Objectives of general skills

• Understand the theoretical and methodological fundamentals in psychology, educational sciences and language sciences to analyse a particular situation involving speech therapy
• Identify and explain the concepts, principles, and models of basic theoretical approaches in psychology, educational sciences and language sciences and their applications
• Identify and describe the biological, medical and socio-cultural foundations of human behaviour
• Identify and describe the specific characteristics of psychology, educational sciences and language sciences, and their relationship to other contributory disciplines
• Explain and illustrate, with examples, human functioning, particularly in its pathological dimensions
• Describe the main methodological approaches (goals, methods, techniques and tools) to understand and explain the functioning of individuals and groups
• Understand the fundamentals of speech therapy interventions
• Describe and illustrate the different types of intervention in language sciences
• Explain the various issues underlying any intervention, and justify them according to their application context
• Grow personally and professionally
• Name the separate branches of speech-language therapy
• 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
• Understand, describe and analyse the French language
• Describe and analyse language systems with regard to phonetics, phonemes, morphology, vocabulary, syntax and register
• Reflect metacognitively on the French language and its usage

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