Bachelor 2025/2026

Project Seminar "Finances and Accounting"

Type: Elective course (Law)

Delivered by: School of Foreign Languages

When: 5 year, 1 module

Open to: students of one campus

Instructors: Diana Burimskaya

Language: English

Course Syllabus

Abstract

The programme is intended for 5-year students of the Higher School of Economics of the Bachelor's degree programmes “Jurisprudence” and “Jurisprudence: Private " The course is intended for law students to develop the following skills: 1) language skills (oral and written professional English language, legal terminology and professional vocabulary; active listening in the key typical situations of the legal discourse (an interview with the client, project work communication); efficiency in dealing with authentic legal texts of different amounts); 2) cognitive skills (critical thinking, communicating with the frame of team work, managing a team); discussion (identifying a problem, arranging and monitoring discussion, participating in a discussion, developing an argument). The programme is based on the Concept of Development the English-language Communicative Competence of HSE students of non-linguistic specialties. The course consists of 3 units: negotiable instruments, secured transactions, and debtor-creditor. The minimum requirement for successfully mastering this programme is B-2 English language proficiency.