Seminar : the contemporary period

Teacher(s)

Van Ypersele Laurence ;

Language

Français

Prerequisites

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The prerequisite(s) for this Teaching Unit (Unité d’enseignement – UE) for the programmes/courses that offer this Teaching Unit are specified at the end of this sheet.

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.

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.

The contribution of this Teaching Unit to the development and command of the skills and learning outcomes of the programme(s) can be accessed at the end of this sheet, in the section entitled “Programmes/courses offering this Teaching Unit”.

Evaluation methods

Evaluation based on an oral presentation and written reports.

Teaching methods

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Content

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).

Bibliography

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Other information

 Support : student notes

Teaching staff : the professor or, should need arise, assistants designated by the Department.

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