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Minor in History [30.0]

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The course aims to provide students enrolled on a baccalaureate program in a different discipline with the opportunity to obtain a minimal, but sound introduction to the basic disciplines of history. Students are invited to further develop the methods they use to approach the subject or acquire new know-how.

Admission

Retour en début de pageAdmission Requirements

The program is intended for all baccalaureate students, regardless of their main course of study.



Detailed course structure
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Mandatory Optional
Courses not taught this academic year Periodic courses not taught this academic year
Periodic courses taught this academic year Two year courses

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Year
1 2

Students must gain a total of 30 credits over two years; ideally they should aim for 15 credits per year.

MandatoryTwo compulsory courses (7credits)
Mandatory LHIST1430

General heuristics  Guy Zelis 15h + 15h  3credits  1+2q  x x
Mandatory LFLTR1430

Historical Criticism
(Si ce cours a déjà été suivi dans le cadre de la majeure, l'étudiant le remplacera par un cours de la liste "Cours au choix".) 
Laurence Van Ypersele 30h + 10h  4credits  2q  x x

MandatoryOne compulsory course (4credits)
To be chosen from the following courses :
Optional LHIST1431

Specialized heuristics and exercises on questions of history : antiquity  Françoise Van Haeperen 15h + 15h  4credits  1q  x x
Optional LHIST1432

Specialized heuristics and exercises on questions of history : the Middle Ages  Jacques Pijcke, Jean-Marie Yante 15h + 15h  4credits  1q  x x
Optional LHIST1433

Specialized heuristics and exercises on questions of history : modern times  Silvia Mostaccio 15h + 15h  4credits  2q  x x
Optional LHIST1434

Specialized heuristics and exercises on questions of history : the contemporary period  Michel Dumoulin 15h + 15h  4credits  2q  x x

MandatoryOptional courses (19credits)
To be chosen from :
Optional LHIST1130

Exercises on questions in history
(Obligatoire pour les étudiants souhaitant s'inscrire à un master en histoire. ) 
Michel Dumoulin, Jean-Marie Yante 30h  7credits  2q  x x
Optional LHIST1381

Fundamentals of institutional and political history : antiquity  Françoise Van Haeperen 15h  3credits  1q  x x
Optional LHIST1382

Fundamentals of institutional and political history : the Middle Ages  (in French) Jean-Marie Yante 15h  3credits  1q  x x
Optional LHIST1383

Fundamentals of institutional and political history : Early modern times  (in French) Michel Dorban 15h  3credits  1q  x x
Optional LHIST1400

History in Images : a critical approach  N. 22.5h  3credits  Periodic courses not taught this academic year  x x
Optional LHIST1410

Medieval and modern paleography  Baudouin Van den Abeele 15h  3credits  1q  x x
Optional LHIST1411

HISTORIOGRAPHY I
(Obligatoire pour les étudiants souhaitant s'inscrire à un master en histoire.) 
Jacques Pijcke 15h  2credits  2q  x x
Optional LHIST1421

HISTORIOGRAPHY II
(Obligatoire pour les étudiants souhaitant s'inscrire à un master en histoire.)  (in French)
Jacques Pijcke 22.5h  4credits  1q  x x
Optional LHIST1500

Economic and social history from antiquity to the industrial revolution - 1500  Michel Dorban, Patrick Marchetti 30h  3credits  1q  x x
Optional LFLTR1291

Computer Applications in the Humanities
(Obligatoire pour les étudiants souhaitant s'inscrire à un master en histoire. )  (in French)
Michel Dorban, Cédrick Fairon 15h + 15h  3credits  1q  x x
Optional LFLTR1420A

Seminar of Historical Foundations of Western Civilisation : Antiquity  Françoise Van Haeperen 22.5h  3credits  2q  x x
Optional LFLTR1420B

Seminar of Historical Foundations of Western Civilisation : Middle Ages  Jean-Marie Yante 22.5h  3credits  2q  x x
Optional LFLTR1420C

Seminar of Historical Foundations of Western Civilisation : Modern Times  Jean-Marie Cauchies 22.5h  3credits  2q  x x
Optional LFLTR1420D

Seminar of Historical Foundations of Western Civilisation : Contemporary Period  Laurence Van Ypersele 22.5h  3credits  2q  x x
Optional LECGE1121

Economic and Social History  (in French) Paul Servais, Jean-Marie Yante (coord.) 30h  4credits  1q  x x
Optional LDROI1008A

Histoire des institutions - 1ère partie  N. 30h  3credits  2q  x x
 


Training available at the end of the minor
All Bachelor in Arts and Letters


Master [120] of arts in History [120.0]
Master [60] of arts in History [60.0]
  For the success of the Preparatory year for Master in History [58.0]

Master [60] of arts in History of Art and Archaeology : General [60.0]
Master [120] of arts in History of Art and Archaeology : General [120.0]




  
Master [120] of arts in History [120.0]
Master [60] of arts in History [60.0]
  Direct access with 15 credits prerequisites
 


Useful contacts


Practical information

Academic in charge: Jean-Marie YANTE
Contact people : Sibylle D'HONDT and Chantal Marquet, administrative secretaries of the department of history, Collège Erasme, office b 241, , tel. : 010/47.49.35.


Enrolling for the minor

1. Organizational details
This point does not apply to this minor. 

2. Admission to the minor
This point does not apply to this minor.

3. Enrolling on the minor

In Year 2 of the bachelor’s degree
Students may enrol online for their minor after having enrolled for their year of study.
Students who are retaking their second year are automatically re-enrolled for the same minor.

In Year 3 of the bachelor’s degree
When they enrol for the third year, students are automatically enrolled for the second part of the option course. The same applies to students retaking their third year (BAC3).

All requests for exemption from this rule must be submitted to the adviser from the relevant programme.

5. Changes to the minor enrollment form
Requests to change the enrollment form, must be sent, with supporting reasons, to the conseiller aux études (course adviser) of the faculty to which the student belongs by 10 October.


Course timetable

1. Consulting the course timetable
The timetable can be consulted at this address: http://www.uclouvain.be/232660.html.

Students must also consult the general faculty timetable on the Zeus site: http://www.uclouvain.be/fltr.html
for courses which do not feature on the list of minor course times.  

Last-minute changes are included in the section "valves étudiants" (student bulletin board) on the following site:  
http://www.uclouvain.be/fltr.html

2. Resolving possible timetable clashes using an equivalence table
The equivalence table may be consulted in the secretariat of the department which is running the minor. Contact person : the person in charge of the minor, for advice and approval of possible changes. 


Enrollment form for minor activities

1. Information on entry requirements 
This point is not applicable to this minor.

2. Enrolling for minor program activities 
Enrolment for activities (courses) in the minor should be done at the same time as enrolment for activities (courses) in the main subject.
Enrolment for courses is done by using the special menu in the virtual office.

3. Obtaining a visa from the person in charge of the minor 
Once the activities form has been filled in, the student must ask the person in charge of the minor for a visa in order to pass it on to his/her faculty secretariat. 


Available support 

1. Information on the course service
A certain number of lectures should, over time, be available on the Web and should ideally be accompanied by exercises to aid self-study. 
Ask full-time course staff members for further information. 

2. Consulting the table of available support for each activity  
Please ask full-time members of staff for information. 

Where alternative pedagogical systems are proposed for an activity, they are only intended for students who are enrolled on the activity in question as part of their minor and who have demonstrated that they are unable to attend classes. The written consent of the teacher will be required. 


Organization of exams

1. Registering for exams
Registering for minor course exams is done on the registration form for the main year of study (your department's secretariat).

2. Consulting exam times
Exam times can be consulted at the following address: http://www.uclouvain.be/232697.html.

N.B. : to register on the "open" lists for some exams, students should make direct contact with the central secretariat of the Faculté de philosophie et lettres.