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| HIST0156-1 | Elements of applied heuristics
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| Lecturer : | Philippe Raxhon |
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Language(s) of instruction :
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| French language |
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Course contents :
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| The preparation for the dissertation is not the subject of a specific course, but takes place within the framework of practical classes with exercises on questions relating to history and critical history in particular. Students also discuss their preparation during the regular meetings with their adviser and the members of their dissertation committee. |
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Learning outcomes of the course :
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| The dissertation is equivalent to the crowning achievement of the work carried out in the various seminars over the four or five years of study. It is a chance for students to prove their aptitude at carrying out a personal, original and rigorous piece of research on the basis of a corpus of limited sources, and to show that they have acquired the elementary critical skills required in any historian. |
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Prerequisites and co-requisites/ Recommended optional programme components :
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| None |
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Planned learning activities and teaching methods :
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| See General overview. Students are invited to regularly submit the results of their research, as well as corrected pages, to their adviser and to the other members of their dissertation committee. |
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Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning) :
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| See : http://cipl82.philo.ulg.ac.be/horaires
See General overview. |
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Recommended or required readings :
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| See General overview. |
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Assessment methods and criteria :
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| Students will be assessed on the way in which they carry out their research, working closely with their adviser and the members of their dissertation committee, ideally according to the following schedule:
- at the end of the first year of the master's degree, students should have chosen their subject, defined the outline of their corpus of sources, established the key areas of the bibliography for their work;
- during the summer at the end of the first year, then in the first quadrimester of the second year, they should read the general works relating to their research and finish going through the information for the first time; draw up a report on the question based on existing works and endeavour to find a problem that relates to the sources;
- in January of the second year, they should submit their first detailed plan (problems, possible ways of answering chosen) and, a month or two later, the first chapter. |
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Organizational remarks :
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| The university has a Study Guidance Service (http://www.ulg.ac.be/guidance) for students, which organises several seminars every year on how to write a dissertation and how to prepare for the oral defence. |
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Contacts :
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| Students are invited to regularly meet up with their adviser and committee members. |
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