Duration
16h Th, 4h Pr
Number of credits
| Master in engineering of conflict prevention and management | 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
Teaching unit organized at the Haute Ecole de la Province de Liège in the framework of Master en ingénierie de la prévention et de la gestion des conflits.
Learning outcomes of the learning unit
This course aims at providing students with the tools needed to apprehend the cultural and religious diversity of the contemporary society, as well as to critically deconstruct the instruments used to manage this diversity
Prerequisite knowledge and skills
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
The course is divided into two thematic sections. Within the first section (8 hours), the public management of convictional issues (religious or philosophical ones) will be addressed. On the basis of some works in sociology of religions or sociology of public action, a theoretical framework, the European framework and the Belgian context will be presented, underlying the arrangements and negotiations (of values and interests). Starting from these elements, two particular themes will be studied: the local interfaith dialogue (mainly on the basis of the recommendations of the Council of Europe and of the works that contributed to them); the debate around the themes of laïcité, neutrality, separation of churches and state, taking as example the wearing of religious signs.
In the second section (8 hours), some key notions of the anthropological discipline that have a heuristic scope to apprehend interculturality will be addressed. In particular, the notions (and the practices related to): culture, representation, conflict, negotiation, power and discourse. Then, a critical work will be conducted on: some examples of intercultural initiatives; policies implemented to manage migration and cultural diversity; some examples of intercultural conflicts. To conclude, an introduction to the intersectional approach will enable to study the issue of discrimination as well as the forms of intellectual and practical mobilization of the actors associated to diversity.
4 hours will be devoted to self-learning activity (see evaluation criteria).
Exam dates and precise modalities will be communicated at the beginning of the semester.
Mode of delivery (face to face, distance learning, hybrid learning)
Face to face
Course materials and recommended or required readings
Platform(s) used for course materials:
- eCampus
Further information:
Recommended readings and PPT of the lessons will be available to students via eCampus ("support de cours").
Exam(s) in session
Any session
- Remote
written exam ( open-ended questions )
Written work / report
Further information:
First session :
The exam consists of group work on a case study, and takes place as follows:
1) Constitution of groups and choice of a case study either from a list proposed by the teachers or on the students' own initiative, subject to validation of the case study by the teachers.
2) Written assignment on the case study. If the grade is less than 8, the exam grade will be the grade of the written assignment.
3) For work grades of 8 or above: collective presentation of the answer to the case study orally in front of the two teachers.
4) Following the collective presentation, the teachers question the students in the group on the case study and any other questions relating to the subject. This results in an individual grade for each student. The individualized mark for the presentation (group presentation and questions put to students individually) then replaces the mark for the written work. This revision may be upward or downward. Weighting 100%.
Second session:
Written exam consisting of open-ended questions that may cover the entire course content (weighting 100%).
Work placement(s)
Organisational remarks and main changes to the course
All communications will be sent to students via eCampus, it is thus necessary that each student fills in his or her contact information in this platform and that he or she regularly checks his or her ULiège email and the plateform.
Contacts
jeremy.mandin@uliege.be
jfhusson@uliege.be
Association of one or more MOOCs
Items online
Publications in Islam in Belgium
This is a series of articles on Islam in Belgium: a more general overview of the situation, a more specific one on the challenges of the system and a last one on the perception that the recognition of Islam in Belgium has been late and incomplete.
Intercultural management - a Union approach
An example in complement to the part of my slides presenting the Unia approach
Law infringing cults
File on the questions related to cults