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Pre-PHD Program
Germany academic outline
Term one - Language Development - German for Academic
Purposes
Term two - Language Development - Academic Writing - Lecture Skills
Term three - Exam Preparation - Presentation Skills
Term four - Advanced Exam Preparation - Academic Writing - Communicative Presentations
Specialist subjects ( availability may vary depending on intake )
- Grammar - Vocabulary - Media - German Studies - Business Studies - Technical German
France academic outline
Term one - Language Development - French for Academic
Purposes
Term two - Language Development - Academic Writing - Lecture Skills Term three
- Exam Preparation - Presentation Skills
Term four - Advanced Exam Preparation - Academic Writing - Communicative Presentations
Specialist subjects ( availability may vary depending on intake )
- Grammar - Vocabulary - Media - French studies - Business Studies - Technical French
*Excluding the Humanities , nearly all MBAs and a growing number of Master students in France need to be bilingual English-French
30 lessons of 40 minutes per week ( 21 hours , 20 minutes )
Students receive intensive classroom tuition over the course of their three or four terms . In addition , they are expected to carry out significant autonomous selfstudy in order to complete homework tasks and write their thesis proposal and literature review .
Program duration UK : 6 months , with start dates in September *, January and April
* 9- or 11-month programs are only available to EU passport holders
Locations EF Cambridge
English requirement
- 9 month program : IELTS 5.5 , TOEFL 525 PBT / 194 CBT / 71 IBT , EF SET B2.2 minimum or the equivalent on the free EF UPiBT test .
- 6 month program : IELTS 6.0 , TOEFL 550 PBT / 213 CBT / 81 IBT , EF SET B2.3 or the equivalent on the free EF UPiBT test .
UK academic outline
Term one - PhD Proposal Development and Application - Advanced Language Skills - Application workshop - English for Academic
Purposes
Term two - IELTS - Quantitative and Qualitative
Research Methods - Critical Reasoning - Data Collection and Ethics
Term three - Getting Published - PhD Authoring - Project Management
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