Building the dissertation project / research student

lknr1302  2025-2026  Louvain-la-Neuve

Building the dissertation project / research student
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2.00 credits
22.5 h + 15.0 h
Q1

  This learning unit is not being organized during year 2025-2026.

Language
French
Prerequisites

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
  • Research fields and methods
  • Inclusion and exclusion criteria
  • Stages of a literature review
  • Research questions
  • Acquisition of scientific data, at the heart of research students' experimental laboratory dissertations
  • Ethics (if necessary)
  • Bibliography
  • Rationale
Learning outcomes

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

At the end of this teaching unit (or the laboratory placement for research students), the student will be able to :  
  • Describe the fields and methods of research to be used in the dissertation (6.1)
  • Define your research question by consulting the appropriate databases (6.2)
  • Identify the key articles to be used in the dissertation and generate a bibliography
  • bibliography (6.2, 6.3)
  • Justify the choice of dissertation topic and articles selected (6.2, 6.3, 6.4)
  • Give a scientific oral presentation (6.5)
  • Take into account the ethical aspects of the dissertation (if applicable) (9.1, 9.3)
 
Other information
This course is strictly reserved for FSM students. It is not open to other UCLouvain students.
Faculty or entity
> FSM


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

Title of the programme
Sigle
Credits
Prerequisites
Learning outcomes
Bachelor in Physiotherapy and Rehabilitation
KINE1BA
2
LANGL1851A AND LANGL1851B AND LKNR1201