Duration
90h Th
Number of credits
| Bachelor in law | 6 crédits |
Lecturer
Language(s) of instruction
German language
Organisation and examination
All year long, with partial in January
Schedule
Units courses prerequisite and corequisite
Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program
Learning unit contents
This course aims at providing the students with the basics of legal German as well as improving their command of general German.
General texts on legal issues
General and legal vocabulary
Consolidation of grammatical structures
CEFRL levels:
- listening comprehension B2
- reading comprehension C1
- speaking: B2
- writing B1+
Learning outcomes of the learning unit
The main aim of the cours is to help students
- understand general texts on legal issues
- increase their comprehension of spoken German
- express themselves on general language issues, as well as on legal issues
- use relevant vocabulary and grammatical structures
Prerequisite knowledge and skills
This class is taught in German from the beginning and is thus not intended for beginners. Students should have a good basic command of the German language, ideally, corresponding to CEFRL level B1.
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Reading, oral and listening activities. Consolidation of vocabulary through various exercises.
Mode of delivery (face to face, distance learning, hybrid learning)
Face-to-face course
Additional information:
This 90-hour course is taught all year round.
Semester 1: 4 hours, semester 2: 2 hours
To be able to keep up with the pace of the class, students will make sure to prepare at home the texts and exercises as indicatedby the teacher.
Recommended or required readings
- Coursebook "German for first-year law students" + "Vocabulary" available from Intercopy; on-line version on MyUliege
- H. Dreyer, R. Schmitt "Grammaire allemande avec exercices. Nouvelle édition" (Hueber)
Exam(s) in session
January exam session
- In-person
written exam
May-June exam session
- In-person
written exam AND oral exam
August-September exam session
- In-person
written exam AND oral exam
Additional information:
A compulsory mid-year exam will be held in January. This exam will consist of a written exam (Vocabulary and grammar)
2 marks
The exemption from the vocabulary section will be granted for June and August/September (if students obtain 10 marks out of twenty, or more).
The final exam will consist of a written and an oral examination.
The written exam will be composed of various exercises testing grammar and vocabulary (fill-in-the-blank exercises, translations ...). It will probably also include a reading and a listening comprehension.
The oral exam will not only assess the students' speaking skills, but also their use of the vocabulary exercised in class, and it will bear on the texts seen in class (vocabulary and content). Moreover, students are expected to present an article (at least 1.5 pages) of their own choice about legal issues. Students are required to hand in a copy of their text (print version) to their teacher. The latest possible deadline is the last course.
Marks will be allocated in the following way:
Written exam (grammar, vocabulary, reading comprehension and listening comprehension): 13 marks
- Oral examen: 5 marks
Class participation is compulsory.
All parts of the June and September exams are compulsory. Students absent from one of the exam parts will be assigned a mark of 0.
Students who do not take both the written and the oral parts of the exam will be assigned a mark of 0. (No partial exemption will be granted, except for the mid-year exam; see above). The same rule applies to the second exam session, which means that students who failed the exam in June will have to resit both parts of the exam.
Assessment methods may be adapted according to the current health context.
Work placement(s)
Organisational remarks and main changes to the course
Contacts
Dr. Françoise Carl
fcarl@uliege.be