Syllabus Information

5.1. Methodological overview

The learning process has been designed for this course on the following basis:

The external practices are developed within a unit, centre or institution of the Army or the Minitry of Defence (hereafter, UCO), during the same period when the student also develops the course “end-of-grade dissertation”. The objective is to integrate 18 ECTS of both courses (End-of-degree dissertation and external practices) in a coherent formative activity that combines the academic standards with an optimal performance of the future officers learning.

5.2. Learning tasks

The programme offered to help the student to reach the expected results includes the following activities…

The on-site part two courses “external practices” and “end-of-degree Dissertation” take place during eight weeks. Each student will spend seven weeks in a UCO accomplishing both the “external practices” requirements and most of the Dissertation work. In order to obtain the best performance, the following global time distribution between both courses is recommended: two and a half weeks for external practices and four and a half weeks for dissertation.

Each student will have a supervisor in the UCO acting both as the military tutor of the practices and military supervisor of the Dissertation.

Each student will have a supervisor (teacher) from CUD acting both as the academic tutor of the practices and academic supervisor of the Dissertation.

The schedule of the activities for the external practices will be proposed by the military tutor and supervised by both the military and the academic tutors.

5.3. Syllabus

Grado (EQF/MECU 6)

5.4. Course planning and calendar

The seven weeks in the UCO will be during the months of September and October.

Just when the student come back from the UCO, the assessment interview with the academic tutor will take place.