Duration
20h Th
Number of credits
| Specialised master in risk management and well-being in the workplace | 2 crédits |
Lecturer
Coralie Smets-Gary
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
Course organized in UCL
Although each teacher should be able to freely assess the most suitable means to reach the course's objectives, the course's content will inevitably proceed from its objectives. A first part will focus on the study of human conflictsA second part will focus on the study of a series of conflict management methods emphasising the specificity of each process, for instance: legal rules, conciliation, negotiation, mediation. A third part - a part that could parallel the first two parts - will focus on each student's learning of his/her own aptitudes to locate him/herself in relation to the conflict and to assume its resolution or its management.
Methods
(a) Because of the interdisciplinary aspect of the objectives and content of the course, the course should, as far as possible, be taught jointly by a professor of law and a professor of social sciences or clinical psychology.
(b) The course uses interactive methods. The course should include sessions in a classical audience for the teaching of the first and second part of the course. However, this teaching will be structured to allow students to react and become personally involved in the analysis of the concepts or mechanisms to be studied. In order to encourage this interactivity, the course will be based on a number of texts that will have been read beforehand by the students. The course should also include group sessions in which students will be placed in situations where they will be able to approach and manage human conflict. They will then be asked to analyse their own attitudes towards this conflict. Some of these sessions could also be co-managed with one of the course teachers, by external guests who are specialists in human conflict management. In order to finance these interventions, the U.C.L.'s pedagogical development funds will be used as much as possible.
c) The evaluation of the knowledge and skills acquired by the students will specifically take into account the personal work of the student.
Learning outcomes of the learning unit
Based on the observation that a lawyer, in the practice of his or her duties, will regularly be confronted to manage multiple human conflicts, the course, which is inspired by the spirit of the reform "Managing one's training", should be able to serve a triple purpose: - to introduce the student to the different approaches that can be used to deal with human conflicts and to understand the socio-economic mechanisms as well as the psychic mechanisms of the personality that explain the emergence and development of human conflicts; - to analyse the different methods used to settle or at least manage human conflicts, with particular emphasis on the role of law, legal procedures and justice, on the one hand, and on the other hand, on the different forms of mediation and the specificity of this method of conflict resolution; - to enable each student, within the structure of the course, to personally experience, even if only on a virtual way, the confrontation with human conflicts, to express and analyse his or her reactions, attitudes, emotions or aspirations, and to develop his or her ability to position himself or herself in the context of a conflict.
Prerequisite knowledge and skills
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning)
Recommended or required readings
A one-volume syllabus, available on i-campus and distributed by the course service. Depending on the part of the course, this syllabus is made up of a synthesis of the teaching or of texts which must be read in full by the students and completed by their notes taken during the oral course.
Assessment methods and criteria
The knowledge assessment will be done in a written exam presented at one of the exam sessions and will consist of the answer to four questions. The first two questions will be based on the texts that serve as a basis for the first two parts. The last two questions will deal with the legal processes of dispute resolution (Parts 3 and 4).