English Communication Skills for Students in Criminology

Teacher(s)

Heiderscheidt Nathalie (coordinator);

Language

English

Prerequisites

The prerequisite(s) for this Teaching Unit (Unité d’enseignement – UE) for the programmes/courses that offer this Teaching Unit are specified at the end of this sheet.

Main themes

The course is based on real-life professional-type situations in the field of criminology.

Teaching activity will focus on :

• taking part in a meeting
• giving a talk on a criminology-oriented topic
• making/receiving a phone call
• questioning a witness, a suspect, '
• negotiating with different stakeholders
• writing an e-mail, '

Aims

At the end of this learning unit, the student is able to :
1	The course aims at enabling the student to function in the relevant social and professional contexts (law enforcement, the judicial world, the execution of criminal sentences, the field of prevention policies and psycho-social interventions), to develop the communication techniques appropriate to professional life, to improve command of the language (general and specific vocabulary, grammar and pronunciation). At the end of the term, the student should have acquired oral skills roughly corresponding to the B1 level of « the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages ».

Content

The course aims at enabling the student to function in the relevant social and professional contexts (law enforcement, the judicial world, the execution of criminal sentences, the field of prevention policies and psycho-social interventions). The student will practise the language in an interactive way through classroom professional-type activities and will therefore be exposed to a variety of real-life situations requiring specific language functions. Regular feedback on the student's oral production will help him consolidate and improve his grammar use, vocabulary accuracy as well as pronunciation.
At the end of the term, the student should have acquired oral skills roughly corresponding to the B1 level of « the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages ».

Teaching methods

Due to the COVID-19 crisis, the information in this section is particularly likely to change.

The LANGL 2423 course includes 30 hours of “classroom” activities as well as self-tuition on Moodle. In the context of the Covid-19 sanitary crisis, this course will be mainly taught online with a few contact hours on-site (information session, tests, presentations, special activities, exams). 
! The teaching modalities may be subject to change in accordance with the evolution of the Covid-19 pandemic. The students will of course be notified of these possible changes in due course.

• Interactive communication through classroom activities
• Exposure to a variety of real-life situations requiring specific language functions
• Consolidation and improvement of grammar use, vocabulary accuracy as well as pronunciation
• Regular feedback on the students oral production

Evaluation methods

Due to the COVID-19 crisis, the information in this section is particularly likely to change.

! The evaluation modalities may be subject to change in accordance with the evolution of the Covid-19 pandemic. The students will of course be notified of these possible changes in due course.

• Continuous assessment 
• Oral exam divided into 2 parts :
  1. a group exam (role play)
  2. an individual exam (presentation of a criminology-oriented topic based on a portfolio of articles)

Online resources

http://moodleucl.uclouvain.be/course/view.php?id=68

Teaching materials

• Le syllabus LANGL 2423 «English Communication Skills for Students in Criminology»
• Le cours en ligne sur Moodle «English Communication Skills for Students in Criminology»

Faculty or entity

ILV