Organization of courses - Bachelor's degree in International Relations

International Relations LLCER course timetable

The International Relations LLCER course timetable differs from that of the language and civilization departments for exam periods. Students have 12 weeks of classes, with the 13th week devoted to exams.

Request for exemption from attendance (waiver of continuous assessment)

Eligibility

If you are a student employee, you can submit a request for exemption from attendance along with the required supporting documents (employment contract mentioning your working hours or certificate of schooling). NB: The density of the course, in terms of hourly volume and personal work, makes it extremely difficult to pursue a double-curriculum under good study conditions.

Students on scholarship: you are subject to the requirement of compulsory class attendance and continuous assessment by the CROUS and can therefore not apply for exemption from attendance.

Please note that requests that are incomplete, unjustified (work contract, school certificate, etc.) or received after the deadline will not be considered.

Procedure

Requests for Validation d'Acquis (VAC) and exemption from attendance at continuous assessment (Dispense) will be made via a document to be completed and sent to the IR course pedagogical secretariat.

As VAC requests are annual, students are invited to submit a unique request for the 1st and 2nd semester (due date to be specified later). The request should concern international relations courses only and be sent to secretariat.ri@inalco.fr.

VAC 2023-2024 application document to follow.

Requests for exemption are semester-based. Requests should concern international relations courses only and be sent to secretariat.ri@inalco.fr. 
> Semester 1: due date to come.
> Semester 2: due date to come.

Attendance request document 2023-2024 to come.

International mobility

International mobility is encouraged as part of the license exclusively during the first semester of L3. It is therefore limited to one semester. This measure takes effect from this year and will therefore concern mobilities carried out during the 2024-2025 academic year. Mobilities accepted during the 2022-2023 year and planned during this 2023-2024 year are not affected.

This semester of mobility will be pedagogically supervised.The semester will be validated on the basis of course equivalences that the student will find at the host university and the submission of a mobility report on which more information will be provided before the student's departure as part of an information meeting to be held before the summer. The teaching team also reserves the right to give the student a little extra work in the event that an important course in the course is not covered by the equivalences. The advantage of this pedagogical framework is that the student will not have to sit the exams for the first semester of L3 (neither those of session 1 nor those of session 2) and will therefore be able to take full advantage, from start to finish, of his or her semester of mobility.

For students going on exchange during the 2023-2024 academic year, validation by equivalence of courses taken and credited on exchange will only be permitted on condition that they have first submitted their application to the International Relations Department (M. Colin, Mr. Simonneau, Ms. Martin and Ms. Milcareck) a study contract (form downloadable from the program's website or that of the International Relations Department) specifying the correspondence between the courses offered at the host university and those of the program.

To recap, students currently enrolled in the L2 program who wish to study abroad for a semester during the first semester of their L3 program must: 
1) inform the International Relations department of their mobility project, even before applying for the mobility campaign.
2) contact Inalco's International Relations Department (DRI) to submit an application for the mobility program;
3) contact the International Relations Manager (RRI) of their language and civilization department to define a program of language and civilization courses to be validated at the partner university;
4) submit a study contract including a program of international relations courses to the International Relations program managers. 
5) On the basis of this contract, a pedagogical framework for this mobility will be defined for the IR course and will enable the student to obtain equivalences and validation of prior learning depending on his or her academic results at the host university and/or compliance with the pedagogical framework proposed.

An information meeting on the pedagogical framework will be organized before the end of the academic year for students who have been selected for mobility.