Law and Economics - intense with specific goals
Target audience
These courses are designed for specialists, students and professionals in the fields of law and economics.
Teaching
These courses are exclusively designed for students who have a good command of the French language (400 hours minimum) and who have the knowledge equivalent to at least two university semesters of study in these fields.
Organisation
22 course hours per week from Monday to Friday organised as follows:
- Specialised French course: 10 hours. This course’s aim is to acquire recurrent structures in economic and legal language and to improve skills in written and oral comprehension and expression using documents that are specific to law and/or to economics.
- Law or economics course: 10 hours Law course: fundamental notions of the French criminal, civil and commercial laws as well as European law. Economics course: presentation of the major French economy fields and of the French-European economic relations.
- Lectures: 2 hours presentations of the major current questions by members of the law profession (solicitors, judges) and a presentations of the French Budget, the socio-economic background of the Rhone-Alps region and France’s role in Europe.
Self learning
Work on specialised CD-ROMs.
Levels
The CUEF offers three levels in accordance with those defined by the Council of Europe:
- B1: Threshold
- B2: Vantage
- C1: Effective Operational Proficiency
Visits
Law courts, Chamber of Business and Industry, Central Banks etc.
Level Tests
The first day of the course, tests are organised to properly place each student into a group that corresponds to their language level.
Transcripts
A detailed transcript of the courses followed will be delivered upon completion of the course. The students have the possibility to take the CCIP exams for the Legal French Certificate (CFJ).
Duration
4 weeks
