Postgraduate Studies Program MA in Teaching and Learning French as a Foreign Language

ProgramDescription

Article (1): The higher Institute of Languages at Tishreen University grants MA in Language and French Language Teaching

Registration Requirements

Article (2): The Research Master program requirements:

1.      The student should have a BA in Arts, French Language department from any governmental university in the Syrian Arab Republic or its equivalent from any institute or university recognized by university council under regulations of higher education council in one of the following specializations:

2. The student should pass a test in French language under regulations of paragraph B in article 142 of Executive Regulations of University Regulation Law.

Article (3): To get the MA degree, the student should

A.    1. Study and pass all the following first-year modules:

2- The student passes the module if he gets 60% of the total mark. The student fails the module, the mark of which has two parts, unless he gets at least 40% of the mark for each part the module.

3- The subjects of each module mentioned above are determined by the faculty council resolution depending on the specialized department council.

4- The total mark of the exam consists of two parts. One part goes to the years' work of the student, and the other part goes to the final exam.  At the beginning of every academic year, the faculty council admits the percentage of the years' work mark for all the courses based on a suggestion introduced by the department councils under the condition that the years' work mark should not exceed 40% of the total mark.

5- The student who fails the first year has the right to resit the failed modules just for one year. Nevertheless, in case he fails any of the modules again, he is separated from the master degree and considered automatically registered in the following studying year.

B—1—To conduct a research after succeeding in all the exams of the first year. The topic of the research should be approved by the University Council after being recommended by the Department Council and approved by the Faculty Council. The research should be done in a period of time no less than one year starting from the University Council's approval to the research topic.

    2—The deadline given to the student to complete registering the research topic is three months starting from the date of announcing the exam results. The Council of Scientific Research and Postgraduate Studies is the authorized body to make a decision in this regard. In case the student fails to register the research, their registration is terminated.

     3— The student should prepare a seminar on the progress of the research every four months before a panel designated by the concerned department council. If the student does not show satisfactory results at the end of the last four months, their registration or enrollment is terminated or cancelled.

C. To present the results of their research in a thesis approved by the panel after being publicly discussed.

Article (4) The degree mentioned in article (1) of this resolution is considered open starting from the academic year 2007-2008.

Article (5) Any other item not stated in this resolution is subject to the regulations of University Regulation Law, Executive Regulations, and the related resolutions of the Council of Higher Education. 

Program Entry Requirements

Article (2): The Research Master program requirements:

The student should have a BA in Arts, French Language department from any governmental university in the Syrian Arab Republic or its equivalent from any institute or university recognized by university council under regulations of higher education council