ECTS credits ECTS credits: 6
ECTS Hours Rules/Memories Student's work ECTS: 95 Hours of tutorials: 5 Expository Class: 35 Interactive Classroom: 15 Total: 150
Use languages Spanish, Galician, English
Type: Ordinary Degree Subject RD 1393/2007 - 822/2021
Departments: English and German Philology
Areas: English Philology
Center Faculty of Law
Call: First Semester
Teaching: With teaching
Enrolment: Enrollable | 1st year (Yes)
a) Students should be familiar with the terminology and technical expressions which are characteristic of those social and professional contexts in the field of criminology, with special reference to criminal activity, law enforcement, procedural and judicial activities and situations. In like manner, the social dimension of the crime (crime and gender, crime and racism, crime and marginalization, crime and mental illness, etc.) will be one of the main concerns.
b) Students must develop the appropriate communication techniques to handle themselves in criminal contexts.
c) Students should improve the command of English both using general and specific vocabulary as well as grammar and pronunciation.
Legal system: civil law/common law/ tort law
Prison execution system: alternative measures, methods, strategies for social reintegration of prisoners
Criminology & society: human trafficking
Green criminology
Crime and gender - Feminism and criminology, domestic violence
Crime and racism, marginalization
Organized crime: new techniques of criminal investigation and its limits
Performing autopsy
Cybercrimes-cyberstalking
Forensic science, Forensic linguistic, Forensic anthropology, Forensic psychology
Van den Eede, K., The Language of Crime: English for Criminology Students." Leuven: Acco, 2010
-Raymond Murphy (2019). English Grammar in Use. 5th Edition
- G. D. Brown and S. Rice, professional English in Use, Cambridge University Press, 2007.
- Alison Liebling and Shadd Maruna,The Oxford Handbook of Criminology, Oxford University Press, 5th ed. 2017
- Barnard, D., The civil Court in Action, Butterworths, Londres, 1985.
- Barnard, D., The Criminal Court in Action, Butterworths, 1988.
- Meador, D. J., American Courts, West Publishing Co., St. Paul, Minn., 1991.
- Solan, L. M., The Language of Judges, The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1993.
A) Cognitive (Knowledge):
- Knowledge of the basic legal English terminology
- Management of techniques and methods of linguistic analysis.
- Management of translation techniques of legal English texts.
- Knowledge of the legalese used by practicing lawyers
- Knowledge of the variety of legal text types and registers
B) Procedural / Instrumental (Know how):
- Ability to perform linguistic analyses and commentaries on legal contexts.
- Explanatory power of the texts through translation.
C) Attitude (behave):
- Activate the fascination for legal English.
In the expositive and interactive sessions the contents and the criminological terminology will be presented and explained; and then will be developed.
The student must participate actively in class.
Students must participate in various activities that allow them to develop their communicative skills (oral and written).
Real situations will be provided with the presentation of an institution related to the field of criminology.
Activities and situations will be presented in which the student will have to be involved in a conversation with other persons who have been potentially immersed in cases of criminology (police stations, courts, etc.).
First call (in January):
-Final exam: 55%
-Attendance and active participation: 10%
-Group task: 20%
-Individual task: 15%
Second call (June):
-Final exam: 55%
-Attendance and active participation: 10%
-Group task: 20%
-Individual task: 15%
The final examen is compulsory. If they do not take their final exam, they will be registered as NON PRESENTADOS in both calls, even if students attend and actively participate in class and perform all homework activities.
STUDENTS RESITTING THE SUBJECT:
Those students who have failed the subject in previous years and are resitting the subject, will be assessed according to the assessment system aforementioned, unless it is impossible for them to attend class. In these cases, they will have to inform the subject coordinator about their wish to take the assessment system applied to students exempt from class attendance.
STUDENTS EXEMPT FROM CLASS ATTENDANCE:
Those students who are exempt from class attendance will have to do a final exam worth 100% of the mark.
Study time and individual work: 75 hours.
- Requirement: intermediate level of English (B1- MCER).
- Attendance and active participation in every task at hand.
Sara González Bernárdez
Coordinador/a- Department
- English and German Philology
- Area
- English Philology
- saragonzalez.bernardez [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: Temporary supply professor to reduce teaching hours
| Wednesday | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 11:00-13:00 | Grupo clases expositivas | English | Classroom 17 |
| Thursday | |||
| 11:00-13:00 | Grupo clases expositivas | English | Classroom 17 |
| 01.21.2025 10:00-12:00 | Grupo clases expositivas | Classroom 1 |
| 06.11.2025 10:00-12:00 | Grupo clases expositivas | Classroom 5 |