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
Els Dumortier (course titular)
Canigia Mestdagh
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
  • Literature and fiction
  • 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

This course is only available for day students. Eveningstudents who enrolled in 2017-2018 and who do not have a credit will need to refer to the classes and practical course of 2017-2018. The course will not change contentwise. The evaluations will take place in the same way. For further information, please contact Prof E Dumortier.

Students have to use the ppt-slides and texts that are made available in Canvas. They have to take notes during the course.

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 short 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.
  • You can make some basic methodological (and ethical) reflections on your issue at stake.

 

Grading

The final grade is composed based on the following categories:
PRAC Practical Assignment determines 25% of the final mark.
SELF Teamwork 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 Teamwork category, the following assignments need to be completed:

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

Additional info regarding evaluation

75 % Written examination

Information on the exam will be made available on Canvas and will be handled during the course.

Examples of questions: 
- Why do scientists use references in their scientific texts? 
- Give two forms of scientific fraude?
- Give two specific critiques on the use of judicial statistics in the study of the phenomenon of crime?
- Why does a criminologist uses judicial sources?

25 %  (Practical sessions)

the individual "work in progress"-traject will be evaluated on the basis of deliverables, the end result and the active participation during the practical sessions.

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.

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)