Erasmus and international exchange students: application, choice of classes and registration

Administrative contacts

Your primary contact for all administrative questions regarding nomination or Moveon application, but also housing, enrollment, mobility certificates, transcripts of records, etc. are

– for Erasmus and bilateral students: Ms. Emmanuelle Jego, at the International Relations Office of the Faculté Sociétés et Humanités: emmanuelle.jego@u-paris.fr or mobility.sh@u-paris.fr

– for MICEFA and Study Abroad students: Ms. Emilie Irénée-Georges, at the International Relations Office of the Faculté Sociétés et Humanités: mobility.iro@u-paris.fr

– for Circle U students: Ms. Paula Pastrana at the Direction Recherche, International, Valorisation & Écoles doctorale: paula-andrea.pastrana-martinez@u-paris.fr

Academic contact

Your primary contact for all questions regarding your classes, your learning agreement, your teaching schedule, etc. is Dr Clemence Follea, senior lecturer in the Department of Anglophone Studies: clemence.follea@u-paris.fr.

Nomination

Incoming exchange students have to be nominated by email to the relevant administrative contact (see list above).

DEADLINE FOR NOMINATION:
– first semester (Fall term) or year: 30th April 2024.
UPDATE: The nomination deadline for first-term and year mobilities has been pushed back to 15th May 2024.
– second semester (Spring term): 15th October 2024

MoveOn application

After nominations are received, incoming exchange students have to apply on Université Paris Cité’s MoveOn portal. You will be sent the link by email, with guidelines on how to apply.

DEADLINE FOR APPLICATION:
– first semester (Fall term): 15th May 2024
UPDATE: The Moveon applications deadline for first-term and year mobilities has been pushed back to 31st May 2024.
– second semester (Spring term): 30th October 2024 (except for MICEFA students). 

• Students from European universities, including the United Kingdom, must complete the Application for incoming students / Erasmus+ / Studies. In the “Educational Background and Requested Stay” tab, for “Framework”, they must choose « Erasmus études ».
• Students coming from universities outside Europe must complete the Application for incoming students / International universities / Studies. In the “Educational Background and Requested Stay” tab, for “Framework”, they must choose “Bilatéral Etudes”
• Students from the MICEFA program must complete the Application for incoming students / MICEFA. In the “Educational Background and Requested Stay” tab, for “Framework”, they must choose “MICEFA »

As part of the MoveOn application, incoming students can apply for university housing, but please note that Université Paris Cité only has very few rooms. For more accomodation options, see the Accomodation webpage.

Official acceptation

Once your application is processed, you will be sent your offical letter of acceptance. Once you are offically enrolled at Université Paris Cité, you will receive your student number and will be able to activate your student account (see below).

The requested level (Common European Framework of Reference for Languages: CEFRL) is B2 in French, and B2 in English.

Note that if you take only English-taught classes from the UFR Etudes anglophones, the French language certificate may be waived. But then the language proficiency must be for English (unless English is your native language). Of course, there is no need for a French language certificate in order to take French-as-a-foreign-language classes. If you have no language certificates to provide but a document is still required on Moveon, you can upload a note (in pdf format) explaining why you don’t need a language certificate.

The following certifications are accepted:
– TOEFL (at least 90)
– IELTS (at least 5.5)
– Cambridge English Qualifications (at least 160, i.e. B2 or above)
– Certificate issued by the Language Resource Center of the home university
– Certificate issued by an English teacher from the home university
– proof that you are a Native speaker of English.

Your MoveOn application will have to include a provisional learning agreement, i.e. the list of Université Paris Cité modules that might serve as equivalents to the modules you would have attended in your home university to validate your diploma.

If you don’t already have a learning agreement template, you use those available here. You are of course also free to use your own university’s template if you want.

You can find information about modules in Anglophone Studies here: https://u-paris.fr/etudes-anglophones/modules-in-english/. Please note that catalogues for the next academic year are only updated during the summer; so some changes in the offer might occur.

You have to attend at least two modules in your host Department (in this case, Anglophone Studies). Beyond that, you are free to also register for modules in other disciplines. To find out more, please follow the links listed in the section below (« Choice of classes for academic registration »).

Please note that this learning agreement will only be a first draft, used to complete your Moveon application and to give you a first idea of which courses might be of interest for you. Your choice of courses will probably have to evolve based on the department’s new course catalogue (often slightly different from that of the previous year) and on the teaching timetables of our and other departments. New catalogues and timetables are usually issued at the end of the summer. They can then be used to draft a concrete list of the courses you would like to be registered for (see below “Choice of classes for academic registration”).

Before you upload your learning agreement on MoveOn, you need to have it signed first by your contact in your home university, then by the UPCité academic coordinator for incoming students, Dr. Clémence Follea (clemence.follea@u-paris.fr). Your Moveon application won’t be processed without a LA signed by your both these contacts.

Once the semester’s timetables are published (a few weeks before the beginning of term), it will be time to make your choice of classes a little more concrete: based on the semester’s timetables you will be required to build your own weekly schedule and define the definitive list of courses you wish to be registered for.

This is different from your learning agreement: you can use your LA as a basis but you will now have to consult the semester’s timetables to make sure your classes do not clash and build yourself a workable weekly schedule. Timetables are usually published a few weeks before the beginning of term.

In choosing your list of classes, please be mindful of clashes, make sure you have the correct amount of credits (or ‘ECTS’ in French) and follow the requirements listed below. Changes will be very difficult to implement once registration is complete so try to build a viable list of choices from the first.

Modules in Anglophone Studies

Please consult the page dedicated to modules in Anglophone Studies for incoming students at Université Paris Cité.

Modules in other disciplines

To register for modules in other departments (or UFRs), all international students will have to contact these departments directly.

You can find more information as well as relevant contact details by following the links below:

Modules in French as a Foreign Language (FLE) and other languages (German, Arabic, Chinese, Spanish, Esperanto, Italian, Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Vietnamese)

Modules in Social Sciences & Humanities (French literature, cinema, history, geography, philosophy, sociology, linguistics, economics, communication, business, etc.) WARNING: many of those modules (not all) are taught in French. Pay attention to this when browsing the various Departments’ course offers.

Modules in Sports

Requirements and restrictions

The policy of Université Paris Cité is to open most classes offered by the various departments (UFR) to all exchange students, subject to the following requirements and restrictions:

– Undergraduate and postgraduate students normally register for 60 ECTS for the full year, 30 ECTS per term. However, the home university may prefer an exchange student to take fewer ECTS than normally required. Please check with your home university.

– Exchange students must register for at least two classes per term in their host department (i.e. UFR to which they have been nominated). In the case of students from English-speaking countries nominated to the UFR Etudes Anglophones, this requirement may be reduced to only one class per term with the UFR Etudes Anglophones.

– Access to modules in psychology is restricted to students nominated to the UFR Etudes Psychanalitiques.

– Access to modules in film studies offered by the Département LSH and the UFR LAC is restricted to students nominated to the UFR LAC. However, the UFR Etudes Anglophones offers a variety of modules in film and visual studies which international students can have access to.

– You can register for classes only in the departments belonging to the Grands Moulins Campus. 

– Exchange students must have a B2 level in French; this requirement may be waived for students who only register for English-taught courses in the UFR Etudes Anglophones (although it is recommanded to have a decent command of French to deal with everyday life in Paris)

Please scroll down for 2024/25 calendar dates.

Classes normally start mid- September for the 1st semester (Fall term), and mid-January for the 2nd semester (Spring term). Please note that the resit exams for both terms take place at the end of June.

The dates given below correspond to the calendar of the Anglophone Studies Department. Other Departments usually follow a similar calendar – however, please make sure you visit each Department’s webpage to confirm their dates (see the links listed in the section above).

Fall term (first semester) 2024/25

Classes start on 16th September 2024. Please note that registration for classes usually takes place one or two weeks before the beginning of classes.

Autumn holiday: 28th October to 3rd November 2024

Last week of class: week of 9th December 2024

Exam session: 16th to 20th December 2023 + 6th to 10th January 2025

December holiday: 20th December 2024 to 6th January 2025

** Note on exams: for some classes all the evaluation is done in classes during term, while for others exams take place after term. Your instructor will explain whether or not you have to sit an exam in December/January. If as an international student, you already know you won’t be in Paris in January, please let your teachers know as soon as possible, so they can arrange an alternative.

Spring term (second semester) 2024/25

Classes start on 20th January 2024. Please note that registration for classes usually takes place one or two weeks before the beginning of classes.

February holiday: 24th February to 2nd March 2025

Easter holiday: 12th April to 28th April 2025

Last week of class: week of 28th April 2025

Exams: 5th May to 16th May 2025

** Note on exams: for some classes all the evaluation is done in classes during term, while for others exams take place after term. Your instructor will explain whether or not you have to sit an exam in May. If as an international student, you already know you won’t be in Paris in May, please let your teachers know as soon as possible, so they can arrange an alternative.

Re-sits (both terms) 2024/25

The re-sit exams FOR BOTH TERMS will take place from 10th to 27th June 2025. If, as an international student, you already know you won’t be in Paris by this time, please let your teachers know as soon as possible, so they can arrange (online) alternatives if it turns out that you do need a re-sit.

The 2024-25 first-term Welcome Week will be taking place from 9th to 13th September 2024. The program isn’t available yet.

Attendance is strongly recommended – on top of meeting other students, you will be given information on life on campus, on social security, on Parisian life, etc.

During the welcome week, the International Office of the Faculté SH will provide your student card as well as valuable information about your mobility.

If you cannot attend the welcome week, please write to your administrative contact (emmanuelle.jego@u-paris.fr for Erasmus and bilateral mobility students, mobility.iro@u-paris.fr for MICEFA and Study Abroad Students), so they can give you your student’s card.