The Chinese studies program offers optimal conditions for intensive teaching in small groups: 12 hours of language courses per week throughout the whole first year of Master 1 and the first term of Master 2, for classes of 8 students at most.  

Academic and sinological training

• A training in several areas students can explore within the geographical and linguistic frame of Chinese studies: philosophy, classical and contemporary literature, Chinese Law, China's economic and social history, urbanism, migration and demography, work sociology, political science, etc.
• The possibility is also offered of broadening one’s cultural horizon to other societies in the Asian world with introductory classes to the language and civilization of Japan and Vietnam.
• The “séminaires libres” are designed to enable students to follow a specific training in in many disciplines of the humanities and social sciences in collaboration with other departments of ENS de Lyon: literature, economics, sociology, linguistics, philosophy, geography, history.
• Conventions with top-ranked universities in China (Beida, Fudan, East China Normal University) give the possibility of spending one semester in China (during the year of Master 2) or a whole year between Master 1 and Master 2.