Bachelor’s degrees (licences)

Inalco’s bachelor’s programs in Foreign and Regional Languages, Literatures and Cultures (Langues, littératures et civilisations étrangères et régionales or LLCER) comply with the national degree framework. A bachelor’s degree at Inalco requires 180 credits (ECTS), which corresponds to three years of higher education.
The full bachelor’s curriculum takes three years of study.
At the end of their first year, bachelor’s students may choose to pursue a regional or professional bachelor’s track.

LLCER, regional track

In first year, students begin studying a language they will specialize in for their degree. In second year, students determine the focus they want to give to their degree by choosing between two tracks—the regional track (languages, literatures and cultures) or the professional track—while continuing to study the language started in first year.

Please note that for Chinese, Arabic, and Russian, beginners must complete the introductory year before being accepted for the first year of the bachelor’s program. In these languages, only students who have completed a secondary school curriculum in the language may go straight into first year. Beginners are asked to take a one-year preparatory course leading to the award of an Introductory Diploma. Placement tests are held each year in these four languages (see the relevant departments for dates).

The curriculum for the regional bachelor’s track consists of blocks.

  • 1 Core course block in language, literature, and culture
  • 1 Cross-disciplinary course block (in world regions and disciplines)
  • 1 Advanced course block
  • 1 elective course block

Four general concentrations with the study of a language, its literature, and the culture of the country it is spoken in and its regional environment in the contemporary world:

  • Africa and the Indian Ocean: Amharic, Berber, Hausa, Malagasy, Mandinka (Bambara), Fula, Swahili, Wolof, Yoruba.

  • Asia and the Pacific: Chinese, Korean, Japanese; Bengali, Hindi, Urdu, Sinhalese, Tamil, Telugu, Mongolian, Nepali, Tibetan; Burmese, Filipino (Tagalog), Indonesian-Malay, Khmer, Lao, Thai (Siamese), Vietnamese; Oceanic languages (Drehu, Tahitian)

  • Europe and Eurasia: Albanian, Modern Greek, Hungarian, Finnish, Estonian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Romanian, Romani, Bosnian-Croatian-Serb, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Slovak, Slovenian, Polish, Czech, Ukrainian; Russian; Armenian, Georgian, Kurdish, Mongolian, Pashto, Persian, Turkish.

  • The Middle East and North Africa: Modern Standard Arabic, Maghrebi Arabic, Eastern Arabic, Modern Hebrew, Berber. 
     

LLCER, professional track

In first year, students begin studying a language they will specialize in for their degree. In second year, students determine the focus they want to give to their degree by choosing between two tracks—the regional track (languages, literatures and cultures) or the professional track—while continuing to study the language started in first year.

The curriculum for the professional bachelor’s track consists of blocks:

  • 1 Core course block in language, literature, and culture
  • 1 Cross-disciplinary course block (in world regions and disciplines)
  • 1 course block specific to the chosen concentration

Five professional concentrations with all the languages of the world’s regions:

  • International Business
  • International Communication and Training
  • Teaching World Languages and French As A Foreign Language
  • International Relations
  • Multilingual Natural Language Processing 
Students may choose one of the professional concentrations after their first year of language study in the regional track, in view of earning a professionally focused degree.

 
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