Duration
30h Th, 10h AUTR
Number of credits
Lecturer
Language(s) of instruction
French language
Organisation and examination
Teaching in the second semester
Schedule
Units courses prerequisite and corequisite
Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program
Learning unit contents
The course will present a series of analytical tools to approach public health policies, mobilizing diverse proposal from the fields of policy analysis and program evaluation.
It will follow a sequential analysis logic: problematization and agenda setting, intervention design, implementation and evaluation. For each step, various tools will be presented to allow the student to analyse a public health project and engage in its planification, implementation and evaluation.
Some lectures will also delve into crisis management.
Learning outcomes of the learning unit
At the end of the lectures, the student should master different theoretical and methodological tools, allowing them to develop a critical understanding of past, present and future public health projects, but also to engage in project planification, implementation and evaluation. These tools will allow, at least:
- to identify the different key steps in a project or a program
- to identify the social and contingent nature of a public health problem, its embeddedness in a specific context
- to master the planification of a project (strategic objectives, operational objectives, actions, SMART objectives, GANTT diagram,...)
- to develop relevant evaluation methods to answer various assessment questions
Prerequisite knowledge and skills
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Lectures, readings, practical exercises and exchanges with the students.
Mode of delivery (face to face, distance learning, hybrid learning)
Face-to-face course
Additional information:
in person, face-to-face lectures if allowed by the covid-19 situation
Course materials and recommended or required readings
Leveque A., (2008) Chapitre 2. La sociologie de l'action publique. In Jacquemain, M., & Frère, B. (dir.) Épistémologie de la sociologie: Paradigmes pour le XXIe siècle. (lecture requise des pp. 56-65) De Boeck Supérieur.
Fassin D., (2008), Faire de la santé publique (2e eds.), Presses de l'EHESP: chapitre 2. Sociologies. De la nature à la culture. (lecture requise des pp. 35-63)
The powerpoint slides for each lectures will be made available through MyULiège; other resources will be distributed throughout the course.
Exam(s) in session
May-June exam session
- In-person
oral exam
- Remote
written exam ( open-ended questions )
August-September exam session
- In-person
oral exam
- Remote
written exam ( open-ended questions )
Written work / report
Further information:
The first-session evaluation consists of a written group assignment (one question on the construction of a given public health issue + one fictional project planning exercise following a set of guidelines). This written work will be subject to an oral defense, conducted group by group (brief presentation and Q&A session).
In the second session, to avoid the challenges of group work during the holiday period, the written assignment will be completed individually and followed by a short oral defense.
Work placement(s)
Organisational remarks and main changes to the course
Contacts
Nathan Charlier
Bureau 0-16, B23
ncharlier@uliege.be