Department of Earth, Water, and Environmental Sciences

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Course Content

The L1 TEE program aims to introduce students to the major challenges associated with Earth and Water Sciences from the very beginning of their bachelor’s degree program. As such, several course modules address issues related to resources, global change, pollution, and the evolution of the Earth and life.

The L1 TEE program also helps students brush up on general subjects such as mathematics, physics, chemistry, and Earth sciences. These TU TU specifically TU to accommodate the diverse backgrounds of students coming from their senior year of high school.

Several support programs have been established to promote students’ integration and success at our university.

Semester 1:

 – Careers in Earth, Water, and Environmental Sciences (1 ECTS)
– The Earth and Its Resources (4 ECTS)
– Environmental Sciences (4 ECTS)
– Geology (4 ECTS)
– From Cells to Organisms (4 ECTS)
– Mathematics for TEE (4 ECTS)
– General Chemistry (4 ECTS)
– English (1 ECTS)
– One TU chosen from:

  • General Physics (4 ECTS)
  • From Molecules to Cells (4 ECTS)

Semester 2:

– The Evolution of Life, Climate, and the Oceans (4 ECTS)

– Earth’s Evolution and Regional Geological History (4 ECTS)
– Experimentation and Earth Dynamics (4 ECTS)
– Mathematics for TEE S2 (4 ECTS)
– Physics for TEE (4 ECTS)
– English (2 ECTS)
– Two TU chosen from among:

  • General Chemistry for TEE (4 ECTS)
  • Planetology (4 ECTS)
  • Life Cycle (4 ECTS)
  • Biochemistry and Molecular Biology of the Cell 1 (4 ECTS)

Success Mechanism

The L1 TEE offers several programs designed to promote student success and help students overcome their challenges.

In the first semester, a TU titled“Careers in Earth, Water, and Environmental Sciences”allows students to reflect on their career goals, thereby fostering a sense of vocation and motivation.

For students who are struggling as early as their first assessments, a student tutoring program will be launched in the middle of the first semester. A master’s or doctoral student will provide support to a group of students who are struggling.

In the second semester, students in the following situations will have two options:

  • If students are considering a change of major, a refresher program will allow them to strengthen their knowledge in the main scientific disciplines over the course of 6 to 8 weeks, so that they can include this information in their ParcourSup application.
  • If the difficulties are too great but students wish to continue in the Faculty of Sciences, the second semester will be lightened (10–15 ECTS instead of 30 ECTS) to make room for targeted remedial work focused on the difficulties encountered in certain TU long-standing gaps in knowledge. This will allow students in this program to prepare TU the second round TU and to spread the acquisition of first-year (L1) coursework over two years.