Duration
12h Th
Number of credits
| Master in population and development studies (120 ECTS) | 9 crédits |
Lecturer
Language(s) of instruction
French language
Organisation and examination
All year long
Schedule
Units courses prerequisite and corequisite
Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program
Learning unit contents
This course aims to support students in carrying out their personal project and produce a scientific work.
Learning outcomes of the learning unit
At the end of this seminar, students will be able to produce a personal work structured and reflexive, based on a clear and relevent research issue. The student will make sure to demonstrate critical distance from his research subject. He or she will mobilize wisely a qualitative scientific literature as well as appropriate methodological tools.
Prerequisite knowledge and skills
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Course with theoretical introductions and practical exercises.
It will familiarize students with the formal guidelines for writing their personal project or their thesis, during the Master in Population and Development Studies. Classes will help students conduct bibliographic research, write a bibliography, formulate research questions and hypotheses, and make choices related to methodology or field of research.
Students will have mutiple opportunities to meet with teachers to discuss the progress made on their personal project (or their thesis), and ask questions.
Mode of delivery (face to face, distance learning, hybrid learning)
Seminars, exercises.
Organisational adjustments related to the current health context
If health measures require it, classroom sessions will switch to distance learning.
In this case, some class sessions will be recorded on the e-campus platform and made available to students in accordance with the face-to-face schedule, other sessions will be given live on the collaborate platform (e- campus) in order to allow exchanges between teachers and students and to answer the various questions.
The teaching method of each session will be communicated to the students at the latest the week preceding each course.
Recommended or required readings
Paillé, P., Mucchielli, A. (2012). L'analyse qualitative en sciences humaines et sociales. Paris: Armand Colin.
Olivier de Sardan J.P., (2008). La rigueur du qualitatif. Academia-Bruylant, Louvain-La-Neuve.
Lejeune C., (2014). Manuel d'analyse qualitative. Analyser sans compter ni classer. De Boeck, Louvain-la-Neuve.
Theoretical sheets will accompany the course :
- Writing and structuring of personal work
- Research Methods in Social Sciences
- Bibliographical references
- Interviews and material analysis, theoretical benchmarks and advice
A PPT will also be available, repeating the theoretical parts of the course.
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.
Students will be assessed through :
- Presence and participation in the course sessions and exercices.
- The evaluation of the course is inseparable from the evaluation of the TP. The evaluation is carried out jointly by the promoter of the TP (50%) and one of the seminar teachers on the basis of the criteria set out in the TP regulations (50%). But also on the basis of the information given during the sessions and exchanges with the teacher.
Work placement(s)
Organizational remarks
Contacts
Mélodie Dieudonné, assistante
melodie.dieudonne@uliege.be
Maccatory Bénédicte, assistante
benedicte.maccatory@ulg.ac.be
Pierre Beaulieu, assistant
pierre.beaulieu@uliege.be