Duration
30h AUTR
Number of credits
| Bachelor in economics and business management | 1 crédit | |||
| Bachelor in business engineering | 1 crédit | |||
| Master in multilingual communication (120 ECTS) | 5 crédits |
Lecturer
Language(s) of instruction
French language
Organisation and examination
Teaching in the second semester
Schedule
Units courses prerequisite and corequisite
Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program
Learning unit contents
This course aims to offer first-year students a first contact with the reality of the business world.
It offers to students, thanks to several practitioner presentations, videos and documentation, the possibility of:
- identifying the different types of organizations;
- identifying the different functions and departments which interact inside an organization;
- understanding the economics environment in which the organizations perform.
This course takes place in complementarity and support of the diverse courses provided to these students at the beginning of their business education.
Commitment requested : 30 hours.
This course consists of 5 units taking the form of conferences and note-taking as well as homeworking (reading and watching documentation and supports available on Lola).
Learning outcomes of the learning unit
In coherence with the skills composing the first year of the bachelor degree, through this transversal course, students are be able to:
- become more familiar to the objectives and roles of organizations (public and private, for-profit and non-profit).
- discover concretely products and services provided by these organizations.
- become aware of, and better understand the different jobs relating to business.
- discover the different (management) functions in an organization.
- get an overview of the socio-economic panorama and the industrial world in Wallonia and Belgium.
- meet entrepreneurs, CEOs and managers.
At the end of this course, students will thus be able to better understand the reality of a company and its management.
Prerequisite knowledge and skills
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
The learning process consists of conferences (CEO, entrepreneurs, managers, ...) and consultation of documentation (videos, articles, websites, ...).
Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning)
The course takes the form of face-to-face conferences given by different key actors from the business world, and of homeworking with the consultation and the reading of several types of documentation (videos, articles, websites, ...). Students discover organizations, their products and/or services as well as their management challenges in an increasingly complex world.
Recommended or required readings
Students are expected to take notes during the conferences (on-site) as well as during the consultation and reading of supports (at home).
Assessment methods and criteria
The evaluation is based on an individual homework to complete after each unit as well as a written exam (based on the content of the conferences and documentation) organized in Mai/June session as a multiple choice questionnaire.
Individual homework's count for 30% of the evaluation and the written exam counts for 70%.
Work placement(s)
Organizational remarks
The details concerning the conferences (dates, presenters, instructions, homework) are announced on Lola.
Contacts
Lecturer :
Pauline DEPRAETERE
pauline.depraetere@uliege.be
Lecturer (in support) :
Magali HERMAN
magali.herman@uliege.be
Adaptation of teaching commitments following the COVID-19 pandemic for the May-June 2020 session
Teaching methods implemented : distance-learning
4 units on 5 have been given to students before the interruption of face-to-face classes. The fifth one has been canceled.
Assessment subjects
The content of the 4 units (conferences and documentation) is subject for the written exam at home.
Assessment methods
The evaluation is based on an individual homework to complete after each unit as well as a written exam at home (based on the content of the conferences and documentation) organized in Mai/June session as a multiple choice questionnaire.
The instructions regarding the written exam at home (tool, timing, etc.) will be announced when required on Lola.
Individual homework's count for 30% of the evaluation and the written exam counts for 70%.