Study Programmes 2016-2017
ANTH2227-1  
Selected issues on social and cultural anthropology
Duration :
Number of credits :
Master in anthropology (120 ECTS)6
Lecturer :
Coordinator :
Véronique Servais
Language(s) of instruction :
French language
Organisation and examination :
Teaching in the second semester
Units courses prerequisite and corequisite :
Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program
Learning unit contents :
This course has been devised to allow students in anthropology to attend a course that is directly relevant to their master thesis research. It can be any course delivered in the Fass, at the University of Liège or even in another university. 
The course is taken as a "free" course. Students don't validate it in their courses program and they don't pass the examination.
Students must have the agreement of their thesis director. They must provide him/her every piece of information that could be needed to demonstrate the relevance of the course for their research project. 
Learning outcomes of the learning unit :
Students get familiar with their object through a specific and extra-disciplinary course devoted to it. 
Students get familiar to other ways of doing science and to new methodologies.
Prerequisite knowledge and skills :
Planned learning activities and teaching methods :
Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning) :
Recommended or required readings :
Assessment methods and criteria :
At the end of the course, students will give their master thesis director a table of contents of the cours they have taken. They will write a 7-8 pages report where they explain what they have leared during the course and how it will be usefull in their own resarch. 
In case the choice was finally not relevant, students must, with the agreement of their thesis director, write a report about the subject and the approach they expected to meet when they choose the course. 
Work placement(s) :
Organizational remarks :
Students may chosse courses in the first or second semester. Examination must take place at the latest in june, but reports may be given to teachers in january if the course is taken in the first semester.
Contacts :
The director of the student's master thesis is responsible for this course.