Duration
30h SEM
Number of credits
Lecturer
Language(s) of instruction
French language
Organisation and examination
Teaching in the first semester, review in January
Schedule
Units courses prerequisite and corequisite
Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program
Learning unit contents
THE SEMINAR IS NOT GIVEN DURING THE YEAR 2023-2024.
STUDENTS WHO HAVE TO TAKE AGAIN THE EXAMINATION BECAUSE OF "REPECHAGE" MUST DELIVER A WRITTEN WORK (see below the "Assessment methods").
The seminar on international relations aims to explore some contemporary issues on international relations. The seminar is divided in three groups. At the head of each group is an animator responsible for a particular theme. Students therefore have the possibility between several themes. The seminar will analyse and deepen several concepts such as: power, rising power, multipolarity, apolarity, multilateralism, world order,...
The student will also have the opportunity to expand her/his knowledge on a particular geographical area of her/his choice/ a theme of her/his choice or among those proposed.
The three groups of the seminar are:
- The new international balance of power: actors, strategies and world order;
- The diffusion of global power from state actors to non-state, private and transnational actors;
- US Foreign Policy in a Multipolar World: actors, issues and influences.
Learning outcomes of the learning unit
It gives the opportunity to the students to deepen an issue handled during the courses on Introduction to international relations and/or on Theories of international relations.
At the end of this seminar, the student will be able to carry out a research on a particular issue by mobilizing the specific tools of the discipline. The student will also have learned how to communicate the results of her/his research both orally and in writing.
Prerequisite knowledge and skills
Students need to have some empirical and theoretical knowledge in international relations.
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
No activity is planned this year because the course is only given in even years.
Mode of delivery (face to face, distance learning, hybrid learning)
Face-to-face course
Additional information:
No activity is planned this year because the course is only given in even years.
Recommended or required readings
No activity is planned this year because the course is only given in even years.
Exam(s) in session
Any session
- In-person
written exam
Written work / report
Additional information:
Exam(s) in session
Any session
- In-person
written exam
Written work / report
Additional information:
Exam(s) in session
Any session
- In-person
written exam
Written work / report
Additional information:
The year when the Seminar is not given, the students who are obliged, because of repechage, to represent the Seminar, must write a written paper proposing an original reflection based on a research question of 12 to 13 pages, line spacing 1.5, Times New Roman font. The work must be sourced and include a bibliography of at least 15 to 20 scientific sources.
The subject of the written work must be determined in consultation with Professor Sebastian Santander. It is strongly advised to make an appointment with him via email: sebastian.santander@uliege.be
Work placement(s)
Organisational remarks and main changes to the course
No teaching is planned this year because the course is only given in even years.
Contacts
Holder: professor Sebastian Santander, Center for International Relations Studies (CEFIR), B31, niveau 0, Bureau R.71 ; Tel. : 043 66 30 46, sebastian.santander@uliege.be
- Assistants:
Vincent Bricart, CEFIR, B31, level 0, Office R.73; Tel. : 043 66 42 59, v.bricart@uliege.be