BASIC INFORMATION OF THE TRAINING PROGRAMAwarding institution Vietnam National University, Hanoi Teaching institution VNU School of Laws Accreditating institution Vietnam National Univer
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SCHOOL OF LAW - -
SPECIFICATIONS OF BACHELOR LEVEL PROGRAM
ON LAW (HONORS PROGRAM)
Hanoi, September 2015.
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Awarding institution Vietnam National University, Hanoi
Teaching institution VNU School of Laws
Accreditating
institution Vietnam National University, Hanoi (The Program was rated atthe program-level for its quality according to the AUN-QA
criteria in December 2015)
Degree title The Degree of Bachelor in Law (Honors Program)
Program objectives The graduates from the Bachelor-level Program on Law (Honors
Program) will have appropriate knowledge, skills, andprofessional ethics to do research, make and implement law instate agencies, political, socio-political, and economicorganizations both domestic and international, and pursuegraduate education and higher, accumulated experience tobecome legal experts
Output standards 1 Knowledge and professional competences
The Program’s graduates will be able to:
- Understand and initiative-creativity apply Leninsim basic principles; Ho Chi Minh’s ideological, moral andcultural values; and basic contents of the Revolutionary lines ofVietnamese Communist Party which then help them to formulateworldviews and methodologies when approaching and reasoningcontemporary issues of state and law;
Maxism Creativity apply the background knowledge of socialand natural sciences in addressing relevant theoretical andpractical issues;
- Creativity apply the knowledge learnt from the basiccourses under the program on theory and history of state and law
as well as some other social-humanitarian sciences in addressingrelevant theoretical and practical problems;
- Creativity apply the background knowledge of legalscience as provided by the general and specialized courses onconstitutional law, administrative law, administrative procedurelaw, civil law, civil procedure law, criminal law, criminalprocedure law, trade law, labor law, land-environment law,finance-banking law, public international law… in understandingand solving professional problems in practical work;
- Analysis, synthesis, evaluation in-depth knowledge oflaw fields in analyzing, synthetizing and solving concreteproblems;
- Use common information processing tools (e.g.:operating systems, soft wares, Internet…) Understand and apply
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- Apply practical knowledge in learning about future jobs,able to do self-orientation and adaptation in different workingsettings
- Master skills of listening, speaking, reading and writing
a foreign language equivelant to level 3 on the 6 scale foreignlanguages framework for Vietnamese
- Lead in the professional work as being trained; haveinitiatives when performing assignments; self-study,accommulate knowledge and experience for professionaldevelopment; make plans, coordinate and promote collectiveintellectuality
2 Skills
2.1 Hard skills
The graduates from the Program will be able to:
- Fulfill complicated tasks that require theoretical and practicalskills as being trained in varied contexts; have skills to analyze,synthetize, and assess data, information and collective opinions;
- Capable of scientific research, Search for legal documents,analyze law, select and apply legislative regulations in solvingpractical problems arising in reality;
- Think, perceive, analyze, and assess legal issues in asystematical manner;
- Approach problems in vastly changing social contexts, developskills of critical detection, analysis, assessment, and consultation
on legal issues following the scientific basis of the trainingprogram;
- Self-study, reason and apply knowledge and skills inunderstanding and solving legal issues in reality;
- Synthetize lessons learnt for themselves in comparison with thetrained knowledge;
- Develop awareness of justice
2.2 Soft skills
The graduates from the Program will be able to:
- Work independently, work in team, solve work-related problemswith logical and creative thoughts;
- Have communication and presentation skills;
- Have skills of searching for information, studying documentsand materials; compiling documents and analytical reports;
- Have skills of negociating, consulting and working with clients;
- Have skills of adaption and management over changes indramatically changing environments both domestic and
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- Have listening, speaking, reading and writing skills of a foreignlanguage equivalent to level 3 in 6-scale foreign languagesframework for Vietnamese
- Use computers and some common software programs fluentlysuch as: WORD, EXCEL, POWER POINT
3 Ethical qualities 3.1 Personal ethical qualities
The graduates from the Program will:
- Have standard behaviors and speech;
- Be ready to overcome and cope with difficulties, challenges;
- Have desire and passion for studying and working purposes;
- Hold a friendly attitude to friends, colleagues, and partners;
- Be hardworking, enthusiastic, and creative;
- Be proactive and confident at work, be responsible, andcourageous at expressing personal viewpoints and be an activelistener
3.2 Professional ethical qualities
The graduates from the Program will:
- Master ethical qualities necessary for a lawyer; have a sense ofrespecting and implementing law; be competent, honest andobjective;
- Have serious, scientific, and responsible spirit for assigned tasksand have desire and passion, cooperative, friendly attitudestowards colleages and other individuals at work
3.3 Social ethical qualities
The graduates from the Program will:
- Have a sense of patriotism;
- Have a sense of civic responsibility;
- Have conciousness of implementing , respecting and protectinglaw;
- Have a sense of building and protecting interests of communityand society to make contributions to building a fair, democraticand civilized society
Jobs after graduation The graduates from the Program will be able to:
- Group 1: Work as a teacher and/or a researcher in research and/
or education institutions with regard of law, administration,politics such as universities, colleges, secondary vocationaltraining schools, centers, research institutes in relevant fields;
- Group 2: Work for state agencies including law enforcement
organizations such as courts, procuratorates, law enforcementbodies, police agencies… and other state organizations fromcentral to local levels; the Party agencies and socio-political
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lawyer and/or a counselor like law companies, law offices, notaryoffices either domestic or international; function as a legalspecialist and/or a counselor in companies, enterprises that havedemands for employing highly-qualified personnel in law tofacilitate their production, business activities;
- Group 4: Work for non-governmental organizations,
inter-governmental organizations and/or international organizationsthat implement law-related activities
Standard input Students are selected through the university entrance
examinations and an admission process in accordance with theregulations of VNU and VNU School of Law
Comparison program The training program is built on the basis of being compared with
the training programs of:
- Faculty of Japanese Studies, Osaka National University, Japan
- Cambridge University, England
- Santa Barbara University, United States
- Harvard University, United States
- Beijing Foreign Studies University, China
- Singapore National University
- Taxas University at Austine, United States
- Thamasat University, Thailand
- Sheffield University, England
Teaching, learning
strategies
- The teaching, learning strategies are communicated widely
- Students are provided with sufficient information of the trainingtime frames, instructed on how to follow the training program
- Each syllabus contains the study and exams informationdepending on unique characteristics of the course as designed bythe lecturer (s)
After admission, the students will be introduced of thetraining curriculum framework on the opening day of the Programand instructed on how to register for elective courses
Based on the appoved curricula, the School’s Office ofAcademic Affairs will develop a learning plan for the wholeProgram included timetables, courses to be provided in thesemester in accord with the training curricula The yearly learningplan is communicated to: VNU (for information only); the School
of Law’s Board of Management; the relevant units inside VNU;the divisions under the School of Law; the academic staff; the
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The School’s Subject Sections are responsibile forassigning lecturers following the yearly learning plan andproposing assessment modes Then the School’s Dean decideswhich assessment mode will be chosen
After accomplishing all the courses under the trainingprogram, the students will be awarded with a Degree of Bachelor
in Law by VNU’s President
Total credit units 160 credits
Mode of study Full-time
18th September 2015 (final version, current)
Place of issuance VNU
II TRAINING CURRICULUM
II.1 Requirements
- General knowledge blocks:
+ Graduate thesis/alternative courses: 11 credits
- Foreign language courses which are of the basic courses are taken into account
of the total credit units of the whole training curriculum, however their scores are not
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- The total credit units of the Training Curriculum are 135 excluding the credit units of Physical Education, National Defence Education, and Soft Skills courses
II.2 Training curriculum
Theory Practi cum study Self
I
General knowledge block
(excluded Physical Education , National Defense Education, Soft Skills)
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1 PHI1004 Fundamental Principles of
2 PHI1005 Fundamental Principles of Marxism – Leninism 2 3 36 9 PHI1004
4 HIS1002 The Revolutionary Line of the
5 INT1004 Introduction to Informatics 2 3 17 28
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Theory Practi cum study Self
18 HIS1056 Fundamentals of Vietnamese Culture 3 30 9 6
19 EVS1001 Environment and Sustainable Development 2 20 8 2
20 MAT1078 Statistics for Sociology 2 18 6 6
21 THL1052 General Theory of State and Law 5 54 12 9
22 THL1058 History of State and Law 5 54 12 9
27 CAL1050 History of Political and Legal Theories 2 24 6
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Theory Practi cum study Self
40 BSL1101 Law on Land and Environment 4 48 12 CAL2102
42 CRL2103 Criminal Procedure Law 4 36 12 12 CRL1109
45 INL2101 Public International Law 5 40 20 15 CAL2101
46 INL2002 Private International Law 4 35 16 9 CIL2010
51 INL3003 International Maritime Law 2 16 8 6 CIL2013
52 THL2002 Introduction to Critical Legal
V Specialized knowledge blocks
53 INL2003 International Comercial Law 2 16 8 6 BSL2001
54 CAL3004 Administrative Procedure Law 2 20 4 6 CAL2002
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Theory Practi cum study Self
57 CAL3012 Theories and Law on Human Rights 2 24 6 THL1052
59 THL2001 State and Law of ASEAN Countries 2 14 12 4 THL1052
61 CRL2011 Introduction to Criminal Justice System 2 16 8 6 CRL1010
63 CIL2005 Civil dispute resolution skills 2 26 4 CIL2009
64 INL2008 International Judicial Institutions 2 26 4 INL2101
V.3 Graduation thesis/alternative courses 11
66 FOL4001 Annual Essay - Internship 3
67 FOL4053
Thesis/alternative modules for a
thesis (select courses M3; M4;
M5 that the students haven’t taken yet)
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III TIME FRAMES
III.1 Training duration: 04 years (divided into 08 semesters)
Year 1: 44credits Semester 1: 21 credits
Codes Course titles (equivalent to credit hours: No of credits
theory/practice/self-study)
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Year 1: 44 credits Semester 2: 23 credits
Codes Course titles (equivalent to credit hours: No of credits
theory/practice/self-study)
Year 2: 46 credits Semester 1: 22 credits
Codes Course titles (equivalent to credit hours: No of credits
theory/practice/self-study)
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Codes Course titles (equivalent to credit hours: No of credits
theory/practice/self-study)
Year 3: 41 credits Semester 1: 20 credits
Codes Course titles (equivalent to credit hours: No of credits
theory/practice/self-study)
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Year 3: 41 credits Semester 2: 21 credits
Codes Course titles (equivalent to credit hours: No of credits
theory/practice/self-study)
HIS1002 The Revolutionary Policies of Vietnam Communist Party 3(42/3/0)
Year 4: 29 credits Semester 1: 18 credits
Codes Course titles (equivalent to credit hours: No of credits
theory/practice/self-study)
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Year 4: 29 credits Semester 2: 11 credits
Codes Course titles (equivalent to credit hours: No of credits
theory/practice/self-study)
FOL4053 Dessertation/alternative courses (select from M3, M4, M5 the courses that students haven’t
taken yet)
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III.2 Notes for some basic courses in VNU
- Foreign Languages: (Foreign Language 1; Foreign Language 2; Foreign Language 3) 14 credits: Students can register for attendance according to the School’ plan or not,
they however have to attend the foreign language exams for an end-of-the-course scoreand expected learning outcomes (B1 level) before graduation
- Physical Education: 04 credits, students can register for attendance: 01 credit/semester
in the first and second year
- National Defence Education: 08 credits in 01 month during the second semester of the
first year in Dormitory No 4 – Hoa Lang
- Soft skills: 03 credits as planned by VNU Human Resources Development Center.
IV AN INTRODUCTION TO THE COURSES
1 PHI1004 The Fundamentals of Marxism-Leninism 1
Trang 15This course provides the students with worldviews and philosophicalmethodologies through dialectical and historical materialism contents including views ofMaxist-Leninist philosophy regarding the nature, society and man, the relationshipsbetween the nature, society and man; the most common principles of motion, natural andsocial development, and human thinking; the theories of Maxist-Lenist philosophy ofsocio-economic morphology, classes, class struggle of man’s liberation, ethnicity, socialrevolution, the roles of masses and individual leaders in history
2 PHI1005 The Fundamentals of Marxism-Leninism 2: 03 credits; Prerequisite: PHI1004
The course provides the learners with the most fundalmentals of the Leninism regards capitalist mode of production through three economic theories: the theory
Maxism-of value, the theory Maxism-of surplus value, and the theory Maxism-of state monopoly capitalism Thesetheories do not only clarify major economic laws that govern the movement of the marketeconomy, the capitalism production but also the inevitability of collapse of the capitalism andtriumph of the socialism On that basis, it clarifies the theoretical foundations that had directlyled to the introduction and main contents of the Maxism-Leninism theory on socialism
3 POL1001 Ho Chi Minh ideology: 02 credits; Prerequisite: PHI1005
This course offers the students with a basic understanding of the basis anddevelopment of Ho Chi Minh ideology; a system of comprehensive and sound viewpoints
of some fundalmentals of Vietnamese revolution included ethnicity and nationalliberationary revolution; socialism and the transition to socialism in Vietnam; VietnamCommunist Party; national and international solidarity; democracy and building of a state
of the people, by the people and for the people; morals, culture and building of newpeople; Ho Chi Minh’s theoretical and practical contributions to the Vietnamese people’srevolution
4 HIS1002 The Revolutionary Line of the Communist Party of Vietnam: 03 credits; Prerequisite: POL1001
This course provides the students with basic awareness of the historical contexts,the development of Vietnam Communist Party who had planned Vietnam’s revolutionarypolicies; the fundalmental and systematical knowledge of the Party’s revolutionarypolicies including views, policies, objectives, orientations, tasks and solutions ofVietnam’s revolution as reflected through the agendas, resolutions… that the Party hadapplied in leading the Vietnam’s revolution from the national democracy revolution to thesocialism revolution with a target on the Party’s lines in the renovation period in somebasic areas of the social life
5 INT1004 Computer Science 2: 03 credits
This course provides the students with basic understanding of Module 1 – General
Informatics (Part 1 covers basic knowledge of informatics, computer, soft wares and
informatics technology application; Part 2 introduces knowledge and skills of how to use
common operating systems, office soft wares and some internet-based services); Module 2
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knowledge of database, rational database management system; trains skills of how to use aspecific database management system; introduces macro-based managementprogramming)
6 Foreign Language 1
6.1 FLF2101 General English 1: 4 credits
This course introduces the tenses, and grammar in English for beginners such as to
be, simple present, simple past, how to ask questions for information ; Vocabularies indaily situations and about common topics of the life such as yourself, family, hometown,country…; International phonetics and pronounciation of vowels in English; Beginningskills in reading, speaking, listening, and writing
6.2 FLF2201 General Russion 1
6.3 FLF2301 General French 1
6.4 FLF2401 General Chinese 1
7 Foreign Language 2
7.1 FLF2102 General English 2: 5 credits; Prerequisite: FLF2101
This course introduces basic grammar, vocabulary, and phonetics in English;vocabularies used in daily situations such as post offices, restaurants, tourist, home,country…; pronounciation of consonants in English; pre-intermediate skills in listening,speaking, reading, and writing
7.2 FLF2202 General Russian 2
7.3 FLF2302 General French 2
7.4 FLF2402 General Chinese 2
8 Foreign Language 3
8.1 FLF2103 General English 3: 5 credits; Prerequisites: FLF2102
This course introduces advanced English for intermediate-level students invocabulary, grammar, academic language and dialogue, sentence making…; Basicvocabulary used in academic fields; Methods of scientific presentation; Intermediate levelskills in listening, speaking, reading and writing