1. Study
  2. Study programme
  3. Study programme 2016-2017
  4. Per faculty
  5. Faculté de philosophie, arts et lettres
  6. Master [120] in Ancient Languages and Letters: Oriental Studies

Professional focus: Europe and the East [30.0]

hori2m  2016-2017  Louvain-la-Neuve


This focus studies the historical, political and cultural relations between Europe and the East.  Individual assignments and course seminars related to students’ own research projects for their thesis, enable them to gain a profile as a regional specialist who could work in different sectors (national or regional governments etc., European institutions,  cultural organisations,  diplomacy, journalism, tourism, research, etc.).

 
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Annual block
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Mandatory Politique, société et économie européennes (15 credits)

Courses to be chosen for a total of 15 credits  

Optionnal LEUSL2012 External Action of the European Union   Tom Delreux;
30h  5 credits 2q x x
Optionnal LEUSL2040 European culture and identity   Bernard Coulie;
15h  3 credits 1q x x
Optionnal LEUSL2041 History of European integration (interwar's period to European enlargement)   Vincent Dujardin;
Anne-Sophie Gijs;
30h  5 credits 1q x x
Optionnal LEURO1304 Pluralism and culture diversity in Europe   Anne-Sophie Gijs;
Luuk Vanmiddelaar;
30h  5 credits 2q x x
Optionnal LPOLS1319 Introduction to geopolitics   Tanguy Dewilde;
30h+15h  5 credits 1q x x
Optionnal LPOLS1320 Analysis of the international system   Michel Liegeois;
30h+15h  5 credits 2q x x
Optionnal LPOLS1323 European Institutions and Policies   Tanguy Dewilde;
Lisa Isnard (compensates Tanguy de Wilde d'Estmael);
40h  5 credits 1q x x
 
Mandatory Politics, society and economy of the East (15 credits)
Mandatory LGLOR2524 East and West: Identity, Tradition and Modernity  

The course is given in both French and English

Bernard Coulie;
Johannes Denheijer;
30h  5 credits 1q x x
Mandatory Students should choose two courses in the following : (10 credits)

(other courses, particularly on India and the Far East, may be chosen in the Asian option)  

Optionnal The Arab-Islamic World
Optionnal LSOC2060 socio-anthropology of contemporary Islam   Brigitte Marechal;
30h  5 credits 1q x x
Optionnal LDVLP2640 Socio-economic analysis of the Arab world   Mohamed Elbattiui (compensates Vincent Legrand);
Vincent Legrand;
30h  5 credits 2q x x
Optionnal LDVLP2641 Socio-political analysis of the Arab World   Vincent Legrand;
30h  5 credits 1q x x
Optionnal LDVLP2642 Interdisciplinary seminar on Arab World  

(Ce séminaire ne peut être suivi qu'en combinaison avec DVLP 2640 et DVLP 2641.)

Vincent Legrand;
30h  5 credits 1q x x
Optionnal Post-Soviet Space
Optionnal LEUSL2308 Baillet Latour Chair: The Euro-Russian partnership: challenges and processes   Tanguy Dewilde;
30h  5 credits 2q x x
Optionnal LEUSL2310 Baillet Latour Chair - Seminar - Conflict and cooperation between the EU and Russia in the Former Soviet Union   30h  5 credits 1q x x
Optionnal Far East
Optionnal LASI2302 Analysis of contemporary Chinese society   Paul Servais;
30h  5 credits 2q x x
Optionnal LASI2303 Analysis of contemporary Japanese society   Kanako Goto;
30h  5 credits 2q x x
Optionnal LSPRI2650 Geostrategy in the Asia-Pacific   Elena Atanassova;
15h  5 credits 1q x x