Bachelor
2024/2025
Project Seminar "Finances and Accounting"
Type:
Elective course (Law)
Area of studies:
Law
Delivered by:
School of Foreign Languages
Where:
Faculty of Law
When:
5 year, 1 module
Mode of studies:
offline
Open to:
students of one campus
Instructors:
Diana Burimskaya
Language:
English
ECTS credits:
3
Contact hours:
28
Course Syllabus
Abstract
The programme is intended for 5-year students of the Higher School of Economics of the Bachelor's degree programmes “Jurisprudence” and “Jurisprudence: Private " The course is intended for law students to develop the following skills: 1) language skills (oral and written professional English language, legal terminology and professional vocabulary; active listening in the key typical situations of the legal discourse (an interview with the client, project work communication); efficiency in dealing with authentic legal texts of different amounts); 2) cognitive skills (critical thinking, communicating with the frame of team work, managing a team); discussion (identifying a problem, arranging and monitoring discussion, participating in a discussion, developing an argument). The programme is based on the Concept of Development the English-language Communicative Competence of HSE students of non-linguistic specialties. The course consists of 3 units: negotiable instruments, secured transactions, and debtor-creditor. The minimum requirement for successfully mastering this programme is B-2 English language proficiency.
Learning Objectives
- - to improve student’s ability to read and understand commercial legislation, legal texts, legal correspondence;
- - to increase student’s comprehension of spoken English (legal topics in lectures, presentations, interviews, discussions, etc);
- - to strengthen student’s speaking and writing skills in a range of situations typical of the study of law and the practice of law;
- - to develop an understanding of the law and consolidate language skills;
- - to read or listen to legal articles, cases, law reports.
Expected Learning Outcomes
- to understand the main concepts in the area of the law concerned with negotiable instruments
- to explain the differences between the negotiable instruments
- to determine the main features of the negotiable instruments;
- to draft a promissory note;
- to provide advice and make suggestions
- identify the forms of security arrangement ;
- • understand difference between te concepts of security and quasi-security;
- • draft a security agreement;
- understand the consequences of a default
Assessment Elements
- Independent Work Assessment
- Written Work Assessment
- Final Project Assessment
- Oral Assessment
Interim Assessment
- 2024/2025 1st module0.4 * Final Project Assessment + 0.2 * Independent Work Assessment + 0.2 * Oral Assessment + 0.2 * Written Work Assessment
