Satellites and intensive French courses

Cours Satellites

The University of Lausanne offers French courses to its regular students.

These courses are French lessons (language, literature, culture) intended for non French-speaking students.

They are free of charge and their aim is to allow students to organise and systematise the knowledge of French that their life and studies in Lausanne have enabled them to acquire.

They are organised by the School of French as a Foreign Language (EFLE).

Enrolment on these courses does not however grant exemption from the French exam.

French pre-semester block course

The EFLE offers a pre-semester block course (intensive 3 weeks course) for beginner and intermediate level French speakers (A0, A1, A2) enrolled or working at UNIL who wish to improve their French before the start of the university year.

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Enrolment in this course does not exempt candidates from fulfilling all registration requirements and following the registration procedure.

Intensive French courses - Le FIL

The intensive French courses (Le FIL) are not free of charge.

Students wishing to improve their knowledge of the French language may enrol in the intensive French courses (Le FIL).

Information and application on the following link : Le FIL - intensive French courses

The Mutual Teaching in Context programme provides ECTS credits and a Certificate of Qualification in French (CQF). The CQF with a B1 level in each of the four exams grants exemption from the French exam.

CQF exams may be taken independently of courses.

Note: candidates wishing to enrol at UNIL after an intensive French course must have sent their application to the Admissions Office within the regular deadline.

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the French version of the registration conditions prevails