6 ECTS credits
178 h study time
Offer 1 with catalog number 4011556FEW for working students in the 1st semester
at
a (F) Master - specialised level.
- Semester
- 1st semester
- Enrollment based on exam contract
- Possible
- Grading method
- Grading (scale from 0 to 20)
- Can retake in second session
- Yes
- Enrollment Requirements
- NOTE: registration for this course is only possible for working students. Day students can register for courses whose code ends with an R. At Inschrijven / studentenadministratie@vub.be you must be registered at the VUB as a working student for the current academic year.
- Taught in
- Dutch
- Partnership Agreement
- Under interuniversity agreement for degree program
- Faculty
- Faculty of Languages & Humanities
- Department
- History, Archaeology, Arts, Philosophy and Ethics
- Educational team
- Pieter Meurs
Marc Van Den Bossche
(course titular)
- Activities and contact hours
- 26 contact hours Lecture
100 contact hours Independent or External Form of Study
- Course Content
This course focuses on the work of British-Polish sociologist and philosopher Zygmunt Bauman. Some lessons will also be devoted to the thinking of Michel Foucault. In Bauman's work, the question of the foreigner is central and so is the problem of dehumanization through exclusion. For this reason it is also important to consider what Michel Foucault teaches us by trying to think from the margin: who and what is referred to the margin of 'normality' and what does this say about our society, characterized by Bauman as a 'liquid society'.
- Course material
- Handbook (Required) : Vreemde wereld, Zygmunt Bauman over samenleven in vloeibare tijden, Marc Van den Bossche, 2018, ASP
Practical course material (Required) : De studenten kiezen verplicht zelf nog een eigen boek of enkele teksten in overleg met de titularis, De studenten kiezen verplicht zelf nog een eigen boek of enkele teksten in overleg met de titularis ter voorbereiding van het examen.
- Additional info
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- Learning Outcomes
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General competencies
The student can process the text material provided by the course independently. The student obtains his/her research results independently.
- Grading
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The final grade is composed based on the following categories:
Oral Exam determines 100% of the final mark.
Within the Oral Exam category, the following assignments need to be completed:
- Mondeling examen
with a relative weight of 1
which comprises 100% of the final mark.
Note: Op het examen brengen studenten verslag uit van hun eigen onderzoek naar het denken van Foucault. Het staat hen vrij een boek of enkele teksten van Foucault te kiezen en eventueel het daar behandelde thema (waanzin, de kliniek, macht, verzet, levenskunst, seksualiteit...)verder uit te werken aan de hand van andere lectuur.
- Additional info regarding evaluation
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- Allowed unsatisfactory mark
- The supplementary Teaching and Examination Regulations of your faculty stipulate whether an allowed unsatisfactory mark for this programme unit is permitted.
Academic context
This offer is part of the following study plans:
Master of Adult Education: Profile Cultural Studies (only offered in Dutch)
Master of Philosophy and Moral Sciences: Ethics and Humanism (only offered in Dutch)
Master of Philosophy and Moral Sciences: Philosophy (only offered in Dutch)
Master of Sociology: Standaard traject (only offered in Dutch)
Research Master of Philosophy: Standaard traject
Master of Teaching in Arts and Humanities: History (only offered in Dutch)
Master of Teaching in Arts and Humanities: Art History and Heritage Studies (only offered in Dutch)
Master of Teaching in Arts and Humanities: Philosophy (only offered in Dutch)
Master of Teaching in Arts and Humanities: Ethics and Humanism (only offered in Dutch)