Lecturer(s)
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Černá Leona, Mgr.
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Přidalová Eva, Mgr.
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Course content
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TOPICS: 1. The post-war period 1945-1959 - the beginning of the European Communities. Schumann plan 2. The founding treaties of the European Community, the European Union 3. Project of European Constitution, the Lisbon Treaty 4. EU citizenship and its associated rights and obligations related to the citizenship of a Member State 5. How the EU Functions and EU organizations 6. THE EUROPEAN UNION INTRODUCTION; CASE STUDIES 7. EU INSTITUTIONS INTRODUCTION; COURT OF JUSTICE OF EU 8. Development of language skills: Listening, reading, speaking, writing; practising terminology for specific purposes; 9. Grammatical and structural practice with respect to legal texts and specific areas of legal communication, in particular: overview of tenses and grammatical structures with emphasis on: tense overview, active and passive voice, gerund, infinitive, modal verbs, conditional sentences, sentence and compound sentences, word order, etc.; 10. Enhancement of specific skills: use of targeted lexis in meaningful context; 11. Development of writing and communication skills 12. Annotations of selected cases (focus on human rights) 13. Preparation of presentations (Powerpoint; Prezi, etc.) 14. Enhancement of oral skills (oral presentations with peered approach and recommendations on improvements)
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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Monologic Lecture(Interpretation, Training)
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Learning outcomes
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The subject is aimed at technical terms used in EC and EU, organization, tasks of individual institutions of European Union from the very beginning and this is why students are expected to have at least intermediate knowledge of general language.
Students who have completed this subject will gain knowledge and skills in the field of technical legal terminology used in the European Law.
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Prerequisites
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Completion of this subject is not conditional upon completion of another subject.
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Assessment methods and criteria
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Student performance
Knowledge of topics; 80% attendance; fulfilment of tasks assigned to students by teacher during the winter term; passing the final test.
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Recommended literature
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http://unifor.upol.cz/pravnicka/.
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Černá, L. (2005). Le francais juridique - Sélection de thémes de droit communautaire et européen. Linde, Praha.
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Fricero, N. (2007). Droit européen des droits de l´Homme. Gualiano éditeur, Paris.
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Gauthier, A. (2005). La construction européenne. Bréal.
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Rambaud, T. (2007). Institutions européennes. Studyrama.
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Tichý, L. a kol. (1999). Čtyřjazyčný slovník práva Evropských společenství. Linde, Praha.
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