Degree in Law
Group coordination
Each academic year, the Faculty Board will appoint the group coordinators responsible for coordinating teaching activities between the subjects of the same course and between the different parts of a single subject. Preferably, they will be appointed as professors who will teach both semesters of the academic year, following the criterion of rotation between the subjects in the group. Each semester, the Group Coordinator will report on the development of teaching activities within the group to the relevant committees, which will be attended by the Quality Coordinator and the Coordinator of the Orientation and Tutorial Action Plan (POAT).
Group coordinators of the Degree in Law for the current academic year
Course commissions
With the aim of creating a space for dialogue between students and teaching staff in order to coordinate academic activity and as an integral part of its Internal Quality System, the Faculty of Law of the University of La Laguna has established Course Committees and the figure of the Coordinating Professor, necessary figures in the organisation chart of said system, which, although they are not provided for in our Internal Regulations, it is necessary, pending their regulation being addressed through the future revision of the same, to provide a procedural framework of reference that enables the normal development of their functions.
Composition.- For each course and group of degrees taught at the Faculty of Law, with a duration equal to that of each of the four-month periods into which teaching is distributed in each academic year, a Coordination Committee will be formed.
Each coordination committee will be composed of all the teaching staff who teach during the semester, as well as student representatives, course and group delegates and sub-delegates, appointed in accordance with the regulations governing group and course delegates at the University of La Laguna.
Each committee will be coordinated by a professor from one of the subjects taught during the semester.
Sessions and Calls.- The committees will hold at least two regular meetings per four-month period: an initial meeting for constitution, and a final meeting for monitoring and evaluation.
However, extraordinary meetings of the Commission may be called as necessary, at the discretion of the Coordinating Staff or at the request of the faculty or student members of the Commission.
Functions.- The Course Committee will have as its main objective to analyze the programming and development of the teaching activity in order to ensure that it is carried out in conditions of quality teaching and better learning, collecting the suggestions or proposals that its members make for such purposes and are approved by the Committee, elevating them, where appropriate, to the competent bodies of the Faculty, when it concerns subjects over which the Committee lacks jurisdiction.
The Course Committee will ensure proper compliance with the academic calendar and the agreements reached by the school's Academic Planning Committee, adopting any measures necessary for this purpose and, where appropriate, urging the exercise of powers by other competent bodies through the established channels and procedures.
At its final session, the Commission will approve the Coordination Report, which will cover the progress of the four-month period, the incidents detected, the measures adopted, the final result, and any proposed improvements deemed appropriate.
Course coordinator
The course coordinator, appointed by the Faculty Board, has the following functions:
a) Call meetings of the course committees at least twice a quarter.
b) Collect the minutes of the meetings, send them to the members of the meeting and to the Dean of the faculty,
c) To energize the Commission meetings so that the course objective is met
d) Channel requests, complaints or suggestions from students and teachers.
e) Plan training activities so that they do not overlap or interfere with the normal teaching of the remaining subjects.
f) Proceed through informal mediation or suggestions to resolve any minor deficiencies or anomalies detected in the development or programming of teaching, reporting to the Coordination Committee.
g) Propose to the Coordination Committee the adoption of any measures that may be conducive to the due compliance with the academic calendar and the agreements included in the academic planning committee of the center, as well as any provisions that regulate the teaching regime.
h) Submit the final report of the Coordination at the end of the four-month period within the deadlines and in accordance with the procedure approved by the Quality Committee of the Faculty of Law.
Certification of the activity.- Once the Final Report of the course coordination has been submitted, the corresponding merit will be certified to the course coordinator.
Supplementary law.
Criteria for the appointment of the course coordinator professor
Subject coordination
He or she is responsible for the organizational aspects of the course's theoretical and practical groups. He or she is the point of contact for managing any disruptions that may arise throughout the course, reporting them to the Department Director and/or the Vice Dean of the Degree. He or she is also responsible for communicating any aspects related to the organization of the course to the Course Coordinator: schedule changes, exam dates, etc.
The appointment of these Coordinators is the responsibility of the Director of the Department and must be previously approved by the Department Councils of the Departments involved in the subject.
The coordinator may delegate part of his/her task to other members of the subject's teaching staff (for example, if the Department deems it appropriate, it may create the position of a practice coordinator), but will be responsible for the subject in front of the Course Coordinating Staff and the Faculty Board.
Its functions are:
- Convene and moderate meetings with the subject's teaching team, centralizing their contributions.
- Establish the work procedure to be followed: distribution of tasks and operating mode.
- Agree with the rest of the teaching team on the content, preparation and/or review of teaching materials, tests to be administered, subject assessment criteria, and the organization of practice groups, if any.
- Ensure that the program taught is common to all theory groups.
- Ensure that there are no redundancies or gaps in the syllabus due to a lack of coordination with other subjects. If this lack of coordination is detected, alert the Degree Coordinating Staff.
- Coordinate theory, seminars, practicals, etc. Align the content and timing of the different activities with the theory.
- Ensure that the content, tools used, level of rigor, and grading criteria for the practices are common across all practice groups.
- Prepare the Teaching Guide for the subject
- Create seminar, practical, and tutorial groups of a uniform size and assign students to them. This task must be carried out in coordination with the other subject coordinators under the supervision of the course coordinator.
- Track the publication of notes and the signing of minutes.
- Call the rest of the subject's teaching team to a meeting to review the academic year.
- As indicated in the Teaching Guides for each subject, the first teacher listed in section "1.3 Teachers teaching the subject" corresponds to the subject's coordinating staff.