Teacher(s)

Depotte Jean-Luc;

Language

French

Main themes

This seminar introduces the student to the development of critical thinking, at the heart of university teaching; several themes are addressed: preconceptions, decoding of discourse, evaluation of the quality of sources, scientific approach, overview of data analysis methods.
The seminar supports students in writing a short individual essay on current issues that respects the codes of academic text writing. The elaboration of the work implies for each student a cross practice on the following aspects:

- The development of a research question
- Research and critical confrontation of sources
- The analysis of a disciplinary theme
- Critical reflection based on a disciplinary theme
- The use of the written French language for the drafting of an academic document

Aims

At the end of this learning unit, the student is able to :
1	At the end of this learning unit, the student will be able to (specific AA): - to show an increased intellectual autonomy in documentary research and criticism of sources; - to elaborate and transmit a personal production meeting the academic criteria in his/her discipline; - to demonstrate a spirit of synthesis in the way of dealing with a problem.

Bibliography

' COULON A. (1997), Le métier d'étudiant. L'entrée dans la vie
universitaire, Paris, PUF
' HANNAN A., SILVER H. (2000), Innovating in Higher Education, SRHE and Open
University Press
' QUIVY R., VAN CAMPENHOUDT L. (2006), Manuel de recherche en sciences
sociales, [3e éd.], Paris, Dunod

Faculty or entity

CLSM