SOCI2258-1

Duration

30h Th

Number of credits

	Master in human resources management (120 ECTS)	2 crédits
	Master in human resources management (120 ECTS) (Gestion)	2 crédits
	Master in labour sciences (120 ECTS)	3 crédits
	Master in labour sciences (60 ECTS)	3 crédits
	Extra courses intended for exchange students (Erasmus, ...) (Faculté des Sciences sociales)	3 crédits

Lecturer

Didier Vrancken

Substitute(s)

Laura Beuker, Nicolas Jacquet, Julie Gérard

Language(s) of instruction

French language

Organisation and examination

Teaching in the second semester

Schedule

Schedule online

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.

Moreover, through this learning, the student will have developed his capacities of critical analysis and reflection, as well as the interview's techniques.
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 books " Social Barbar " and "Les invisibilités barbares" 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 (if the health situation allows it).
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, hybrid 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).

Organisational adjustments related to the current health context

If the University of Liège goes into orange code,

the course will be given at a distance via (in principle) ULiège's unicast system.
the course final evaluation will be done face-to-face,
the work related to the interview will still have to be done but remotely and will have to be uploaded on the eCampus platform (for the 22 April, 2021, 23h59).

If the University of Liège goes into red code,

the course will be given at a distance via (in principle) ULiège's unicast system.
the course final evaluation will be done at a distance via eCampus,
the work related to the interview will still have to be done but remotely and will have to be uploaded on the eCampus platform (for the 22 April, 2021, 23h59).

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 ( open-ended questions )

- Remote

written exam ( open-ended questions )

- If evaluation in "hybrid"

preferred in-person

Additional information:

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.

The second session will consist of a written examination.

Work placement(s)

Organizational remarks

First lesson: 04/02/2021.
The submission of group work will be done via the eCampus "Homework" tool in the tab "Submit your group work here".

Contacts

Lecturer Didier Vrancken.
Assistants: Julie Gérard, Nicolas Jacquet and Laura Beuker.
Contact: Nicolas Jacquet (njacquet@uliege)

Sociological analysis of social intervention policies