LANG0030-1

Duration

90h Th

Number of credits

	Bachelor in law	6 crédits

Lecturer

Françoise Carl, ISLV

Language(s) of instruction

German language

Organisation and examination

All year long, with partial in January

Schedule

Schedule online

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

For 2nd-year students:
Indivudial presentation consisting in a comparative study on German and Belgian law.

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)

Ideally, face-to-face teaching.
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.
In case of a "yellow" or "orange" alert level, courses will take place in class (applying all required safety measures).
In case of a "red" alert level, classes will take place online.

Organisational adjustments related to the current health context

Mode of delivery:
In case of a "yellow" or "orange" alert level, courses will take place in class (in compliance with existing Covid-19 measures).
In case of a "red" alert level, classes will take place online.

Exams
January
In case of a "yellow" or "orange" alert level, exams will be held in-person (applying all required safety measures).
"Orange" alert level: written exam (in-person, 1 hour)
In case of a red alert level: oral online exams (Lifesize).
For further information see Myuliege (News).

May/June and August
if on- campus presence is authorized: in-person exam (written and oral exam, see "assessment methods")
if on- campus presence is not authorized: oral exam (online on Lifesize)

Assessment methods and criteria

Below you will find information on the evaluation methods planned for in-person and remote exams as well as those planned for hybrid sessions. Depending on how the health crisis evolves, the chosen method will be communicated to you no later than one month before the start of the exam session.

Any session :

- In-person

written exam AND oral exam

- Remote

oral exam

- If evaluation in "hybrid"

preferred in-person

Additional information:

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 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 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:
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.
For 2nd-year students:
During the oral exam, each student will present a short comparative study on German and Belgian law based on a text file of minimum 10 pages that will have to be submitted no later than the last course. The articles (or legal texts) related to Belgium may be written in French, but will never exceed half of the file. The presentation in the oral exam will, of course, be held in German.
Assessment methods may be adapted according to the current health context.

Work placement(s)

Organizational remarks

Contacts

Dr. Françoise Carl
fcarl@uliege.be

German, Standard and legal language