Objectives of general skills

• Understand the theoretical and methodological fundamentals in psychology and educational sciences to analyse a situation involving these disciplines
• Identify and explain the concepts, principles and models of fundamental theoretical trends in psychology and educational sciences and their applications
• Identify and describe the biological and socio-cultural foundations of human behaviour
• Identify and describe the specific characteristics of psychology and educational sciences and their relationship to other contributory disciplines
• Explain and give examples of human functioning, including in its atypical and pathological dimensions
• Describe the principles of methodological approaches (objectives, methods, techniques and tools) to understand and explain the functioning of individuals, groups and organisations
• Grow personally and professionally
• Name the separate branches of psychology and educational sciences
• Direct their choice of modules within their degree programme in order to develop a career plan in line with the realities in the field and their profile (aspirations, strengths, weaknesses, etc.)
• Develop their scientific curiosity and open-mindedness

UE's Learning outcomes

The course aims at giving to the students a panoramic vision of the wide epistemological span which characterizes communication and  language.
It aims in:

Give a basic framework, usefull  just as much to the future specialists of language and comunication (lspeech therapists, psychologists of the language) than to the non-specialists, called to know it within the framework of their profession

present the basic notions susceptible to be useful for them if their studies, their scientific works or their professional practice if they bring them to deal with questions in touch with language and/or communication.

It looks, accordingly, in

- Giving a "basic general knowledge" in the domain,
- Allowing the later autonomous access to the diverse domains of language and communication,
- insuring the reliance between the sciences of language and the domain of professional specialization (in the world of the work or in the research) where the student will be called to exercise, once obtained his diploma,
- Preparing for the other teachings of the Faculty concerning, directly or indirectly, the language and the communication

UE Content

-Concepts of language and communication
-history of the ideas concerning the language and the communication
- Emergence of the language in human evolution
- cognitive aspects of the language functioning
-language diversities
-developmental approaches of the language

Prior experience

Not applicable

Term 1 for Integrated Assessment - type

• Written examination

Term 2 for Integrated Assessment - type

• Written examination

Term 3 for Integrated Assessment - type

• Written examination