Specific courses

   

The “Passerelle” University Diploma – Student in exile offers a refresher course in French in order to build a university career or to pursue studies in higher-education.This course is designed for non-francophones students with the status of asylum seeker status, refugee or with a subsidiary protection.This diploma is aimed at a complete course including the teaching of French, orientation and professional integration workshops s, social and cultural activities and an administrative service. It is eligible for aid based on the social criteria of the CROUS.

This diploma is reserved for students living in the Pyrénées-Orientales, with at least A2 level and a high school diploma (baccalaureate or equivalent).

 

Objectives

• Permit to improve French language level
• Develop methodological and cultural skills for university studies
• Increase skills and specific vocabulary
• Guiding the students to enter or to pursue their studies within the French higher education

Course organization
Duration: 552 lessons hours, from Monday to Saturday.
The courses last up to two semesters. The assessment of the knowledge is done during the whole session, so the presence to every lesson is compulsory.

Period
1 session: Autumn -Spring (September - May)

Prices
Selected applicants are exonerated from registration fees.

Terms and conditions for selection and admission
Send an application form with:

• a CV;
• a cover letter with your university project;
• last studies degree;
• a certification of your French level (if possible);
• a certificate of status: asylum seeker, a subsidiary protection or a refugee statut.

Program partners:  

This course concerns every non francophone students of Bachelor (year 3), Master 1&2 or PhD level registered at the UPVD (from non-French speaking countries) and wishing to learn all the necessary skills for a successful university integration in Perpignan.

This course is reserved for students with at least B1 level 

Objectives

• Linguistic competences improvement
• Explanation of the French university culture
• Introduction to a university study’s methodology

Course organization
Number of hours: 15h of teaching.

• 9h of remotely teaching: from September 29 to October 20, 2021
• 6h of teaching in classes or remotely depending on the group: October 21 or 22, 2021

Period Free, depending of the available places
A certificate will be delivered after the formation.