Duration
30h Th
Number of credits
Lecturer
Substitute(s)
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
The course actualizes and implements social policies in order to question the reconfiguration of social welfare.
It is based on three points :
- Discussing the contemporary evolutions of the Welfare State.
- Provide an empirical perspective of the theories of the Welfare State.
- Data's collection related to social intervention policies.
Learning outcomes of the learning unit
At the end of the course, the student will be able to :
- analyze social policies and the evolution of the Belgian Welfare State,
- handle the complexity of the "social" and its evolution,
- master the references and the theoretical knowledge related to the theories of the "social",
- apply them to a field of social intervention.
Finally, the student will have developped his writting skills, his expertise in the field of restitution and his synthesis skills as a result of the analysis and the putting in perspective of concepts.
Prerequisite knowledge and skills
The course represent a straight continuation of the course : Sociological analysis of social politics.
SOCI2257-1 is corequisite.
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Lectures and interaction with students
The course is based on Didier Vrancken's book " Social Barbar " and on Welfare State's theories.
The course is organized around the presentation and the discussion of some central sociology' s concept of social policies.
The objective is to reveal the main concepts and the paradigms of social policies in order to confront them by the realization of an interview with a social policies' user.
The course aims to be participative and feeds on student's opinions and reflections.
Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning)
At first based on ex-cathedra lectures, the course then turns into a progressive participation of the students (Thursday, from 16PM to 18 PM in the second quarter).
Recommended or required readings
- Book: Vrancken Didier, 2010, Social Barbare, Charleroi : Couleurs Livre, 2010
- Various vectors (Powerpoint, video, intervention, etc.).
Assessment methods and criteria
In the first session, the final evaluation of the course will be the synthesis of two elements:
- Group work : 40% of the final quotation,
- The written exam (individual, on the contents of notes and reference book): 60% of the final quotation.
Work placement(s)
Organizational remarks
First lesson: 06/02/2020.
Contacts
Lecturer Didier Vrancken.
Assistants: Julie Gérard, Nicolas Jacquet and Laura Beuker.
Contact: Nicolas Jacquet (njacquet@uliege)
Adaptation of teaching commitments following the COVID-19 pandemic for the May-June 2020 session
Teaching methods implemented : distance-learning
Assessment subjects
Book "Social Barbare"
Power Point seen during the class
Assessment methods
Written exam
Open questions
Contacts
See above
Adaptation of teaching commitments following the COVID-19 pandemic for the Aug-Sept 2020 session
Assessment subjects
- Book: Vrancken Didier, 2010, Social Barbare, Charleroi : Couleurs Livre, 2010
- Various vectors (Powerpoint, video, intervention, etc.).
Assessment methods
Distance written exam via eCampus. Open questions
Contacts
Didier Vrancken: didier.vrancken@ulg.ac.be