Training structure
Faculty of Science
List of courses
General Knowledge - Choose from the list below +
2 creditsChoose 1 out of 11
Calling bullshit
2 creditsCreative writing
2 creditsHigh-Frequency Waves for Medical & Healthcare Applications
2 creditsArts and Sciences
2 creditsIntroduction to Python Programming for Analysis and
2 creditsDiscovering Electronics through Instrumentation
2 creditsSport
2 creditsNutrition, Sports, Health
2 creditsConcept info tools (PIX)
2 creditsExperimenting to create - dialogue between art, music, and mat
2 creditsScience and society
2 credits
Experimental chemistry
4 creditsGeneral Chemistry 2 - Part 2
2 creditsGeneral Physics
6 credits54hGeneral Chemistry 1
4 creditsCalculus for PCSI
4 credits36hGeneral Chemistry 2 - Part 1
2 creditsMathematical Tools 1
5 creditsEnglish S1
1 credit
General Knowledge - Choose from the list below +
ECTS
2 credits
Training structure
Faculty of Science
Time of year
Autumn
Calling bullshit
ECTS
2 credits
Training structure
Faculty of Science
Time of year
Autumn
Creative writing
ECTS
2 credits
Training structure
Faculty of Science
Time of year
Autumn
High-Frequency Waves for Medical & Healthcare Applications
ECTS
2 credits
Training structure
Faculty of Science
Time of year
Autumn
Arts and Sciences
ECTS
2 credits
Training structure
Faculty of Science
Time of year
Autumn
Introduction to Python Programming for Analysis and
ECTS
2 credits
Training structure
Faculty of Science
Time of year
Autumn
Discovering Electronics through Instrumentation
ECTS
2 credits
Training structure
Faculty of Science
Time of year
Autumn
Sport
ECTS
2 credits
Training structure
Faculty of Science
Time of year
Autumn
Nutrition, Sports, Health
ECTS
2 credits
Training structure
Faculty of Science
Time of year
Autumn
Concept info tools (PIX)
ECTS
2 credits
Training structure
Faculty of Science
Time of year
Autumn
Experimenting to create - dialogue between art, music, and mat
ECTS
2 credits
Training structure
Faculty of Science
Science and society
ECTS
2 credits
Training structure
Faculty of Science
Time of year
Autumn
Experimental chemistry
Level of education
Bachelor's degree +1
ECTS
4 credits
Training structure
Faculty of Science
This module focuses on experimental techniques in chemistry. The first part will be devoted to presenting health and safety rules in chemistry laboratories. Each practical session will be preceded by a preparatory tutorial session. At the end of each practical session, students will be required to write a laboratory notebook/report (analysis, interpretation of results, etc.).
General Chemistry 2 - Part 2
Level of education
Bachelor's degree +1
ECTS
2 credits
Training structure
Faculty of Science
- Definition of an acid-base reaction.
- Acidity constant.
- Predominance diagram.
- Common examples of acids and bases: name, formula, and nature (weak or strong) of sulfuric, nitric, hydrochloric, phosphoric, and acetic acids; soda; potash; hydrogen carbonate ion; ammonia.
- Buffer solutions.
- Temporal evolution of a chemical system and reaction mechanisms in a closed reactor of uniform composition. Rates of disappearance of a reactant and formation of a product. Reaction rate for a transformation modeled by a single chemical reaction.
- Speed laws: reactions without order, reactions with simple order (0, 1, 2), global order, order
apparent.
- Half-life. Half-life of a radioactive nuclide. Documentary approach: using documents on radionuclides, address issues related to their use, storage, or reprocessing, for example.
- Arrhenius empirical law; activation energy.
- Reaction mechanisms. Elementary acts, molecularity, reaction intermediates, transition states. Kinetically determining step, quasi-steady state approximation (QSSA).
Numerical approach: use the results of a numerical method to highlight approximations of the kinetically determining step or quasi-steady state.
General Physics
Level of education
Bachelor's degree +1
ECTS
6 credits
Training structure
Faculty of Science
Hours per week
54h
The main objective of this course is to teach you how to pose and solve simple physics problems. The areas of application are point particle mechanics and geometric optics.
Mechanics of the material point:
- Statics: study of mechanical systems in equilibrium.
- Kinematics: the study of the motion of bodies independently of the causes that produce it.
- Dynamics: links between the causes of motion and motion itself.
- Work and energy: work done by forces (conservative and non-conservative), kinetic energy theorem, mechanical energy theorem, and their applications.
Geometric optics:
- Propagation of light (Fermat's principle, Snell-Descartes laws, refractive index)
- Image formation and optical systems (stigmatism, Gaussian approximation, mirrors, thin lenses, dispersive systems, centered systems, optical instruments).
General Chemistry 1
ECTS
4 credits
Training structure
Faculty of Science
Calculus for PCSI
Level of education
Bachelor's degree +1
ECTS
4 credits
Training structure
Faculty of Science
Hours per week
36h
This course is intended for first-year students who have chosen the PCSI track. It presents the basic rules of calculation that will enable you to better follow the more formal courses, complete the tutorials, read and understand the books in the university library, etc. It complements the Mathematical Tools 1 and 2 courses. This course is mainly based on calculation practice through exercises. Course reviews are generally brief, and the emphasis is on acquiring certain automatic skills designed to master, accelerate, and streamline the most commonly used mathematical operations in science (at the first-year level). The chapters covered are: elementary calculations and operations, trigonometry (particularly geometric), complex numbers, vectors and coordinate systems, elementary geometry, basics of polynomials, and basics of statistics and probability.
General Chemistry 2 - Part 1
ECTS
2 credits
Training structure
Faculty of Science
Mathematical Tools 1
ECTS
5 credits
Training structure
Faculty of Science
This course is an introduction to analysis (functions of a real variable) for first-year students in the PCSI program.