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Core courses [75.0]
Dissertation
(30 credits)
Methodological approaches to research and communication in history
(10 credits)
FR
q1+q2
5
credits
Seminar
(10 credits)
The history seminar requires significant research in libraries and archives as well as a substantial piece of critical work, preparation for oral and written summary. Students who have not obtained their Bachelor's degree will choose their seminar in annual block 2.FR
q1
22.5h
10
credits
Research techniques
(10 credits)
FR
q2
22.5h
5
credits
> English-friendly
Teacher(s):
> Jean-Sébastien Balzat (compensates Charles Doyen)
Historical periods
(15 credits)
Students must choose 3 courses of Historical periods (min. one course per annual block). They take one course related to period analysed in their Master's dissertation and at least one course related to another period.
FR
q1
30h
5
credits
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List of focuses
Students choose one of the following finalities.
From 2025-26, the didactic finalization is no longer offered in this course. Students who were enrolled before 2025 may re-enroll and have two years in which to complete the course (2025-26 and 2026-27). They will follow an adapted program drawn up by the jury on the basis of teaching units already completed and passed.
Students re-enrolling in 2026-27 who have not obtained their diploma by the end of 2026-27 will have the academic year 2027-28 to validate the missing teaching units. If the diploma is not obtained in 2027-28, they will continue their studies in a Section 4 Master in Teaching.
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Research Focus [30.0]
Content:
Compulsory internship (10 credits)
Optional courses
(20 credits)
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Professional Focus : History and Archives [30.0]
Content:
LHIST9532
Student Work in Archivistics (90 h) : Public Archives
It is strongly advised to do the first internship in public archives and then the internship in private archives
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Professional Focus : Communication of Historical Knowledge [30.0]
Content:
Compulsory placement
(10 credits)
One cursus from the following :
(5 credits)
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Options
Students choose an option or optional courses for 15 credits. With the agreement of the secretary of the jury, some courses of the KU Leuven and UNamur can also be chosen. In that case, students must ensure that they are in order at the university concerned (administrative registration for the chosen course).
Note: if some of the teaching units from the options and/or optional courses are also in the core subjects or in the research focus, the overlap may not exceed 6 credits with each of these programme sections. No overlap of courses is permitted for the professional focus. Teaching units taken in the core subjects or in the research focus may not be taken into account within the options.
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Digital Culture and Ethics [15.0]
The digital has transformed our lives and culture to the extent to which everything takes place nowadays in “digital space,” as our own space, time, and existence are all deeply digitalized. In the “culture of connectivity,” the digital is ubiquitous, we are, one way or another, always online, while technology is no longer just ‘at hand’, but already intimately infiltrating and fusing with our thoughts, our sensations, and even our bodies.
The Digital Culture and Ethics Option offers courses focusing on such profound changes brought about by the digital in all walks of life and academic disciplines alike. It invites the students to reflect critically and creatively on the resulting large-scale evolutions and equips them with the right skills and tools for approaching their subject matters from cutting-edge and presently much needed, genuinely effective and encompassing perspectives.
The topics and practical applications taught in this option also open up the scope of our specialized fields to wider cross-disciplinary viewpoints, thus making us ready to be professionally versatile and successful in a deeply transformed digital world.
Content:
One course from the list below :
(5 credits)
LHIST2600
Digital Practices in History Professions
Ce cours est accessible uniquement à l'étudiant en
master en histoire ou ayant suivi la mineure en histoire.
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Option in Subalternities and Postcolonial Critiques: History, World and Societies [15.0]
This option aims to deepen the study and practice of critical decentring in history. The aim is not only to mobilise epistemological frameworks from other social science disciplines, but also to train in the work of historians who question the past in an inclusive and decentred manner, and who interrogate systems of power and relations of domination and dependence (ethnic, economic, political, cultural, gender, religious, etc.).
Content:
FR
q1
15h
5
credits
Teacher(s):
> Anne-Sophie Gijs
> Costantino Paonessa (compensates Silvia Mostaccio)
Research Seminar
(10 credits)
LHIST2560
History seminar: Europe and non-European worlds
Students who have taken this teaching unit in the core courses must take 10 credits of optional courses.
Optional Courses
(10 credits)
Two courses to be chosen from one of the following modules
Module 1: Global issues and decentralised approach
FR
q1
30h
5
credits
Teacher(s):
> Emmanuelle Piccoli
> Emmanuelle Piccoli (compensates Jacinthe Mazzocchetti)
Module 2: Analysis of non-European societies
FR
q2
30h
5
credits
LESP2842
Topics in Spanish literature: from the Spanish barroc to the latin-amercian neobarroc
Prerequisite: good written znd spoken knowledge of Spanish (level B2)
Module 3: Philosophical, religious and cultural issues
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Optional Courses [15.0]
Content:
Archives and Records, Communication
International, intercultural and intereginal relations
EN
q2
15h
5
credits
Ancient studies: history, art history and archaeology, languages and literatures
Medieval Studies
FR
q2
30h
5
credits
FR
q1
22.5h
5
credits
Teacher(s):
> Jérémie Ferrer-Bartomeu (compensates Agnès Guiderdoni)
> Aline Smeesters
FR
q2
22.5h
5
credits
Teacher(s):
> Jean-Charles Ducène (compensates Godefroid de Callatay)
> Baudouin Van den Abeele
FR
q2
30h
5
credits
FR
q1
30h
5
credits
Teacher(s):
Michel Lefftz (compensates Ralph Dekoninck)
Michel Lefftz (compensates Ralph Dekoninck)
Justice, law and criminality
Gender Studies
FR
q2
15h
5
credits
FR
q2
45h
5
credits
> English-friendly
Teacher(s):
> Magali Beylat (compensates Vincent Yzerbyt)
> Stéphanie Demoulin (compensates Karl-Andrew Woltin)
FR
q2
30h
5
credits
Teacher(s):
> Annalisa Casini
> Annalisa Casini (compensates Vincent Yzerbyt)
> Isabelle Roskam
> Isabelle Roskam (compensates Vincent Yzerbyt)
Annalisa Casini, Annalisa Casini (compensates Vincent Yzerbyt), Isabelle Roskam, Isabelle Roskam (compensates Vincent Yzerbyt)
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Preparatory Module
(only for students who qualify for the course via complementary coursework)
To access this Master, students must have a good command of certain subjects. If this is not the case, in the first annual block of their Masters programme, students must take supplementary classes chosen by the faculty to satisfy course prerequisites.
What is a preparatory module?
It is a set of supplementary classes (courses, practical works, seminars, etc.) from the first cycle (see the non-exhaustive list below). The complementary module (maximum 60 credits) is tailor-made by the jury according to the student's educational background and added to the Master’s programme in order to acquire fundamental knowledge to then pursue the 120 credits of the Master’s programme.
Who is it for?
- Students from a non-university higher education institution
- Candidates admitted with additional training
- Candidates admitted on the file with additional training
All the explanations are in this document (in French).
Making History - Theory and Application of Theory
(35 credits)
LFIAL1156
Digital Literacy in the Humanities and Social Sciences
It is strongly recommended to have taken this course or equivalent as part of a previous Bacherlor’s degree, in order to have access to the Master 120 in History, Professional Focus: History and Archives.
Seminars
(15 credits)
Two seminars from :
2 option seminars (a major for 8 credits and a minor for 7 credits). The same period of history may only be chosen once :
FRq1 22.5h 7 credits
FRq1 22.5h 7 credits
FRq1 22.5h 7 credits
FRq1 22.5h 7 credits
Languages
(10 credits)
Students must take one course of Ancient Languages (5 credits) and one course of Modern Languages (5 credits).
Ancient languages
(5 credits)
LFIAL1181A is open to students who have either studied Latin for four hours per week during the last four years of secondary education or pass an assessment test at the beginning of the year. LFIAL1180 and LFIAL1770 are open to all.
FRq2 30h 5 credits
Modern languages
(5 credits)
ENq1+q2 45h 5 credits
Teacher(s):
> Estelle Dagneaux (coord.)
> Claudine Grommersch
> Sandrine Mulkers
