Degree | Type | Year | Semester |
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2500786 Law | FB | 1 | 1 |
There is not prerequisits.
Tools for the study is a law degree first year's subject (first semester). This subject teachs to students useful tools for their legal training such information search, argumentation, oral and written expression, legal writing, etc.
These tools try to ensure that the student achieves skills that are not specifically legal. These skill, however, are essential for the development of their training (search for legislation and jurisprudence, for example) and for the work of the jurist ( oral and written expression, writing of documents, etc.). On the other hand, students become familiar with the use of information and legaltech.
Regarding oral and written expression will be held the following sessions: a session on how to speak in public, legal language and legal argumentation. On the other hand, these skills will be put into practice with the realization of a "league of legal debate" among all the groups of Instruments for the study.
Finally, the aim is to provide students with a series of transversal skill, necessary for adquire their legal education.
The course is developed through a weekly session lasting three hours and a quarter (this time may vary in double degrees). Here is what sessions will be developed. The order of the sessions will vary depending on the group.
The teaching methodology and the evaluation may undergo some modification depending on the restrictions on attendance imposed by the health authorities.
Title | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
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Type: Directed | |||
Lectures and principal active participation of professor (Sessions 1, 2, 3 (two thirds) 4 (two thirds), 5, 8 (two thirds), 9 (half), 10 (half) | 20 | 0.8 | 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 4, 7, 10, 8 |
Lectures and principal active participation of students | 25 | 1 | 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 4, 7, 10, 8 |
Type: Autonomous | |||
Documentation and biblography search | 25 | 1 | 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 4, 7, 10, 8, 9 |
Study | 20 | 0.8 | |
Work group out of classroom | 25 | 1 | 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 4, 7, 10, 8 |
Writting and preparation of works | 35 | 1.4 | 1, 3, 5, 4, 7, 10, 8, 9 |
SYSTEM OF EVALUATION OF THE ACQUISITION OF THE SKILLS AND SYSTEM OF RATINGS The evaluation is based on the follow-up of the student's work throughout the course. Each activity (in class or out of class) is evaluated and integrated into the final grade. Specifically, the different activities and works that make up the evaluation are the following:
Dossier on legal language: up to 1 point.
Exercise on methodology for the preparation of research papers and legal essays: up to 2 points.
Drafting exercise of a legal text (written argument): up to 1.5 point.
Text commentary and critical analysis of a legal text: up to 1.5 point.
Exercise on study techniques and organization of study time: up to 1 point.
Exercise on legal databases and on-line resources (investigation of legislation, jurisprudence and doctrine): up to 2 points.
Group work (legal debate / oral expression): up to 2 points
Exercises 1 and 6 are carried out outside the classroom and will be delivered electronically to the professor before the expiration of the terms established. The absolutely imperative nature of deadlines is an essential characteristic of this subject. In the legal world, deadlines and their fulfillment are of paramount importance; that is why in this subject is never allowed to deliver an exercise after the deadline without there being any reason to justify this late delivery. In the same way, if an exercise should be done in class on a specific day and, for whatever reason, that day the student can not be there is no way to recover that exercise. This inflexible character is part of the education of the future jurist, who from the beginning of his training, must be aware that deadlines are inexorable. This inexorable nature of the terms is compensated to some extent by the fact that the total points that can be obtained are eleven and not ten. In this way, the student has a margin in case thereis any circumstance that prevents the realization of any of the evaluable activities. On the other hand, during the course will be carried out in class some activities that will be evaluated and that will allow to upload the student's grade in those cases in which the grade obtained through the programmed exercises is very close to the superior (one or two tenths). In this way, for example, if a student in the final computation has a grade of 4.8, but has satisfactorily completed most of these evaluable activities enclase that are not part of the regular schedule, he could raise his grade to five. Similarly, in the case of students who have a grade of 6.8 or 6.9; or 8.8 or 8.9; the realization of these evaluable activities would allow to reach the notable or excellent respectively.
In the cases in which no work is delivered or any exercise is performed, or they are delivered and / or perform one or two works or exercises the qualification will be "not presented". If three works or more are delivered, the qualification may no longer be "not submitted".
The delivery of works, practices and other activities will be carried out within the maximum term established by the professor. None will be accepted after the deadline. To avoid possible problems of server saturation, etc. it is recommended to make the delivery with sufficient time and before it runs out.
Compulsory attendance. The absence in a practice or activity carried out in class can not be substituted by a work done at home, because they alter its pedagogical objectives. For the reasons stated above, in case of absence, no proof of any kind (illness, driving test, etc.) will be accepted.
Students who arrive late to perform a practice or activity can not do it.
Students who leave an activity, practice or masterclass before its completion are considered as "not presented". For these purposes, the professor has the right to carry out attendance controls at the end of the event.
The students are informed that the evaluation of Tools for the Study is totally continuous, therefore, there is no final exam or re-evaluation
Consequences of Fraud
A student who cheats or try to cheat an activity or practive will have a 0 as a mark. A Student who submits a paper o practical in which there is evidence of plagiarism will have a 0 as a mark and will receive a warning. In case of repetition, the students will fail the subject.
Title | Weighting | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
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Documentation and Biblography Search | 18,5% | 0 | 0 | 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 4, 7, 10, 8 |
Lectures and principal active participation of professor (Sessions 1, 2, 3 (two thirds) 4 (two thirds), 5, 8 (two thirds), 9 (half), 10 (half) | 14,81% | 0 | 0 | 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 4, 7, 10, 8 |
Lectures and student active participation | 18,5% | 0 | 0 | 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 4, 7, 10, 8 |
Study | 14,81% | 0 | 0 | 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 4, 7, 10, 8, 9 |
Work out classroom | 18,5% | 0 | 0 | 1, 3, 5, 6, 4, 7, 10, 8 |
Writting and presentation of works | 25,92% | 0 | 0 | 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 4, 7, 10, 8 |
In class and through the virtual campus the necessary information will be provided in each case, which will depend on the subjects that each student chooses to carry out the dossier of the legal news, and the various topics proposed to carry out the argumentation exercises, university and group work. As general bibliography of the subject the following works can be mentioned:
Atienza, Manuel, Curso de argumentación jurídica, Trotta, 2013.
Beas Franco, Josefina, Santa Cruz Valenzuela, Josefina, Thomsem Queirolo, Paulina, Utreras García Soledad, Enseñar a pensar para aprender mejor, Ediciones Universidad Católica de Chile, 2003.
Bonomo Hernán, Mamberti, Juan, M., Miller, Jackson, B., Tolerancia crística y ciudadanía activa: una introducción práctica al debate educativo, International Education Debate Association, 2010.
Hermosillo Lozano, Judith, Albornoz Barrientos, Jorge, Manual básico del debatiente, Mar adentro, 2010.
Lucas, Stephen, E. The art of public speaking, McGraw Hill, 2011.
Swatridge, Colin, Oxford Guide to Effective Argument & Critical Thinking, Oxford University Press, 2014.
Toulmin, Stephen, E., Los usos de la argumentación, Península, 2007.
Turull, Max (Dir.), Tècniques de treball i comunicació. Instrumentarium per a les ciències socials i jurídiques. Huygens editorial. 2011 .
Web links:
www.westlaw.es
www.tirantonline.es
www.uab.cat
www.gencat.cat
www.congreso.es
www.senado.es
www.europa.eu
www.etc.uab.cat/ted