Duration
30h Th
Number of credits
| Bachelor in political sciences : general | 3 crédits |
Lecturer
Language(s) of instruction
French language
Organisation and examination
Teaching in the first semester, review in January
Schedule
Units courses prerequisite and corequisite
Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program
Learning unit contents
The objective of this course is the acquisition of elementary concepts and principles of political reasoning. Building on numerous examples, it will introduce students to the field of debate and that which distinguishes it from other persuasive registers. The large groups and kinds of arguments will be described and their implementation considered in light of case studies. As much as possible, public players and/or experts and practitioners in the field will be invited to share their experience of debate and how it is adapted to different contexts. The students will moreover be introduced to building an argument and to its written and oral development.
Learning outcomes of the learning unit
By the end of the course, the students are expected to be able to :
- define and describe the terms and concepts deployed in the different parts of the course;
- describe different practices in political reasoning and what distinguishes them, especially according to their context;
- recognise arguments and counter-arguments in a discourse and describe them;
- reproduce the dynamics of a debate and different arguments deployed by its players;
- formulate a written argument;
- formulate an oral argument.
Prerequisite knowledge and skills
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Learning activities and teaching methods are as follows:
- Theoretical and practical presentations;
- Presentations by practitioners regularly working in the process of argument and negotiation;
- Writing of a argumentation protocol;
- Oral presentations by the students.
Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning)
Face-to-face
Recommended or required readings
Recommanded readings :
- Breton Philippe, Convaincre sans manipuler. Apprendre à argumenter, Paris, La Découverte, 2015, 154 p.
- Joule Robert-Vincent et Beauvois Jena-Léon, Petit traité de manipulation à l'usage des honnêtes gens, Grenoble, Presses Universitaires de Grenoble, 2002, 286 p.
- Perelman Chaïm et Olbrechts-Tyteca, Traité de l'argumentation, Bruxelles, Éditions de l'Université de Bruxelles, 2008, 740 p.
- Plantin Christian, Dictionnaire de l'argumentation. Une introduction aux études d'argumentation, Lyon, ENS éditions, 2016, 634 p.
Assessment methods and criteria
Writting of a argumentation protocol and presentation of a written and oral argumentation.
Work placement(s)
Organizational remarks
The course holds each year.
Contacts
Pr. Dr Geoffrey Grandjean
Chargé de cours
Faculté de Droit, de Science politique et de Criminologie
Place des orateurs, 3
4000 Liège
Boîte 11
Bureau 2.17
Tel. : +32 (0)4/366.96.60
Courriel : Geoffrey.Grandjean@uliege.be