMA Business School
Philippe Riutort, an eminent professor, is joining SKEMA Business School to teach sociology to students in the Master in Management (PGE) programme.
In addition to the three modules that make up the Great Contemporary Issues courses in the first year of SKEMA's Master in Management (PGE) programme — economics, geopolitical and transitions — a fourth module dedicated to sociology will be added from the start of the fall 2022 academic year, taught by Philippe Riutort.
Since 2004, Philippe Riutort has been a professor of the literary CPGE classes hypokhâgne and khâgne at the Lycée Henri IV in Paris. He is a graduate of Sciences Po Paris and has a degree in economics and social sciences. He is the author of several reference works in sociology, including 'Précis de sociologie' (Presses Universitaires de France) and 'Nouveau manuel de Science Politique' (Editions La Découverte). He was also a member of the jury for the 'agrégation' competition in economics and social sciences.
This new module will reinforce the CPGE-PGE continuum to familiarise students to the challenges posed by the social sciences and the means at their disposal to meet them.
"I am very pleased to be joining SKEMA in September 2022"
"I am very pleased to be joining SKEMA in September 2022 to take charge of a module titled 'Major issues in contemporary society'. The prospect of getting students at a leading business school interested in the current and future challenges facing contemporary societies and the ways in which the social sciences can address them is particularly exciting. I am firmly convinced that only a multidisciplinary, demanding approach, based on the reasoning and methods of the human sciences, will enable the current and future managers, faced with a world in perpetual upheaval, to have firm reading keys to try to master its course," says Philippe Riutort.
Facing an increasingly complex world
To introduce its students to the complexity of a rapidly changing world where the logic of opening up and closing down clashes, SKEMA decided in 2018 to renew the curriculum and teaching of its PGE programme. The school has deployed the 'ThinkForward' strategy with new courses, guaranteed international mobility at no extra cost, and a range of courses that are directly relevant to the changing world.
"We wanted to add sociology to our course"
"In the spirit of hindsight and anticipation that drives our Great Issues modules, and SKEMA being the designer of the economics, sociology and history test for the Banque Commune d'Epreuves exam, we wanted to add sociology to our course, from the first year, which will also reinforce the CPGE-PGE continuum for the literary profiles that are joining us in increasing numbers," said Denis Boissin, Director of the PGE programme, and Patrice Houdayer, Vice-President in charge of Programmes, International and Student Life.
