Optional courses [30.0]

As part of a well-argued educational plan and with the agreement of the select committee, students may choose other courses (max. 10 credits) from the Master's programmes run by the Faculty or the University. Students must check with the course instructor that they may take the course(s) in question. Their choice may include courses in the genre studies optional modules (https://uclouvain.be/fr/decouvrir/egalite/le-genre-dans-l-enseignement.html).

If some of the activities in the "option courses" category are also in the core subjects in the research focus, the professional focus or in an option course, the overlap may not exceed 6 credits.


 
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Mandatory Optional
Course not taught in 2020-2021 Periodic course not taught in 2020-2021
Periodic course taught in 2020-2021 Activity with prerequisites
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Mandatory Content:
Optional Linguistics
Optional LROM2155 Seminar : linguistics   Philippe Hambye
15h  5 credits q1 x x
Optional LCLIG2210 Phonology and Prosody   Anne-Catherine Simon
30h  5 credits q2 x x
Optional LCLIG2250 Methods of corpus linguistics   Mathieu Avanzi (compensates Anne-Catherine Simon)
, Cédrick Fairon
, 		30h+10h  5 credits q1 x x
Optional LROM2640 Language policy   Philippe Hambye
22.5h  5 credits q2 x x
Optional LROM2660 Oral business communication strategies in French   Thomas François
22.5h+22.5h  6 credits q1 x x
Optional LROM2670 Les textes économiques et commerciaux en français : genres de discours et questions de terminologie   Thomas François
22.5h  4 credits q1 x x
Optional LCLIG2160 Sociolinguistics   Philippe Hambye
15h  5 credits q1 x x
Optional LCLIG2230 Discourse Analysis   Elisabeth Degand
15h  5 credits q1 x x
Optional LCOMU2606 nter-cultural communication   Marc Totte
30h  5 credits q2 x x
Optional Additional language training
Reserved for non-native Francophone students
Optional LFRAN1401 French - Upper Intermediate Level (B2) - De la voix à la plume   Geneviève Briet (coord.)
, Emmanuelle Rassart
, Christine Renard
60h  5 credits q1 or q2 x x
Optional LFRAN1403 French - Upper Intermediate Level (B2) - Pronunciation and speaking techniques   Valérie Neuenschwander (coord.)
, Christine Renard (coord.)
30h  3 credits q1 or q2 x x
Optional LFRAN1404 French - Upper Intermediate Level (B2) - Written expression   Valérie Neuenschwander (coord.)
30h  3 credits q1 or q2 x x
Optional LFRAN1405 French - Upper Intermediate Level (B2) - Le français, langue universitaire   Christine Renard (coord.)
30h  5 credits q2 x x
Optional LFRAN1501 French - Advanced level (C1) - Le français avec le cinéma et l'humour, regards croisés   Christine Renard (coord.)
60h  5 credits q2 x x
Optional LFRAN1505 French - Advanced level (C1) - "Professional Communication Strategies"   Emmanuelle Rassart (coord.)
30h  3 credits q1 or q2 x x
Optional Natural Language Processing
Optional LFIAL2620 Natural language processing   Anaïs Tack (compensates Cédrick Fairon)
22.5h  5 credits q1 x x
Optional LFIAL2630 Introduction to automatic text processing   Cédrick Fairon
22.5h  5 credits q2 x x
Optional LCLIG2220 Overview of applications in NLP   Cédrick Fairon
15h  5 credits q1+q2 x x
Optional LCLIG2240 Statistics for Linguistics   Thomas François
30h+15h  10 credits q2 x x
Optional LCLIG2260 Introduction to speech processing   Thierry Dutoit
15h  5 credits q1 x x
Optional Medieval literary
Optional LROM2221 Issues in medieval literary history   Mattia Cavagna
22.5h  5 credits q1 x x
Optional LROM2222 Review and analysis of Medieval texts (C12 - C15)   Olivier Delsaux (compensates Tania Van Hemelryck)
, 		22.5h  5 credits q2 x x
Optional LROM2225 Seminar : medieval literature   Olivier Delsaux (compensates Tania Van Hemelryck)
, 		15h  5 credits q2 x x
Optional LROM2227 Texts, manuscripts and printing: a critical and literary approach   Tania Van Hemelryck
15h  5 credits q2 x x
Optional LHIST2210 Codicology   Paul Bertrand
15h  5 credits q2 x x
Optional LHIST2430 Diplomacy in the Middle Ages, including elements of chronology, sigillography and heraldry   Paul Bertrand
22.5h  5 credits q1 x x
Optional LROM2223 In-depth analysis of French texts from the Middle Ages and the Renaissance   Mattia Cavagna
, Agnès Guiderdoni
22.5h  5 credits q2 x x
Optional Literature
Optional LROM2730 Analysis of literary Representation   22.5h  5 credits q2 x x
Optional LROM2735 Seminar : literary analysis   Anne Reverseau
15h  5 credits q1 x x
Optional LROM2750 Contemporary literature and images   Jean-Louis Tilleuil
15h  5 credits q2 x x
Optional LROM2715 Seminar : literary aesthetics   Michel Lisse
, Pierre Piret
15h  5 credits q2 x x
Optional LROM2725 Seminar : Literary History   Agnès Guiderdoni
, Julien Zanetta
15h  5 credits q2 x x
Optional LROM2745 Seminar : the sociosemiotics of the comic strip and other mixed messages   Jean-Louis Tilleuil
15h  5 credits q2 x x
Optional LROM2755 Seminar : comparative literature   Julien Zanetta (compensates Marta Sábado Novau)
15h  5 credits q2 x x
Optional LROM2760 Principles and Foundations of Fiction   Vincent Engel
22.5h  5 credits q2 x x
Optional Theatre
Optional LTHEA2206 Theatre and visual arts   Jonathan Châtel
22.5h  3 credits q2 x x
Optional LTHEA2241 French theatre studies (from the Middle Ages to the Revolution)   Pierre Piret
30h  5 credits q1 x x
Optional LTHEA2242 French theatre studies (from the Revolution to the present day)   Pierre Piret
30h  5 credits q1 x x
Optional Teaching
Optional LROM2930 Seminar : Study of teaching language methods   Elodie Oger (compensates Silvia Lucchini)
15h  5 credits q1 x x
Optional Library studies
Optional LFIAL2280 History of book and reading   Michel Lisse
22.5h  5 credits q2 x x
Optional LCLIB2121 Issues in the sociology of books, including children's books   Jean-Louis Tilleuil
22.5h  5 credits q1 x x
Optional LCLIB2000 Studying in a professional context   Olivier Comanne
15h+15h  5 credits q1 x x
Optional Latin
Optional LGLOR2241 Special Issues in Latin Linguistics   Lambert Isebaert
30h  5 credits q1 x x
Optional LGLOR2431 Latin Authors : Late Antiquity   Paul Deproost
45h  5 credits q2 x x
Optional LGLOR2432 Thorough Study of Latin authors   Paul Deproost
45h  5 credits q1 x x
Optional LGLOR2501 Latin Authors : Middle Age and Renaissance   Paul Deproost
30h  5 credits q2 x x
Optional LGLOR2502 History of Medieval Latin literature   Paul Deproost
30h  5 credits q2 x x
Optional LGLOR2503 Vulgar and Medieval Latin Linguistics   30h  5 credits q1 x x
Optional History
Optional LHIST2722 Contacts and exchanges : Seminar I (The Middle Ages)   Baudouin Van Den Abeele
22.5h  5 credits q2 x x
Optional LHIST2723 Contacts and exchanges : Seminar II (Modern times)   Costantino Paonessa (compensates Anne-Sophie Gijs)
, Caroline Sappia (compensates Anne-Sophie Gijs)
22.5h  5 credits q1 x x
Optional LHIST2724 Contacts and exchanges : Seminar II (Contemporary period)   Costantino Paonessa (compensates Anne-Sophie Gijs)
, Caroline Sappia (compensates Anne-Sophie Gijs)
22.5h  5 credits q1 x x
Optional LHIST2732 Seminar on cultural and religious history (The MIddle Ages)   Baudouin Van Den Abeele
22.5h  5 credits q2 x x
Optional LHIST2733 Seminar II on cultural and religious history (Modern times)   Silvia Mostaccio
22.5h  5 credits q2 x x
Optional LHIST2734 Seminar on cultural and religious history (Contemporary period)   Luc Courtois
, Laurence Van Ypersele (coord.)
22.5h  5 credits q1 x x
Optional Cultural History
Optional LGLOR2390 Typology and permanence of mythical imagineries   Paul Deproost
, Charles Doyen
, Brigitte Van Wymeersch
30h  5 credits q1 x x
Optional LFIAL2150 History of Humanism   Agnès Guiderdoni
, Aline Smeesters
22.5h  5 credits q2 x x
Optional LFIAL2292 Art and Literature   Ralph Dekoninck
, Anne Reverseau
22.5h  5 credits q2 x x
Optional LTHEO2431 Bible and culture  
Students must choose LTHEO2431P
 Hans Ausloos (coord.)
, Ralph Dekoninck
, Geneviève Fabry
, Agnès Guiderdoni
, Brigitte Van Wymeersch
30h  3 credits q2 x x
Optional History of art, Analysis of image, Musicology
Optional LHART2220 The iconology and sociology of art   Ralph Dekoninck
15h  5 credits q1 x x
Optional LHART2350 Art since 1960   Alexander Streitberger
15h  5 credits q1 x x
Optional LHART2380 History of art criticism (1750 - 1960)   Joël Roucloux
30h  5 credits q1 x x
Optional LMUSI2450 Art and Music   Brigitte Van Wymeersch
15h  5 credits q1 x x
Optional LMUSI2470 Special questions of musical analysis   Brigitte Van Wymeersch
15h  5 credits q2 x x
Optional LMUSI2852 Sacred Music   Brigitte Van Wymeersch
15h  5 credits q2 x x
Optional LMUSI2871 Aesthetic and philosophy of music   Brigitte Van Wymeersch
15h  5 credits q1 x x
Optional LMUSI2881 Special questions on music history A   15h  5 credits q1 x x
Optional LMUSI2882 Special questions on music history: Aspects of the anglo-american rock   Christophe Pirenne
15h  5 credits q2 x x
Optional Philosophy of language
Optional LFILO2210 Formalized logic A   Peter Verdée
30h  5 credits q1 x x
Optional LFILO2211 Formalized logic B   Peter Verdée
30h  5 credits q1 x x
Optional Aesthetics and philosophy
Optional LFILO2280 Philosophy of Art   Danielle Lories
30h  5 credits q1 x x
Optional LFILO2290 Philosophy of History A   Marc Maesschalck
30h  5 credits q2 x x
Optional LFILO2291 Philosophy of History B   Marc Maesschalck
30h  5 credits q2 x x
Optional LFILO2310 Advanced studies in Cultural Anthropology A   Nathalie Frogneux
30h  5 credits q2 x x
Optional LFILO2313 Advanced studies in Cultural Anthropology B   Nathalie Frogneux
30h  5 credits q1 x x
Optional Communication
Ces cours ne sont accessibles qu'aux étudiants qui ont suivi la mineure en communication en 1er cycle.
Optional LCOMU2221 Analyse des productions cinématographiques   Nicolas Wouters
, Nicolas Wouters (compensates Sébastien Fevry)
22.5h  5 credits q2 x x
Optional LCOMU2640 Media education and media literacy   Thibault Philippette
30h  5 credits q1 x x
Optional Sociology and anthropology
Optional LANTR2100 Basics of anthropology   Pierre-Joseph Laurent
20h  5 credits q1 x x
Optional Cultures et éthique du numérique
Optional LFIAL2010 Altissia Chair: The Digital Turn in Culture & Ethics   Chris Tanasescu
22.5h  5 credits q1 x x
Optional LFIAL2020 Altissia Chair: Practical Digital Methods and Tools for the Humanities   Chris Tanasescu
22.5h+15h  5 credits q2 x x
Optional LFIAL2630 Introduction to automatic text processing   Cédrick Fairon
22.5h  5 credits q2 x x
Optional LFIAL2640 Digital humanities   Paul Bertrand
15h  5 credits q2 x x
Optional LFIAL2650 Digital Document and Data Analysis, Critical Editing, and Publishing   Chris Tanasescu
15h  5 credits q2 x x
Optional LFIAL2660 Digital practices seminar   Chris Tanasescu (compensates Paul Bertrand)
15h  5 credits q2 x x
Optional LHIST2600 Digital Practices in History Professions   Aurore François (coord.)
30h  5 credits q2 x x
Optional LFILO2970 Seminar on (ethical aspects of) the relation between science and society in a digital world   Charles Pence
30h  5 credits q2 x x
Optional LCLIB2120 Bibliothéconomie et bibliométrie : collections, services, ressources et médiation   Frédéric Brodkom
15h  5 credits q1 x x
Optional LCLIB2130 Digital books   Pierre Van Overbeke
15h  5 credits q1 x x
Optional LFSA2202 Ethics and ICT   Axel Gosseries
, Olivier Pereira
30h  5 credits q2 x x
Optional LANTR2115 Séminaire d'Anthropologie du Numérique : technologie, jeux vidéos et mondes virtuels   Olivier Servais
15h  5 credits q2 x x
Optional LCOMU2640 Media education and media literacy   Thibault Philippette
30h  5 credits q1 x x
Optional LDEMO2640 "Big data" : capture et analyse de données massives   Christine Schnor
20h  5 credits q2 x x
Optional LEUSL2113 Digital Europe   Christophe Lazaro
, Alain Strowel
30h  5 credits q2 x x
Optional LSOC2002 Digital sociology   Lionel Detry (compensates Laura Merla)
, 		30h  5 credits q2 x x
Optional MCOMU2209 Internet et société   Sandrine Roginsky
30h  5 credits q1 x x
Optional Other courses (maximum 10 credits)
See note at the start of the "option courses" section.