HIST0007-3

Duration

15h Th, 30h Pr, 5d FT Tr. Pr.

Number of credits

	Master in history (120 ECTS)	10 crédits
	Master in history (60 ECTS)	10 crédits

Lecturer

Yann Berthelet

Language(s) of instruction

French language

Organisation and examination

All year long

Schedule

Schedule online

Units courses prerequisite and corequisite

Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program

Learning unit contents

The seminar will be dedicated to an ongoing research on the rites of "consecration" in Rome and the Roman world.

Learning outcomes of the learning unit

This seminar is the last stage of the student's training in history before writing the TFE. It aims to strengthen skills acquired during the baccalaureate: autonomy, ability to establish a critical presentation of the modern bibliography, to identify a question of research, to establish and/or to justify a corpus of sources allowing to respond to the question of research posed, to implement the basic philological reflexes, to critically interrogate traces of the past by taking into account all types of sources and to communicate clearly and in a flawless French language the result of his research.

Prerequisite knowledge and skills

To take this seminar, the student must :

have followed the general course Histoire de l'Antiquité gréco-romaine, y compris 15h d'histoire du Proche-Orient (LCLA0015-1);
have basic notions of classical Latin [= having taken the course of Initiation au latin (LCLA0018-1) or the course of Auteurs latin I (LCLA0018-1)];
have a very good oral and written knowledge of the French language.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

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

The weekly seminar (Tuesday, 10h-12h; A4 Salle du Conseil during Q1 ; A4 R30 during Q2) will alternate bibliographical research, heuristics and analysis of documents (including Latin) according to the rules of historical criticism.
Mandatory Latin translation exercises will be requested regularly.
Some sessions may be suspended in order to enable students to carry out the required exercises in a library.

Assessment methods and criteria

The evaluation of May/June (and August/September in case of failure) will be based on:

on the exercises requested throughout the year
on the (re)translation of one of the Latin texts translated during the year (oral examination).
on a written work of personal research that will have to be delivered at the beginning of the session and then defended orally (more precise modalities will be indicated in class).

Important note: the correction of the French language (spelling, conjugation, syntax, punctuation, etc.) is fully part of the evaluation.

Work placement(s)

Organizational remarks

Contacts

Enseignant titulaire Pr. Dr. Yann Berthelet Chargé de cours. Université de Liège, Bât. A4 - Histoire de l'Antiquité gréco-romaine, Quai Roosevelt 1B, 4000 Liège - Belgique +32 4 3665606 Yann.Berthelet@uliege.be

Historical criticism seminar (Greek and Roman Antiquity)