Legal French II (FRA106) | GSÜ - ECTS Information Guide

Content

Objective

To understand the vocabulary, terms, and grammar of legal language.
To learn how to read Swiss Federal Court decisions.

Course Content

Civil Law
General Concepts of Law
Parliamentary Texts

Course Learning Outcomes

Terms and grammar of legal language
Understanding Swiss Federal Court decisions
Analyzing significant texts related to French legal culture

Teaching and Learning Methods

Basic course
Text reading and questions
Exercise
Reading a Swiss Federal Court decision
Preparing a glossary containing French-Turkish legal terminology

References

Swiss court decisions
Historical speeches from the French Parliament

Weekly Contents

Theory Topics
Week	Weekly Contents
1	Victor Hugo
2	Robert Badinter
3	Swiss federal court decision
4	Figaro and Julien Sorel
5	Swiss federal court decision
6	Translation exercise
7	Swiss federal court decision
8	Olympe de Gouges
9	Swiss federal court decision
10	Gisele Halimi
11	Swiss federal court decision
12	Translation exercise
13	Swiss federal court decision
14	Robespierre

Assessment System

Contribution to Overall Grade
Activities	Number	Contribution
Contribution of in-term studies to overall grade	1	40
Contribution of final exam to overall grade	1	60
Total	2	100

In-Term Studies
Activities	Number	Contribution
Assignments	0	0
Presentation	0	0
Midterm Examinations (including preparation)	5	40
Project	0	0
Laboratory	0	0
Other Applications	0	0
Quiz	0	0
Term Paper/ Project	0	0
Portfolio Study	0	0
Reports	0	0
Learning Diary	0	0
Thesis/ Project	0	0
Seminar	0	0
Other	0	0
Make-up	0	0
Total	5	40

Relation of Proficiency

No	Program Learning Outcomes	Contribution
No	Program Learning Outcomes	1	2	3	4	5
1	Recognizing fundamental legal concepts, defining, interpreting and using them.				X
2	Recognizing fundamental disciplines of law and their content, including legislation, case-law and the doctrine in the relevant discipline.				X
3	Recognizing positive norms in the legislation and being able to define and explain the principals of methodology.					X
4	Being able to determine, identify and restate legal problems.			X
5	Being able to use legal interpretation principals in an efficient manner in order to analyse and resolve a legal problem and in order to develop a strategy.		X
6	Being able to conduct academic researches on legal problems and to propose solutions.				X
7	Assuming responsibility individually or collectively for resolving complicated legal problems.	X
8	Being able to criticise positive norms of the law system.					X
9	Being able to explain technical legal knowledge in Turkish, French and English verbally or in writing, being able to report personal opinion concerning a legal problem verbally or in writing in a persuasive manner.					X
10	Being able to follow up the local and international legal literature, to update technical legal knowledge permanently, to use information technology in an efficient manner in order to achieve these goals.					X
11	Being able to conduct comparative academic researches between different law systems.					X
12	Respecting human rights and universal principals and notions of law.				X
13	Respecting the ethical standarts, good faith, fairness and equity principals.					X
14	Being sensitive to social problems, democracy, laicism and rule of law principal.					X

ECTS

Activities	Number	Period	Total Workload
Class Hours	14	2	28
Working Hours out of Class	14	1	14
Assignments	0	0	0
Presentation	0	0	0
Midterm Examinations (including preparation)	1	5	5
Project	0	0	0
Laboratory	0	0	0
Other Applications	0	0	0
Final Examinations (including preparation)	1	5	5
Quiz	0	0	0
Term Paper/ Project	0	0	0
Portfolio Study	0	0	0
Reports	0	0	0
Learning Diary	0	0	0
Thesis/ Project	0	0	0
Seminar	0	0	0
Other	0	0	0
Make-up	0	0	0
Yıl Sonu	0	0	0
Hazırlık Yıl Sonu	0	0	0
Hazırlık Bütünleme	0	0	0
Total Workload			52
Total Workload / 25			2.08
Credits ECTS			2