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English for Public Administration I. General info. Lecturer: Dr. sc. Marijana Javornik Čubrić Classes: Wednesday 9:00 – 10:30 Office hours: Wednessday 10:30 – 11:30, Gundulićeva 10, Room No. 6 Contact: marijana.javornik@pravo.hr. Course materials.
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General info • Lecturer: Dr. sc. Marijana Javornik Čubrić • Classes: Wednesday 9:00 – 10:30 • Office hours: Wednessday 10:30 – 11:30, Gundulićeva 10, Room No. 6 • Contact: marijana.javornik@pravo.hr
Course materials • Lelija Sočanac, Marijana Javornik Čubrić, English for Public Administration, Narodne novine, Zagreb, 2018. • Module I: Introduction to the State and Governance
Topics • Unit 1: The State, Its Development and Functions • Unit 2:Public Administration and Bureaucracy • Unit 3:The Basic Democratic Principles: the Rule of Law and the Separation of Powers • Unit 4: Human Rights • Unit 5: Constitutions and Constitutionalism • Unit 6: Decentralization and Devolution
Presentations • NOT obligatory, but recommended • Substitute for the oral part of the examination (a part of the final grade)
Guidelines for presentations Suggested duration: 10-15 minutes • Presenters: 1-3 • Sources: at least 3 differentsources to beused; one written, two can be from the Internet • Draft to be sent a week in advance • Questions and discussion or group work
No reading; only notes • Try not to include too many pictures or long sentences • Topic to be selected by Oct. 16
Suggested topics • History of the state • The Montevideo Convention on the Rights and Duties of States • Federalism • Decisions of the ECHR • Constitution of the Republic of Croatia • The British Constitution
Teaching materials • Available at: www.pravo.hr/sj Predmet: • Engleski jezik upravne struke I
Attendance • Strongly recommended • Required for taking mid-term examination (3 absences allowed)
Examination • Written part – translation of relevant terminology (Croatian-English and English-Croatian), matching the terms with their definitions, matching the words with their synonyms, completing basic statements and definitions, translation of short relevant texts • Oral part – presenting a topic using relevant vocabulary OR a presentation