Study Skills Seminar

mshum1118  2025-2026  Mons

Study Skills Seminar
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5.00 credits
15.0 h + 30.0 h
Q1 and Q2
Language
French
Main themes
The course mainly consists of:
  • an initiation of the student into critical thinking and self-knowledge, prolegomena to the rest of the programme;
  • a support for the student in the development of a project that leads to the realization of a first university work.
The development of this university work implies for each student a cross-practice focusing on the following aspects:
  • critical reflection based on a disciplinary theme;
  • research and critical confrontation of sources;
  • the practice of the written French language.
Learning outcomes

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

1 At the end of the class, the student will be able to:
  • demonstrate greater autonomy in documentary research and criticism of sources;
  • develop and transmit a personal production that meets the criteria of scientificity, in his discipline; particular attention will be paid to the requirements for referencing and developing a bibliography; referencing issues will lead to specific developments relating to the issue of plagiarism and the notion of "intellectual property";
  • show a global approach in the way of dealing with a problem.
 
Bibliography
COULON A. (1997), Le métier d'étudiant. L'entrée dans la vie universitaire, Paris, PUF
HANNAN A., SILVER H. (2000), Innovating in Higher Education, SRHE and Open University Press
MARQUIS N. et al. (2018), Pratique de la lecture critique en sciences humaines et sociales, Paris, Dunod
QUIVY R., VAN CAMPENHOUDT L. (2017), Manuel de recherche en sciences sociales, [5e éd.], Paris, Dunod
Faculty or entity
> CLSM


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