Diploma in Arts, lettres et communication : option Multidisciplinaire is a diploma in Linguistics & Language Studies programme offered by Vanier College in Montréal, Canada. The programme runs for 2 years. Teaching is in French. Tuition is CAD 3,740 per year for local students.
Languages and Cultures (500.AE) is a two-year pre-university Diploma of Collegial Studies at Vanier College within the Arts, Letters and Communication family, built around intensive study of two additional languages chosen from Spanish, Italian, German, Russian, or Mandarin, taught across six dedicated language courses. Alongside language acquisition, students study literature, culture, and film connected to those languages and take linguistics coursework, and in the third and fourth semesters they work through lab-based translation workshops covering both the theory and practice of translation. Admission is available in both the autumn and winter semesters. The combination of language immersion, cultural study, and translation training gives students a broader, more applied language education than language courses alone would provide. It suits students aiming at bilingual or multilingual competency for careers or further study in fields such as literature, translation, linguistics, education, political science, law, tourism, diplomacy, or international business, and the program page frames it as preparation for a wide range of university programs that value strong language and cross-cultural skills.
Requirements
Admission Requirements: Languages and Cultures (500.AE) states no specific course or grade prerequisite beyond a Diploma of Secondary Studies (DES), Diploma of Vocational Education (DVS), or equivalent schooling completed outside Quebec, matching Vanier's college-wide baseline. No portfolio, interview or age condition is listed. No IELTS/TOEFL-style English score is required for admission: Vanier's admissions pages confirm English-proficiency testing is no longer an admission requirement, while a CEFR B2 French test (TCF, DELF, DALF or TEF) is required only of out-of-province or international applicants who did not complete Quebec secondary schooling.
Application Details
Start Date:Autumn and Winter
Application Deadline:Domestic and international applicants to Vanier College apply through the shared SRAM portal (admission.sram.qc.ca) serving Montréal-region cégeps. For Winter 2027, applications opened 15 September 2026, Round 1 closes 1 November 2026 and Round 2 closes 25 November 2026, with unfilled seats carried forward. SRAM has not yet posted Fall 2027 domestic dates. Internationally, SRAM's Fall 2027 window runs 15 March 2026 to 14 March 2027; its next window (Winter 2028) runs 1 June 2026 to 31 May 2027. Admission is rolling by round, not a single fixed date. Vanier's own international-applicants page confirms international students use the same SRAM system as domestic ones, bound by the same round deadlines. These are institution-wide dates; this programme publishes no deadline of its own.
