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French Vocabulary

Academic Paths, Specialized Training & Higher Education

Vocabulary for choosing university majors, research scholarship tracks, thesis evaluations, and grading metrics.

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Vocabulary for choosing university majors, research scholarship tracks, thesis evaluations, and grading metrics.

Vocabulary

Parcours universitaire

The vocabulary of the school classroom was introduced in the school and academic classroom. The vocabulary of professions and employment was covered in professions and fields of employment and the corporate workplace and employment lifecycle. This lesson extends the lexicon to higher education, specialised training, and academic life. The relative pronoun où, used to refer to a place or a moment in time, is treated in the relative pronoun où and frequently appears in descriptions of academic milestones.

Études supérieures

French	English
la licence	Bachelor's degree (3 years)
le master	Master's degree
le doctorat / la thèse	PhD / doctoral thesis
le diplôme	diploma / degree
la formation	training / course
la spécialisation / la filière	specialisation / study path
le stage	internship
le mémoire	Master's dissertation
soutenir une thèse / un mémoire	to defend a thesis / dissertation
la recherche	research
le chercheur / la chercheuse	researcher

Vie universitaire

French	English
le semestre	semester
le cursus	curriculum / course of study
la bourse	scholarship / grant
le dossier de candidature	application file
s'inscrire (à)	to register / enrol
la rentrée universitaire	start of the academic year
les frais d'inscription (m)	registration fees
le taux de réussite	success rate
le jury	examination board
le relevé de notes	transcript

Examples

Après ma licence en économie, j'ai obtenu une bourse pour un master en développement durable.
The sequence licence → bourse → master illustrates a typical academic progression.
Le jour où j'ai soutenu mon mémoire, j'étais très stressé. Heureusement, le jury a apprécié mon travail.
The relative pronoun où refers to the moment of the defence; le jury is the examination board.

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