Diploma in Arts, lettres et communication : option Langues is a diploma in Linguistics & Language Studies programme offered by Cégep de Sherbrooke in Sherbrooke, Canada. The programme runs for 2 years. Teaching is in French. Tuition is CAD 3,740 per year for local students.
Arts, lettres et communication (500.A1) is a two-year preuniversity DEC at Cégep de Sherbrooke, admitting students in the fall, that builds general culture across art history, literature, cinema, Québec culture, linguistics, and languages, while developing research and analytical work methods through creation, analysis, and critique activities. The program page describes three options; this record corresponds to the Langues option, in which students develop their ability to communicate in Spanish and German while deepening their knowledge of anglophone cultures and the English language. For this option specifically, a strong command of English is described as an asset for success, alongside French proficiency, which supports the program overall. Graduates have access to a wide range of university programs in fields the page lists as education, communication, film, literature, art history, languages, translation, law, linguistics, and human sciences. The option suits students with a strong interest in language learning and cross-cultural communication who are also drawn to general and artistic culture, and who want a broad humanities foundation before pursuing university studies in languages, translation, or related fields. It sits within the wider Arts, lettres et communication program, alongside the Littérature and Médias options and double-DEC combinations with Music or Dance.
Requirements
Admission Requirements: This is the Langues option of Arts, lettres et communication. The programme page states applicants must satisfy the Cégep's general admission conditions: a DES carrying the required units in language of instruction, second language and mathematics, with levelling activities required if any are missing, or an equivalent formation including studies completed outside Quebec. For this option specifically, the programme's own page states that mastery of both French and English is an asset for success. No specific course prerequisite beyond the general conditions, language test score, minimum GPA, portfolio or interview is published for this option.
Application Details
Start Date:Fall
Application Deadline:Domestic applicants apply through the Service régional d'admission du Montréal métropolitain (SRAM), which also covers cégeps outside the Montreal region: Winter 2027 entry opens 15 September 2026, with a round-one deadline of 1 November 2026 and a round-two deadline of 25 November 2026; Fall 2027 entry follows SRAM's recurring round-one deadline of 1 March 2027, though the cégep's site has not yet posted a dated row for that cycle (its Fall 2026 table is marked as closed). International applicants follow a separate SRAM timeline, confirmed directly on the cégep's site: Fall 2027 applications run from 15 March 2026 to 14 March 2027, and Winter 2028 applications run from 1 June 2026 to 31 May 2027. Admission is not open-ended rolling, but SRAM runs successive rounds for as long as places remain. These are institution-wide dates; this programme publishes no deadline of its own.
