Study Programmes 2015-2016
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| History of techniques and materials | ||||||||
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Duration :
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| 12h Th | ||||||||
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Number of credits :
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Lecturer :
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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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Units courses prerequisite and corequisite :
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| Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program | ||||||||
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Course contents :
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| History of technics and of materials, specially the stone materials. Extraction, transformation and use in tthe building. Most frequent pathologies. | ||||||||
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Learning outcomes of the course :
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Prerequisite knowledge and skills :
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Planned learning activities and teaching methods :
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| Lessons, visits to monuments, old and new, in the town. Excursion to quarry and working shops. | ||||||||
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Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning) :
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Recommended or required readings :
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Assessment methods and criteria :
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| Written work presenting analysis of a building front, where stone is well representated. Description, identification of the material and list of most important pathologies. | ||||||||
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Work placement(s) :
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Organizational remarks :
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Contacts :
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| francis.tourneur@ulg.ac.be | ||||||||