Questions of history : contemporary period

lhist1334  2020-2021  Louvain-la-Neuve

Questions of history : contemporary period
Due to the COVID-19 crisis, the information below is subject to change, in particular that concerning the teaching mode (presential, distance or in a comodal or hybrid format).
5 credits
22.5 h
Q2
Teacher(s)
Debruyne Emmanuel;
Language
French
Prerequisites
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The prerequisite(s) for this Teaching Unit (Unité d’enseignement – UE) for the programmes/courses that offer this Teaching Unit are specified at the end of this sheet.
Main themes
Attentive to spatial and temporal changes, the course will be based on a documentary corpus available in translation. It will develop, for the contemporary/modern period, the knowledge of institutional frameworks, in the sociological sense of the term: constituted by a set of tasks, beliefs, rules, practices and behaviours instituted between people, these institutional frameworks have a particular purpose and a certain stability over time. These institutions can be political, social, religious, economic, cultural and religious. Their knowledge is essential for research on the contemporary/modern period and will introduce them to recent historiographical problems and methods.
Aims

At the end of this learning unit, the student is able to :

1 At the end of this course, the student will be able to place an institution (considered in a broad sense) in its political, ideological, economic, social and cultural context, to analyse its skills and functioning, and to identify the actors involved, for the contemporary/modern period. It will also be able to place in their historiographical context the questions currently being debated by the research.
 
Teaching methods

Due to the COVID-19 crisis, the information in this section is particularly likely to change.

This course requests the active presence of the students. The first sessions will be lectures, but the next ones will be mored bases on exercices and dialogue in the classroom. Depending on the sanitary conditions, the course will be taught in comodality (code yellow), in remote mode (code orange or red) or in the classroom (code green).
If the opportunity arises, the couse will also incorporate the visit of an exhibition or the participation to a conference or a scientific event.
Those various elements will be supported by readings and possible individual or personal works.
Other information
English-friendly course: course taught in French but offering facilities in English.
Bibliography
Une bibliographie est fournie aux étudiants.
Faculty or entity
HIST


Programmes / formations proposant cette unité d'enseignement (UE)

Title of the programme
Sigle
Credits
Prerequisites
Aims
Bachelor in History

Minor in History