Police Professional Rhetoric

Study Course Description

Course Description Statuss:Approved

Course Description Version:7.00

Study Course Accepted:02.02.2024 12:29:52

Study Course Information
Course Code:		JF_303		LQF level:		Level 6
Credit Points:		2.00		ECTS:		3.00
Branch of Science:		Law		Target Audience:		Person and Property Defence
Study Course Supervisor
Course Supervisor:		Ilze Cīrule
Study Course Implementer
Structural Unit:		Faculty of Social Sciences
The Head of Structural Unit:
Contacts:		Dzirciema street 16, Rīga, szfrsu[pnkts]lv
Study Course Planning
Full-Time - Semester No.1
Lectures (count)		12	Lecture Length (academic hours)		2	Total Contact Hours of Lectures		24
Classes (count)		4	Class Length (academic hours)		2	Total Contact Hours of Classes		8
Total Contact Hours								32
Part-Time - Semester No.1
Lectures (count)		4	Lecture Length (academic hours)		2	Total Contact Hours of Lectures		8
Classes (count)		2	Class Length (academic hours)		2	Total Contact Hours of Classes		4
Total Contact Hours								12
Study course description
Preliminary Knowledge:
Skills and ability to use the literary language, perception and knowledge of the most topical issues in the standards of the language, understanding of juridical science, legal texts and work with documents and terminology; prior knowledge of logic and psychology.
Objective:
- Promote students’ skills and abilities to select information, analyse already written documents and draft legal texts thus acquiring the basics for drafting legal texts, including development of creative techniques for drafting legal texts (at the same time broadening knowledge in legal terminology), to express their own opinion in correct Latvian in a clear, simple and reasoned manner and comply with the requirements of record-keeping; to enhance and broaden understanding of practical application of legislation and documents, focusing on the most common mistakes in lawyers’ speeches and articles. - Acquire skills and abilities to make a persuasive and effective presentation, as well as to evaluate the public speech and a written text of another person. - Develop skills to present information accurately, concisely, convincingly and reasonably, using available materials. - As far as possible, discover weak points in own rhetoric and presentation skills and improve the contact with the audience (customer).
Topic Layout (Full-Time)
No.	Topic			Type of Implementation		Number	Venue
1	The concept pf practical rhetoric. The significance of the uttered and written word in the professional activity of a lawyer. Monologue and dialogue in a lawyer’s work. Legal hermeneutics.			Lectures		3.00	auditorium
2	General description of the style of legal texts. Principles for drafting legal texts. The role of logic and reasoning in drafting of legal texts. Ethics of a legal text. The most common legal “traps”. An effective sentence: the basis for creating a legal text. The meaning of the term.			Lectures		4.00	auditorium
3	Public speech, its types. General principles of public speech and a written text (preconditions). Language of a speech, choice of the style, types of impact on the audience. Speech evaluation criteria. Speech techniques, including a metaphor, intrigue, paradox and a principle of yellow press.			Lectures		2.00	auditorium
				Classes		1.00	auditorium
4	Topical language issues relevant to legal texts. Linguomarketology. Preparation of the text relevant to their professional activity and communication management. Assessment and improvement of their rhetoric.			Lectures		3.00	auditorium
				Classes		3.00	auditorium
Topic Layout (Part-Time)
No.	Topic			Type of Implementation		Number	Venue
1	The concept pf practical rhetoric. The significance of the uttered and written word in the professional activity of a lawyer. Monologue and dialogue in a lawyer’s work. Legal hermeneutics.			Lectures		2.00	auditorium
2	General description of the style of legal texts. Principles for drafting legal texts. The role of logic and reasoning in drafting of legal texts. Ethics of a legal text. The most common legal “traps”. An effective sentence: the basis for creating a legal text. The meaning of the term.			Lectures		1.00	auditorium
4	Topical language issues relevant to legal texts. Linguomarketology. Preparation of the text relevant to their professional activity and communication management. Assessment and improvement of their rhetoric.			Lectures		1.00	auditorium
				Classes		2.00	auditorium
Assessment
Unaided Work:
Group projects, case studies, discussions and preparation of a public speech.
Assessment Criteria:
Passed tests, a report.
Final Examination (Full-Time):		Exam (Written)
Final Examination (Part-Time):		Exam (Written)
Learning Outcomes
Knowledge:		Upon successful completion of the study course students understand the nature and role of professional rhetoric. On completion of the study course, students will understand basic principles of modern rhetoric and will have acquired practical skills in establishing communication and will be able to choose the most appropriate rhetorical techniques, such as repetition of words, use of synonyms, dialectisms, jargon, unfinished sentences, silence, changes in word order, etc., the standard language (the use of language resources in accordance with the standard of literary language), speech techniques (such as, voice, intonation, elocution, articulation, volume, range, tone, breathing, gestures, facial expression), that is, the means in order to maximise the impact on the audience.
Skills:		Able to apply the interaction between the form of speech and the content of speech; Capable of creating and presenting a speech correctly; Knows and applies the methods of practical rhetoric: holding the attention of the audience and overcoming the communication barriers and stage fever; Able to do self-analysis of the speech.
Competencies:		Analyse and evaluate the relevance of speeches to the principles of a good speech, the presence/absence of errors in them, the context of these speeches, as well as to independently write and present a speech that complies with all the above mentioned criteria and is based on the understanding of the interaction between the content and form of the speech.
Bibliography
No.	Reference
Required Reading
1	Apele, A. 2011. Prasme runāt publiski. Rīga: Zvaigzne ABC (Poligrāfists).
2	Džohansens, S. un Broka, B. 2010. Juridiskā analīze un tekstu rakstīšana. Rīga.
3	Grūtups, A. Krievijai netraucēs ne eiro, ne lats, ja tā izdomās uz šejieni sūtīt Pleskavas divīziju. Iegūts no: http://nra.lv/latvija/96343-grutups-krievijai-netrauces-ne-… sejieni-sutit-pleskavas-diviziju.htm
4	Kaminska, G. 2000. Tiesu runas kā publiskas runas sagatavošana un izpildījums. Rīga.
5	Kaminska, G. 2002. Tiesu runas problēmas. Rīga
6	Krūmiņa, V. un Skujiņa, V. 2002. Normatīvo aktu izstrādes rokasgrāmata. Rīga.
Additional Reading
1	Bariss, V. 2003. Darba burtnīca retorikā: metodiskie materiāli bakalauru un maģistru studijām /Voldemārs Bariss; Latvijas Lauksaimniecības universitāte. Sociālo zinātņu fakultāte. Filozofijas katedra. Jelgava: LLU.
2	Eckardt, B. 2000. Fachsprache als Kommunikationsbarrire? Verständigungsprobleme zwischen Juristen und Laien / B. Eckardt. – Wiesbaden: Dt. Univ. Verl., S. 210.
3	Forensic, J. 2004. Linguistics: An Introduction to Language, Crime and Law. - London-New-York: J., Forensic Linguistics: An Introduction to Language, Crime and Law. - London-New-York: Continum, – 4.-5.
4	Wiesmann, E. 2004. Rechtsübersetzung und Hilfsmittel zur Translation. Wissenschaftliche Grundlagen und computergestützte Umsetzung eines lexikographischen Konzepts. Tübingen: Narr, S. 37.
5	Ивакина, Н. 2007. Основы судебного красноречия (риторика для юристов). Москва: Юристъ, Iegūts no: http://royallib.com/read/ivakina_nadegda/osnovi_sudebnogo_k… Зарецкая, Е. 1998. Ри
Other Information Sources
1	www.likumi.lv www.mk.gov.lv