Duration: 1 semester or 1 year (optional) – 30 ECTS credits per semester
Campus : Toulouse
Type of degree: University degree
Capacity: Minimum: 8 – Maximum: 16
Presentation of the course
Cette formation a pour objectif d’acquérir des compétences en compréhension et expressions orales et écrites en langue française dans un but universitaire, professionnel et pour s’intégrer dans la vie quotidienne.
University Diplomas in French Studies (DUEF) are intensive French as a foreign language courses organized on a semester basis. They enable students to develop a solid command of the French language and gain a better understanding of French culture.
At advanced levels, the course also incorporates university methodology to facilitate successful integration into higher education in France
A diploma suited to different profiles
The DUEF is intended for:
- non-French-speaking high school students who wish to pursue university studies in France;
- foreign students who wish to improve their level of French;
- students experiencing academic difficulties who wish to strengthen their linguistic and methodological skills;
- foreign nationals seeking a recognized language certification for professional purposes.
The program is offered in five levels, in accordance with the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR): A1, A2, B1, B2, and C1. This allows each learner to progress at their own pace and according to their academic goals.
The advantages of the training program
High-quality teaching provided by experienced teachers of French as a foreign language (FLE).
Individualized educational support, including tutoring and personalized follow-up.
Authentic cultural immersion through a variety of activities organized in Toulouse.
A rich university environment: library, university restaurant, and student life.
A program recognized by the FLE Quality Label, renewed in 2025.
The DUEF B2 and C1 diplomas are recognized by many French universities as proof of language proficiency for admission to university programs.
Learning objectives
Upon completion of this training, learners will be able to:
Participate in very basic oral exchanges, understand simple written messages related to everyday life, and provide personal information such as one’s identity, activities, or daily habits.
- Establish social contact in French.
- Participate in simple exchanges on familiar topics.
- Express your tastes, activities, and personal experiences.
- Understand and produce short informative or narrative texts.
- Justify and defend an opinion, both orally and in writing.
- Construct a simple argument.
- Handle unexpected situations with ease.
- Effectively identify various pieces of information in everyday documents.
- Understand most oral exchanges or audio documents on topics related to your interests.
Write various types of documents (letters, reports, narratives) fluently.
Appreciate accessible literary texts.
Independently check the grammatical and lexical accuracy of your work in order to significantly reduce errors.
- Structure and present an oral presentation with clarity and coherence.
- Take notes effectively.
- Write complex argumentative texts that meet academic requirements.
- Interpret the implicit elements of a speech.
- Recognize stylistic effects.
- Understand audiovisual productions in French, even when there are varied registers or regional accents.
Assessment of knowledge and skills
French language skills are assessed mainly through continuous assessment (three assessments during the course), based on regular assessments throughout the semester.
Specialist units may be assessed in various ways:
continuous assessment (CC),
final assessment (CT), organized during end-of-semester exams,
or a combination of continuous and final assessment.
The minimum final grade required to pass the DUEF and move on to the next level is 10/20. The grades obtained in the various skill blocks allow for an overall assessment of the student’s progress.
If a student fails the semester, they may take a second chance exam, subject to the approval of the jury.
For more details, please refer to the DUEF exam charter.
Teaching methods used:
Classes are taught in person.
- Initial assessment: assessment of language level and specific learner needs.
- Oral practice: conversation sessions to improve fluency, pronunciation, and oral expression.
- Written and oral comprehension: reading and listening exercises to strengthen language comprehension in a variety of contexts.
- Written expression: written assignments to improve writing and syntactic and grammatical structure.
- Cultural aspects: integration of cultural elements.
Chiffres clés
en 2024-2025
en 2024-2025
en 2022-2023
Program
Each session consists of 12 weeks of classes, followed by an exam session. The weekly workload is between 18 and 21 hours, divided into thematic and language teaching units.
Two sessions are offered each year:
Semester 1: September to December
Semester 2: January to April
Before classes begin, a placement test is administered to determine the most appropriate level for each student.
Contenu de la formation
Nos cours intensifs de français général offrent un large éventail d’activités pédagogiques conçues pour développer l’ensemble des compétences linguistiques des apprenants :
- Activités de compréhension et d’expression, à l’écrit comme à l’oral, à partir de supports variés ;
- Étude théorique et exercices pratiques de grammaire française ;
- Enrichissement lexical, pour affiner et nuancer l’expression ;
- Découverte des dimensions socio-culturelles du monde francophone, intégrées de manière transversale à l’apprentissage de la langue.
Nos méthodes pédagogiques dynamiques et interactives incluent simulations, jeux de rôles, débats, exposés, ateliers, études d’œuvres littéraires, et bien plus encore. En complément, des projets pédagogiques intergroupes sont régulièrement organisés : jeux de piste, sorties culturelles, soirées internationales, etc.
Ateliers de renforcement linguistique – Gratuits et ouverts à tous
En parallèle des cours intensifs, des ateliers de renforcement linguistique sont proposés deux fois par semaine, de 13h30 à 15h30. Ces ateliers sont gratuits et facultatifs.
Ils permettent aux étudiants de pratiquer la langue différemment, à travers des activités variées et ludiques. C’est l’occasion idéale de revoir les notions abordées en cours du matin, dans un cadre plus détendu et convivial. Ces ateliers sont une véritable mise en pratique du français en action.
Activités culturelles : découvrez Toulouse en français
L’après-midi ou en soirée, des activités culturelles riches et variées sont proposées pour compléter l’apprentissage linguistique par une immersion dans la culture locale. Ces sorties permettent aux apprenants :
- de pratiquer le français en situation réelle,
- de découvrir le patrimoine historique et culturel de Toulouse,
- de créer des liens avec leurs camarades dans un contexte informel et chaleureux.
Qu’elles soient gratuites ou à prix modéré, guidées ou accompagnées, ces activités viennent enrichir l’expérience pédagogique et renforcent l’apprentissage des cours du matin.
Training program
DUEF A1: 216 hours
Be able to:
- Understand clear, simple messages (spoken fairly slowly) related to everyday life
- Identify simple information
Be able to:
- Understand information in very simple documents related to everyday life
Be able to:
- Talk about yourself, your family, and your immediate environment. Answer simple questions.
Be able to:
- Respond to simple requests for personal information
- Provide information about your activities
- Describe an experience, an event, etc.
DUEF A2: 216 hours
Be able to:
- Understand clear, simple messages (spoken fairly slowly) on familiar topics.
Be able to:
- Talk about yourself and describe your immediate environment and impressions
- Respond to questions and requests from someone you are talking to
- Ask for simple information in predictable situations
Be able to:
- Understand the important elements in a simple story or personal letter
- Identify one or more specific or predictable pieces of information in a simple document related to everyday situations
Be able to:
- Write a short organized story in the past tense
- Present information or a request related to everyday life in an organized manner (formal or informal letter, email)
DUEF B1: 216 hours
Be able to:
- Understand the main and secondary ideas and events concerning familiar or current topics in clear, standard French.
Be able to:
- Produce simple, structured, and coherent speech to express opinions and feelings on familiar or current topics.
- Respond and react to requests from an interlocutor.
Be able to:
- Understand one or two texts in a comprehensive and detailed manner, including their cultural dimension.
- Identify significant information, understand common expressions, infer the meaning of certain expressions, identify conclusions and opinions.
- Understand texts in a common language related to the professional, public, and educational fields.
Be able to:
- Comment on developments, compare data
Reformulate main ideas into a coherent text - Express oneself in writing by relating facts in terms of their anteriority, simultaneity, and/or posteriority
- Describe people, places, objects, states, situations, etc.
- Formulate an assessment, judgment, explanation, justification, etc.
Be able to:
- Communicate with sufficient accuracy in familiar contexts; generally have good grammatical control
- Use, with sufficient accuracy, a repertoire of frequently used phrases and expressions associated with fairly predictable situations
DUEF B2: 240 hours
Be able to:
- Understand (both generally and in detail) an authentic document.
- Reproduce the content of a conference-type document (based on notes taken).
Be able to:
- Explain and develop clearly and coherently a reasoned point of view on a wide range of concrete or abstract topics.
- Respond to questions from the panel and facilitate further discussion by confirming, clarifying, or qualifying your position.
Be able to:
- Describe the nature of one or more documents, their content, and the author’s communicative intent.
- Understand one or more documents in a comprehensive and detailed manner.
Be able to:
- Express oneself in writing on social issues and general culture topics
- Express one’s point of view in a precise and reasoned manner
- Describe events in detail
- Become familiar with academic writing
Be able to:
- Have good grammatical control.
- Avoid mistakes that lead to misunderstandings.
- Have good control of structures used in simple language and some complex grammatical forms, although he/she tends to use complex structures rigidly with some inaccuracies.
- Consult our training booklet
Be able to:
- Take notes
- Conduct documentary research
- Write a summary
- Produce a text commentary
- Prepare and deliver a successful oral presentation
DUEF C1: 240 hours
Be able to:
- Understand (both generally and in detail) a long authentic oral document and summarize it based on notes taken.
Be able to:
- Assess the candidate’s ability to present the topic they have developed in a dossier, justifying their choice of topic and highlighting certain points from the dossier that they consider interesting in a structured and reasoned monologue.
- Assess the candidate’s ability to respond easily and clearly to questions asked by the examiners during the interaction phase following the first part of this oral test
Be able to:
- Understand (both generally and in detail) an authentic written document of an argumentative nature in order to answer a questionnaire and/or summarize it.
Be able to:
- Develop a structured and well-argued personal position in an “academic” essay or write a clear, well-organized text that stylistically complies with the writing requirements set out in the subject description.
- Consult our training booklet
Be able to:
- Take notes
- Develop materials and strategies for learning course content
- Complete individual and group assignments
- Plan your work
- Prepare for exams
- Take notes
- Conduct documentary research
- Write a summary
- Produce a text commentary
- Prepare and deliver a successful oral presentation
Teaching staff
The teaching team is made up of dynamic teachers who are experts in teaching French as a foreign language, all of whom have more than 15 years of experience in this field. They hold Master’s degrees in teaching French as a foreign language.
Regularly trained in the latest teaching methods, the teachers are committed to a process of continuous reflection and improvement of their practices.
For any inquiries, suggestions for improvement, or complaints, please contact:
Cost and financing
PRICES EXCLUDING TAX
DUEF A1 preparation: €2,604/semester
DUEF A2 preparation: €4,878/year
Semester 1, level A1: €2,604/semester
Semester 2, level A2: €2,604/semester
DUEF B1 preparation: €4,878/year
Semester 1, level A2: €2,604/semester
Semester 2, level B1: €2,604/semester
DUEF B2 preparation: €5,131/year
Semester 1, level B1: €2,604/semester
Semester 2, level B2: €2,857 / semester
DUEF C1 preparation: €5,384 / year
Semester 1, level B2: €2,857 / semester
Semester 2, level C1: €2,857 / semester
These prices are net of tax.
Admission
Requirements
Candidates must:
- Have completed secondary education
Admission requirements
If you wish to register, you must:
- Download the 2025-2026 application form
- Send the registration form with all the required documents to the IULCF secretariat by email to iulcf@ict-toulouse.fr or drop it off at the IULCF office located at 31, rue de la Fonderie, building C2, 2nd floor, office C207 (opening hours: Monday to Thursday 8 a.m. to 1 p.m., 2pm-5pm and Friday 8am-1pm)
Documents to be included with the registration form:
- A photocopy of your passport and VISA (if applicable)
- A passport photo
- A copy of your most recent diploma
- A cover letter
- A CV
- Proof of your level of French
Access times
The response is usually provided within 2 to 4 weeks after the application is submitted.
Documents and resources
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