These skills are taught using various teaching methods: lectures, active teaching, individual or group work. The lectures are aimed at conveying information on a topic, while seminars and practical work require active participation. The Bachelor’s programme combines these two teaching methods in an evolving manner by encouraging the students to get to know each other (for example, through an “integration seminar” in the second year), the production of group work during seminars and, in lectures, work taking an in-depth look at the specific subjects covered in class.

The UCL range of programmes highlights the importance of international orientation (languages, knowledge of foreign societies and concern for all aspects of human development), interdisciplinary input and the practice of investigation.
More specifically:

• the first year is devoted to the acquisition of a knowledge base in the main disciplines of human sciences (recognising and understanding the concise input, the principal theories, the concepts and fundamental principles of the major disciplines of human sciences) and to an academic and learning workshop on the underlying principles of a scientific approach, under teacher supervision.
• the second year is devoted to the acquisition of initial methodological tools, under teacher supervision, and of the underlying concepts of sociology and anthropology.
• the third year is devoted to continuing the acquisition of fundamental theories and theoretical and methodological tools and to a more individual research project within the framework of a more specific practical research seminar on the principal objectives of sociology and anthropology.

During the second and third years, students are also encouraged to choose a minor.