Utenos kolegija

The group of study fields: Law
Field of study program: Law
Code of study program: 6531KX007
Type of study program: Undergraduate (college higher education) study programme
Cycle of study program: Professional Bachelor degree programme

Language of study program: Lithuanian, English
Credits and form of study program: 180 credits, Full-time studies - 3 years, part-time studies - 4 years.

Upon completion of Law study programme, graduates receive Professional Bachelor of Law.

The acquired qualification of the lawyer enables to work as a pretrial investigation officer, customs official, manager and specialist of the personnel office, an assistant of the bailiff, official in municipality administrative bodies, in judicial institutions, the State Social Insurance Fund pension sections in territorial divisions, or as a lawyer in private enterprises.

The main objective of the Law study program is to prepare highly qualified lawyer, who is able to independently perform activities that require personal responsibility in various fields, who is critical thinking, knowing and perceiving the place of law and purpose in the system of social science, who knows the legal system of Lithuania, legislation, who able to apply them and to solve specific practical problems.

Learning outcomes:

1. Be able to explain the fundamental social behavior of individuals and activity of social institutions, who research scientific theories and phenomenon, to describe the law history and the theory of law evolution.

2. Be able to explain the principles of the legal branches of the Republic of Lithuania, to explain the content of the most important legal institutes, will be able to discern and describe the areas of the legal regulation.

3. Be able to identify and characterize the main features of the European Union and the International Law systems.

4. Be able to analyze the various legal texts and be able to evaluate their validity in time and expanse.

5. Be able to choose and evaluate the legal norms, which regulate human behavior.

6. Be able to analyze and evaluate behavior and activities of human and social institutions and activities by legal norms.

7. Be able to argue the legal decisions by legal norms will be able to think consistently logically and critically, will be able accurately and correctly identify the problems of regulation.

8. Be able to interpret information, which is important for law, formulate conclusions.

9. Be able to argue based on available information and impart knowledge.

10. Be able to raise goals and aims of the research, to raise and validate hypotheses, to systematize and evaluate the results of the analysis and present reports and will be able to write an essay.

11. Be able to systematize legislation.

12. Be able to make the projects of application of legal acts.

13. Be able to organize the law session, to record his proceeding, to manage cases, will have skills of documents management.

14. Be able to do decisions of the judge and (or) other an official on the implementation of application of law.

15. Be able to use databases of the legal information.

16. Be able to find sources of the legal information, to use various modern information technologies.

17. Be able to be neutral in the legal practice, to harmonize contrary interests.

18. Be able to communicate and cooperate with specialists of legal and other areas using the correct professional Lithuanian and foreign languages.

Students of Law study programme study these subjects:

Full-time studies:

1st year	1 semester		2 semester
	Subject	Credits	Subject	Credits
	Political Science	3	Professional Foreign Language	3
	Fundamentals of Law Theory	6	Logic and Social Research	3
	History of Lithuanian Law	3	Civil Law	4
	Constitutional Law of the Republic of Lithuania	8	Labor Law	8
	Professional Ethics	3	Social Security Law	6
	Appplication of Information Technologies in the Professional Activity (Practice)	3	General and Law Psychology	3
	Law Enforcement Institutions of the Republic of Lithuania	4	Practice of Law Enforcement Institutions Activity	3

2nd year	3 semester		4 semester
	Subject	Credits	Subject	Credits
	Professional Language Culture and Management of Documents	3	Administrative Procedure Law	4
	Introduction into Philosophy/Introduction into Sociology	3	Criminal Law	8
	Administrative Law	6	Criminal Procedure Law	6
	Civil Law	6	Professional Skills Training Practice	9
	Civil Procedure Law	6	Optional Subject	3
	Practice of Juridical Documents Management	6

3rd year	5 semester		6 semester
	Subject	Credits	Subject	Credits
	Financial Law	6	Module: Euroepean Union and International Law	4
	Verslo teisė	6	European Union Law	2
	Module: Euroepean Union and International Law	8	International Law	2
	European Union Law	4	Module: Pretrial Investigation/Activity of Legal Service	5
	International Law	4	Criminology/Business Activity Organization	2
	Optional Subject	3	Qualification of Criminal Acts/Personnel Work Organization	2
	Module: Pretrial Investigation/Activity of Legal Service	10	Forensic Medicine/Civil Contracts and Litigation	1
	Criminology/Business Activity Organization	4	Qualification Examination (Constitutional Law)	2
	Qualification of Criminal Acts/Personnel Work Organization	4	Qualification Examination (by Specialization)	2
	Forensic Medicine/Civil Contracts and Litigation	2	Qualification Examination from the Specialization	6

Part-time studies:

1st year	1 semester		2 semester
	Subject	Credits	Subject	Credits
	Political Science	3	Introduction into Philosophy/Introduction into Sociology	3
	Professional Foreign Language	3	Fundamentals of Law Theory	6
	Logic and Social Research	3	History of Lithuanian Law	3
	Law Enforcement Institutions of the Republic of Lithuania	4	Constitutional Law of the Republic of Lithuania	8
	Professional Ethics	3	Practice of Law Enforcement Institutions Activity	3
	Application of Information Technologies in the Professional Activity	3

2nd year	3 semester		4 semester
	Subject	Credits	Subject	Credits
	Professional Language Culture and Management of Documents	3	Administrative Procedure Law	4
	Administrative Law	6	Civil Law	6
	Civil Law	4	Labor Law	8
	Social Security Law	6	Practice of Juridical Documents Management	6
	General and Law Psychology	6

3rd year	5 semester		6 semester
	Subject	Credits	Subject	Credits
	Criminal Law	8	Criminal Procedure Law	6
	Civil Procedure Law	6	Module: International and European Union Law	4
	Module International and European Union Law	8	European Union Law	2
	European Union Law	4	International Law	2
	International Law	4	Professional Skills Training Practice	9
	Optional Subject	6	Optional Subject	3

4th year	7 semester		8 semester
	Subject	Credits	Subject	Credits
	Module: Pretrial Investigation/Activity of Legal Service	10	Module: Pretrial Investigation/Activity of Legal Service	5
	Criminology/Business Activity Organization	4	Criminology/Business Activity Organization	2
	Qualification of Criminal Acts/Personnel Work Organization	4	Qualification of Criminal Acts/Personnel Work Organization	2
	Forensic Medicine/Civil Contracts and Litigation	2	Forensic Medicine/Civil Contracts and Litigation	1
	Financial Law	6	Final Practice	9
	Business Law	6	Qualification Examination (Constitutional Law)	2
			Qualification Examination (by Specialization)	2
			Qualification Examination from the Specialization	6

Freely chosen subject are selected according to The List of Freely Chosen Subjects and their descriptions.