Duration
30h Th, 15h Pr, 5d FT Tr. Pr.
Number of credits
| Bachelor in history | 5 crédits |
Lecturer
Geoffrey Geuens, Jeremy Hamers, Catherine Lanneau, Dominique Longrée
Coordinator
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
Newspapers and periodicals, audio- and visual recordings and oral testimonies are more than primary sources for the researcher in contemporary history. The course will provide B3 students with theoretical knowledge and analysis methods which will allow them to be better prepared for the following steps of their schooling. In addition, the course will also introduce them to textometrical analysis, applied to press articles or political speeches.
Learning outcomes of the learning unit
The students should be able to use the theoretical knowledges and the practical competences gained during the year to realize their end-of-cycle written work and pursue their curriculum at MA level. This will allow them, after thoughtful choice, to select a subject for their MA thesis requiring the use and application of the principles evoked hereabove.
Prerequisite knowledge and skills
Successful completion of Special Heuristics, Contemporary Period (HIST0272) is an asset. In addition, this course will be connected to Exercises in Contemporary History, including TFC (HIST1015).
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
The course will be divided in 4 segments:
1) Introduction to documentary ressources relating to newspapers and periodicals (C. Lanneau) and analysis method of press forms (G. Geuens)
2) Introduction to textometry (D. Longrée)
3) Theoretical introduction to oral sources and practice of oral interviews (D. Laureys, from IHOES, et L. Van Velthem, from IHOES and the "Plateforme Mémoire orale FWB")
4) Introduction to documentary ressources relating to audio- and visual sources (C. Lanneau) and analysis method (J. Hamers).
Mode of delivery (face to face, distance learning, hybrid learning)
Face-to-face course
Additional information:
The course will be given in face-to-face and will be complemented by exercises.
Course materials and recommended or required readings
Exam(s) in session
Any session
- In-person
written exam ( open-ended questions ) AND oral exam
Written work / report
Continuous assessment
Out-of-session test(s)
Further information:
Every segment will be evaluated separately, during a practical exercise (4 times 5 points).
A low mark (8 or 9/20) in a module may be compensated for. However, a mark below 8 in any module, failure to submit an assignment, or absence from any of the assessment tests will result in the overall mark being adjusted to match the lowest mark.
In the second sitting, only those modules in which a mark below 10 was achieved must be retaken.
This is a practical course. Students who have accumulated 3 unjustified absences from the course will not be admitted to the examination (cf. article 61 §2 of the General Study and Exam Regulations).
Use of GAI
In order to ensure the acquisition of the historical skills specified in the learning objectives and in accordance with the institutional charter - which allows each degree programme to draw up a more restrictive framework than the default framework it defines - the only uses of a generative artificial intelligence (GAI) tool that are permitted, subject to the explicit consent of the course lecturer, are:
- the use of GAI for the purposes of formal language refinement, i.e. exclusively for spelling and grammatical correction, excluding any formulation or reformulation;
- the use of GAI for the purposes of translation between modern languages;
- the use of GAI for the purposes of transcribing an interview;
Furthermore, such use must always be approved in advance by the course lecturer and must be accompanied by acritical methodological note on the relevance and procedures for this technical use of an AI tool.
In any written work, the student must therefore declare on their honour, in an introductory note:
- either that they have not used AI at all;
- or that they have used it, strictly within the limits specified above.
Work placement(s)
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Organisational remarks and main changes to the course
See timetable.
Contacts
Coordination: Catherine Lanneau (C.Lanneau@uliege.be)
Referents for the various segments:
Press articles: Geoffrey Geuens (Geoffrey.Geuens@uliege.be)
Textometry: Dominique Longrée (Dominique.Longree@uliege.be)
Oral enquiry: Catherine Lanneau (C.Lanneau@uliege.be), Dawinka Laureys (dawinka.laureys@ihoes.be) et Lionel Van Velthem (lvanvelthem@gmail.com)
Audio- and visual sources: Jeremy Hamers (jhamers@uliege.be)