Micro-credential Anti-Discrimination Law
In a rapidly changing (professional) context, lifelong learning has become a must. With micro-credentials Ghent University offers a new type of course for a broad group of lifelong learners.
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After graduation
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Pieter Cannoot
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4
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Final Competences of the Study Programme
- Being able to apply basic concepts of anti-discrimination law.
- Knowledge of how (parts of) Belgian, European and international anti-discrimination law express(es) social views on (in)equality.
- Critical insight in the possibilities and limitations of anti-discrimination law as instrument for societal organisation.
- Being able to apply anti-discrimination law on concrete legal cases.
- Identification of political and social phenomena that underlie anti-discrimination law, on the basis of deconstruction.
- Critical insight in the way in which the law responds to societal evolutions and vice versa.
- Making use, in a scientifically grounded way, of legal texts in Dutch, French and English to analyse and solve complex problems.
- Formulating - in writing and/or orally - a creative and legally grounded opinion on a topic theme or case related to anti-discrimination law, on the basis of a scientific and clear analysis.
- Critically reviewing the relevance, reliability and validity of digital information sources (including generative AI).
- Developing awareness on the role of positionality and frames of reference when analysing and deconstructing (in)equality and discrimination.
- Integration of cultural sensitivity, gender awareness, respect for diversity, pluralism and tolerance in the learning process, the scientific work and in the functioning as a starting lawyer.
- Developing awareness on the social responsibility of lawyers, including with regard to issues regarding (in)equality, discrimination, diversity and inclusion