HEPL

Political science of 1st year.

• Give informations and tools to understand contemporary political questions;
• Return the students able of formulating, of describing and of analyzing contemporary political stakes.

Every year, a different subject is approached, taking into account the current events.

In 2010-2011: " politics and religion ".

FORET, Fr. (ed.), Politique et religion en France et en Belgique, Bruxelles, Editions de l'Université de Bruxelles, 2009.

A basic Knowledge of contemporary Philosophy and Ethic is recommended

- Obtaining a global and coherent vision of ethic, specially for the social work

- Analysing problems in social ethic

- Being able to apply concepts of ethic in professional cases

- difference between law, ethic, moral and deontology

- ethic for the other sixties

- ethic in hospital

Bachelor

 - know the major changes of social work

- understand the stakes of activation policy

- give students some tools to analyse their institutional and organizational frame

- The new social question and the transformation of social work

- The transformation of social work by activation policy

- Problem analyse: meeting activation policy (case studies)

-M.Braibant et E. Milgrom, Introduction à l'Apprentissage par Problèmes (APP), UCL, Cellule FA2L, août 2007, p.14.

Castel, Robert, La montée des incertitudes. Travail, protections, statuts de l'individu, Editions du Seuil, 2009.

Dubet, F.,  Une expérience critique: les travailleurs sociaux, In: „Le déclin de l’institution“, Le Seuil, 2002, pp.231-268.

Michel Chauvière, Trop de gestion tue le social. Essai sur une discrète chalandisation, La Découverte, 2007.

Mejed Hamzaoui, Editorial : Les figures indécises : le cas des travailleurs sociaux, TEF Revue n° 8/2008, pp. 3-7.

Jacques Ion, Introduction, In: « Le travail social en débat[s] », La Découverte, 2005, pp.5-24.

Pascale Vieille, Philippe Pochet et Isabelle Cassiers (dir.), L'Etat social actif. Vers un changement de paradigme? P.I.E. - Peter Lang 2005.

Abraham Franssen, De la critique de l’activation à la démocratisation de l’action sociale, revue « Politique », In Politique – Actes de la 86 ème semaine sociale du MOC », n° HS9, septembre 2008, pp. 70-83.

Course of fisrt year

Application of the theory

Presentation of talks

Students choise

Experience in social domain and holder of bachelor diploma

General objective :

To allow people involved in the social action (actors, « beneficiaries », etc.) to collectively work towards the creation of socioeconomic programs[1].  The programs will answer identified needs in a dynamic approach of the social and united economy.    

Specific objectives :

To improve the follow-up of socioeconomic programs by people with experience in social action, with direct or indirect relation with specific populations wishing to mobilize themselves to answer their specific problems. 

Results :

1. The training process, elaborated to improve the follow up of socioeconomic projects, will be described, oriented and concretize in a participatory approach.  

2. Knowledge and capacity in terms of project elaboration, management and evaluation will be strengthened. 

[1] Project / program : nuance but in this precise case : synonyms

-          Project elaboration, management and evaluation (Elaboration : practical exercises, problems tree, definition of objectives, results and activities, approach through improvement markers, evolving indicators. Management and evaluation : kit DD, ATOL table, SWOT, GAP, monitoring and evaluation through logical frame…)

Books

G. Bajoit, le Changement social, Ed. Armand Colin, 2003.

L. Boltansky et Eve Chiapello, le Nouvel esprit du capitalisme, Ed. Gallimard, 1999.

M. Castells, Le pouvoir de l’identité, Ed. Fayard, 1999.

M. Crozier et E. Friedberg, L’Acteur et le système, Les contraintes de l’action collective, Ed. Seuil, 1977.

J. Defourny, P. Develtere, B. Fonteneau, L’économie sociale et solidaire au Nord et au Sud, Ed. De Boeck, 1999.

Develtere P., Economie sociale et développement, Les coopératives, mutuelles et associations dans les pays en développement, Ed. De Boeck et Larcier s.a., 1998.

JL Laville et D. Cattani (dir.), Dictionnaire de l’autre économie, Ed. Folio actuel, 2006.

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Articles

P. Develtere et B. Fonteneau, « Société civile, ONG, tiers secteur, mouvement social et économie sociale : conception au Nord, pertinence au Sud ? » in CRDC, KUL, 2002.

D. Gabriel, « Entreprendre autrement, une campagne pour une autre économie », in Journal Terre 122, Ed. Groupe Terre, 2008.

D. Gabriel, « Pour un changement social et économique », in Journal Terre 127, Ed. Groupe Terre, 2009.

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Various

PPT, broadcasting tools, reading basket, documents related to projects management.

Seminars and participative workshops

Written examination and oral defense

Practical projects and realizations

None

- Understand the major objectives and stakes of terrorialised social

policy

  - Appropriate steps of territorialised social development

The patterns of integrated urban revitalization

The new instruments of public action

Implementation of territorialised social development

- Anne-Marie Séguin et Gérard Divay, La lutte territorialisée contre la pauvreté : examen critique du modèle de revitalisation urbaine intégrée, Lien social et politique,  Numéro 52 (Automne 2004).

- Mejed Hamzaoui, Le travail social territorialisé, Chapitre VII: Les « nouveaux » instruments de l'action publique, pp.120-152. Editions de l'Université de Bruxelles, 2002.

- Jean-François Bernoux, Mettre en œuvre le développement social territorial. Méthodologie, outils, pratiques. Dunod, 2005, pp.11-48.

First lesson in work psychology (1st master)

See french version

In construction

In construction

1st session:

10 % participation and presence

20 % individual task and research

 70 % writed exam

2^d session:

100% writed exam

First lesson in work psychology (1st master)

See french version

In construction

In construction

1st session:

10 % participation and presence

20 % individual task and research

 70 % writed exam

2^d session:

100% writed exam

The first year lessons

The student will be able to :

elaborate  messages to target audience

know the process to deliver the messages (public relations, media relations, documentary film...)

I. Public relations and corporate communication (press release...)

II. Means to communicate with the media and target audience (associated press, documentary film, ...)

COLLET, H., Communiquer Pourquoi, comment ?, CRIDEC, 2004.

WESTPHALEN, M.H., LIBAERT, T., Communicator, toute la communication d'entreprise, DUNOD, 2009.

The first year lessons

The student will be able to :

hold a professional meeting (information, interview, negociation)

consider the cross-cultural aspect

I. How to hold professional meetings

II. The different meetings

III. The cross-cultural aspect in a primary group.

CARRE, C., Animer un groupe, Eyrolles, 2007.

CAUVIN, P., La cohésion des équipes, ESF, 1997.

MUCCHIELLI, R., La conduite des réunions, ESF, 1996.

MUCCHIELLI, A., Théorie des processus de la communication, A. Colin, 1998.

None

The course consists of two parts which are relatively distinct, in spite of certain correlations. More specifically, we will look at both International and European aspects of Law, primarily from a social point of view.

 The main objective, in a 30 hour class, is to give the student the keys to solve the most common problems which they may run into as an employer called upon to manage the personnel of an association.

 In addition, by studying the social achievements of European Law, students can get an overview of the perspectives of an open market on associations in order to obtain a more social Europe.

Belgian Social Law : the law of 3 July, 1978 on the employment contract

1. Statutes of personnel in a non-profit organisation which has a responsibility in the public service sector
2. Statutes of personnel transferred from the public sector to the private sector in case of privatization of a public service
3. Penal and civil responsibilities of the corporate body as employer
4. Accidents at work
5. Work Code

International Social Law : the International Labor Organization.

1. The Treaty of Rome
2. Multilateral and bilateral conventions

European Law :

1. The European Institutions
2. Regulations, directives, decisions and recommendations
3. Social Europe : powers limited because left to the States’ national sovereignty, but a growing coordination in order to preserve the European social model,  European Social Fund activities
4. Social challenges in Europe : services in Europe, the fight against social exclusion, non-European immigration, employment, worker’s rights in a company, the European Social Agreement, male-female equality, social security for migrant European workers, retirement.

The student will be able to :

understand and analyse the social communication process

work out a communication plan to deliver messages to target audience.

Definition of social communication (purposes, means, social ethics)

Communication plan

COLLET, H., Communiquer, pourquoi, comment ?, CRIDEC, 2004.

MEUNIER, J.P., PERAYA, D., Introduction aux théories de la communication, De Boeck, 1996.

WESTPHALEN, M.H., LIBAERT, T., Communicator, Dunod, 2009.

WATZLAWICK, P. et al, Une logique de la communication, Seuil, 1972.

Non-profit organization accountancy

The student will be able to :

- use an appropriated budget to non-profit organization;

- understand why such a budget;

- read and understand the differents parts of annual financial statements.

The non-profit organization budget

Financial analysis

Lois et A.R depuis le 2 mai 2002.

La santé financière et la comptabilité des associations, Fondation Roi Baudouin, Bruxelles, 2004.

La comptabilité des grandes ASBL, Fernand Maillard, Ed. Edipro (CCI), Liège, 2007

None

Giving students the fundamental knowledge in order to understand the political environment and the budget politic 

Belgian institutions

Fiscal policy

Government finance

Methodological and reflexive approach of the aims and objectives of social marketing.

Comprehension of the stakes. At the end of the course the student will be able to understand the mechanisms of a marketing strategy and to draw up a pmarketing plan intended for a social institution

General introduction

Working method of marketing

the objectives

The different target groups

lecturing and interactive course

Intervention of a specialist of a Web professional

None

This is a part of the "Group management and meetings lead" course. The object is a cross-cultural approach in professional groups. 

Approach of cross-cultural strategy through meetings lead training.

BARRETTE, C., Guide de la communication interculturelle, ERPI, 1996.

COSTA-LASCOUX, J., Pluralité des cultures et dynamiques identitaires, L'Harmattan, 2000.

De VILLANOVA, R., Construire l'interculturel ?, L'Harmattan, 2001.

None

Understand the major objectives and stakes of

 territorialised social policy

Critical presentation of differents public policies

-  Federal program for big cities

- Local Development Agencies in Wallonia

-  ZIP-QI in Wallonia

- The neigbourhood contracts in Bruxelles

- Social cohesion plan in Wallonia

Seminar with experts and visits ground

None

Study tools to evaluate  social territorialised  policy   

Managerial and strategic stakes of valuation 

• to get a value of efficiency 
• to value in aim to create transversality in public action
• to value to mobilize actors around un same local project
• to value to accompaign some one  to  pilot  a strategic local policy

- What can be valued in a territorialised social policy?

• Impact of local territorial plans or thematic action
• Transversality of public action

Participation of actors and  inhabitants 

Guy Cauquil, Conduire et évaluer les politiques sociales territorialisées, Dunond, 2004, pp. 156-170.

Experience in social domain and holder of bachelor diploma

General objective :

To allow people involved in the social action (actors, « beneficiaries », etc.) to collectively work towards the creation of socioeconomic programs[1].  The programs will answer identified needs in a dynamic approach of the social and united economy.    

Specific objectives :

To improve the follow-up of socioeconomic programs by people with experience in social action, with direct or indirect relation with specific populations wishing to mobilize themselves to answer their specific problems. 

Results :

1. The training process, elaborated to improve the follow up of socioeconomic projects, will be described, oriented and concretize in a participatory approach.  

2. Cultural, institutional and technical dimensions of project management will be presented to the students with a theoretical and participative approach.

[1] Project / program : nuance but in this precise case : synonyms

-               Project conception and description (cultural approach, institutional actors, management centered on results, GCP, logical frame, incidences mapping and glossary : vision, mission… )

Books

G. Bajoit, le Changement social, Ed. Armand Colin, 2003.

L. Boltansky et Eve Chiapello, le Nouvel esprit du capitalisme, Ed. Gallimard, 1999.

M. Castells, Le pouvoir de l’identité, Ed. Fayard, 1999.

M. Crozier et E. Friedberg, L’Acteur et le système, Les contraintes de l’action collective, Ed. Seuil, 1977.

J. Defourny, P. Develtere, B. Fonteneau, L’économie sociale et solidaire au Nord et au Sud, Ed. De Boeck, 1999.

Develtere P., Economie sociale et développement, Les coopératives, mutuelles et associations dans les pays en développement, Ed. De Boeck et Larcier s.a., 1998.

JL Laville et D. Cattani (dir.), Dictionnaire de l’autre économie, Ed. Folio actuel, 2006.

+ to be defined

Articles

P. Develtere et B. Fonteneau, « Société civile, ONG, tiers secteur, mouvement social et économie sociale : conception au Nord, pertinence au Sud ? » in CRDC, KUL, 2002.

D. Gabriel, « Entreprendre autrement, une campagne pour une autre économie », in Journal Terre 122, Ed. Groupe Terre, 2008.

D. Gabriel, « Pour un changement social et économique », in Journal Terre 127, Ed. Groupe Terre, 2009.

+ to be defined

Various

PPT, broadcasting tools, reading basket, documents related to projects management.

Seminars and participative workshops

Written examination and oral defense

Practical projects and realizations

Bachelor

To develop an innovating social action project, this project to be the concrete result of critical analysis of social policies.

And/Or To undertake a research like a support to adaptation or innovation social projects.

And/Or To analyze, to conceive and to develop tools for a more optimal human resources management.

And/Or To lead a reflexive approach aiming to value social action programs and/or social intervention practices.

Involvement to activities of an institution of the no-trade sector.

Placements of 1st and 2nd years.

To choose, to analyze with conceptual and practical way, to produce a personal work in relation with the engineering and the social action (social action program, research like a support to adaptation or innovation social projects, tools of management, ...), to present it in a thesis and to defend it in an oral dissertation.

The thesis consists of institutional and theoretical references,  a personal research work in relation with the engineering and the social action (social action program, research like a support to adaptation or innovation social projects, tools of management, ...),

None

The computerization of the accounting of an ASBL thanks to an accounting software package "BOB"

• Introduction with "BOB"
• Fundamental Notions
• Consultations and printings of document
• Seized with writings

Experience in social domain and holder of bachelor diploma

General objective :

To allow people involved in the social action (actors, « beneficiaries », etc.) to collectively work towards the creation of socioeconomic programs[1].  The programs will answer identified needs in a dynamic approach of the social and united economy.    

Specific objectives :

To improve the follow-up of socioeconomic programs by people with experience in social action, with direct or indirect relation with specific populations wishing to mobilize themselves to answer their specific problems. 

Results :

1. The training process, elaborated to improve the follow up of socioeconomic projects, will be described, oriented and concretize in a participatory approach.  

2. A student training (among professional of social action) will present various dimensions of social economy (conception, organization, history and structure) and will be led with a theoretical and participative approach.

[1] Project / program : nuance but in this precise case : synonyms

-          Social economy (card games on power levels in our society, notion of third sector, history, juridical notions, social and united economy approach in project management)

Books

G. Bajoit, le Changement social, Ed. Armand Colin, 2003.

L. Boltansky et Eve Chiapello, le Nouvel esprit du capitalisme, Ed. Gallimard, 1999.

M. Castells, Le pouvoir de l’identité, Ed. Fayard, 1999.

M. Crozier et E. Friedberg, L’Acteur et le système, Les contraintes de l’action collective, Ed. Seuil, 1977.

J. Defourny, P. Develtere, B. Fonteneau, L’économie sociale et solidaire au Nord et au Sud, Ed. De Boeck, 1999.

Develtere P., Economie sociale et développement, Les coopératives, mutuelles et associations dans les pays en développement, Ed. De Boeck et Larcier s.a., 1998.

JL Laville et D. Cattani (dir.), Dictionnaire de l’autre économie, Ed. Folio actuel, 2006.

+ to be defined

Articles

P. Develtere et B. Fonteneau, « Société civile, ONG, tiers secteur, mouvement social et économie sociale : conception au Nord, pertinence au Sud ? » in CRDC, KUL, 2002.

D. Gabriel, « Entreprendre autrement, une campagne pour une autre économie », in Journal Terre 122, Ed. Groupe Terre, 2008.

D. Gabriel, « Pour un changement social et économique », in Journal Terre 127, Ed. Groupe Terre, 2009.

+ to be defined

Various

PPT, broadcasting tools, reading basket, documents related to projects management.

Seminars and participative workshops

Written examination and oral defense

Practical projects and realizations

Bachelor

This course will view basis of theories and methodologies of social action. Focus on political, ideological and cultural presuppositions.

Subjects are : psychologisation of social action, responsability of individues and diversity.

CASTEL R., La montée des incertitudes, Paris, Seuil, 2009.

VRANCKEN D., Le crépuscule du social, Bruxelles, Labor, 2002.

VRANCKEN D., Le Nouvel Ordre Protectionnel, Paris, Parangon, 2009, à paraître.

VRANCKEN D. et MACQUET Cl., Le travail sur Soi, Paris, Belin, 2006.

Different papers will be provided

None

- Analysing social problems in two ways :

1° Investigating the reality of this problem

2° being able to discover the ideological and philosophical base of the studied situation

- Constructing theorical discourse about social situations

-  Inventing solutions in front of socials problems

Chp. 1 Relationship between social and politics

Chp. 2 Violence in modern society

chp. 3 Body in social work

Successfully completing the requirements of the 1^st year programme.

Optimising comprehension skills through reading activities based on a wide selection of documents dealing with social topics and issues. Extending the specific terminology of “English for social purposes”. Enhancing the ability to efficiently summarize or translate essential information and data extracted from the aforesaid documents.

Selection of diversified original documents covering various socially oriented issues. Among other things, the following topics will be included: indebtedness and foreclosures, unemployment, benefits and allowances (application terms and forms), immigration, social services the USA (including background, history, organization, social security benefits, welfare programs, poverty line, etc.), US health care system (including the latest Obama reform).

1. Reading file: selection of original documents

2. Textbook: related exercises (reading comprehension, vocabulary, translation)  

 3. Self-learning reading file (selection of documents to be prepared for the written examination)

Since learning a language is an active process, emphasis will particularly be put on:

- regular attendance,

- active participation in the classroom activities,

- completion of home assignments

Written examinations

Bachelor.

Mastery of an occupation in the social sector

Public and Administrative Law

Mastering the social context in which the professional will have to evolve and develop the institution in which he (will) practice(s) his activity

1. Analysis of the institutional context:

- short history of institutional Belgium

- organization of the state (notions, separation of powers, etc...)

- institutional functioning (overview)

2. Distribution of social skills:- Federal social policies- Community and Regional Social policies

- Local social policy

1. Identification of subsidizing powers:

- Belgian authorities

- European funds

- Private operators

1. Links with the course of development, management and evaluation of projects
2. Particular questions

Decrees, orders and regulations

Social guide

The course is taught orally at 2 hours / week.This is a lecture.

Exercise of analysis and project development will be considered for the purpose of submitting the course content in relation to the reality