Objectives of general skills

• Acquire the basic knowledge to understand the legal mechanisms in order to understand the concepts, techniques and terminology to express a rigorous legal thought
• Understand the organisation of powers to identify institutions and sources of law
• Use language as a tool of legal thinking to understand the concepts, techniques and terminology to express a rigorous legal thought
• Choose appropriate and accurate legal terminology according to the context
• Express thoughts constructively and rigorously
• Defend a point of view in order to apply a pragmatic approach of the law to resolve specific issues
• Assess and demonstrate sound reasoning
• Understand the development and application of the law in a critical manner in order to activate knowledge to reflect critically and constructively on positive law
• Identify social and political issues of legal phenomena
• Consider the relationships of power in the development and application of law
• Introduce interdisciplinarity in their analysis and perception of the law in order to activate knowledge to reflect critically and constructively on positive law
• Develop critical thinking skills based on this introduction to humanities
• Foster a transversal approach to law

UE's Learning outcomes

At the end of the instruction, the students will be able to:
– understand that the contemporary society and institutions are notably the result of historic evolution, which means of the movement, of the transformation, the changes of a collectivity along the time following more or less explicit intentions or projects  ; – identify through both retrospective and foresight ultimate aims, the variables (factors and actors) of the history of Belgium and of its Regions ;
– show the continuities, the bifurcations and the breakdowns in the societal and institutional evolutions of Belgium and identify more systemic features at European and global levels.

UE Content

The course includes three parts. The first one deals with the great breakdowns of the 19th Century since the Industrial Revolution. The second part analyses the 20th Century evolutions by studying five progressive issues. The third part outlines another Belgium being built since the Seventies and characterized by a deep citizen unrest and the federalisation of the State. The conclusion is foresight oriented and foresees the signals of new breakdowns that can already be perceived.

Prior experience

Not applicable.

Term 1 for Integrated Assessment - type

• Oral examination

Term 2 for Integrated Assessment - type

• Oral Examination

Term 3 for Integrated Assessment - type

• Oral examination

Resit Assessment for IT - Term 1 (B1BA1) - type

• Oral examination