BIBL0001-1 : Accompaniment Activity to Research

Study Programmes 2015-2016

BIBL0001-1

Accompaniment Activity to Research

Duration :

6h Pr

Number of credits :

Bachelor in human and social sciences		1
Bachelor in human and social sciences		1
Bachelor in sociology and anthropology		1
Bachelor in sociology and anthropology		1

Lecturer :

Justine Contor

Language(s) of instruction :

French language

Organisation and examination :

Teaching in the first semester, review in January

Units courses prerequisite and corequisite :

Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program

Course contents :

First goal of formation is the student's autonomy decision in research, evaluation and using resources.
Acquire these skills (knowledge and know-how) will be useful during all university cursus and also professional career.
During formation, the student will learn to research and to select the scientific and relevance information. The student will use best available resources on library and internet with critically.

Differents notions will be covered in formation:
Sources of scientific information;
Specialized tools in information research in socials and political sciences;
Information research approach;
Plagiarism;
The open access;
References management (ZOTERO).

Learning outcomes of the course :

At the end of the course, students will be able to:
-          to identify main information sources (database, catalog, etc.) and documentary tools essentials for research in political and social sciences.
-          To achieve research equations and to use a thesaurus for increase the relevance in documentary research.
-          To research and to select adequate and relevance resources
-          To practice critically during documentary research (ex: this source it matches my expectations?)
Otherwise, students will be sensitized the issues of plagiarism, scientific edition and open access movement.
Finally, student will be receive formation on references management software - ZOTERO.

Prerequisite knowledge and skills :

Neither

Planned learning activities and teaching methods :

Course organization :
1h - oral intervention in course of Pr. Ch. Lejeune [METO0825].
2x 2h - practical work/tutorial at L. Graulich library. (Registration required via the online form Doodle sent by Nathalie Pulgar). Attention! For consistency, be sure to follow the TP1 before the TP2.
1h - presentation and grip software ZOTERO (presentation; contents; utility; installation; basic use; etc.).

Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning) :

Face-to-face.