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| SPOL2311-1 | Contemporary political identities
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| Duration : | 30h Th |
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| Master en sciences politiques, orientation générale, à finalité spécialisée en administration publique, 1st year | | Second semester | | 5 |
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| Master en sciences politiques, orientation générale, à finalité spécialisée en politiques européennes, 1st year | | Second semester | | 5 |
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| Master en sciences politiques, orientation générale, à finalité spécialisée en relations internationales, 1st year | | Second semester | | 5 |
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| Master en sciences politiques, à finalité spécialisée en science, technologie et société, 1st year | | Second semester | | 5 |
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| Lecturer : | Min Reuchamps |
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Language(s) of instruction :
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| French language |
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Course contents :
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| Political identities play a major role in contemporary politics. Identities and their dynamics influence political actors and institutions as well as populations and their different sub-groups. This phenomenon is multi-face and may be studied from several angles: empirical or theoretical or methodological or epistemological. |
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Learning outcomes of the course :
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| This course explores identities and their dynamics. From theoretical and empirical standpoints, students are invited to study the relationships between contemporary political identities and political life (system, institutions, actors and public opinions) in Western societies. |
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Prerequisites and co-requisites/ Recommended optional programme components :
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| No prerequisites. |
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Planned learning activities and teaching methods :
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| The first two sessions offer the background of the course. Theoretical, empirical, methodological and epistemological dimensions of the study of contemporary political identities are laid off. The following five sections study more specifically ideological identities, religious identities, ethno-territorial identities, European identity and local and global identities. Finally, the last two sessions deal with identities as a whole and look at their impacts on politics, polities and policies. To do so, the course relies on the active interaction between the students and the lecturer and between the students themselves, on the basis of required and suggested readings. |
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Recommended or required readings :
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| Three books will serve as the backbone of the course. Although the case of Belgium will be our main point of interest, other cases will be discussed.
Delwit, Pascal and Emilie van Haute (eds.). Le vote des Belges (Bruxelles - Wallonie, 10 juin 2007), coll. « Science politique ». Brussels: Editions de l'Université de Bruxelles, 2008.
Deschouwer, Kris, Pascal Delwit, Marc Hooghe and Stefaan Walgrave (eds.). De stemmen van het volk. Brussels: VUB Press, 2010. A French version will be available soon.
Frognier, André-Paul, Lieven De Winter and Pierre Baudewyns (eds.). Elections : le reflux ? Comportements et attitudes lors des élections en Belgique. Brussels: De Boeck, 2008.
In addition to these three volumes, several articles will be available on WebCT. |
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Assessment methods and criteria :
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| In the first session, the assessment will be threefold: active participation in class discussions and animation of one specific session (40% of the final note), on the one hand, and a final paper and its oral presentation (60% of the final note), on the other hand.
1. Each student, alone or by group, will have to lead one of the five sessions on a specific identity. To do so, students will have to write a five-page text, on the basis of pre-defined readings, in order to introduce the topic and raise questions which shall be discussed. Simultaneously, other students will have to do the readings and participate actively in class discussions. The quality of their preparation, of the animation and of their participation will be assessed (40% of the finale note).
2. A final paper, on a tropic chosen by the student, and its oral presentation will conclude the course. This final paper will have to follow the guidelines given by the lecturer in the course of the class (60% of the final note).
In the second session, each student will have to write a paper, following the same guidelines as in the first session. The paper will be presented to the lecturer during the second session (60% of the final note). This presentation will be followed by a questions and answers session (40% of the final note). |
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Contacts :
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| Min REUCHAMPS
Département de science politique
Faculté de droit et de science politique
Tel.: 04/366.30.23
E-mail: Min.Reuchamps@ulg.ac.be |
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| Items online : |
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| WebCT |
| The readings are available on WebCT. |
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