Work placement training

Work placement training is integrated within the course programme. Furthermore, work placement training programmes abroad are also possible.

Work placement training consists of 250h and counts for 10 ECTS in the programme of the 1^st year of the Masters. It is considered as a supervised professional work placement. It must respond to a whole series of procedural demands which are described in the work placement training regulations (cf. annexe).  The regulations and a specification dossier as well as other information are brought together in the work placement notebook which, through the official signatures it contains at the end, bears witness to the officialisation of the work placement training. The regulations specify the expectations of the work placement Director. The Academic Tutor is a professor or member of the research or contract staff under the responsibility of a professor and takes charge of providing the student with support and guaranteeing that the work placement training contributes to the university education in criminology.  The regulations stipulate a minimum of three meetings between the Academic Tutor and the student: before the beginning of the work placement training to define the project, during the work placement training to see if the programme is following the fixed objectives and to define the content of the work placement training report and at the end of the exercise with a view to evaluating it.

The School of Criminology sends to the work placement Director no later than the end of the training programme an evaluation grid of the student who has completed the exercise.

End of Study Project

The End of Study Project (ESP) is the crowning achievement of the study programme and must demonstrate the student's abilities to present the results of personal work with academic method and rigour. The End of Study Project is compulsory and is recognised as a work of considerable importance (16 ECTS).

The degree evaluation criteria (cf. annex) moreover stipulate that a grade of less than 10 for the End of Study Project will lead to the student being adjourned, no matter the average for the courses. In addition the ESP counts for 30% of the total points for the year. Working on the ESP is an opportunity for students to become familiar with research and to be directly faced with the specifics of university education in general and of criminology in particular. In effect the School considers that knowing how knowledge becomes established enables an understanding of its limits and thus knowing how to call it into question, when necessary, and even how to produce new forms of it.

In practical terms students choose their subjects at the end of the 1^st Masters year, either at the suggestion of a supervisor or on their own initiative. The subject must be accepted by the supervisor before being approved by the Departmental Committee.

The finally produced text must show students' abilities to deal with a problem in its entirety, to bring a project to a successful conclusion, from its conception to its expression in writing and an oral defence of it.

The End of Study Project is a personal work which in the end is much more than a simple compilation of knowledge as it allows the students to highlight their abilities in terms having critical sense, a spirit of analysis and overall summarising skills.

To round off this exercise in the best possible manner students are obliged to meet their promoter at least three times during the work on the project. The promoter will guide the student in establishing a methodological framework, and in gathering and best using data. The promoters' pedagogical role is vital as they are there also to enable students to overcome the difficulties they encounter.

The End of Study Project gives rise to the handing in of a written work of around fifty pages (not including annexes) and must be defended orally before an evaluation committee at the end of the 2^nd year of the Masters. The defence of the End of Study Project consists of a presentation of around ten minutes, followed by the defence properly speaking, in the form of questions/responses. The assessment of it is carried out by an evaluation committee, generally made up of three members designated by the Departmental Committee and whose names are made known to the students through the usual communication channels. The committee judges both the written work and the oral defence.  It gives a single grade for the work as a whole.