9 ECTS credits
250 h study time

Offer 1 with catalog number 1020331ANR for all students in the 2nd semester at a (A) Bachelor - preliminary level.

Semester
2nd semester
Enrollment based on exam contract
Impossible
Grading method
Grading (scale from 0 to 20)
Can retake in second session
Yes
Taught in
Dutch
Faculty
Faculty of Law and Criminology
Department
Criminology
Educational team
Lars Breuls (course titular)
Aude Fieuw
Activities and contact hours
26 contact hours Lecture
30 contact hours Seminar, Exercises or Practicals
100 contact hours Independent or External Form of Study
Course Content

Three questions structure this course:

  1. What is (criminological) research?
  2. How to write a literature study?
  3. What are the different scientific and non scientific sources used in criminological research?

Overview of this course:

Part 1: what is (criminological) science?
Part 2: how to write a literature study?

  • (Scientific) Literature study: Search strategies and instruments, findingplaces of sources, referring to sources

Part 3: Scientific and non-scientific sources of criminological research
Law

  • Statistics
  • Historical sources
  • Oral sources (during observation): ethnographic research
  • Visual sources and images
  • Virtual sources: internet
Course material
Digital course material (Required) : Het studiemateriaal bestaat uit lesslides beeld- en geluidsopnames en opgegeven teksten die op Canvas beschikbaar zijn., Canvas
Digital course material (Required) : V&A-boekje (Verwijzingen en afkortingen), APA-handleiding en teksten/fragmenten (Video/audio) die in de les worden gebruikt en/of via Canvas beschikbaar worden gesteld (al dan niet via een URL-link), laatste editie, https://legalworld.wolterskluwer.be/media/4300/v_a-bi15001_final_binnenwerk-1.pdf
Digital course material (Required) : Voor de werkcolleges en de individuele examenpaper wordt telkens een nota samengesteld waarin de verschillende opdrachten worden omschreven, Canvas
Additional info

Attendance and participation during the practical classes and exercises (WPO) is obligatory. 

Study material exists of ppt-slides, audio and/or video recordings and texts which are all provided via Canvas. Students also have to take notes during the lectures and practical exercices (WPO's) (face to face and/or online). 

A note will be composed in which the different assignments for the practical exercices (WPO's) will be described. That note will be available on Canvas. 

Digital lectures will be available for working students. More information will be communicated via the course unit platform in Canvas.

Learning Outcomes

General Competencies

  • You acquire knowledge on and insight in the different sources of criminological research, in the making of an "issue at stake" and in the relation between the "issue at stake" and the sources needed to analyse it.
  • You know the criminological sources the criminologist uses.
  • You can find sources in a methodologically acceptable way.
  • You evaluate your sources in a critical way and refer to them in a scientifically correct way.
  • You can write a scientific paper in scientific Dutch language on a certain topic and conduct a study of literature in order to make a first state of the art of the issue at stake.

Grading

The final grade is composed based on the following categories:
PRAC Practical Assignment determines 25% of the final mark.
SELF Paper determines 75% of the final mark.

Within the PRAC Practical Assignment category, the following assignments need to be completed:

  • WPO with a relative weight of 1 which comprises 25% of the final mark.

Within the SELF Paper category, the following assignments need to be completed:

  • Exam Paper with a relative weight of 1 which comprises 75% of the final mark.

Additional info regarding evaluation

Quotation for this course unit consists of two parts: 

  1.    Students must write a scientific paper based on a given topic. This part counts for 75% (15/20). A note with specific guidelines will be available on Canvas and will be discussed during the lectures. 
  2.    The other 25% (5/20) will be based on the individual work-in-progress trajectory in which students will be guided during the practical lectures and exercices. Students will be assessed on their intermediate assignments and active participation during these exercices. More information about these assignments and the work-in-progress trajectory are available on Canvas. 

Late submissions of the assignments can have as a consequence a reduction of marks and/or can lead to a direct transfer to the 2nd examen session.

Students who have to retake the practical exercices (WPO's) during the second session, will receive one or more assignment that they have to complete individually. 

A transfer of partial grades is possible between two examination sessions, but not between two acedemic years. 

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:
Bachelor of Psychology: Profile Profile Work and Organisational Psychology (only offered in Dutch)
Bachelor of Psychology: Profile Profile Clinical psychology (only offered in Dutch)
Bachelor of Criminology: Standaard traject (only offered in Dutch)