Bachelor in Sociology and Anthropology [180.0] - SOCA1BA

The Bachelor's programme of Sociology and Anthropology aims to :

• provide the students with a theoretical grounding in Sociology and Anthropology and give them the substantial methodological elements of sociological and anthropological analysis of empirical social phenomena, in particular via participation in practical research and on-the-field contact
• situate the special approach of the discipline, both in terms of its specificity and its complementarity, with respect to the approach of other disciplines, especially Philosophy, Economy, Politics, History and Psychology
• develop the students' capacities of critical analysis, reasoning and personal judgement
• help the students to develop their capacity to reflect on the constitution of knowledge, on an epistemological as well as a historical and sociological level
• initiate them in autonomous and individual study, by means of an active pedagogical approach which leaves considerable room for personal and group work and for the acquisition of skills in oral and written communication
• train the students to elaborate reports, respecting the rules of presentation as much as of content ( a necessary skill for embarking on the job-market as well as on the master's programme ).

On a general level,

• the first year is dedicated to the acquisition of basic knowledge in the main disciplines of Human Sciences and to a session on university study approaches and methods
• the second year is dedicated to the acquisition of primordial methodological tools and conceptual groundings in Sociology and Anthroplology
• and the third year is dedicated to the pursuit of the acquisition of fundamental theories and theoretical and methodological tools, as well as to a research work of a more personal nature in the context of a practical seminar on more specific research, revolving around the principal orientations of Sociology and Anthropology.

Ongoing evaluation : exercices and personal pieces of work
Exams take both written and oral forms