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hist1ba  2017-2018  Louvain-la-Neuve

 
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Mandatory Major (150 credits)
Mandatory General training (39 credits)

Most of the general training courses in the first semester of the first year of the Bachelor¿s programme are common to all students in the Faculty of Philosophy, Arts and Letters. This makes it easier to change to another programme in the Faculty at the end of this semester.  

Mandatory LFIAL1130 Comparative Approach of European Literatures   Amaury Dehoux
, Paul Deproost
, Guido Latre
, Hubert Roland
30h  4 credits 1q x    
Mandatory LFIAL1140 Concepts of history of art, archaeology and musicology   Marco Cavalieri
, Joël Roucloux
, Brigitte Van Wymeersch
30h  4 credits 1q x    
Mandatory LFIAL1150 Historical Foundations of Western Civilisation I : Antiquity and Middle Ages   Paul Bertrand
, Françoise Van Haeperen
30h  3 credits 1q x    
Mandatory LFIAL1160 Historical Foundations of Western Civilisation I : modern times and the contemporary period   Paul Servais
, Laurence Van Ypersele
30h  3 credits 1q x    
Mandatory LFIAL1430 Criticism   Laurence Van Ypersele
30h+10h  4 credits 2q x    
Mandatory LFIAL1610 Introduction to Philosophy   Jean-Michel Counet
37.5h  4 credits 2q x    
Mandatory LESPO2100 Political economy   Alain De Crombrugghe de Picquendaele
30h+15h  4 credits 1q   x  
Mandatory LFIAL1620 Anthropology and Psychology   Marine Houssa (compensates Dana Samson)
, Dana Samson
, Anne-Marie Vuillemenot
30h  3 credits 2q   x  
Mandatory LFIAL1630 Logic and Argumentation in Human Sciences   Jean Leclercq
30h  3 credits 1q   x  
Mandatory LHIST1440 Practice of History & Social Sciences   Xavier Rousseaux
15h+15h  5 credits 2q     x
Mandatory Religious sciences

One course from :  

Optionnal LTECO1210 Questions of Religious Sciences: Biblical Readings   Claude Lichtert (compensates Geert Van Oyen)
, Geert Van Oyen
15h  2 credits 1q     x
Optionnal LTECO1220 Questions of Religious Sciences: Reflections about Christian Faith   Jean Leclercq
15h  2 credits 1q     x
Optionnal LTECO1230 Questions of Religious Sciences: Questions about Ethics   Serge Maucq
15h  2 credits 2q     x
Mandatory Introduction to the discipline (22 credits)
Mandatory LHIST1430 General heuristics   Paul Bertrand
22.5h+15h  6 credits 1q x    
Mandatory LHIST1130 Exercises on questions in history   Vincent Dujardin
, Marie Van Eeckenrode (compensates Vincent Dujardin)
30h  8 credits 2q x    
Mandatory LHIST1411 Historiography   Geneviève Warland
22.5h  4 credits 2q x    
Mandatory LHIST1260 Introduction to the institutions of Belgium   Jonas Campion
22.5h  4 credits 2q x    
Mandatory Getting to know history (27 credits)
Mandatory LFIAL1420A Historical Foundations of Western Civilisation : Antiquity   Christophe Flament
, Françoise Van Haeperen
22.5h  3 credits 2q x    
Mandatory LFIAL1420B Historical Foundations of Western Civilisation : Middle Ages   Gilles Lecuppre
22.5h  3 credits 2q x    
Mandatory LFIAL1420C Historical Foundations of Western Civilisation : Modern Times   Silvia Mostaccio
, Aude Musin
22.5h  3 credits 2q   x  
Mandatory LFIAL1420D Historical Foundations of Western Civilisation : Contemporary Period   Laurence Van Ypersele
22.5h  3 credits 2q   x  
Mandatory LHIST1230 Questions of history : contemporary period   Emmanuel Debruyne
22.5h  3 credits 2q   x  
Mandatory Institutional and political history

A course of a minimum of 3 credits from the following :  

Optionnal LHIST1381 Fundamentals of institutional and political history : antiquity   Françoise Van Haeperen
15h  3 credits 1q     x
Optionnal LHIST1382 Fundamentals of institutional and political history : the Middle Ages   Gilles Lecuppre
15h  3 credits 2q     x
Optionnal LHIST1383 Fundamentals of institutional and political history : Early modern times   Gilles Lecuppre
15h  3 credits 1q     x
Optionnal LDROI1008L Histoire des institutions   Vincent Dujardin
, Laurence Van Ypersele
60h  6 credits 2q     x
Mandatory Economic and social history

One course from :  

Optionnal LHIST1500 Economic and social history from antiquity to the industrial revolution   Christophe Flament
, Marie Van Eeckenrode
30h  3 credits 2q     x
Optionnal LECGE1121 Economic and Social History   Emmanuel Debruyne
30h  3 credits 1q     x
Mandatory Intellectual and cultural history

A course of a minimum of 3 credits from the following :  

Optionnal LFILO1280 History of philosophy 1 : History of ancient philosophy   Jean-Michel Counet
30h  3 credits 1q     x
Optionnal LFILO1281 History of philosophy 2: History of medieval Philosophy   Jean-Michel Counet
30h  3 credits 1q     x
Optionnal LFILO1283 History of philosophy 4 : History of modern philosophy   Marc Maesschalck
30h  3 credits 1q     x
Optionnal LFILO1284 History of Philosophy V: Contemporary philosophy (first part)   Alexandre Guay
30h  3 credits 1q     x
Optionnal LFILO1285 History of Philosophy VI: Contemporary philosophy (second part)   Sylvain Camilleri
30h  3 credits 1q     x
Optionnal LARKE1556 Arts and civilisations : architecture of Antiquity and the Middle Ages   Philippe Bragard
30h  4 credits 1q     x
Optionnal LARKE1552 Arts and Civilisations : Greek and Roman Antiquity   Marco Cavalieri
, Jan Driessen
30h  4 credits 2q     x
Optionnal LARKE1554 Arts and civilisations: architecture from the Renaissance to today   Philippe Bragard
30h  4 credits 2q     x
Optionnal LARKE1557 Arts and civilisations: from the Baroque to Romanticism   Alexander Streitberger
30h  4 credits 1q     x
Optionnal LGLOR1511 History and Society of the Near East and Ancient Egypt I   Claude Obsomer
, Jan Tavernier
30h  3 credits 1q     x
Optionnal LGLOR1512 Culture and Civilization of the Near East and Ancient Egypt I   Claude Obsomer
, Jan Tavernier
30h  3 credits 1q     x
Optionnal LGLOR1531 History and Society of Islam and the Arab World I   Godefroid De Callatay
30h  3 credits 1q     x
Optionnal LGLOR1532 Culture and Civilization of Islam and the Arab World I   Godefroid De Callatay
, Jean-Charles Ducène (compensates Godefroid De Callatay)
30h  3 credits 1q     x
Mandatory Religious history

A course of a minimum of 3 credits from the following :  

Optionnal LRELI1320 Introduction to the History of Religions   Philippe Cornu
30h  4 credits 2q     x
Optionnal LRELI1272 Patrology   Jean-Marie Auwers
30h  4 credits 2q     x
Optionnal LRELI1251 History of Christianity: Antiquity   Jean-Marie Auwers
30h  3 credits 1q     x
Optionnal LRELI1253 History of Christianity: Middle Ages   Paul Bertrand
, Nicolas Ruffini-Ronzani (compensates Paul Bertrand)
30h  3 credits 2q     x
Optionnal LRELI1252 History of Christianity: Modern Times   Jean-Pascal Gay
30h  3 credits 1q     x
Optionnal LRELI1321 History of Christianity: the Contemporary Period   Jean-Pascal Gay
30h  4 credits 2q     x
Mandatory Making History - Theory and Application of Theory (39 credits)
Mandatory LFIAL1291 Computer Applications in the Humanities   Aurore François
, Frédéric Vesentini (compensates Aurore François)
15h+15h  3 credits 1q   x  
Mandatory LHIST1431 Specialized heuristics and exercises on questions of history : antiquity   Françoise Van Haeperen
15h+15h  4 credits 1q   x  
Mandatory LHIST1432 Specialized heuristics and exercises on questions of history : the Middle Ages   Paul Bertrand
15h+15h  4 credits 1q   x  
Mandatory LHIST1433 Specialized heuristics and exercises on questions of history : modern times   Silvia Mostaccio
, Aude Musin (compensates Silvia Mostaccio)
15h+15h  4 credits 2q   x  
Mandatory LHIST1434 Specialized heuristics and exercises on questions of history : the contemporary period   Vincent Delcorps (compensates Vincent Dujardin)
, Vincent Dujardin
15h+15h  4 credits 2q   x  
Mandatory LHIST1300 Introduction to Cultural History and Anthropology   Robert Deliège
22.5h  3 credits 1q     x
Mandatory LHIST1320 Quantitative methods in studying history   Aurore François
22.5h  3 credits 1q     x
Mandatory Seminars (14 credits)

Two activities from :  

Optionnal LHIST1391 Seminar : Antiquity   Françoise Van Haeperen
22.5h  7 credits 1q     x
Optionnal LHIST1392 Seminar : the Middle Ages   Paul Bertrand
, Paul Bertrand (compensates Gilles Lecuppre)
, Gilles Lecuppre
22.5h  7 credits 1q     x
Optionnal LHIST1393 Seminar : Early modern times   Gilles Lecuppre (compensates Silvia Mostaccio)
, Silvia Mostaccio
22.5h  7 credits 1q     x
Optionnal LHIST1394 Seminar : the contemporary period   Laurence Van Ypersele
22.5h  7 credits 1q     x
Mandatory Making History - Additional module (6 credits)

Students must choose a course of a minimum of 3 credits in the 2nd bloc and 3rd bloc from the following :  

Optionnal LHIST1400 History in Images : a critical approach   Baudouin Van den Abeele
, Laurence Van Ypersele
, Geneviève Warland (compensates Laurence Van Ypersele)
22.5h  3 credits 2q   x x
Optionnal LHIST1410 Medieval and modern paleography   Baudouin Van den Abeele
15h  3 credits 1q   x x
Optionnal LFIAL1770 Beginning Greek   Claude Obsomer
30h+30h  5 credits 1q   x x
Optionnal LFIAL1280 Latin language and literature : prose   Paul Deproost
30h  3 credits 1q   x x
Optionnal LFIAL1281 Latin language and literature : poetry   Paul Deproost
30h  3 credits 1q   x x
Optionnal LGLOR1482A Latin Authors : Prose-Writing (partim)   Paul Deproost
30h  3 credits 1q   x x
Optionnal LGLOR1492A Greek Authors : Prose-Writing (partim)   Anne-Marie Doyen
30h  3 credits 1 + 2q   x x
Optionnal LROM1230 Critical analysis of Medieval Texts : Ancient French   Mattia Cavagna
30h+7.5h  4 credits 2q   x x
Optionnal LROM1330 Critical analysis of Medieval Texts : Middle French   Mattia Cavagna
30h  4 credits 1q     x
Mandatory Modern and ancient languages (17 credits)
Mandatory Modern languages

The student will follow one of the four following courses :  

Optionnal LNEER1250 Dutch language and culture   Katrien De Rycke (coord.)
60h  5 credits 1 + 2q x    
Optionnal LALLE1710 German language   Caroline Klein
30h+30h  5 credits 1q x    
Optionnal LNEER1730 Dutch language   Hilde Bosmans (coord.)
, Katrien De Rycke
60h  5 credits 1q x    
Optionnal LANGL1811 English: Language & Culture   Estelle Dagneaux (coord.)
, Céline Gouverneur
, Claudine Grommersch
, Brigitte Loosen
45h  5 credits 1 + 2q x    
Mandatory Ancient languages

Students must take one of the following courses : (LFIAL1770 and LFIAL1181 are open to students who have either studied Latin for four hours per week during the last four years of secondary education or pass an assessment test at the beginning of the year. LFIAL1180 is open to all).  

Optionnal LFIAL1180 Begining Latin   Alain Meurant
30h+30h  5 credits 1q x    
Optionnal LFIAL1181 Latin language and literature I   Eric Delaissé (compensates Paul Deproost)
, Paul Deproost
30h+15h  5 credits 1q x    
Optionnal LFIAL1770 Beginning Greek   Claude Obsomer
30h+30h  5 credits 1q x    
Mandatory Modern languages

Student must continue studying the chosen modern language in the first year.  

Optionnal LANGL1810 English for Arts Students. An intermediate course   Stéphanie Brabant
, Jean-Luc Delghust (coord.)
60h  4 credits 1 + 2q   x  
Optionnal LNEER1810 Intermediate Dutch for Social Science   Hilde Bufkens (coord.)
60h  4 credits 1 + 2q   x  
Optionnal LALLE1810 German - General Topic Reading Comprehension   Ann Rinder
50h  4 credits 1 + 2q   x  
Mandatory Modern language

Student must continue studying the chosen modern language in the first year.  

Optionnal LANGL2410 Interactive English Communication   Philippe Denis
30h  3 credits 1 + 2q     x
Optionnal LALLE2410 German: interactive communication   Ann Rinder
30h  3 credits 1 + 2q     x
Optionnal LNEER2414 Dutch communication skills for students in Archaeology and History of Art and History   Mariken Smit (coord.)
30h  3 credits 1q     x
 
Mandatory Minor (30 credits)

Students must choose a minor from the University Faculty programmes, subject to possible prerequisites required by the programme managers. Students spread these courses over the second and third blocs of the Bachelor programme so that each academic year comes to a total of 60 credits.  

Mandatory First part of the minor     15 credits   x  
Mandatory Second part of the minor     15 credits     x