Duration
4h Th, 44h SEM
Number of credits
| Bachelor in bioengineering | 2 crédits |
Lecturer
Language(s) of instruction
French language
Organisation and examination
All year long, with partial in January
Schedule
Units courses prerequisite and corequisite
Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program
Learning unit contents
Learning outcomes of the learning unit
This course is based on a "serious gaming" activity wich allows the student to:
- test out personally in context;
- analyse together with his peers, under the conduct of a third party;
- understand and generalize professional situations of:
Prerequisite knowledge and skills
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
The course is preceded by an introductory meeting in a lecture hall but it mainly takes place as a long weekend: from Friday evening to Sunday evening. Students are divided into groups of 5 to 6 people led by a professional managers of the private and public sectors and supervised by a professional psychosocial consultant. The same mission is assigned at each group: the conquest of a planet, a strategy game software that presents many analogies with the operation of a company (strategies's definition and declination in operational objectives, human resource's management, supply chain's management, decision-making in uncertainty or crisis situation, etc.). The same learning sequence is repeated 5 times during the weekend and complicated gradually: preparation and organization in a group with manager, conducted simulation team under the leadership of manager, psycho-social and psycho-organizational debriefing managed by the psycho-social consultant, sequence of individual auto-reflexivite for the student with a methodology of "synopsis". The training sequence restarts with a collective reserarch for improvement and the definition of the improved organization. During the seminar, students receive a short theorical course of 2 hours relative to groups, management, leadership and conduct of change. During the same weekend, students receive a session of discussion in small groups with managers and consultants on all aspects of working life in a company or organization that they want to address.
Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning)
Recommended or required readings
Assessment methods and criteria
Each student prepares a report of about 10 pages in which he details the learning that he believes have made in a matter of teamwork, management general and driving change. It's the "receptive" ability of the student which is assessed and its behaviour in situ, in order to avoid any bias of "conformity" or "social desirability". In addidtion, the report includes a part of evaluation and critical analysis of the proposed pedagogical device which is improved by these remarks.
Work placement(s)
Organizational remarks
Infrastructure
The device is demanding in therms of infrastructure. This is the reason why the weekend takes place in the infrastructure of a large company that supports the initiative.
Coaching
For a student cohort of 120 people, the device involves 24 senior executives and 24 volunteer consultants, and half dozen of University supervisor. This is possible thanks to the involvement of the university of Liege in its economic and social environment.
Contacts
Jean-François LEROY
04 366.20.40
Jean-Francois.Leroy@ulg.ac.be