Duration
30h Th
Number of credits
| Master in labour sciences, research focus | 3 crédits | |||
| Master in labour sciences (60 ECTS) | 3 crédits | |||
| Extra courses intended for exchange students (Erasmus, ...) (Faculty of social sciences) | 3 crédits |
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 actualizes and implements social policies in order to question the reconfiguration of social welfare.
It is based on :
- Discussing the contemporary evolutions of the Welfare State.
- Provide an empirical perspective of the theories of the Welfare State.
Learning outcomes of the learning unit
At the end of the course, the student will be able to :
- analyze social policies and the evolution of the Belgian Welfare State,
- handle the complexity of the "social" and its evolution,
- master the references and the theoretical knowledge related to the theories of the "social",
- apply them to a field of social intervention.
Prerequisite knowledge and skills
The course represent a straight continuation of the course : Sociological analysis of social politics.
SOCI2257-1 is corequisite.
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Lectures and interaction with students
The course is based on Didier Vrancken's books " Social Barbar " and "Les invisibilités barbares" and on Welfare State's theories.
The objective is to reveal the main concepts and the paradigms of social policies in order to confront them with contemporary societal developments..
The course aims to be participative and feeds on student's opinions and reflections.
Mode of delivery (face to face, distance learning, hybrid learning)
Face-to-face course
Additional information:
Face-to-face course
Course materials and recommended or required readings
- Books: Vrancken Didier, 2010, Social Barbare, Charleroi : Couleurs Livre, 2010 and Les invisibilités barbares, Liège-Genève, Presses de l'Université de Liège-Ies éditions, 2019.
- Various vectors (Powerpoint, video, intervention, etc.).
Exam(s) in session
Any session
- In-person
written exam ( open-ended questions )
Work placement(s)
Organisational remarks and main changes to the course
None
Contacts
Professor Didier Vrancken.
Professor Jean-François Orianne
Assistant: Laura Beuker
laura.beuker@uliege.be