CRIM3108-1 : Violence and counter-violence

Study Programmes 2016-2017

CRIM3108-1

Violence and counter-violence

Duration :

30h Th

Number of credits :

Certificate of university in "Criminology, police & policing"		3

Lecturer :

Pierre Thys

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 :

The course is focused on war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocides.
One seeks to understand:
the limits between the normal and the pathological, the obedience to the authority, the weight of the personality or the social roles the influence of the social groups
Terror is related to these ideologiocal violences.

Learning outcomes of the learning unit :

- to analyze the evolutions of the forms of violence (theoretical approach)
- to identify the individual, psychological, social, moral, political factors which produce violences
- to understand the importance of the environment
- to understand counter violence

Prerequisite knowledge and skills :

Planned learning activities and teaching methods :

Each student analyzes a topic and prepares a written report
Each group makes a presentation.

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

Feb - May, Wednesday in the afternoon Please check.