Licence LEA English - Portuguese

Cross-disciplinary skills

• Good command of French
• General culture

Scientific and technical skills

• To be familiar with the rules of international trade and its administrative techniques, applied to the management of import-export operations.
• To be familiar with the principles and issues of French and international commercial law and employment law.
• Acquire the foundations of an international economic and legal culture, in particular by using the lexicon and syntactic structures related to economics and trade in English and Portuguese.
• Understand the context of any cooperation project,
• Ability to lead a multinational team and manage cross-cultural issues
• Translate documents of various types or write a report in a foreign language in the fields covered by the speciality

Subject-specific skills

Collecting and organising management data

• Listening to and understanding partners' expectations
• Use technical vocabulary
• Use office automation tools
• Organise the research and processing of data required for management purposes
• Use and understand the economic and legal environments

Presenting and transmitting information

• Communicate orally and in writing in French and foreign languages
• Communicate using professional terminology
• Use appropriate media
• Using digital communication tools
• Reporting

International relations

• Communicating in foreign languages in a professional context
• Integrating interculturality into negotiations
• Understanding foreign markets
• Understanding international trade techniques
• Take account of transport arrangements (incoterms, customs, insurance, etc.)

Recruitment level :
The course is open to anyone with a general Baccalauréat or DAEU. Holders of a vocational Baccalauréat may be admitted under certain conditions after examination of their application.

Accessible in : initial training.

Training required :
To have followed courses in English and Portuguese as a foreign language in lower and upper secondary schools.

Conditions of admission :
The LEA degree is best suited to students with a general baccalaureate (L, ES or S) and a solid grounding in English and Portuguese.

Registration form:
See the procedure on the home page of the University website or contact the Central Registrar's Office.

This BA in English/Portuguese for Cooperation and Cultural and Commercial Relations in the Americas. The course will consist of a common core in L1 and L2, and from L3 onwards students will opt to specialise in either Cultural Cooperation or Business Cooperation. Over the 6 semesters, the emphasis will be on professional subjects:

Semester 1
Generalist will be taught as part of the core curriculum of the English degree (English grammar, French grammar, OIM, Voltaire Project).

Semester 2
Introduction of vocational modules: Introduction to law and economics; introduction of a module devoted to developing a personal career plan.

Semester 3
Introduction to the world of business and accounting; further development of personal career plans. From this semester onwards, students will have the opportunity to take part in an Erasmus exchange semester.

Semester 4
Reinforcement of technical modules and vocational training courses with a 4-week work placement.

Semester 5
Specialisation in business or culture.

Semester 6
This semester is devoted to the international work placement.

At the end of this degree, students should have a good command of English and Portuguese (level B2 of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages, CEFR), in order to carry out all professional tasks in a trilingual manner. Have a global knowledge of the English- and Portuguese-speaking world and be able to adapt their socio-professional activities to take account of intercultural factors.

Career opportunities

This degree will train middle managers to combine technical skills (law, economics, management, communication) with linguistic skills (English, Portuguese). These managers work mainly for SMEs and local authority cooperation departments...

Sectors of activity

• Culture and heritage professions
• International trade professions
• Hotel and tourism professions
• Teaching professions