2024-2025 / CRIM3114-1

Procedures for research in criminology, Part 1

Duration

20h Th, 10h Pr

Number of credits

 Master in criminology, research focus4 crédits 
 Master in criminology, professional focus4 crédits 
 Master in criminology, professional focus in interpersonal criminology4 crédits 
 Master in criminology, professional focus in criminal organisations and crime analysis4 crédits 

Lecturer

Cécile Mathys

Language(s) of instruction

French language

Organisation and examination

All year long, with partial in January

Schedule

Schedule online

Units courses prerequisite and corequisite

Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program

Learning unit contents

This course aims to define and experiment by students the major research's steps in criminology:

from the importance of ethical issues, the need for rigorous documentary research, through the definition of the subject of study, the methodology and the research protocol used, until the collect and analyze of data, through discussion and perspectives parts, and ending with tips for writing and discussion about plagiarism.

Theoretical and reflexive notions will be proposed to students on these different contents. They will be asked also to actively practice various tasks, training and/or certifative such as reading, evaluating and writting scientific articles with the goal to identify the key components of each stage of research.

Practical tools will be put at the student's disposal for the development of his/her final work or in view of future researches. 

Learning outcomes of the learning unit

The goal of the course is enable the student to understand concretely and deal with the different steps of a scientific research in the criminology field. In particular, developing specific skills in the process of research to facilitate the conceptualisation of his/her own research questions and the achievement of his/her master dissertation. 

Prerequisite knowledge and skills

Corequisite skills: Qualitative research methodology in Criminology, Quantitative research methodology in Criminology.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

Ex-cathedra by teacher, exercises (flipped classrom,logbook,...).

Active particiption from students is highly expected. 

Mode of delivery (face to face, distance learning, hybrid learning)

Blended learning


Further information:

Face-to-face and exercises via ecampus. 10 hours of class time will be free made to allow exercices.

Course materials and recommended or required readings

The powerpoint presentations, working documents and scientific articles used during the course (ecampus).

Written work / report


Further information:

First session session (June): individual written production PART 2 (scientific article) and active students' participation (up to 4 extra points) IF individual written production PART 1 has been submitted in January. If it's not the case, the individual written PART 2 will be report to the second session.

 

Second session (August): individual written production PART 2 (scientific article) and active students' participation (up to 4 extra points).

 

 

Work placement(s)

Organisational remarks and main changes to the course

Necessity to be present at the first course to clearly understand the teacher's expectations about evaluation.

Contacts

  • Professor: Cécile Mathys Bâtiment B33, local 1/46 Email: cecile.mathys@uliege.be      Tél: 04/366 22 66         

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