UCL - Practice of History & Social Sciences

[HIST1440]

[15h + 15h] 5 credits

This course is taught in the 2d semester.

Teacher(s): Xavier Rousseaux(coord.)

Language: French

Level: First

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

Aims

- Master the concepts, methods and models or theories of the social sciences (geography, law, sociology, anthropology) useful for history
- Analyse and research the interpretative factors of social phenomena in history through an exercise involving method and technique in the social sciences
- Introduction to a multi-disciplinary study project with a view towards professional practice (teaching, research, archives, land management, cultural administration)

Main themes

Integrated exercises 2 hours a week on an historical question involving normative, geographical and socio-anthropological factors. From conceptualization to the theoretical stage in passing through analysis of a social phenomenon.

Content and teaching methods

- Project presentation : object of the research and mission notebook
- Introduction to the necessary tools : geographical, juridical, sociological or anthropological concepts, methods, theories or models, based on a theoretical dossier + software
- Application to the theme chosen in the form of group work, supervised by the co-teachers and assistants, based on a documents dossier and mission notebook
- Presentation of work (mission notebook) and synthesis of results
- Student evaluation of the tools of social sciences useful for historical analysis

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

Evaluation : written work by the group, evaluated in an oral interview
Teaching : multi-disciplinary co-teaching in a real teaching team.