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)
The main objectives:
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.
1. Grammar of English: introduction
2. Basic concepts on Court System in England and Wales
2.1 Civil courts
2.1.1 Magistrates' Courts
2.1.2 County Courts
2.1.3 High Court of Justice: Family, Chancery and Queen's Bench
2.1.4 The Court of Appeal
2.1.5 The House of Lords
2.1.6. Grammar of English: review
2.2. Criminal courts
2.2.1 Crown courts
2.2.2 Criminal Division of the Court of Appeal
2.2.3. The House of Lords
2.3. Grammar of English: review
3. Basic notions on types of lawyers, magistrates and judges
4. Basic notions on criminal justice and criminal proceedings
4.1 Categories of criminal offence
4.2. Grammar of English: review
5. Criminology and society
5.1 Green criminology
5.2 Domestic violence
5.3 Prostitution crime and sex work
5.4 Penal populism
5.5 The significance of globalisation for criminology
5.6 Crime and gender
5.7 Crime and racism
5.8 Crime and marginalization
5.9 Grammar of English: review
Bibliografía básica
-Van den Eede, K., The Language of Crime: English for Criminology Students." Leuven: Acco, 2010
Bibliografía complementaria:
- 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 sessions, the contents and the criminological terminology will be presented and explained; and then will be developed in the interactive sessions.
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.).
In the event that any of the contingency scenarios is rule, students will comply with what is indicated in the observations section under the heading of "Contingency Plan"
First call (in May)
- Final exam: 80%
- Attendance and active participation: 20%
Second call (July)
The assessment on the second opportunity will be based on the same criteria:
- Final exam: 80%
- Attendance and active participation: 20%;
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.
In the event that any of the contingency scenarios is rule, students will comply with what is indicated in the observations section under the heading of "Contingency Plan"
Study time and individual work: 75 hours.
- Requirement: intermediate level of English
- Attendance and active participation in every task at hand.
New Scenarios ("Contingency Plan")
Methodology:
In the event that the academic authorities ruled scenarios 2 or 3, the methodology will be adapted to the guidelines set out by the USC and to the course of action ordered by the Faculty, so that if classroom teaching activities could not be carried out, teaching will be carried out in virtual resorting with the institutional tools made available by the USC, combining synchronous activities (mainly through the TEAMS platform) and / or asynchronous (mainly through TEAMS or Moodle) depending on the type of activity.
Evaluation/Assessment:
“In the blended teaching modality, the same evaluation system will be maintained, whenever possible, as in scenario 1. If this is not possible and in the case of scenario 3, the face-to-face tests will be replaced by telematic tests (synchronous or asynchronous, oral or written) using institutional tools ”.
Plagiarism in assessment:
In case of fraudulent performance of exercises or tests, the provisions contained under art. 16 of "Regulamento de avaliación do rendemento académico dos estudantes e revisión das cualificacións" that rules:
"Un desempeño fraudulento de calquera exercicio ou evidencia exixida na valiación dunha materia implicará unha cualificación de suspense na correspondente convocatoria, independentemente do proceso disciplinario que se poida seguir contra o alumno infractor. Considerarse fraudulentos, entre outros, realizar traballos en plaxa ou obtidos de fontes accesibles ao público ou desde o mesmo sen reelaborar ou reinterpretar os autores e fontes".
Ruth Murias Roman
Coordinador/a- Department
- English and German Philology
- Area
- English Philology
- ruth.murias.roman [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: Temporary supply professor for IT and others
Scott Hawkley Raines
- Department
- English and German Philology
- Area
- English Philology
- Category
- Professor: Reader
| Wednesday | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 11:00-13:00 | Grado en Criminología | English | Classroom 17 |
| Thursday | |||
| 11:00-13:00 | Grado en Criminología | English | Classroom 17 |
| 01.10.2022 09:00-11:00 | Grado en Criminología | Classroom 1 |
| 06.22.2022 09:00-11:00 | Grado en Criminología | Classroom 4 |