LANG0030-2

Duration

60h Th, 30h Pr, 15h Lect.

Number of credits

	Bachelor in law	7 crédits

Lecturer

Françoise Carl

Language(s) of instruction

German language

Organisation and examination

All year long, with partial in January

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

Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning)

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 indicated by the teacher.

Assessment methods and criteria

A compulsory mid-year exam will be held in January. This exam will consist of a written exam (Vocabulary (Bescherelle) and grammar) 2 marks
The exemption from the vocabulary section (Bescherelle) 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 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 a text (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

Important remarks:
Attendance 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.

Work placement(s)

Organizational remarks

An information session about the language courses will take place on Monday 18th September at 12.00 AM in lecture hall 604 (Europe)

Contacts

Dr. Françoise Carl
fcarl@ulg.ac.be

General and Legal German, level 2