Duration
Ateliers de prospective : 15h Th, 50h Pr, 6d FW
Séminaire de développement territorial - Chaire Sporck : 15h Th
Number of credits
| Master in smart rurality (120 ECTS) | 9 crédits | |||
| Master in geography : general (120 ECTS) | 10 crédits |
Lecturer
Ateliers de prospective : Serge Schmitz
Séminaire de développement territorial - Chaire Sporck : Collégialité
Coordinator
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
Ateliers de prospective
Workshops are based on a territorial diagnostic and prospective study that will be realized during a week fieldworks abroad. They confront the student with fieldworks methodological problems and with the relativity of the idea of development.
Main tools to collect and analyse information (Oral survey, observation, landscape analysis...) and tolls to assess the regional development and to foresight it are presented.
A cooperation with local stakeholders is foreseen.
Séminaire de développement territorial - Chaire Sporck
The Chair Sporck is International lectures given by a prominent geographer. This year, the Professeur Guy Di Méo will introduce his social geography Monday 10 Dec., Wedenesday 12 Dec. and Friday 14 Dec.
Learning outcomes of the learning unit
Ateliers de prospective
1. Confrontation with the difficulties of research abroad 2. Command of research methods of economic and social geography 3. Approriation of interview and survey techniques 4. Use of the geographical knowledge to realise a territorial diagnostic from a sustainable development viewpoint. 5. Use of tools to help the diagnostic 6. Selection of scenario 7. Reflexivity concerning regional knowledge and regional development.
Prerequisite knowledge and skills
Ateliers de prospective
Landscape analysis, Spatial analysis, cartography, rural and urban geography, and geomorphology.
Good physical condition, English
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Ateliers de prospective
The lectures and the exercises present tools and prepare the students to the projects. They are planned in Belgium during the first quadrimester and during one week of May abroad. These projects tend to be as close as possible of real condition of work. Students work in collaboration with stakeholders.
Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning)
Ateliers de prospective
Lectures will be given at the geographic institute to present the tools to collect and analyse information and to prepare the fieldworks. Some evenings during the fieldworks are also dedicated to theory. Several reports are requested.
Recommended or required readings
Ateliers de prospective
Nihil
Assessment methods and criteria
Ateliers de prospective
Fieldworks and reports (60%) Oral exam (40%)
Work placement(s)
Organizational remarks
Ateliers de prospective
Fieldworks will be organized in Morocco the second week of May
Contacts
Ateliers de prospective
Serge Schmitz Université de Liège - Institut de Géographie - Sart Tilman - Bât. B11 - Bureau 1/41 - Tél. : 04/366.56.29 - E-mail : S.Schmitz@uliege.be Secrétariat : Chantal SARTO : Tél. : 04/366 56.23