Duration
12h Th
Number of credits
| Master in population and development studies (120 ECTS) | 9 crédits |
Lecturer
Language(s) of instruction
French language
Organisation and examination
All year long
Schedule
Units courses prerequisite and corequisite
Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program
Learning unit contents
This course aims to offer students support in the completion of their personal Master's work. The aim of this course is to provide students with support in the production of their personal Master's work. More broadly, it aims to help students acquire a research approach with the aim of producing a scientific work.
The seminar will help them to formulate questions or hypotheses, to carry out a bibliographical search, to choose a methodological orientation, to write a bibliography, and to experiment with certain stages of research (notably semi-directive interviews).
In addition, the course will familiarise students with the formal instructions for writing the personal work of the Master in Population and Development Sciences (see TP indications on eCampus).
Learning outcomes of the learning unit
At the end of this seminar, students will be able to produce a structured personal work presenting a clear and relevant problematic in relation to development cooperation.
The student will be able to demonstrate critical distance from the research subject and to use quality scientific literature and appropriate methodological tools.
Prerequisite knowledge and skills
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Face-to-face support seminar with
- sessions covering theoretical and methodological elements
- practical exercises to be completed (intermediate work)
- sessions in the form of sub-group exchanges based on intermediate productions. These sessions will be an opportunity to discuss with teachers the progress of their personal work and to ask questions throughout the course.
Failure to complete this work results in exclusion from the session at which it was to be discussed.
As indicated on the schedule given at the start of the year, two submissions of work are obligatory in the first term and the second term. Except in cases of force majeure, failure to submit these three works to the supervisors of the "Initiation to Research in Development and International Cooperation" seminar will result in the automatic postponement of the student.
Mode of delivery (face to face, distance learning, hybrid learning)
Face-to-face course
Recommended or required readings
A PPT will be available on eCampus, containing the theoretical parts and the discussions that took place during the sessions.
Required readings
A portfolio of texts will be communicated as the sessions progress and available on eCampus.
Recommended reading
Students who come from another faculty and who have no additional credits are advised to read these works:
Pirotte G., (2021), La fabrique de l'aide internationale, Presses universitaires de Liège.
Paillé, P., Mucchielli, A. (2012). L'analyse qualitative en sciences humaines et sociales. Paris: Armand Colin.
Olivier de Sardan J.P., (2008). La rigueur du qualitatif. Academia-Bruylant, Louvain-La-Neuve.
Lejeune C., (2014). Manuel d'analyse qualitative. Analyser sans compter ni classer. De Boeck, Louvain-la-Neuve.
Campenhoudt, L. V., & Quivy, R. (2001). Manuel de recherche en sciences sociales (2ème édition entièrement revue et augmentée). Dunod.
Exam(s) in session
Any session
- In-person
written exam
Written work / report
Other : Formative evaluation via intermediate productions to be submitted.
Additional information:
The evaluation of the course is inseparable from the evaluation of the TP. The evaluation is carried out jointly by the promoter of the TP (50%) and one of the seminar teachers on the basis of the criteria set out in the TP regulations (50%). But also on the basis of the information given during the sessions and exchanges with the teacher.
Work placement(s)
Organisational remarks and main changes to the course
Contacts
Estelle Lecroart, assistante : estelle.lecroart@uliege.be
Melissa Schneider, assistante : melissa.schneider@uliege.be