2019-2020 / SOCI0022-1

Epistemology of social sciences

Duration

45h Th

Number of credits

 Master in political sciences : general (120 ECTS)5 crédits 
 Master in political sciences : general (120 ECTS) (en Science, Technologie et Société (STS))5 crédits 
 Master in anthropology (120 ECTS)6 crédits 
 Master in sociology (120 ECTS)6 crédits 
 Master in labour sciences (120 ECTS)6 crédits 
 Master in sociology and anthropology (60 ECTS)6 crédits 
 Extra courses intended for exchange students (Erasmus, ...) (Faculté des Sciences sociales)6 crédits 

Lecturer

Laurence Bouquiaux, Bruno Frère

Language(s) of instruction

French language

Organisation and examination

Teaching in the first semester, review in January

Schedule

Schedule online

Units courses prerequisite and corequisite

Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program

Learning unit contents

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Learning outcomes of the learning unit

The main goal of the course is twofold :
- render students sensible to questions of conditions of validity of a social knowledge and to the relations between social theorists knowledge and lay people knowledge.
- make students conscious of the diversity of explanations in social sciences.

Prerequisite knowledge and skills

A basic knowledge of great theoretical questions in social sciences

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

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

The first part of the course will consist in ex-cathedra lessons illustrated by slides. The second part will be given as lectures by research fellows.
For the lectures, a more active participation will be asked from the students but the concrete modalities will depend on the number of inscribed students.

Recommended or required readings

For each part of the course, references or textbooks will be available.
Certain parts will also be illustrated with slides.

Assessment methods and criteria

Evaluation will be based on an oral examination. Students will be interrogated on  the various parts of the course :


Evaluation criteria will be :
- clarity of argumentation
- use of correct formulation
- capacity to make use of notion in order to reason further.
Marc Jacquemain will evaluate all students likely with the help of C. Karakostaki and M. Cervera Marzal.

Work placement(s)

Organizational remarks

Contacts

Teachers :
Bruno Frère : 04366 48 89 E-mail : bfrere@uliege.be
 
Laurence Bouquiaux : 04 366 55 91
Laurence.Bouquiaux@ulg.ac.be
 

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

Teaching methods implemented : distance-learning

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

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Items online

readings
here are the readnigs suggested by L. Bouqiaux

ppt. Laurence Bouquiaux
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You will find enclosed the last version of the Laurence Bouquiaux's ppt

Good work to all 

 

BF

 

ppt Marc Jacquemain
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You will find enclosed the ppt of M. Jacquemain