Duration
Contemporary history : 30h Th
Current issues : 30h Th
Number of credits
| Bachelor in translation and interpretation | 5 crédits |
Lecturer
Contemporary history : Julie Dury
Current issues : Aurélie Bouchat
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
Contemporary history
Contemporary history from the first world war to the present day
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Learning outcomes of the learning unit
Contemporary history
General course objectives:
- to help students to become responsible citizens;
- to develop student's critical mind;
- to develop student's ability to summarise;
- to help students to acquire intercultural knowledge that will enable them to understand, analyse and contextualise translation work:
- to develop student's general knowledge;
- to develop student's intellectual curiosity;
- to help them to familiarise themselves with the cultures particular to each foreign language studied, as regards their historical, geopolitical, economic, social and to anchor them in a global context.
- to introduce students to the ethical standards in force in the profession, especially discretion, confidentiality, punctuality and professional secrecy.
Special course objectives:
At the end of this course, students will be able to
- understand the information, store it and use it again efficiently;
- date, locate and put back in their context the historical events seen in class;
- in documents, define and mobilise historical concepts seen in class and/or present in the glossary provided;
- critical examination: establish the identity card and check the relevance as well as the reliability of the proposed documents;
- analyse (retrieve information/messages) the written, cartographic, statistical, schematic, iconographic documents, etc., and put them back in their historical context;
- highlight the cause and effect relations between the information from the past seen in class;
- make links between social, economic, political, geographic and cultural phenomena;
- adopt an active learning attitude by reading texts (compulsory reading);
- control and use theoretical and practical linguistic knowledge: develop language skills in their mother tongue (lexical skills, reading comprehension, written output and oral output).
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Prerequisite knowledge and skills
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Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Contemporary history
Ex cathedra classes and exercices
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Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning)
Contemporary history
Face to face
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Recommended or required readings
Contemporary history
Compulsory reading:
BAIGORRI JALÓN (J.), De Paris à Nuremberg: naissance de l'interprétation de conférence, Ottawa, Les Presses de l'Université d'Ottawa, 2004 (Coll. «Regards sur la traduction» dirigée par J. Delisle), pp. 1-6 et 225-276.
Recommended readings:
- ASSELAIN (J.-C.) et alii, Précis d'histoire européenne. Du 19e siècle à nos jours, Paris, 2015.
- Atlas des relations internationales, sous la dir. de P. Boniface, Paris, 2018.
- CAROL (A.), GARRIGUES (J.) et IVERNEL (M.), Précis d'histoire du XXe siècle, Paris, 2005.
- DUROSELLE (J.-B.) et KASPI (A.), Histoire des relations internationales de 1919 à nos jours, 2 t., Paris, 2017.
- HAYT (R.), Atlas d'histoire, Bruxelles, 2012.
- Le dictionnaire historique et géopolitique du 20e siècle, sous la dir. de S. Cordelier, Paris, 2007.
- LEJEUNE (D.), Histoire du monde actuel (1990-2000), Paris, 2001.
- NOUSCHI (M.), Le 20e siècle. Tournants, temps, tendances, Paris, 2016.
- NOUSCHI (M.), Petit atlas historique du 20e siècle, Paris, 2016.
- VAÏSSE (M.), Les relations internationales depuis 1945, Paris, 2019.
- VAÏSSE (M.), Dictionnaire des relations internationales de 1900 à nos jours, Paris, 2009.
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Assessment methods and criteria
Contemporary history
Written exam in January relating to the subjects studied in class and the compulsory texts: 100% of the mark, 10% of which for mastery of the French language
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Work placement(s)
Organizational remarks
Contacts
Contemporary history
Julie DURY
Bât. BE-026 Haute Ecole de la Ville de Liège
rue Hazinelle 2
4000 Liège
Belgique
E-mail: Julie.Dury@uliege.be
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Adaptation of teaching commitments following the COVID-19 pandemic for the May-June 2020 session
Teaching methods implemented : distance-learning
Assessment subjects
Assessment methods
Contacts
Adaptation of teaching commitments following the COVID-19 pandemic for the Aug-Sept 2020 session
Assessment subjects
Contemporary history
Oral exam in September relating to the subjects studied in class and the compulsory texts: 100% of the mark
Assessment methods
Contemporary history
Oral exam lasting approximately 45 minutes (Blackboard Collaborate)
Contacts
Contemporary history
Julie DURY
Bât. BE-026 Haute Ecole de la Ville de Liège
rue Hazinelle 2
4000 Liège
Belgique
E-mail: Julie.Dury@uliege.be
Items online
Contemporary history
Contemporary history
Texts, maps, diagrams,... seen in class and a glossary will be available on eCampus only after curriculum validation (myULiège-Cours-Accès à eCampus-Histoire contemporaine)