Course Catalogue
EXPLANATION OF THE ECTS COURSE CODE
If we take the example of the "CIVIL LAW" course of which ECTS code is: “0809-IESEG-BA1S1S2-LAWB1-CE01UF ”.
This ECTS course code is made up of two parts:
1/ 0809-IESEG-BA1S1S2: Specific code to the Lille Catholic University which means that the course is proposed in 2008-2009, at IESEG, in first year of Bachelor (BA1), on each of both semesters (S1S2)
Other possibilities:
Study Years |
Period |
| BA2 (2nd year of Bachelor) | S1 (semester 1: only from september to december) |
| BA3 (3rd year of Bachelor) | S2 (semester 2: only from january to may) |
| M (Master) | Y (year: staggered all over the academic year) |
2/ LAWB1-CE01UF: specific code to IESEG
- The first 3 letters characterize the field of study to which the course is attached. In the example above LAW indicate the field of study.
Fields of study are:
Field |
Meaning | Field | Meaning |
| ACC | Accounting | MIS | Information Systems |
| COM | Communication | MKT | Marketing |
| DEV | Personal Development | NEG | Negotiation |
| ECO | Economics | OPS | Operations Management |
| FIN | Finance | PRO | Professional Project |
| IBS | Business Administration | QMS | Quantitative Methods |
| LAN | Language | RES | Research |
| LAW | Law | THE | Thesis / Consulting Project |
| MGT | Management |
- 4th and 5th characters of this second part of ECTS code refer to the year in which the course is proposed:
B1, B2 or B3 indicate that is a Bachelor course in 1st, 2nd or 3rd year, MA: a Master course, MB: course intended for the students MIB, and TR: transverse course such as certain options as a third modern language.
- 6th and 7th characters of the ECTS code (after the hyphen) refer to the type and the format of course. In the case of our example, the law course is a core course (C) given in extensive format (E).
The various possible cases are:
Type of course (6th character) |
Course format (7th character) |
| C (Core course) | I (Intensive: course taught in concentrated shape and with a duration superior to 3 days) |
| E (Elective) | |
| A (Course of English section in 3rd year of Bachelor) | E (Extensive: course taught in several weeks |
| X (Course of French section in 3rd year of Bachelor) | |
| F (Master core course) | S (Seminar: course taught in concentrated shape and with a duration inferior to 3 days) |
| O (Optional course) |
- The number 01 is a number attributed to the course.
- The next to last letter of the code indicates if it is about a module including several courses (P) or a unique course (U). The courses connected with a module are identified by letters A, B or C
- The last letter of the code (F) means that the course is taught in French; E meaning English, G: German, C: Chinese, I: Italian, S: Spanish and X: multilingual.
