Master [60] in Sociology and Anthropology - Detailed programme by subject

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Fondements (10 credits)

LSOC2040 Contemporary sociological theories

FR q2 30h 5 credits
Teacher(s):

> Mathieu Berger

Mathieu Berger

1 cours au choix parmi : (5 credits)

LANTR2100 Basics of anthropology

FR q1 20h 5 credits

LANTR2010 Multi-species anthropologies and interspecific relations

FR q1 20h 5 credits
Teacher(s):

> Frédéric Laugrand

Frédéric Laugrand

LANTR2080 Anthropological shifts: socio-ecological crises and desirable possibilities

FR q1 20h 5 credits
Teacher(s):

> Julie Hermesse

Julie Hermesse

LANTR2020 Anthropology of symbolic systems: religions, imaginary worlds and virtual worlds

FR q1 20h 5 credits
Teacher(s):

> Olivier Servais

Olivier Servais

LANTR2015 Ethnographic writings : Implications and Ethical issues

FR q2 20h 5 credits
Teacher(s):

> Jacinthe Mazzocchetti

Jacinthe Mazzocchetti

Ouverture méthodologique (5 credits)

LANTR2140 Séminaire d'enquêtes collaboratives

FR q2 30h 5 credits
Teacher(s):

> Julie Hermesse

> Pascale Jamoulle

Julie Hermesse

, Pascale Jamoulle

LSOC2088 Life stories and biographical approaches

FR q1 22.5h 5 credits
Teacher(s):

> Marie Verhoeven

Marie Verhoeven

LSOC2086 Discourse analysis

FR q2 15h 5 credits
Teacher(s):

> Eric Mangez

Eric Mangez

LSOC2083 Signs, sounds, images : methods of analysis

FR q2 22.5h 5 credits
Teacher(s):

> Mathieu Berger

Mathieu Berger

LSOC2084 Participatory methods

FR q2 22.5h 5 credits
Teacher(s):

> Géraldine André

> Brigitte Maréchal

Géraldine André

, Brigitte Maréchal

LSOC2087 Grounded theory methodology

FR q1 22.5h 5 credits
Teacher(s):

> Marie Verhoeven

Marie Verhoeven

Deux cours conjoints : (5 credits)

LDEMO2402 Méthodologie de collecte de données par enquêtes quantitatives (dont sondage)

FR q2 30h 3 credits

LSOC2095 Techniques approfondies d'enquête extensive et de sondage en sociologie : atelier d'exercices

FR q2 15h 2 credits

Travail de fin d'études (17 credits)

LSOCA2900 Dissertation / Thesis

FR 17 credits

Cours au choix (25 credits)
5 cours à choisir parmi les deux champs suivants (avec au moins 10 crédits en sociologie et au moins 10 crédits en anthropologie) :

Sociologie (min 10 crédits)

LSOC2006 Gender and sexuality

FR q2 30h 5 credits
Teacher(s):

> Mireille Le Guen

Mireille Le Guen

LSOC2002 Digital sociology

FR q2 30h 5 credits
Teacher(s):

> Eric Mangez

Eric Mangez

LSOC2011 Globalisation and regulation

FR q2 30h 5 credits

LSOC2045 Sociology of Economic Practices : Capitalism and the anthropocene

FR q1 30h 5 credits
Teacher(s):

> Isabelle Ferreras

Isabelle Ferreras

LSOC2013 Contemporary cultural transformations: a sociological approach

FR q2 30h 5 credits
Teacher(s):

> Marie Verhoeven

Marie Verhoeven

LSOC2035 Sociology of Education and Training

FR q2 30h 5 credits
Teacher(s):

> Hugues Draelants

Hugues Draelants

LSOC2091 Sociology of the city: ecological approaches

FR q1 30h 5 credits
Teacher(s):

> Mathieu Berger

Mathieu Berger

LSOC2060 socio-anthropology of contemporary Islam

FR q2 30h 5 credits

LSOC2031 Gender and migration

FR q2 30h 5 credits
Teacher(s):

> Laura Merla

Laura Merla

LCRIM2106 Penology

FR q1 30h 5 credits
Teacher(s):

> Fabienne Brion

Fabienne Brion

LTRAV2200 Sociology of work

FR q1 30h 5 credits
Teacher(s):

> Matthieu de Nanteuil

> Isabelle Ferreras

Matthieu de Nanteuil

, Isabelle Ferreras

LENVI2006 Environmental sociology

FR q2 15h+15h 5 credits
Teacher(s):

> Brendan Coolsaet

Brendan Coolsaet

LDROP2152 Sociology of the law

FR q2 30h 5 credits

Anthropologie (minimum 10 crédits)

LANTR2115 How can you be an anthropologist in today's world?

FR q2 15h 5 credits

LANTR2090 Anthropology of ‘nature’: environments, local knowledge and global health

FR q1 15h 5 credits
Teacher(s):

> Frédéric Laugrand

Frédéric Laugrand

LANTR2055 Visual anthropology: iconography-figurations-cosmologies

FR q1 22.5h 5 credits
Teacher(s):

> Frédéric Laugrand

Frédéric Laugrand

LANTR2035 Spatiality, materiality and infrastructure: an anthropological approach

FR q1 20h 5 credits
Teacher(s):

> Marie Deridder

Marie Deridder

LANTR2060 Exiles, migrations and borders: anthropological approaches

FR q2 22.5h 5 credits
Teacher(s):

> Jacinthe Mazzocchetti

Jacinthe Mazzocchetti

LANTR2045 Political anthropology : Power relations and Resistances

FR q2 20h 5 credits
Teacher(s):

> Jacinthe Mazzocchetti

Jacinthe Mazzocchetti

LSEXM2810 Anthropology of the family and contemporary sexuality [M]

FR q2 30h 5 credits

LDVLP2630 Socio-economic analysis of Latin America

FR q1 30h 5 credits

LDVLP2310 Gender and development

FR q1 30h 5 credits
Teacher(s):

> Jacinthe Mazzocchetti

> Emmanuelle Piccoli

Jacinthe Mazzocchetti

, Emmanuelle Piccoli

LENVI2101 Societies, populations, environment, development: issues and interdisciplinary approaches

FR q1 45h 5 credits
Teacher(s):

> Nathalie Frogneux (coord.)

> Julie Hermesse

> Caroline Nieberding

> Jean-Pierre Raskin

Nathalie Frogneux (coord.)

, Julie Hermesse

, Caroline Nieberding

, Jean-Pierre Raskin

Une Chaire Jacques Leclercq (3 credits)

LANSO1390 Jacques Leclercq Chair I (anthropology)

FR q1 15h 3 credits

LANSO1391 Jacques Leclercq Chair II (sociology)

FR q1 15h 3 credits

LANSO1392 Jacques Leclercq Chair III (anthropology)

FR q2 15h 3 credits

LANSO1393 Jacques Leclercq Chair IV (sociology)

FR q2 15h 3 credits
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.

Méthodes

LESPO1001 MOOC Penser critique

FR q1+q2 7.5h 3 credits
Teacher(s):

> Olivier Servais

Olivier Servais

LESPO1002 MOOC Pratiquer la méthode de recherche en sciences humaines et sociales

FR q1+q2 7.5h 3 credits
Teacher(s):

> Pierre Baudewyns

Pierre Baudewyns

LESPO1003 MOOC Découvrir l'anthropologie

FR q1+q2 7.5h 3 credits

Cours spécifiques

LPOLS1215 Sociology of social policies

FR q2 30h 4 credits

LPOLS1316 The History of Debates in Sociology and Anthropology

FR q1 45h+20h 8 credits
Teacher(s):

> Marie Deridder

> Eric Mangez

Marie Deridder

, Eric Mangez

LPOLS1329 Sociology of Religion

FR q1 30h 5 credits

LESPO1103 Anthropology

FR q1 15h 3 credits
Teacher(s):

> Olivier Servais

Olivier Servais

LSOCA1225 Social and cultural anthropology

FR q1 30h+10h 6 credits

LSOCA1234 Theories and concepts in sociology

FR q1 30h+10h 6 credits