Discover university education and life at UNamur while revising the subjects essential for your future training.

To get your first year of study off to a good start, at the end of August the Faculty of Philosophy and Humanities is offering sample courses and exercises that will enable you to:

• check your command of the French language, your ability to take notes and report on an oral presentation or a text;
• approach activities specific to philosophy;
• discover the demands of university life and the student profession;
• introduce you to the methodological principles of your discipline;
• confront your choices of disciplinary orientation.

Test your knowledge and skills with "Passeports pour le bac".

At the start of your first year, "Passeports pour le bac" allow you to compare what you've learned with what your teachers expect.

Following these tests, the Faculty offers you sessions and workshops to reinforce your:

• reading strategy;
• analysis of questions and construction of appropriate answers.

You thus fill in any gaps and promote your success.

To succeed in your first year, you need effective strategies.

Working methods sessions are organized to familiarize you with university learning techniques:

• taking clear and comprehensive notes;
• summarizing and synthesizing material;
• understanding material in depth;
• memorizing large amounts of information;
• managing your time during class and blockade periods;
• organizing your work;
• anticipating teachers' requirements.

In addition to these methodological sessions, your Faculty's Cellule d'Appui Pédagogique organizes individual assessment interviews after your tests and exams. If you request it, you can also benefit from personalized follow-up throughout the year.

If you're experiencing difficulties with your study method in general, the Cellule Interfacultaire d'Appui pédagogique also offers individual follow-up. An advisor is on hand to review your study methods and techniques and help you improve them.

Finally, on the eve of the first blockade, you can take part in an exchange and advice session with 2nd or 3rd year students under the supervision of the Cellule d'Appui Pédagogique.

Learn to express yourself correctly in writing and deepen your understanding of texts.

The Cellule d'Appui Pédagogique enables you to strengthen your skills in various areas:

• writing assignments and exam answers
  • by language tests at the beginning of the year assessing spelling, vocabulary, syntax;
  • by reinforcement sessions in workshops and through online exercises;
  • by supervision of some of your written work: commented, individual and group corrections ;
  • by organizing mock exams (November tests) ;
  • by individual follow-up (by e-mail and face-to-face).
• reading and comprehension of university-level texts
  • by a reading test at the beginning of the year;
  • by reinforcement sessions on reading strategies.

Special follow-up is provided for students whose mother tongue is not French.

Central and department libraries, computer space and e-learning platform: valuable resources.

At the central library ("BUMP" for Bibliothèque Universitaire Moretus Plantin), you can consult: catalogs, dictionaries, encyclopedias, bibliographies, literary works, CD-ROMs, databases... Rarer or specialized journals or books can be obtained on request.

At the departmental library, located on the floor of your section, you have free access to most of the working tools you need: journals, special grammars and dictionaries, summary collections, scholarly studies, exemplary monographs, collections of published or manuscript sources and even sometimes microfilm reading devices. You'll also benefit from practical advice from more senior staff, and even from the professors occupying the adjoining offices.

For writing up your assignments, familiarizing yourself with the various programs specific to your discipline and carrying out your research on the Internet, the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters puts a computer area at your disposal.

And that's not all! Thanks to the WebCampus e-learning platform, you can download the documents that teachers make available to you, access discussion forums with other students, and ask your questions live...

Check and clarify your understanding of the subject.

Most specialty courses take the form of a dialogue with the teachers. In this way, you can check your understanding of the subject as you go along, and clarify it. Repetitions and quizzes are offered regularly.

For all courses, lectures are enriched by the commented reading of articles or extracts from philosophical works.

Thanks to your personal assignments, you directly confront the study of precise
philosophical questions, become familiar with research and are introduced to the philosophical dissertation.

Study regularly, acquire good methods, but also get to know the teachers' requirements and their way of questioning.

In the first year, formative assessments are organized in early November on at least one of the most voluminous subjects. Teachers correct your papers, comment on them and organize group correction sessions. Following these assessments, the Cellule d'Appui Pédagogique organizes individual assessment interviews and offers more personalized follow-up, particularly in French.

These tests do not play a part in the grades awarded at the end of the year. They are merely a training tool to help you
account for the teachers' level of demand and judge the effectiveness of your work.

Beyond the first year, you adapt your effort more effectively to the nature and importance of each subject in the program. As a result, you no longer benefit from regular quizzes, other than as part of tutorials.

January, June and, if necessary, August... three sessions to prove your mastery of the subjects.

In January, you sit the exams on the 1st term courses. If you fail, you can retake the relevant exam in June and/or August. Three chances to succeed, but only in the first year. From the second year onwards, any exam failed in the January or June session is automatically carried over to the August session.

According to the choice of the teachers, exams may be assessed either in writing or orally. Assessment procedures are specified during the first course and are detailed on the university website.

Verification of knowledge gained from technical courses is almost continuous; it relies above all on your personal work completed during the year.

You conclude your training by demonstrating, through your end-of-cycle work, the acquisition of personal reflection.