2021-2022 / SOCI2261-1

Introduction to research in development and international cooperation (this includes a personal piece of work)

Duration

12h Th

Number of credits

 Master in population and development studies (120 ECTS)9 crédits 

Lecturer

Pierre Beaulieu, Justine Contor, Melissa Schneider

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

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 (rules on the website of the Faculty end on eCampus).
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.

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.
A PPT will also be available, repeating the theoretical parts of the course.

Assessment methods and criteria

Exam(s) in session

Any session

- In-person

written exam

Written work / report

Continuous assessment


Additional information:

Students will be assessed through :


- Presence and participation in the course sessions and exercices. Six tool sheets will have to be produced and must be submitted to the supervisors within the deadlines and forms communicated.
  - 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

Justine Contor, assistante : jcontor@uliege.be
Melissa Schneider, assistante : melissa.schneider@uliege.be