About UFR LEA

Most of my teaching activity is in UFR LEA (Langues Etrangères Appliquées - Applied Foreign Language) of University of Lille III. UFR LEA gives several formations to its students with four strong objectives.

• Language Learning All our students master french language and at least two foreign languages among english, german, spanish, italian, dutch, russian, arabic, polish, swedish, among other languages.
• Professionalisation. All of our formations are conceived with an important concern about integration of our students in professional life. In particular, this means that students has several training periods, language teaching is geared toward a practical use, in particular in law, economics and technical fields. Also, language teaching is only part of the formation, which also includes teaching in technical fields (computer science in my case, but many others).
• Opening to the world. The UFR has a lot of contact with foreign universities. As a consequence, many foreign students follow our courses, and many of our students are doing part of their formation in foreign countries.
• Pluridisciplinarity. Our Students are expected to have both good competences in language and in technical fields. At the begining of their formation (two first years), language teaching takes 2/3 of their courses. But in the following years, technical courses becomes preponderant, with 1/3 for language. Technical courses varies among cursus, but includes law, business, economics, and, of course, computer science.

But do not hesistate to check UFR LEA's website for more informations !

My role in UFR LEA

I am coordinator of the computer science in UFR LEA. I am also teaching in several formations :

• Licence 3 TCI I am teaching programmation with MS Excel / VBA (Visual Basic for Applications).
• Master 1 ANI in which I teach database conception, using MS Access.
• Master 2 ANI where I teach mainly web site conception.
• Master 1 TSM where I teach various things : advanced uses of a wordprocessor, XML Technologies, Internationalisation problems in computer science (use of Unicode and other encoding systems) and website creation and maintenance.
• Master 2 TSM where I teach mainly advanced use of XML technologies : the XML Format, DTDs schemas, XSLT transformations, ...

But check the courses section of this web site for more details.

C2i Certificate

C2i (Certificat Informatique et Internet - Internet and Computer Science Certificate) is a certificate that validate knowledge of a good basic user of computer science. This covers things such as use of a computer environment, wordprocessor, spreadsheet, research tools and clever use of the Internet. Also, C2i is now necessary to enter in french teacher schools (IUFM).

I am a member of the commitee in charge of the installation of C2i in University of Lille III since 2006. The university now offers this certificate in most of its formations. Students can either follow courses of their cursus if they exist, or can simply pass the exam. For those students C2i team provide documents to help them.

In UFR LEA, C2i is now fully integrated in the formation. A student who went through the first two years of Licence LEA can simply validate the knowledge he acquired following computer science courses. Next, a small course of ten hours (mostly remotely) and an exam are necessary to obtain C2i.

For more details, check the C2i Website for the university of Lille III.