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Study programmes 2012-2013Last update : 18/06/2013
SPOL1101-1  Introduction to Political Science

Duration :  30h Th
Number of credits :  
Bachelor in Human and Social Sciences, 1st year3
Bachelor in Sociology and Anthropology, 1st year3
Bachelor in Information and Communication, 2nd year4
Bachelor in philosophy, 1st year4
Lecturer :  Jérôme Jamin
Language(s) of instruction :  
French language
Organisation and examination :  
Teaching in the first semester, review in January
Course contents :  
The main objective of the first part of the course is to introducing students with the particular specificities of political objects by using vocabulary, tools and methods to identify, name, classify and predict political events.
Learning outcomes of the course :  
Teaching should enable students to identify political event within the social environment.
Prerequisites and co-requisites/ Recommended optional programme components :  
N.A.
Planned learning activities and teaching methods :  
Among other things, the program:
- What is a political object? - What is science?
- Political Science and Political Philosophy, - The Imaginary Institution of Society, - Autonomy and heteronomy companies
- The State -Nation -The Power -Ideologies and political divisions -Actors
- "How to compare" - Political regimes
Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning) :  
Required attending for lectures and conferences
Recommended or required readings :  
Next to the courses, students will have to read and study one book :
Jean-Yves Dormagen et Daniel Mouchard, Introduction à la sociologie politique, Bruxelles : De Boeck (Ouvertures politiques).
Assessment methods and criteria :  
Written examination
Work placement(s) :  
Organizational remarks :  
Thursday from 10:45 to 12:45Hall 604
Contacts :  
Classroom teacher:

Dr. Jérôme Jamin
Lecturer
Department of Political Science
Faculty of Law and Political Science

PhD student assistant :
Laureen Poncelet :
laureen.poncelet@ulg.ac.be
Geoffrey Grandjean :
geoffrey.grandjean@ulg.ac.be


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