20101473 - LAW & THE HUMANITIES (LEGAL LANGUAGE)

THIS COURSE IS PART OF THE PROGRAM "STUDYING LAW AT ROMA TRE," THUS, ATTENDANCE IS REQUIRED. STUDENTS WHO WANT TO ATTEND THIS COURSE MUST COMPLETE A PRE-REGISTRATION FORM TO ENROLL. DOWNLOAD THE FORM HERE. HTTP://WWW.GIUR.UNIROMA3.IT/STUDYING_LAW/PROGRAMS/APPLICATION%20FORM%20FOR%20STUDY%20LAW%20AT%20ROMA%20TRE%20COURSES%20AND%20SEMINARS%20RS_PERPETUA.DOC

THE COURSE WILL FIRST PROVIDE AN INTRODUCTION TO THE LAW AND THE HUMANITIES MOVEMENT IN GENERAL AND THEN FOCUS ON SEVERAL DIFFERENT, EVEN IF STRICTLY CONNECTED, FIELDS OF STUDY: e.g. LAW AND LITERATURE, LAW AND PHILOSOPHY, LAW AND ARCHITECTURE, LAW AND ICONOGRAPHY, LAW AND ARCHAEOLOGY, LAW AND MUSIC. THE COURSE WILL QUESTION THE TRADITIONAL ISOLATION OF LEGAL STUDIES IN ANALYSING LAW WITH REFERENCE TO THE OTHER SOCIAL SCIENCES AND, MORE GENERALLY, TO A LARGER CULTURAL CONTEXT. TEXTS, SYMBOLS AND REPRESENTATIONS, WHICH HAVE GREATLY INFLUENCED POPULAR UNDERSTANDING OF LAW, WILL BE DISCUSSED BY PROFESSORS AND PHD STUDENTS COMING FROM DIFFERENT PARTS OF THE WORLD, EACH OF WHOM WILL BE TEACHING 1-6 LESSONS ON A SPECIFIC TOPIC.
COURSE LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
- TO INTRODUCE STUDENTS TO THE LAW AND THE HUMANITIES MOVEMENT.
- TO INVESTIGATE THE BENEFITS OF INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDIES.
- TO DEVELOP A CRITICAL APPROACH TO LEGAL TEXTS.
- TO UNDERSTAND LAW IN THE WIDER CONTEXT OF SOCIAL SCIENCES
- TO STRESS THE IMPORTANCE OF THE CULTURAL CONTEXT FOR A BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF LAW IN THE PAST AS WELL AS THE PRESENT.
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Programme

Oral and written legal English will be practiced during the course, which will be taught entirely in English.

Core Documentation

See textbooks suggested for the Law and the Humanities course

Type of delivery of the course

Students will be asked to intervene during the course to improve their mastery of legal English

Type of evaluation

Evaluatins will be the same used for the Law and the umanities course