These skills are taught using various teaching methods: lectures, active teaching, individual or group work. The lectures are aimed at conveying information on a topic, while seminars and practical work require active participation. The Bachelor’s programme combines these two teaching methods in an evolving manner. The students acquire basic knowledge and the concepts of both human and social sciences through classes, reading and individual work.
The UCL range of programmes highlights the importance of international orientation (languages, knowledge of foreign societies, concern for all aspects of human development), interdisciplinary input and the practice of investigation.
More specifically:

• the first year is devoted to the acquisition of a knowledge base in the main human sciences disciplines (recognising and understanding the concise input, the principal theories, the concepts and fundamental principles of the major human sciences disciplines) and to an academic and learning workshop on the underlying principles of a scientific approach, under teacher supervision;
• the second year is devoted to the acquisition of initial methodological tools, under teacher supervision, and of the underlying concepts of the main human and social sciences;
• the third year is devoted to continuing the acquisition of methodological tools and to an approach relating to certain aspects of labour sciences and human resources management.

During the second and third years, students can also choose a minor and, if appropriate, a work placement that replaces part of the minor.