Duration
4h Th, 44h SEM
Number of credits
| Bachelor in bioengineering | 2 crédits |
Lecturer
Coordinator
Language(s) of instruction
French language
Organisation and examination
All year long, with partial in January
Schedule
Units courses prerequisite and corequisite
Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program
Learning unit contents
Learning outcomes of the learning unit
This course is based on experiential learning through serious gaming, which allows students to:
- gain personal experience;
- analyse collectively with their peers, under the guidance of a third party;
- understand and generalise to typical professional situations:
- teamwork and the fundamental phenomena of group dynamics that characterise it;
- the functioning of an organisation and the fundamental processes that structure it;
- organisational change management and its impact on groups and individuals.
Prerequisite knowledge and skills
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
- Important information
The learning activities offered are primarily based on real-life experience. Participation in the entire seminar is therefore required. Any absence, regardless of its duration, will automatically result in the need to retake the course the following year. If organisational circumstances allow, an absence from one of the first two seminars for medical reasons may be subject to re-enrolment in a later seminar (logistically impossible for the last seminar).
- The course takes place in three stages:
- Fri 3 Oct (1.15pm-4.15pm): introductory session;
- a two-day seminar, to be chosen from the following three options:
Fri 24 & Sat 25 Oct (8.30am-6.30pm);
Fri 7 & Sat 8 Nov (8.30am-6.30pm);
Fri 28 & Sat 29 Nov (8:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m.). - Fri 5 Dec (3:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.): integration session.
The introductory session presents the objectives, framework and methodology of the course; it also familiarises students with the course topics and the position they will be asked to take in the seminar.
During the seminar, students are divided into groups of 4-6 people supervised by a professional psychosocial consultant. Each group is given the same mission: to conquer a planet using strategy game software that has many similarities with how a company operates (defining strategies and translating them into operational objectives, human resources management, supply chain management, decision-making in situations of uncertainty or crisis, etc.).
The same learning sequence is repeated five times during the seminar, becoming more complex as it progresses: group preparation and organisation, team simulation, psychosocial and psycho-organisational debriefing led by the psychosocial consultant, individual and collective self-reflection sequence for students using a 'logbook' methodology. The learning sequence restarts with a collective search for improvement and the definition of an improved organisation.
During the same weekend, students participate in small group discussions with GxABT alumni on all aspects of professional life in companies or organisations that they wish to address.
The post-seminar integration session allows students to deepen their understanding of the subject matter and prepare for their exams in groups.
Mode of delivery (face to face, distance learning, hybrid learning)
Face-to-face course
Further information:
Attendance and participation are absolutely necessary.
Course materials and recommended or required readings
Further information:
Theoritical documents shared BEFORE & DURING the seminar
Exam(s) in session
Any session
- In-person
oral exam
Further information:
In groups formed during the seminar and based on their experiences, students will give an oral presentation highlighting their interpretation of situations based on the theoretical concepts covered in the course. The analysis should be reflective and conceptually grounded.
A group discussion will follow with the lecturer.
More detailed instructions regarding the oral examination will be provided during the introductory session.
Work placement(s)
Organisational remarks and main changes to the course
Contacts
Tiber MANFREDINI (tiber.manfredini@uliege.be)
Joachim SFERRAZZA (joachim.sferrazza@uliege.be)
Cédric MONTAGNINO (cedric.montagnino@uliege.be)
GxABT secretary :
Sonia BOSSIERE (sonia.bossiere@uliege.be)