Duration
15h Th, 15h Pr
Number of credits
| Bachelor in history | 5 crédits |
Lecturer
Language(s) of instruction
French language
Organisation and examination
Teaching in the first semester, review in January
Schedule
Units courses prerequisite and corequisite
Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program
Learning unit contents
The four Heuristics courses offer students the opportunity to discover the specificities and methods of historical research for the four periods of history (typology of sources and works specific to each period; introduction to bibliographical research and the use of the main working tools). In B3, each student will thus be able to choose, with full knowledge of the facts, the two periods in which he or she wishes to specialise and to carry out his or her first major work independently (including the TFC).
Students will have acquired some research skills, exercised their critical thought and improved the quality of their scientific writing.
Learning outcomes of the learning unit
At the end of this course, students will be able to
- distinguish potential sources for medieval studies among the traces of the past
- conduct detailed research (chronologies, dictionaries and encyclopaedias, specialist atlases)
- carry out rigorous bibliographical research
- distinguish between the different types of source (material, written, immaterial) available to the medieval historian
- identify a narrative source by taking a critical look at the information provided by bibliographical directories of sources (circumstances of writing, manuscript tradition and critical editions)
- properly cite the reference of a medieval source, whether it is a manuscript source or a printed source
- begin compiling a corpus of sources
- report orally or in writing on the research of others (issues, methods and means)
- communicate the results of his/her research in clear and precise scientific French, either orally or in writing
Prerequisite knowledge and skills
Corequisite courses
- HIST0082-1
- HIST0040-1
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
This course should give students the opportunity to discover the reality of research in the field of medieval history. There will therefore be an alternance between the theoretical sessions needed to make students aware of the specific nature of the study of this period of history and practical and dynamic sessions, designed according to the flipped classroom pedagogy. These sessions will be given at the QI on Mondays from 2pm to 4pm (Prof. Fl. Close).
An initiation to bibliography will be given at the same time to enable students to familiarise themselves with the works and to become increasingly involved in the construction of collective knowledge. These compulsory sessions will take place on 4 Wednesdays (1, 8, 15, 22 October) from 11 am to 1 pm in R100 (G. Beyens, Assistant).
Optional but highly recommended bibliographic practice will be organised by student monitors on a weekly basis according to the timetable communicated during the course.
Self-study bibliographic exercises will be available on eCampus.
Mode of delivery (face to face, distance learning, hybrid learning)
Face-to-face course
Further information:
Active participation is expected from every student.
Course materials and recommended or required readings
Platform(s) used for course materials:
- eCampus
Further information:
Platform(s) used for course materials:
- eCampus
Further information:
Bibliography Syllabus 2025-2026 and documents to download (eCampus)
Exam(s) in session
Any session
- In-person
written exam
Further information:
Exam(s) in session
Any session
- In-person
written exam
Additional information:
Exam(s) in session
Any session
- In-person
written exam ( open-ended questions )
Additional information:
Submission of all (compulsory) formative work by the deadline is a sine qua non for admission to the certification test.
Use of AI:
All academic writing must be personal and original work. Therefore, the use of AI in homework assignments is only tolerated for the purposes of language improvement (i.e., exclusively for spelling and grammar correction and translation) and provided that the use of such a tool is duly indicated and acknowledged.
During written exams in the library, no use of AI will be tolerated so that students can demonstrate their mastery of the language. Any false or incomplete declaration will be considered fraud and punished as such.
Work placement(s)
Organisational remarks and main changes to the course
First class : Monday 30 September at 11 am.
The Monday classes from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. and the initiation sessions on bibliography (Wednesdays 1, 8, 15, 22 October from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m.) are both compulsory and interchangeable.
The suspension of certain courses may be compensated by carrying out autonomous work.
Contacts
Enseignant titulaire : Florence Close, Professeur PhD
Département des Sciences historiques - bat A4
Quai Roosevelt 1B
4000 Liège
04 366 54 47
fclose@uliege.be
Assistant : Grégoire Beyens : gbeyens@uliege.be
Étudiant-moniteur :
- Julie Delcour : julie.delcour@student.uliege.be
- Bastien Vanoverschelde : bastien.vanoverschelde@student.uliege.be
- Julien Van Den Berghe : julien.vandenberghe@student.uliege.be