Duration
Histoire contemporaine : 30h Th
Questions d'actualité : 30h Th
Number of credits
| Bachelor in translation and interpretation | 5 crédits |
Lecturer
Histoire contemporaine : Julie Dury
Questions d'actualité : N...
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
Learning unit contents
Histoire contemporaine
Contemporary history from the first world war to the present day
Learning outcomes of the learning unit
Histoire contemporaine
General course objectives:
- To encourage students to become responsible citizens
- To develop student's critical mind, ability to summarise and general knowledge
- To allow students to understand the world in which they are evolving
Special course objectives:
- date, locate and put back in their context the historical events seen in class;
- in documents, define and mobilise historical concepts seen in class and/or present in the glossary provided;
- critical examination: establish the identity card and check the relevance as well as the reliability of the proposed documents;
- analyse (retrieve information/messages) the written, cartographic, statistical, schematic, iconographic documents, etc., and put them back in their historical context;
- highlight the cause and effect relations between the information from the past seen in class;
- adopt an active learning attitude by reading texts (compulsory reading).
Prerequisite knowledge and skills
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Histoire contemporaine
Ex cathedra classes and exercices
Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning)
Histoire contemporaine
Face to face
Recommended or required readings
Histoire contemporaine
Compulsory reading:
BAIGORRI JALÓN (J.), De Paris à Nuremberg: naissance de l'interprétation de conférence, Ottawa, Les Presses de l'Université d'Ottawa, 2004 (Coll. «Regards sur la traduction» dirigée par J. Delisle).
Recommended readings:
- ASSELAIN (J.-C.) et alii, Précis d'histoire européenne. Du 19e siècle à nos jours, Paris, 2015.
- Atlas des relations internationales, sous la dir. de P. Boniface, Paris, 2013.
- CAROL (A.), GARRIGUES (J.) et IVERNEL (M.), Précis d'histoire du XXe siècle, Paris, 2005.
- DUROSELLE (J.-B.) et KASPI (A.), Histoire des relations internationales de 1919 à nos jours, 2 t., Paris, 2017.
- HAYT (R.), Atlas d'histoire, Bruxelles, 2012.
- Le dictionnaire historique et géopolitique du 20e siècle, sous la dir. de S. Cordelier, Paris, 2007.
- LEJEUNE (D.), Histoire du monde actuel (1990-2000), Paris, 2001.
- NOUSCHI (M.), Le 20e siècle. Tournants, temps, tendances, Paris, 2016.
- NOUSCHI (M.), Petit atlas historique du 20e siècle, Paris, 2016.
- VAÏSSE (M.), Les relations internationales depuis 1945, Paris, 2017.
- VAÏSSE (M.), Dictionnaire des relations internationales de 1900 à nos jours, Paris, 2009.
Assessment methods and criteria
Histoire contemporaine
Written exam in January relating to the subjects studied in class and the compulsory texts: 100% of the mark, 10% of which for mastery of the French language
Work placement(s)
Organizational remarks
Contacts
Histoire contemporaine
Julie DURY
Bât. BE-026 Haute Ecole de la Ville de Liège
rue Hazinelle 2
4000 Liège
Belgique
E-mail: Julie.Dury@ulg.ac.be