The programme is made up of 120 credits and includes:

•   A major of 60 credits that comprises courses, an internship of at least 40 work-days and a final paper related to the internship;

•   The specialization, which mainly contains advanced courses on human resource management;

•   One option to be chosen among two: either ‘European track’ or ‘Human resource management, organization and institutions’.

> See the website www.uclouvain.be/vae

Entry to all Masters (with the exception of Advanced Masters) can be gained through the special procedure for accrediting prior learning and experience known as VAE (validation des acquis de l'expérience).

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The programme is multidisciplinary since it combines management, psychology, public administration and industrial relations.

The teaching methods are closely connected to the skills that future HR professionals will need: ability to listen and to summarize, to understand an organization, to work in a team, to express themselves both orally and in writing, and to work autonomously and with responsibility. Against this background, the teaching methods bring together:

The different kinds of assessment used reflect the aims of the teaching in that they are designed both to judge students’ ability to analyse and express themselves and work in a team, for example, as well as their capacity to understand and use relevant scientific literature to analyse a given subject: individual and group work, oral presentations both individually and in groups, written and oral examinations, and individual research combined with analysis of a particular area in the final thesis.

 International outlook (for UCL students)
The option ‘Human resource management, organization and institutions’ includes an exchange programme lasting one semester, during the first year of the master, in one of these foreign institutions: Ecole des Relations Industrielles at the Université de Montréal; Ecole des Relations Industrielles at Université Laval, Québec; Universidad de Sevilla in Spain; Université catholique d’Angers, in France.

Students who choose the ‘European option’ will participate in the exchange programme co-organised by 13 partner institutions in the European Union: Universität Trier, Germany; Universität Bremen, Germany; Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain; Université des Sciences Sociales de Toulouse, France; University College Dublin, Ireland; Università degli Studi di Firenze, Italy; Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy; Universiteit van Amsterdam, the Netherlands; Instituto Superior de Ciencas do Trabalho e da Empresa, Portugal; London School of Economics, Britain; Warwick University, Britain; University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. In this option, the exchange programme takes place in the second semester of the first year. The content is similar for all partners of this European network, in order to favour student mobility across the network. The content focuses on comparative approaches of labour and human resource management. The option and the mobility that it implies provide students with a certificate of ‘European master in labour studies’, on top of the degree awarded for the entire master programme.