2020-2021 / HEVL0074-1

Contemporary history and current issues

Contemporary history

Current issues

Duration

Contemporary history : 30h Th
Current issues : 30h Th

Number of credits

 Bachelor in translation and interpretation5 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

Schedule online

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 help students to identify their needs in terms of information and documentation and to develop document and terminology research strategies;
 - 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, hybrid learning)

Contemporary history

Face to face

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Organisational adjustments related to the current health context

Contemporary history

The next courses will take place by videoconference via the Blackboard Collaborate tool available within eCampus. The courses will be recorded each time and therefore available for consultation.
Onsite written exam relating to the subjects studied in class and the compulsory texts: 100% of the mark, 10% of which for mastery of the French language.

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, 175-224 et 267-276.
Recommended readings:
- ASSELAIN (J.-C.) et alii, Précis d'histoire européenne. Du 19e siècle à nos jours, Paris, 2015.
- BONIFACE (P.), Atlas des relations internationales. 100 cartes pour comprendre le monde de 1945 à nos jours, Paris, 2020.   - BONIFACE (P.), Les relations internationales de 1945 à nos jours, Paris, 2020.
- 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

Below you will find information on the evaluation methods planned for in-person and remote exams as well as those planned for hybrid sessions. Depending on how the health crisis evolves, the chosen method will be communicated to you no later than one month before the start of the exam session.

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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