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| ASPE0006-1 | Theories of performing arts
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| Duration : | 30h Th |
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| Number of credits : |
| Master in Performing Arts, Teaching Focus, 1st year |  | 4 |
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| Master in Modern Languages and Literatures : German, Dutch and English, Research Focus , 1st year |  | 5 |
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| Master in Modern Languages and Literatures : German, Dutch and English, Research Focus , 2nd year |  | 5 |
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| Master in Modern Languages and Literatures : General, Research Focus, 1st year |  | 5 |
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| Master in Modern Languages and Literatures : General, Research Focus, 2nd year |  | 5 |
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| Master in Performing Arts, Professional Focus in Film and Audiovisual Studies, 1st year |  | 5 |
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| Master in Performing Arts, Professional Focus in Film and Audiovisual Studies, 1st year |  | 4 |
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| Master in Performing Arts, Professional Focus in Film and Audiovisual Studies, 2nd year |  | 5 |
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| Master in Performing Arts, Professional Focus in Documentary Films, 1st year |  | 4 |
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| Master in Performing Arts, Professional Focus in Performing Arts and Digitalised Images, 1st year |  | 4 |
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| Lecturer : | Marc-Emmanuel Mélon |
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Language(s) of instruction :
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| French language |
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Organisation and examination :
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| Teaching in the first semester, review in January |
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Course contents :
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| This course helps first year students to design and develop their dissertation project.
During the first part (10 hours), there are general presentations on the different aspects of research methodology: what is a research field? What is a research issue? How to develop the theoretical framework within which the issues are placed? How to build a body of knowledge? What is an analysis? What is an hypothesis?
During the second part, students build their research project with their director |
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Learning outcomes of the course :
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| General objectives: to acquire an effective and efficient way of working which can immediately be used in the end of year dissertation.
Specific objectives: at the end of the course, students will have built solid foundations for their research, set out in a 20 page "dissertation plan", upon which they can then build their end of year dissertation. |
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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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| The final piece of work consists of drafting a "dissertation plan", around 20 pages long, which serves as an examination. |
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Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning) :
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| See http://cipl82.philo.ulg.ac.be/horaires |
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Recommended or required readings :
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| None |
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Assessment methods and criteria :
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| The dissertation plan has to be firmly set up. |
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Work placement(s) :
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Organizational remarks :
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Contacts :
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| Lecturer: Marc-Emmanuel Mélon, lecturer Department of the arts and sciences of communication - cinema and audiovisual arts section, Place du 20 Août, 7 - Building A1 - 2nd floor - tel. 04.366.32.55 ME.Melon@ulg.ac.be
Assistant: Jonathan Thonon Place du XX-Août, 7, 4000 Liège. Tel.: +32 (0)4 366 52 32.- jthonon@ulg.ac.be |
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