Epistemology of social sciences

Duration

45h Th

Number of credits

Lecturer

Laurence Bouquiaux, Bruno Frère

Coordinator

Bruno Frère

Language(s) of instruction

French language

Organisation and examination

Teaching in the first semester, review in January

Schedule

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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

to come

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

Organisational adjustments related to the current health context

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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

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

oral exam

- Remote

oral exam

- If evaluation in "hybrid"

preferred in-person


Additional information:

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
 

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