General presentation of the programme

Foundation studies (1st year) (60 credits) 
 
First quadrimester : 
Common general courses in the Faculty of Arts : Historical Foundations of Western Civilisation (5 credits), Arts and Civilisations (5 credits), Introduction to the Principal Works in European Literature I (5 credits), Practice in French at university level (5 credits), Modern Languages (5 credits) Ancient Languages (5 credits). 
 
Second quadrimester : 
General courses : Introduction to Philosophy (4.5 credits), Seminar on Historical Foundations of Western Civilisation : 
a. Antiquity;
b. The Middle Ages (2.5 credits per period), Critical Analysis of Information (3.5 credits).
 
Introduction to the discipline : General Heuristics (3 credits), Exercises on History Questions (8 credits), Historiography I (2 credits), Historical Introduction to the Institutions in Belgium. (4 credits). 
 

Specific studies (2nd and 3rd year) (90 credits) 
 
During the next two years of the bachelor's programme, there are three main axes which constitute the 90 credits of the major:
 
Axis 1) General courses (21 credits) : Modern Languages, Anthropology and Psychology, Theory of knowledge, Economy, Social Sciences, Religious Sciences. 

Axis 2) Getting to Know History (24 credits) : Seminar on the Historical Foundations of Western Civilisation:
c. Modern times; 
d. Contemporary period, Historiography II, Questions on present-day history, Institutional and Political history, Economic and Social history, Intellectual and Cultural history, Religious History.
 
Axis 3) Making history, theoretical and practical studies (45 credits) : Applied Data-processing, Special Heuristic Methods, Exercises on History Questions (4 periods), Quantitative Methods, History, Transmitting and Reading Ancient Writings, Seminars (a choice of two periods), Ancient, Medieval or Modern Languages. The student must pass the general course and General Heuristics exams to be able to access the Special Heuristics Methods and the practical exercise sessions per period. Likewise, he can only have access to the Institutional and Political History course, the Economic and Social History course, the Intellectual and Cultural course and the Religious History course, if he has passed the Historical Foundations course and the seminars on Historical Foundations. Lastly, the Historiography course I is a prerequisite for the Historiography course II.