The programme comprises 60 credits, spread between the core subjects (35 credits) which includes the rudiments of each discipline and the dissertation, together with the option (25 credits) :

• the rudiments of each discipline are designed to provide the basis for tackling issues related to the world of work as they arise within different disciplines (e.g. law, sociology, etc.) ;
• for the option, there is a choice between Work and Society and European Master in Labour Sciences. The former is centred on questions of work in businesses and organizations; the latter on the comparison of different national systems which organize work in the European perspective. This option includes a semester abroad ;
• finally, the dissertation is a piece of individual work.

In theory, it is possible to move up from the 60 credit Master to the 120 credit Master providing all the core subjects from the 120 credit Master are added to the programme (including a new dissertation of 28 credits and the dissertation seminar) together with two courses from the research focus of the 120 credit Master which have not already been taken for the 60 credit programme.  75 additional credits are necessary.  

In practice, however, this really does not represent the best way of moving up and will also be very difficult to achieve in terms of both the organization of each semester and of timetabling. For these reasons, students are strongly discouraged from moving up in this way.

The Work and Society option offers students the opportunity to spend a semester as an exchange student at the School of Industrial Relations (l’Ecole des Relations Industrielles -ERI) at the University of Montreal or the School of Industrial Relations at Laval University in Quebec (in french).

The European Master in Labour Sciences (Master européen en sciences du travail - MEST) includes a compulsory exchange which lasts a semester with a partner institution among 13 european partners.