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Placement
Study Course Description
Course Description Statuss:Approved
Course Description Version:7.00
Study Course Accepted:02.02.2024 12:30:34
| Study Course Information | |||||||||
| Course Code: | JF_407 | LQF level: | Level 6 | ||||||
| Credit Points: | 6.00 | ECTS: | 9.00 | ||||||
| Branch of Science: | Law | Target Audience: | Juridical Science; Law | ||||||
| Study Course Supervisor | |||||||||
| Course Supervisor: | Lidija Juļa | ||||||||
| Study Course Implementer | |||||||||
| Structural Unit: | Faculty of Social Sciences | ||||||||
| The Head of Structural Unit: | |||||||||
| Contacts: | Dzirciema street 16, Rīga, szf rsu[pnkts]lv | ||||||||
| Study Course Planning | |||||||||
| Full-Time - Semester No.1 | |||||||||
| Lectures (count) | 1 | Lecture Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Lectures | 2 | ||||
| Classes (count) | 1 | Class Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Classes | 2 | ||||
| Total Contact Hours | 4 | ||||||||
| Part-Time - Semester No.1 | |||||||||
| Lectures (count) | 1 | Lecture Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Lectures | 2 | ||||
| Classes (count) | 0 | Class Length (academic hours) | 0 | Total Contact Hours of Classes | 0 | ||||
| Total Contact Hours | 2 | ||||||||
| Study course description | |||||||||
| Preliminary Knowledge: | Professional Ethics, Records Management, Administrative Law, Administrative Process, Law of Obligations, Property Law, Family Law, Inheritance Rights, Civil Procedural Law, Criminal Law. General Part, Criminal Law. Special Part, Criminal Process. General Part, Criminal Process. Special Part. | ||||||||
| Objective: | To consolidate and deepen the knowledge acquired during the study process. To give an opportunity to get an idea of the tasks and main forms of activity of a company/establishment/institution, as well as to deepen the understanding of the organisation and operation, regulatory framework of these institutions. | ||||||||
| Topic Layout (Full-Time) | |||||||||
| No. | Topic | Type of Implementation | Number | Venue | |||||
| 1 | Briefing about the placement institution. Acquiring lawyer's skills and fulfilling tasks set by the placement supervisor. Preparation and defence of the Placement Report. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||||
| Topic Layout (Part-Time) | |||||||||
| No. | Topic | Type of Implementation | Number | Venue | |||||
| 1 | Briefing about the placement institution. Acquiring lawyer's skills and fulfilling tasks set by the placement supervisor. Preparation and defence of the Placement Report. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| Assessment | |||||||||
| Unaided Work: | To observe the working hours for the placement and to work them in full, to prepare a placement diary, summarising the tasks performed at the institution of placement, to prepare a placement report. The graduate prepares the placement report in accordance with the content and requirements of the placement programme. The volume of the report is 7 – 12 pages (without annexes). The placement report should be typed on one side of white A4 sheet, with 1.5-line spacing, font size "14", Times New Roman style. Margins of the page should be as follows: left – 30 mm, right – 20 mm, top – 20 mm, bottom – 20 mm. The first line of each paragraph begins with a 15 mm indent. The placement report consists of the following parts: 1) Front page (shall be executed in accordance with Annex 1 to the programme) 2) Placement agreement (signed original) 3) Placement assessment at the placement supervisor's institution (shall be executed in accordance with Annex 2 to the programme) 4) Content 5) Introduction (please indicate the placement purpose, tasks, duration of the placement, research methods and sources) 6) Table of contents in accordance with the tasks performed during the placement and Annex No. 3. 7) Conclusions and proposals 8) List of used laws and regulations and literature 9) Annexes: Draft documents or documents executed during the graduate's placement in which execution the graduate has participated. Draft documents can be attached to the report only if they are provided in the content of the placement report. The graduate can’t provide identification data of the persons and/or data on legal or administrative proceedings without effective final decision in the placement or in the annexed documents. The graduate shall submit the report to the placement supervisor of the institution after execution of the placement report. The institution's placement supervisor attaches the placement assessment to it after reviewing of the placement report. If the graduate has received a grade from 1 to 3 points from the practice supervisor of the institution, then the graduate is not admitted to the placement defence and must repeat the placement at the same or another institution. | ||||||||
| Assessment Criteria: | Placement is being assessed by 10-point scale. When assessing the alumni placement, the following should be considered: • Execution of assigned tasks, whether no violations took place at placement institution. • Description of works performed at placement institution, explanation of problematic issues and quality of legal solution. • Content, execution of the placement report – 30%. • Placement defence presentation, defence speech and provided answers to the questions of the commission – 30%. • Characteristic and assessment of the graduate by the placement supervisor of the institution – 40%. | ||||||||
| Final Examination (Full-Time): | Defence (Placement) | ||||||||
| Final Examination (Part-Time): | Defence (Placement) | ||||||||
| Learning Outcomes | |||||||||
| Knowledge: | To be aware of the activities of institutions/organizations (public or private) and the laws and regulations governing their activities; demonstrate knowledge of the activity of the institutions/organizations (public or private) and the legal issues connected to thereof; to be able to identify industry problems in the chosen placement and find appropriate case law. | ||||||||
| Skills: | Practical skills that are necessary for ensuring legal functioning of institutions/organisations (public or private) in compliance with occupational safety rules, confidentiality, commercial secret, and basic principles of professional ethics. To independently develop draft legal documents corresponding to the specificity (functions) of the operation of the institution/organisation (public or private); to determine the persons involved in a particular situation and their rights and obligations; the skill to solve standard and medium difficulty individual practical tasks; to assume responsibility and to announce initiative when carrying out placement tasks. To be able to explain and reasonably discuss the chosen field of law. | ||||||||
| Competencies: | Student is able to independently formulate and analyse regulatory framework that concerns the activities of the institution of placement, to detect issues, provide a solution to them and to substantiate decisions; to plan work to be carried out at the institution/organisation (public or private) and to evaluate the quality of performance thereof; to demonstrate an understanding of, and responsibility for, the potential impact of one’s activities on the institution/organisation (public or private) and society at large. To be aware of the basic principles of professional ethics. | ||||||||
| Bibliography | |||||||||
| No. | Reference | ||||||||
| Required Reading | |||||||||
| 1 | e-studiju materiāli: Metodiskie norādījumi "Prakse" | ||||||||
| 2 | Tiesību akti, kas regulē prakses vietas darbību, judikatūra, kas attiecas uz prakses vietas darbību. | ||||||||
