Language policy

English required for admission

Two lan­guages are the main lan­guages of the EPOG Master’s course: Eng­lish and French. Options are also offered to study the lan­guage of each host­ing coun­try. The Master’s course thus pro­motes lan­guage diver­si­ty and interculturality.

Good lev­el in Eng­lish is required for admis­sion. It is the lan­guage used dur­ing the first year. Dur­ing Semes­ter 3, at least one path per Major will be taught entire­ly in Eng­lish, in order to allow those stu­dents that want to study only in Eng­lish.

French as a learning outcome

French is not required but the pro­gramme is organ­ised in order to ensure that French is one of the learn­ing out­come. This is realised in three steps:

First year	French train­ing (for begin­ners or advanced lev­els) at the host­ing insti­tu­tion (on a week­ly basis).
Sep­tem­ber of the sec­ond year	Inten­sive French train­ing for 3–4 weeks (on a dai­ly basis).
Sec­ond year	French week­ly train­ing (avail­abil­i­ty of the dif­fer­ent lev­els depends on the com­pat­i­bil­i­ty of the timeta­bles). At the end of the cur­ricu­lum, stu­dents can take a French nation­al exam­i­na­tion to cer­ti­fy French skills (Euro­pean CEFR scale): DELF (Diplo­ma in French Lan­guage Stud­ies) or DALF (Diplo­ma in Advanced French Lan­guage Stud­ies) are diplo­mas issued by the Nation­al Min­istry of Edu­ca­tion for non-fran­coph­o­ne people.

The choice of pro­mot­ing French as an out­put ful­ly inte­grat­ed to the Master’s course is to insist on the impor­tance of lan­guages in cul­tur­al exchanges: an aim is to max­imise the abil­i­ty of stu­dents to engage with the local soci­eties with­in which they will live (notably in France). Addi­tion­al­ly, French is a lan­guage spo­ken in many coun­tries in the world, one of the major work­ing lan­guages in the inter­na­tion­al insti­tu­tions in which the stu­dents could be hired (UN, UNESCO, ILO, OECD…).

Possibility to learn local languages

In each coun­try, for the exams, stu­dents are able to choose between local lan­guage or Eng­lish. Master’s the­sis shall be writ­ten in Eng­lish. Tutor­ing is in Eng­lish and the bud­dy pro­gramme involves Eng­lish speak­ing students.