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About Study Course

Credit points / ECTS:4 / 6
Course supervisor:Juris Zīvarts
Study type:Part time
Course level:Bachelor
Target audience:Person and Property Defence
Language:Latvian
Branch of science:Law; Theory and History of Rights

Objective

Introduce students to the basics of personal data security. Facilitate the students’ ability to independently analyse personal data security issues, while simultaneously explaining the theoretical basis and foundations of personal data security, focusing on current issues of personal data security nowadays.
Tasks: provide information on personal data, requirements to be met when processing personal data, liability for violations in the processing of personal data of individuals.

Prerequisites

Administrative Law and Human Rights Law (basics).

Learning outcomes

Knowledge

Students acquire basic knowledge in order to prepare for further understanding of personal data and their protection. Acquaint with the most important issues of personal data protection, promote students’ ability to identify and address problems of practical nature related to personal data protection issues. Present the most important concepts and terms of personal data protection, facilitating the formation of legal thinking. Ensure that the acquired knowledge becomes the basis for future law studies, while being able to apply it in practice.

Skills

Analyse, synthesise and evaluate the place and role of the personal data protection rights in professional work and develop scientific-research skills. Communication skills – communicate with other students of the law science study programme on issues of personal data protection; demonstrate social skills and emotional intelligence.
Orientation for further learning skills – constantly structuring own learning, analysing own level of knowledge and rationally add to, select and evaluate the sources of literature. Identify and formulate problems, find their causal relationship, i.e., the root of the problem and other constructive solutions to the problem.
Other general skills - take responsibility for their decisions and activities, make rational decisions and find solutions in unforeseen and changing circumstances, adapt to new situations and be open to change, take leadership and initiative and face up to consequences, comply with ethical standards, demonstrate broad general knowledge and competences. Improve the ability to listen to different opinions.

Competence

The ability to perform certain tasks related to individual data protection, capability to use knowledge and skills in professional and personal development. Application of the law (individual data protection industry and other sectors) not only "mechanically" but accordingly society interest and priorities, thus developing the skills to work with the regulatory enactments and understanding law as a whole. To offer not only formal issue solution in the field of children's rights, but to find solutions that would serve the needs and priorities of the community (local community), as well as to improve government in general.

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