HIST0007-3

Duration

15h Th, 30h Pr, 5d FT Tr. Pr.

Number of credits

	Master in history (120 ECTS)	10 crédits
	Master in history (60 ECTS)	10 crédits

Lecturer

Yann Berthelet

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

The seminar will be dedicated to an ongoing research on the rites of "consecration" in Rome and the Roman world.

Learning outcomes of the learning unit

This seminar is the last stage of the student's training in history before writing the TFE. It aims to strengthen skills acquired during the baccalaureate: autonomy, ability to establish a critical presentation of the modern bibliography, to identify a question of research, to establish and/or to justify a corpus of sources allowing to respond to the question of research posed, to implement the basic philological reflexes, to critically interrogate traces of the past by taking into account all types of sources and to communicate clearly and in a flawless French language the result of his research.

Prerequisite knowledge and skills

To take this seminar, the student must :

have followed the general course Histoire de l'Antiquité gréco-romaine, y compris 15h d'histoire du Proche-Orient (LCLA0015-1);
have basic notions of classical Latin [= having taken the course of Initiation au latin (LCLA0018-1) or the course of Auteurs latin I (LCLA0018-1)];
have a very good oral and written knowledge of the French language.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

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Mode of delivery (face to face, distance learning, hybrid learning)

The weekly seminar (Tuesday, 10h-12h; A4 Salle du Conseil during Q1 ; A4 R30 during Q2) will alternate work on ancient sources and critical readings of scientific articles or other modern historical works.
Readings of scientific articles and mandatory Latin translation exercises will be requested regularly.
Among the students enrolled in the course, the Antiquists will have to work on Greek sources.
The health situation could lead to changes in the seminar room (follow the bills on the Professor's door).
Some sessions may be suspended in order to enable students to carry out the required exercises in a library.

Organisational adjustments related to the current health context

As long as the health situation (COVID-19) allows, the Seminar of Historical Criticism-Antiquity, a practical seminar, will be maintained in the classroom.
If this became impossible, it would be given remotely, by video (and Power Points projected by "screen sharing"). Course materials would be regularly deposited on Ecampus.
Except for the fact that the examination could then be done remotely, by video, the evaluation procedures would remain unchanged (see below, "Assessment methods and criteria").

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.

Any session :

- In-person

written exam AND oral exam

- Remote

oral exam AND written work

- If evaluation in "hybrid"

preferred remote

Additional information:

The evaluation of May/June (and August/September in case of failure) will be based on:

on the exercises requested throughout the year
on the (re)translation of one of the Latin texts translated during the year, with possible grammar questions on the (re)translated passage (oral examination, part 1).
on a written work of personal research that will have to be delivered at the beginning of the session. More precise modalities for the written work of personal research will be indicated in class. It is to this written work that the precision "written exam" (for the face-to-face scenario) and "work to be handed in" (for the remote scenario) refers above. This written work will then be defended orally (oral examination, part 2).

Important note: the correction of the French language (spelling, conjugation, syntax, punctuation, etc.) is fully part of the evaluation.

Work placement(s)

Organizational remarks

Contacts

Enseignant titulaire Pr. Dr. Yann Berthelet Chargé de cours. Université de Liège, Bât. A4 - Histoire de l'Antiquité gréco-romaine, Quai Roosevelt 1B, 4000 Liège - Belgique +32 4 3665606 Yann.Berthelet@uliege.be

Historical criticism seminar (Greek and Roman Antiquity)