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 second semester
Schedule
Units courses prerequisite and corequisite
Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program
Learning unit contents
The four courses in Heuristics help establish a genuine progressive approach in the curriculum for history students.
The ability to take these courses concurrently in the B2 year gives students the opportunity to explore the specific characteristics and methods of historical research across all four periods (discovering the different types of sources and scholarly works specific to each period; an introduction to bibliographic research and the use of key research tools).
In the B3, each student will thus be able to choose, with full knowledge of the facts, the two periods in which they wish tospecialize and carry out their first major projects independently (including the TFC, or End-of-Cycle Work).
By the end of these heuristics courses, students will have acquired some research habits, exercised their critical thinking, and improved the quality of their academic writing.
Learning outcomes of the learning unit
By the end of this course, students should:
- be familiar with the main work tools in the history of Greco-Roman antiquity.
- be familiar with the various types of sources and the main collections of sources in the history of Greco-Roman antiquity.
- be able to identify academic translations of a Greek or Latin literary source.
- be able to interpret the critical apparatus of an academic edition of a Greek or Latin literary source.
- be able to use the main epigraphic corpora in the history of Greco-Roman antiquity and the main numismatic corpora in the history of Roman antiquity.
- be able to identify and locate relevant modern works for addressing a research topic in the history of Greco-Roman antiquity.
Prerequisite knowledge and skills
A good command of the French language.
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Theoretical lectures and practical exercises (in class and in the Library of Ancient Studies) on the main research tools, sources and scholarship in the history of Greco-Roman antiquity.
Compulsory bibliographic seminars.
Mode of delivery (face to face, distance learning, hybrid learning)
Face-to-face course
Further information:
Q2, Thursday, 2.00-4.00 pm, A4 Salle Suzanne Clercx (S100) (-1/44), with the exception of self-study sessions in the library.
The course will alternate between:
- theoretical classroom sessions;
- practical classroom sessions;
- practical sessions (to be undertaken independently, but with student tutors available for support) in the Library of Ancient Sciences;
- classroom sessions for correcting work prepared in the Library of Ancient Sciences.
Access to the Library of Ancient Sciences:
Campus du 20-Août, bât. A1, 3e étage
Place du 20-Août, 7
4000 Liège
Course materials and recommended or required readings
Platform(s) used for course materials:
- eCampus
Further information:
Bibliography syllabus available for download as a PDF at: http://web.philo.ulg.ac.be/bibliohist/heuristique/.
Course materials will be handed out in class or made available online via Ecampus.
Exam(s) in session
Any session
- In-person
written exam AND oral exam
Written work / report
Continuous assessment
Further information:
The assessment will consist of a written research project (involving research into reference materials, modern works and ancient sources on a given topic) prepared individually in the library outside the examination period, submitted on the first day of the examination period, and then discussed during the examination period in an oral interview with the examiners (with the possibility of being tested on the material covered in class).
Practical work carried out in the library during the term will be taken into account in the final assessment.
WARNING REGARDING GENERATIVE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (GenAI)
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 establish a more restrictive framework than the default framework it defines - the only permitted uses of a generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) tool, subject to the explicit consent of the course lecturer, are:
- the use of GenAI for the purposes of formal language refinement, i.e. exclusively for spelling and grammatical correction, excluding any formulation or re-formulation;
- the use of GenAI for the translation of modern languages;
- the use of GenAI for the translation of ancient languages - solely in cases where no academic translation exists, and excluding exercises (in class or at home) and examination papers consisting specifically of translating a text from Latin or Ancient Greek, for which any use of GenAI is strictly prohibited.
As the use of an GenAI always entails the responsibility of the person using it, students must take full responsibility for any translation or correction they rely on and must duly disclose any such use of GenAI.
Furthermore, such use must always be approved in advance by the course lecturer and must be accompanied by a critical methodological note on the relevance and procedures for this technical use of an GenAI tool.
In any written work, the student must therefore declare on their honour, in an introductory note:
- either that they have made no use of GenAI;
- or that they have used it, strictly within the limits specified above.
Work placement(s)
Organisational remarks and main changes to the course
The sessions will be led in turn by the full professor and his assistant.
Contacts
Full-time Faculty Member
Yann Berthelet (yann.berthelet@uliege.be)
Teaching Assistant
Grégoire Beyens (gbeyens@uliege.be)