Duration
30h Th
Number of credits
| Master in history (120 ECTS) | 5 crédits |
Lecturer
Yann Berthelet, Florence Close, Annick Delfosse, Eric Geerkens, Catherine Lanneau
Coordinator
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
This course is a sort of common denominator to the research seminars (I and II) for students studying for the master's degree in history with a research focus.
The purpose is to offer students a compact overview of what is currently happening in research in history, in connection with the main components of the history courses taught at the University of Liège, structured first by period first, then by theme.
To enable all the students find information relating to their choice of period, the course will offer an overview every year for each of the major periods taught, with the addition of a cross-period theme, which can change every year.
In 2020-21, classes will be as follows:
Antiquity: Yann Berthelet
Middle Ages: Florence Close
Early modern period: Annick Delfosse
Contemporary period: Catherine Lanneau
Cross-cutting theme: Eric Geerkens
Coordination: Eric Geerkens
Learning outcomes of the learning unit
Students will be able to set up a literature watch in their respective areas which they can use to look for historiographical reviews in particular, where they exist. They will once again be confronted with the culture of debate particular to their field. They will be prepared to establish a state of the relevant scientific literature for the purpose of their final year dissertation.
Prerequisite knowledge and skills
It is assumed that students have acquired the skills practised during the Practical Introduction to Historical Research and during the various practical classes (bibliographic research, reading scientific articles, identification of a problem).
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Following an introductory session, illustrated by the experiences of young researchers in their relations with historiography, the course will be divided according to period and theme. Prior to each session, students will be asked to carefully read the texts (a small number), which the contributors will comment on and discuss with them during the lesson.
Mode of delivery (face to face, distance learning, hybrid learning)
Presentations of the contents of the texts prepared by the students and discussions.
Organisational adjustments related to the current health context
Recommended or required readings
The reading material proposed by each contributor will be available on MyULg at the beginning of the term.
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
- Remote
written work
- If evaluation in "hybrid"
preferred remote
Additional information:
The course is organized every other week to give students time to read the article(s) that will be discussed with the teacher in charge of a class session.
For each session and at the latest when the course starts, each student gives the teacher a review of the article(s) to be read.
This review is based on the reading grid already used for the IPRH course. An updated version of this grid will be transmitted during the first session of the course and an oral exchange will clarify the expectations, if necessary.
The submission of all expected article reviews will be a strict condition for access to the final assessment.
At the end of the year, every student will be asked to provide a personal commentary during the lesson on one of the items they were given to read. This commentary could include complementary elements they have read but, above all, it must show the student's ability to form a personal point of view relating to the sources, methods or results presented.
This work will be assessed by the teacher who provided the file of reading material from which the commented article was taken. Contrary to what the above form requires, there is no face-to-face written examination and the teacher's assessment is not followed by an oral defence of the work.
Work placement(s)
Organizational remarks
Contacts
Contact with the various teachers taking the classes must pass via the coordinator, unless decided otherwise.
Professor Eric Geerkens
Département des sciences historiques
1b, quai Roosevelt (bât A4, bureau I9)
Tel.: +32-4-366 53 59
E-mail: e.geerkens@uliege.be