Duration
15h Th, 30h Ex., 5d FT Tr. Pr.
Number of credits
| Master in modern languages and literatures : Germanics, research focus | 10 crédits | |||
| Master in modern languages and literatures : general, reasearch focus | 10 crédits |
Lecturer
Lieselotte Brems, Marc Delrez, Michel Delville, Raymond Echitchi, Delphine Munos, Daria Tunca, An Van Linden
Coordinator
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
Students who have decided on the in-depth approach determine a course programme with one of the lecturers in the English department, generally in connection with existing courses.
Learning outcomes of the learning unit
For literature: a finer understanding of how texts function.
For linguistics: the ability to set up their own research (corpus study or discourse analysis), and effectively report on it.
Prerequisite knowledge and skills
An excellent command of English
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Students will often be invited to read more and write more essays though in the context of an existing course. Yet they can also in certain circumstances receive private tutorials.
In addition to pursuing individual seminar work, students will take part in the following types of learning activities:
[1] Sessions about general topics related to conducting research, taught in French, for all students taking a research seminar course irrespective of the language chosen.
(a) General sessions:
- Open science
- Research integrity
- The process of publishing scientific work (submission, peer-review, revision)
- General introduction to research in literary studies, with a focus on literary studies in the digital age
- General introduction to qualitative and quantitative research methods in linguistics
- Disseminating science to the general public
(b) Hands-on sessions, preparing students for the student symposium (see [2]):
- Abstract writing (two sessions: theory + workshop)
- Designing visual aids (such as PowerPoint slide shows) for a presentation
- Oral presentation: finding and using your voice
[2] Students from all languages and disciplines will have to present their research project at a student symposium, to which all staff and BA3 students of the Modern languages department will be invited as well.
Students will have to prepare an abstract in French and in the foreign language studied according to a specific template, which will be handed out to the audience, and will get 10 minutes to present their research, using visual aids. They can choose to present in French or in the foreign language studied. If they do not present in French, they should prepare the visual aids in French so as to help the audience understand their talk. After each talk, there will be a 5-minute Q&A. Students who follow the two research seminars in a single year need to present their two research projects.
The student symposium will be organized before the May-June exam session so students can incorporate the feedback they received into their research paper.
Mode of delivery (face to face, distance learning, hybrid learning)
Face-to-face course
Further information:
The general sessions organized in the first term (see 1a above) will be taught in hybrid fashion so as to enable students who are on an Erasmus stay abroad to take part remotely.
All the other sessions will be taught face-to-face.
Course materials and recommended or required readings
Will depend on the student's choice.
Exam(s) in session
Any session
- Remote
written exam ( open-ended questions )
Written work / report
Continuous assessment
Further information:
Students ought to enquire with the professors in charge by the end of October.
The collective transversal programme is worth 2 credits, i.e. 20% of the overall course grade. The remaining 8 credits (80%) will be awarded on the basis of the students' active participation in the language-specific seminar as well as their course paper. Both components will be evaluated by the teacher of the language-specific seminar.
Work placement(s)
Organisational remarks and main changes to the course
While the collective transversal programme was still optional last year, this year it has become obligatory and accounts for 20% of the overall course grade.
Contacts
Lieselotte Brems, lbrems@uliege.be
Marc Delrez, Marc.Delrez@uliege.be
Michel Delville, mdelville@uliege.be
Raymond Echitchi, sechitchi@uliege.be
Delphine Munos, delphine.munos@uliege.be
Daria Tunca, dtunca@uliege.be
An Van linden, an.vanlinden@uliege.be