UCL - Seminar : the contemporary period

[HIST1394]

[22.5h] 7 credits

This course is taught in the 1st semester.

Teacher(s): Laurence Van Ypersele

Language: French

Level: First

Aims
Main themes
Content and teaching methods
Other information (prerequisite, evaluation (assessment methods), course materials recommended readings, ...)

Aims

By the end of this seminar, the student should be capable of putting the historian's procedure into practice in the context of the documentary and critical study of a precise question in contemporary history.

Main themes

This seminar is designed as a preparation for the corresponding master's seminar. During the group working sessions, based on preliminary personal work, each participant presents his analysis of an aspect of the chosen theme, paying particular attention to the heuristic and critical aspects. The procedures and stages of the treatment, as well as the global synthesis and conclusions, are brought out together.

Content and teaching methods

Putting the historian's procedure into practice through a documentary and critical study of questions bearing on a precise theme. The contents vary from year to year in function of the point of concentration chosen for collective research (XIXth and XXth centuries).

Other information (prerequisite, evaluation (assessment methods), course materials recommended readings, ...)

Evaluation : based on an oral presentation and written reports.
Support : student notes
Teaching staff : the professor or, should need arise, assistants designated by the Department.