Program Year
Tronc commun - Obligatoire 27 ECTS (Recherche et Professionnel)
Obligatoires Parcours Professionnel - 3 ECTS
Obligatoires Parcours Recherche - 3 ECTS
Obligatoires - Parcours Professionnel - 18 ECTS
Optionnels - Parcours Professionnel - 12 ECTS
Obligatoires - Parcours Recherche - 21 ECTS
Optionnels - Parcours Recherche - 9 ECTS
Academic Training Year 2024 - 2025 - subject to modification
Teaching Modalities
Students in the PPO program in the Master's in Public Policy receive personalized supervision, particularly in the context of their thesis and individual or group assignments. The program is known for its use of innovative teaching formats, such as workshops and public conferences, ethnographic interviews (like at OECD), discussion of disciplinary debates, professional role play, and skills workshops on statistical software and 4-page pamphlet design (see INSEE for examples). All courses are taught by faculty members in political science and sociology at IRISSO/Université Paris Dauphine - PSL, who are specialists in their field, and visiting speakers working in civil service, at public policy evaluation firms, in local communities, and at renowned polling institutes.
This program consists of 300 hours of instruction, spread out between the months of September and February. The program offers two integrated training opportunities: a professional track and a research track.
To make space for the internship and field work that are central to the program, courses are concentrated in the first semester, over four days from Monday to Thursday. They are a combination of instruction in core subjects, methodologies, electives, and an internship or research thesis. The ""Free Credits"" are seminars that take place in the ENS Department of Social Sciences; at the Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales, or at any PSL institution (to be confirmed by the program directors at the start of the academic year).
Students will produce an internship or research thesis and defend it in front of the program's instructors in June (for doctoral candidates) or October.
Internships and Supervised Projects
Students must undertake a stage of at least four months' duration between March and December. This internship is required for students pursuing the professional track and optional for those pursuing the research track.
During their internship, students will be asked to develop qualitative and/or quantitative surveys, advise national organizations or local communities, evaluate public policy, and conduct research in social science and politics.
At the end of their internship, students are expected to produce an internship thesis, a structured reflection on a research area in political social science that draws from their internship experience. Students will defend their thesis in front of at least two of the program's faculty members in June or October.
Professionals and external guest lecturers
Professionals and external guest lecturers
NAGUI BECHICHI
Assistant to the head of the office of studies on teaching practices (Depp B4) - Doctoral student in economics (PSE - Université Paris-Saclay)
Christine Bernardeau
HR consultant
JOANIE CAYOUETTE-REMBLIERE
Sociologist, research fellow at the Institut national des études démographiques (INED)
Quentin Llewellyn
Customer Service Director, CSA research institute
CHRISTELLE RAFFAELLI
Head of the Office of Studies on Teaching Practices (DEPP), Ministry of National Education, Youth and Sport
SYLVAIN TABOURY
Director of Studies and Research, Social Innovation Impact Unit - CREDOC
Dauphine-PSL Faculty
Pierre-Yves Baudot
Professor of Sociology
Samuel Bouron
Assistant Professor of Sociology
Vincent Gayon
Assistant Professor of Political Science
EMMANUEL HENRY
Professor of Sociology
JEROME HEURTAUX
Assistant Professor of Political Science
Alban Jacquemart
Assistant Professor of Political Science
MATHILDE KRILL
Doctoral student in sociology
Dominique Méda
Professor of Sociology, Director, Interdisciplinary Research Institute in Social Sciences
HELENE OEHMICHEN
Doctoral student in sociology (EHESS), ATER in sociology
Marjolaine Roger
Associate Professor, English
Sabine Rozier
Lecturer, Political Science
COLINE SOLER
Doctoral student in sociology (Université Paris-Saclay) ATER in sociology.
Elise Tenret
Lecturer, Sociology
Research-driven Programs
Training courses are developed in close collaboration with Dauphine's world-class research programs, which ensure high standards and innovation.
Research is organized around 6 disciplines all centered on the sciences of organizations and decision making.
Learn more about research at Dauphine