2019-2020 / HTRA0014-1

Bachelor's final year project

Duration

Number of credits

 Bachelor in sociology and anthropology3 crédits 
 Extra courses intended for exchange students (Erasmus, ...) (Faculté des Sciences sociales)3 crédits 

Lecturer

N...

Coordinator

Véronique Servais

Language(s) of instruction

French language

Organisation and examination

All year long

Schedule

Schedule online

Units courses prerequisite and corequisite

Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program

Learning unit contents

Student's personal dissertation consisting in a comparative analyses of three main anthropological articles on a free subject. 

Learning outcomes of the learning unit

Selecting, carefully reading, synthetizing and comparing scientific papers focused on a specific anthropological issue.
Writing a critic comparative dissertaion that respects formal and bibliographical norms.
Students will learn to put articles into perspective and to identify continuities and ruptures (theoretical and methodological). Students will adress precise analytical questions starting from personal reflexion, and formulate a coherent problematic out of these.
They will finally be able to: 1) lead bibliographical research; 2) synthetize scientific articles; 3) confront different anthropological approaches within a critical analysis; 4) master scientific writing.
More precise information to be found on: http://www.fass.ulg.ac.be/cms/c_253004/fr/reglements

Prerequisite knowledge and skills

Orthography and syntax mastery.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

Students choose their research subject out of the thematics proposed by potential directors, or propose another thematic. See:
- Règlement du TFB: http://www.fass.ulg.ac.be/cms/c_253004/fr/reglements
- Site du Laboratoire d'Anthropologie Sociale et Culturelle (LASC) :
https://www.lasc.uliege.be/cms/c_3366048/fr/lasc-pistes-thematiques-pour-les-memoires-et-stages
- Liste des pistes thématiques transmise via MyULiège.
Students can submit another subject to be approved by a director.
In both cases, a potential director is to be conctacted by the end of November.
See "échéancier officiel de la FaSS": http://www.fass.ulg.ac.be/cms/c_253004/fr/reglements

Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning)

Personal work and mentoring by a director. An information session is organized at the beginning of the academic year.
Once the theme has been approved by a direcor, students have to return a specific form to the apparitorat  according to the deadlines and mentionning:

  • the name of the director
  • a list of scientific articles
  • a provisional title
  • a few lines of personal questions and relfexion about the choosen subject
The form is to download at: http://www.fass.ulg.ac.be/cms/c_253004/fr/reglements

Recommended or required readings

All instructions to be found within the official regulations document
http://www.fass.ulg.ac.be/cms/c_253004/fr/reglements

Assessment methods and criteria

The assessment will be based on the capacity to follow formal rules and the achiement of the objectives mentionned above.
The TFB has to be submitted to the FaSS' apparitorat for the date stipulated by the official échéancier: http://www.fass.ulg.ac.be/cms/c_253004/fr/reglements
The following situations will lead to adjournment to the second session of exams (August-Septembre):


  • Non-respect of the submission dead-line
  • Plagiarism
  • Bad references citation
  • Analysis of less than three anthropological articles

Work placement(s)

Organizational remarks

Contacts

  • Marie Campigotto - mcampigotto@uliege.be
  • Isabelle Borsus - iborsus@uliege.be
  • Elodie Razy - elodie.razy@uliege.be

Adaptation of teaching commitments following the COVID-19 pandemic for the May-June 2020 session

Teaching methods implemented : distance-learning

Assessment subjects

Assessment methods

Rules available at this address: https://www.fass.uliege.be/cms/c_3729135/fr/fass-reglements-et-formulaires
Students should send their work by email to their tutor june, 2nd 2020.

Contacts

Adaptation of teaching commitments following the COVID-19 pandemic for the Aug-Sept 2020 session

Assessment subjects

See above - no changes due to covid

Assessment methods

Work paper to send by mail

Contacts

  • Isabelle Borsus - iborsus@uliege.be
  • Elodie Razy - elodie.razy@uliege.be