Английский язык. Мачнева В.В - 8 стр.

     1 graduates; 2 intellectual; 3 programme; 4 best; 5 light; 6 law; 7 founded; 8
     selection; 9 valued; 10 common.
      2 Unit 2 Law Faculty of the Orenburg State University

      2.1 Read the text and translate it

                        Law Faculty of the Orenburg State University
      Why Law?
      The study of Law provides an insight into how one of the central institutions in our
society operates. It also offers an invaluable intellectual training that should increase
reasoning powers and verbal and written skills. As well as providing a background for
entry into the legal profession, Law degrees are highly valued by many employers in all
areas of working life.
      Why Law at the Orenburg State?
      The Orenburg State University has a tradition of teaching and research in the field
of law stretching to the foundation of the Law Faculty in 1995. At present it has got 2
departments: day-time and extramural training more than 1900 students.
      The Law Faculty academic staff teach and research across a broad range of
subjects: Civil Law, Criminal Law, Environmental Law, International Law, Financial
Law, Administrative Law, etc.
      The Faculty has excellent links with legal profession (both locally and nationally),
and with lawyers living and working in the city.
      Like other subjects at the Orenburg State University, law is not taught as an
isolated and self-contained decipline. Rather it is studied against the broad social,
political and economic background in which legal rules are created and applied. The
students have the opportunity to explore a range of subjects alongside the main Law
subject. Around 60 percent of their time is spent on their Major subjects, and the
remainder on courses which provide the context in which they study Law: History,
Foreign languages, Philosophy, Economics, History of State and Law and others.
      A Law Library is housed in the same building as the Law Faculty. The library is
constantly upgrading and contains a substantial collection of law books and materials.
      Access to on-line materials is good at the University Internet Centre and this,
together with wide – ranging periodicals and books, enables students to get approptiate
professional training and develop research skills.
      How you learn
      Teaching is organized on a modular basis. There are two seventeen – week
semesters in an academic year, the first beginning on September 1, the second in the
beginning of February. Examinations are held at the end of each semester, in January
and June. Students must complete a course with passing state exams and defending a
graduation thesis. The course of studies lasts 5 years.

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