2017-2018 / ANTH2226-1

Research seminar

Duration

Number of credits

 Master in anthropology (120 ECTS)6 crédits 

Lecturer

Collégialité

Coordinator

Véronique Servais

Language(s) of instruction

French language

Organisation and examination

All year long, with partial in January

Units courses prerequisite and corequisite

Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program

Learning unit contents

The subject of the course is made up of a serie of talks by LASC researchers who present their own researches to the students. 

Learning outcomes of the learning unit

At the end of this course, students will

  • have a bette knowledge of the scope of anthropological methods and questions
  • be well informed of methodological problems arising form fieldwork and how to solve them
  • have a better knowledge of how to built a research object in anthropology
  • be more at ease with the research work in anthropology
  • be more able to takle their own research work during their own master thesis research 
 

Prerequisite knowledge and skills

Students must be able to read and analyse a scientific paper. They must have a good knowledge of the main fieldwork methodologies in anthropology. 

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

Each session is about a different theme, as different researchers talk about different topics. Researchers expose their research, or one aspect of it, during one hour. Then the second hour is devoted to discussion and answering questions. Attendance is compulsory and active participation is appreciated. 

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

Présentiel

Recommended or required readings

Each researcher will provide a bibliographic list that wil be delivered to the students at the end of the talk. 

Assessment methods and criteria

Each speaker will end the session with a question about his/her talk. Students will have to answer that question within the next 2 weeks and send their answer to the researcher. It will have to be maximum 5 pagres long (without references). Each speaker gives a mark to the students reports. At the end of the semester, students write a short synthesis (5 pages) where they explicitate how the course has enriched their own reflexions, helped them to solve problems, etc. The final mark is the average of each mark. 

Work placement(s)

Organizational remarks

Courses take place evey 2 weeks. Homework mus be sent every two weeks, before the next course. 

Contacts

Fanny Theunissen (ftheunissen@ulg.ac.be)
Véronique Servais (v.servais@ulg.ac.be)