VIETNAM NATIONAL UNIVERSITY, HANOI
SCHOOL OF LAW
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SPECIFICATIONS OF BACHELOR LEVEL PROGRAM
ON LAW (HONORS PROGRAM)

Hanoi, September 2015.

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I. BASIC INFORMATION OF THE TRAINING PROGRAM
Awarding institution
Teaching institution
Accreditating
institution
Degree title
Major title
Program objectives

Output standards

Vietnam National University, Hanoi
VNU School of Laws
Vietnam National University, Hanoi (The Program was rated at
the program-level for its quality according to the AUN-QA
criteria in December 2015)
The Degree of Bachelor in Law (Honors Program)
Law
Code: 52380101

problems;
- Use common information processing tools (e.g.:
operating systems, soft wares, Internet…). Understand and apply
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basic knowledge of retional database, retional database
management systems;
- Apply practical knowledge in learning about future jobs,
able to do self-orientation and adaptation in different working
settings.
- Master skills of listening, speaking, reading and writing
a foreign language equivelant to level 3 on the 6 scale foreign
languages framework for Vietnamese.
- Lead in the professional work as being trained; have
initiatives
when
performing
assignments;
self-study,
accommulate knowledge and experience for professional
development; make plans, coordinate and promote collective
intellectuality.
2. Skills
2.1. Hard skills
The graduates from the Program will be able to:
- Fulfill complicated tasks that require theoretical and practical
skills as being trained in varied contexts; have skills to analyze,
synthetize, and assess data, information and collective opinions;
- Capable of scientific research, Search for legal documents,

- Use computers and some common software programs fluently
such as: WORD, EXCEL, POWER POINT...
3. Ethical qualities
3.1. Personal ethical qualities
The graduates from the Program will:
- Have standard behaviors and speech;
- Be ready to overcome and cope with difficulties, challenges;
- Have desire and passion for studying and working purposes;
- Hold a friendly attitude to friends, colleagues, and partners;
- Be hardworking, enthusiastic, and creative;
- Be proactive and confident at work, be responsible, and
courageous at expressing personal viewpoints and be an active
listener.
3.2. Professional ethical qualities
The graduates from the Program will:
- Master ethical qualities necessary for a lawyer; have a sense of
respecting and implementing law; be competent, honest and
objective;
- Have serious, scientific, and responsible spirit for assigned tasks
and have desire and passion, cooperative, friendly attitudes
towards colleages and other individuals at work.
3.3. Social ethical qualities
The graduates from the Program will:
- Have a sense of patriotism;
- Have a sense of civic responsibility;
- Have conciousness of implementing , respecting and protecting
law;
- Have a sense of building and protecting interests of community
and society to make contributions to building a fair, democratic
and civilized society.

organizaitons;
- Group 3: Work for firms which provide legal services as a
lawyer and/or a counselor like law companies, law offices, notary
offices either domestic or international; function as a legal
specialist and/or a counselor in companies, enterprises that have
demands for employing highly-qualified personnel in law to
facilitate their production, business activities;
- Group 4: Work for non-governmental organizations, intergovernmental organizations and/or international organizations
that implement law-related activities.
Students are selected through the university entrance
examinations and an admission process in accordance with the
regulations of VNU and VNU School of Law.
The training program is built on the basis of being compared with
the training programs of:
- Faculty of Japanese Studies, Osaka National University, Japan
- Cambridge University, England
- Santa Barbara University, United States
- Harvard University, United States
- Beijing Foreign Studies University, China
- Singapore National University
- Taxas University at Austine, United States
- Thamasat University, Thailand
- Sheffield University, England
- The teaching, learning strategies are communicated widely.
- Students are provided with sufficient information of the training
time frames, instructed on how to follow the training program.
- Each syllabus contains the study and exams information
depending on unique characteristics of the course as designed by
the lecturer (s).
The Bechalor-level Training Program on Law is designed

Language
(s)
instruction
Training duration
4 years
Date
of 18th September 2015 (final version, current)
issuance/amendement
of
the
training
curriculum
Place of issuance
VNU

II. TRAINING CURRICULUM
II.1. Requirements
Total credit units:
160 credits
General knowledge blocks:
32 credits
(excluded Physical education, National defence education,
Complementary skills)
- General knowledge of the field
6 credits
+ Compulsory:
2 credits
+ Elective:
4/19 credits
- General knowledge of discipline group

No.

Codes

Titles

Cre
dits

Credit hours
Theory

Practi
cum

Self
study

2

24

6

3

36

9


4

5

20

50

5

General knowledge block
I
1

PHI1004

2

PHI1005

3

POL1001

4

HIS1002

5



General Chinese 1

7

Foreign Language 2

32

FLF2102

General English 2

FLF2101

FLF2202

General Russian 2

FLF2201

FLF2302

General French 2

FLF2301

FLF2402

General Chinese 2


FLF2302

FLF2403

General Chinese 3

FLF2402

9

Foreign Language 4

5

10

Physical Education

4

20

50

5

7




2

II
II.1
13

PHI1051

II.2

Elective

Credit hours
Practi
Theory
cum

20

6

Prerequisite

Self
study

4

4/19


General Economics

2

20

8

2

17

S0C1050

2

28

2

3

30

9

6

2


Knowledge blocks of
discipline group

27

Compulsory

25

21

THL1052

General Theory of State and Law

5

54

12

9

22

THL1058

History of State and Law


15

25

THL1053

Comparative Law

3

24

26

CIL2001

Roman Law

2

24

6

27

CAL1050

2



12

4

30

CAL3008

Political Science

2

24

Knowledge blocks of
dicipline subgroups

66

Compulsory

60

III.2

IV
IV.1

15

Self
study

31

CIL2002

Civil Law 1

2

26

4

THL1052

32

CIL2009

Civil Law 2

4

52

8

CIL2002


35

CRL1110

Criminal Law 2

4

36

12

12

CRL1109

36

BSL2052

Commercial Law 1

4

48

12

CIL2012


BSL1105

Banking Law

3

39

6

BSL2052

40

BSL1101

Law on Land and Environment

4

48

12

CAL2102

41

CIL2004


4

48

12

CIL2013

44

BSL2103

Labor Law

4

48

12

BSL2052

45

INL2101

Public International Law

5

48

BSL2008

49

CRL2010

50

CIL3003

51

INL3003

52

THL2002

V
V.1

Elective
Theories and Law on Anticorruption
Competition Law
Law on Enforcement of Criminal
Judgements
Law on Enforcement of Civil
Judgments


26

4

CIL2105

2

16

6

CIL2013

2

24

Specialized knowledge blocks
of discipline

29

Compulsory

12

6


4

6

CAL2002

55

CIL3002

Intellectual Property Law

2

26

4

CIL2009
9


No.

Codes

56

BSL2010


2

24

6

BSL2001

2

24

6

THL1052

2

18

6

6

CRL1010

2

14


59

THL2001

60

CAL3006

61

CRL2011

62

BSL2026

Elective
State and Law of ASEAN
Countries
Foreign Constitutional Law
Introduction to Criminal Justice
System
Legal Consultancy Skill

63

CIL2005

Civil dispute resolution skills


Thesis/alternative modules for a
thesis (select courses M3; M4;
M5 that the students haven’t
taken yet)
Total

2

24

6

V.3
66

FOL4001

67

FOL4053

6/14

8

11
3
8
160


Logic học đại cương
General Logics
THL1052 General Theory of State and Law

2(20/6/4)
5(54/12/9)

CAL2001 Constitutional Law

5(60/0/15)

PHI1051

Year 1: 44 credits
Semester 2: 23 credits
Codes
PHI1005

Course titles
The Fundamentals of Marxism-Leninism 2
Foreign Language 2

No. of credits
(equivalent to credit hours:
theory/practice/self-study)
3(36/9/0)
5(20/50/5)

THL1058 History of State and Law


HIS1056

General Psychology
Management Study
General Economics
General Sociology
Fundamentals of Vietnamese Culture

No. of credits
(equivalent to credit hours:
theory/practice/self-study)
5(20/50/5)
4
2(24/6/0)
3(24/18/3)
2(20/8/2)
2(28/2/0)
3(30/9/6)
11


EVS1001

Environment and Sustainable Development

2(20/8/2)
2(18/6/6)

MAT1078 Statistics for Sociology
CIL2009

Select 01 elective course only:

No. of credits
(equivalent to credit hours:
theory/practice/self-study)
5(20/50/5)
2

CAL1050

History of Political and Legal Theories

2(24/0/6)

CAL2003

Legal Documents Making

2(18/6/6)

THL3006

Legal Sociology

2(14/12/4)

CAL3008

Political Science


POL1001

Course titles
Ho Chi Minh Ideology

No. of credits
(equivalent to credit hours:
theory/practice/self-study)
2(20/10/0)
12


BSL2002
BSL2020
CRL1003
CIL1008
BSL2003
CIL3002

Commercial Law 2
Law on Land and Environment
Criminal Procedure Law
Civil Procedure Law
Labour Law
Intellectual Property Law

4(48/0/12)
4(48/0/12)
4(48/0/12)
4(48/0/12)


2(24/0/6)

CIL1008

Civil Procedure Law

4(48/0/12)

HIS1002

Select 01 elective course only:

3(24/15/6)

6

CAL3007

Theories and Law on Anti-corruption

2(24/0/6)

BSL2008

Competition Law

2(24/0/6)

CRL2010


No. of credits
(equivalent to credit hours:
theory/practice/self-study)
2(24/0/6)
13


INL2006

Private International Law

4(35/16/9)

INL2003

International Comercial Law

2(16/8/6)

BSL2010

Securities Law

2(24/0/6)

CRL3002

Criminology


CIL2005

Civil dispute resolution skills

2(26/0/4)

INL2008

International Judicial Institutions

2(26/0/4)

THL2004

Sources of Law

2(24/0/6)
Year 4: 29 credits
Semester 2: 11 credits

Codes

Course titles

FOL4001

Annual essays – Internships
Dessertation/alternative courses (select from
FOL4053 M3, M4, M5 the courses that students haven’t
taken yet)

PHI1004
The course provides the learners with the most fundalmentals of the MaxismLeninism regards capitalist mode of production through three economic theories: the theory
of value, the theory of surplus value, and the theory of state monopoly capitalism. These
theories do not only clarify major economic laws that govern the movement of the market
economy, the capitalism production but also the inevitability of collapse of the capitalism and
triumph of the socialism. On that basis, it clarifies the theoretical foundations that had directly
led to the introduction and main contents of the Maxism-Leninism theory on socialism.
3. POL1001. Ho Chi Minh ideology: 02 credits; Prerequisite: PHI1005
This course offers the students with a basic understanding of the basis and
development of Ho Chi Minh ideology; a system of comprehensive and sound viewpoints
of some fundalmentals of Vietnamese revolution included ethnicity and national
liberationary revolution; socialism and the transition to socialism in Vietnam; Vietnam
Communist Party; national and international solidarity; democracy and building of a state
of the people, by the people and for the people; morals, culture and building of new
people; Ho Chi Minh’s theoretical and practical contributions to the Vietnamese people’s
revolution.
4. HIS1002. The Revolutionary Line of the Communist Party of Vietnam: 03
credits; Prerequisite: POL1001
This course provides the students with basic awareness of the historical contexts,
the development of Vietnam Communist Party who had planned Vietnam’s revolutionary
policies; the fundalmental and systematical knowledge of the Party’s revolutionary
policies including views, policies, objectives, orientations, tasks and solutions of
Vietnam’s revolution as reflected through the agendas, resolutions… that the Party had
applied in leading the Vietnam’s revolution from the national democracy revolution to the
socialism revolution with a target on the Party’s lines in the renovation period in some
basic areas of the social life.
5. INT1004. Computer Science 2: 03 credits
This course provides the students with basic understanding of Module 1 – General
Informatics (Part 1 covers basic knowledge of informatics, computer, soft wares and
informatics technology application; Part 2 introduces knowledge and skills of how to use

vocabulary, grammar, academic language and dialogue, sentence making…; Basic
vocabulary used in academic fields; Methods of scientific presentation; Intermediate level
skills in listening, speaking, reading and writing.
8.2. FLF2203. General Russian 3
8.3. FLF2303. General French 3
8.4. FLF2403. General Chinese 3
9. Foreign Language 4
9.1. FLF2104. General English 4: 5 credits; Prerequisites: FLF2103

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This course introduces advanced English for intermediate-level students in
vocabulary, grammar, academic language and dialogue, sentence making…; Basic
vocabulary used in academic fields; Methods of scientific presentation; Intermediate level
skills in listening, speaking, reading and writing.
9.2. FLF2204. General Russian 4
9.3. FLF2304. General French 4
9.4. FLF2404. General Chinese 4
12. PHI1051. General Logics: 02 credits
This course provides the students with basic and systemetic knowledge of forms of
thought such as concepts, judgement, reasoning, proof, and basically formal logical
principles of thinking including: law of identity, law of non-contradiction; law of
excluded middle; the principle of sufficient reason. This course helps the student imagine
concretely the roles and impacts of logical thoughts for perception and practical activities.
It promotes the students to seek for, detect, and fix logical errors of thinking when
reflecting and building accurately, rigorly scientific thoughts.
13. PSY1050. General Psychology: 02 credits
This course offers the students with the basic concepts of general psychology such
as psychology, psychologics, activity, communication, personality; basic methodologies

concepts, the students will be able to understand the relationships between individuals,
community and society. At the end of the module, the students will be able to understand
the positions, roles of individuals, social groups, institutions, social organizations, the
elite and social classes in a society.
17. HIS1056. Fundalmentals of Vietnamese Culture: 03 credits
This module introduces cultural concepts such as culture, civilization. It provides the
students with general knowledge to help them explain different aspects of
Vietnamese culture like: relationships between the people, the natural
environment, the social environment in Vietnam and the culture; the typical
features of the cultural exchanges, exposure in Vietnam and the highlights of the
exchanges between the culture of Vietnam and that of China, India, and the West.
This module also introduces basic elements of Vietnamese culture such as
language, religion (Confucianism, Buddhism, Taoism, Christianity), religious
belief (lingaism, Thanh Hoang worshipping practices, Worship of Mother
Goddesses practices); presentation of cultural history of Vietnam from prehistory
to now or typical feasutes of cultural áreas in Vietnam. Then, it orientates the
student’s awareness of Vietnam’s modern cultural development base don the
preservation, promotion of traditional values, integration and reception of new
cultural values.
18. EVS1001. Environment and Sustainable Development: 02 credits
This course provides the students with a system of concepts on natural resources,
enviroment and development. The concepts and process of sustainable development in the
world and Vietnam. Characteristics, causes and effects of enviromental recession and
population, relationships between the enviroment and technological, economic, and social
development. This course also introduces legal, economic, technological tools to protect
the enviroment; programs, fields and objectives of sustainable development…
19. MAT1078. Statistics for Sociology: 02 credits
This course equips the students with some basic, simple results of applied statistics
to handle two important and common quantities: rate and average. Specifically, it refers to
parameter estimation, examination of hypothesis relevant to ratio and average when

the world. It is the rule of law of the people, for the people, the state‘s power is unified
with division and collaboration between the power of making law, implementing law and
judging law.
23. CAL2002. Administrative Law: 04 credits; Prerequisite: CAL2001
This course provides the students with a basic understanding of the administrative
law; state management; administrative breach, implementation of administrative breach
and controlling measures (mornitor, test, inspection, auditing) over state management
activities; resolving legal disputes arising in state management activities.
24. THL1053. Comparative law: 3 credits
This course covers the following contents: General issues of comparative law;
Traditions of Roman-Germany law; Financial institutes under public and private laws;
Legal resources of the legal systems under Roman-Germany legal traditions; Traditions of
Common Law; Traditions of Moslim law; Legal systems of China and Japan; Legal
system of some Asean countries.
25. CIL2001. Roman Law: 2 credits
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This course provides an introduction of Roman private law as constituent elements
of the legal system that has the deepest and strongests impacts on development of modern
laws to help the students understand legal theories of a society built on the basis of private
ownership. The course also the students how to access in a systematic manner to legal
regulations of subject, jus in rem, jus in personam, inheritance rights, marriage and
family, procedures and methods of civil action in the process of formulation, movement
and development and their impacts on the current civil laws.
26. CAL1050. History of Political and Legal Theories: 02 credits
This course introduces political theories of ancient Greece, ancient Roman, ancient
India, ancient China, Western Europe in the middle age, the West in modern times,
political ideology of Marxism-Leninism, the history of Vietnam’s political thought, Ho
Chi Minh’s political ideology. This is the basis of the formation of the ideology, political

31. CIL2012. Civil law 2: 3 credits; Prerequisite: CIL2002
This course provides the students with foundation theories of the law of obligations
– one of the most typical and important fields in private law. The course is composed of
generic theories of obligations, theory of contract, theory of legal non-contractual
liability, and theoretical basis of other obligations.
32. CIL2010. Civil law 3: 3 credits; Prerequisite: CIL2002
This course provides the students with basic principles of property and inheritance
– basic and typical fields of private law. The course is composed of theory of property
law such as property, property classification, onwership and other jus in rem, forms of
property and theory of inheritance law.
33. CRL1009. Criminal Law 1: 4 credits; Prerequisite: CAL2001
This course provides the students with basic and specialized knowledge of General
Part of Vietnamese Criminal Law including: concepts, duties and principles of criminal
law; history of Vietnamese criminal law; criminal acts; concepts of crime and crime
classification, theory of crime and constituent elements to crime; phases of crime;
partners in crime; cases where criminal liabilities are eliminated; criminal liability and
penality; sentences; exemption, reduction and remission of criminal penalities; criminal
liability for juveline offenders.
34. CRL1010; Criminal Law 2: 3 credits; Prerequisite: CRL1009
The module provides the students with basic and deep knowledge of types of crime
under Vietnamese Criminal Law including general theory of the crime and the basics of
types of crime under the Criminal Law; the crimes of national security; the crimes of
moral rights of man; the crimes infringing democratic freedoms of citizens; the crimes of
ownership; the crimes of marriage and family; the crimes of economic management order;
the crimes of the environment; drug-related crimes; the crimes of public safety, public
order, administrative order of the state; positions crimes; the criminal justice infringing
activities; the crimes of duties and responsibilities of military personnel; sabotage of
peace, against humanity, war crimes; as well as criminal liability and penalties for each
type of crime.
35. BSL2001. Commercial Law 1: 03 credits; Prerequisite: CIL2002

The course covers two main topics: the law of the land and the law of the
environment. The land legislation provides the students with basic knowledge of the
administrative procedures in the management and use of land and the order of execution
of the rights of land users... The law of the environment provides an introduction of the
environment, legal evaluation of environmental standards, the basic knowledge about the
report on environmental impact assessment, environmental protection commitment, the
law on protection of natural resources, forest and fishery resources, protection of
biodiversity, protection of water resources, and protection of cultural heritage.
40. CIL2004; Marriage and Family Law: 2 credits; Prerequisite: CIL2010
The course equips the students with knowledge of the Law on Marriage and
Family in Vietnam - an important part of the legal system in Vietnam. The Law on
Marriage and Family in Vietnam defines legal status, legal standards for personal
behaviors as the subject of marriage and family; rights and obligations of individuals and
the personal identity and property in marriage and family relations that are responsible for
protecting the rights and legitimate interests of individuals in marriage and family
relations, especially children.
41. CRL1003: Criminal Procedure Law: 3 credits; Prerequisite: CRL1009
The course provides the students with basic and in-depth knowledge of the
Criminal Procedure Law in Vietnam including: concepts, tasks and basic principles of
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criminal law and development of the Law in Vietnam; agencies conducting legal
proceedings, persons who conduct the proceedings, and persons who participate in the
proceedings; evidence and demonstration in criminal proceedings; the preventive
measures to be applied in the process of settling the criminal case; criminal prosecution,
investigation, adjudication and enforcement; cassation, retrial; settling procedures in cases
where the accused and the indictees are juveline; procedures of compulsory treatment
measures; summary procedures in solving criminal cases and matters of complaints and
denunciations, and international cooperation in criminal proceedings.

application of foreign law; principles and provisions made to the laws of Vietnam on
solving conflict of laws in terms of: the legal capacity of individuals and legal entities;
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ownership; contract; non-contractual damage liability; inheritance; marriage and family;
labor; principles and substantive provisions of the laws of Vietnam directly adjust the
relations of civil nature with foreign elements; The issue of international civil procedure
and international commercial arbitration.
46. CAL3007. Theories and Law on Anti-corruption: 2 credits
The course provides the students with comprehensive knowledge of the theoretical
and legal issues on anti-corruption, including: concepts, nature of corruption; forms of
corruption; the causes and effects of corruption; the necessity and significance of the
prevention of corruption; Theory, law, and practical experience of preventing and
combating corruption in some countries in the world; Ho Chi Minh Ideology and the
views and policies of the Party, the State of Vietnam on corruption and prevention of
corruption, and particularly the international legal framework and Vietnam on the
prevention of corruption.
47. BSL2008. Competition Law: 2 credits; Prerequisite: BSL2002
The course provides the learners with basic knowledge on competition and policy,
competition law. It helps the learners identify, analyze and assess competition restriction
acts, including competition-restricting agreements, abuse of dominant market position,
monopoly position and economic centralization; identify and analyze behaviors of unfair
competition; master the rules of management over competition in Vietnam in comparison
to some countries in the world; understand the provisions of the orders and procedures for
settling competition cases; understand the provisions on breach to competition law.
48. CRL2010. Law on Enforcement of Criminal Judgements: 02 credits;
Prerequisite: CRL1003
The course offers basic knowledge about the law on enforcement of criminal
judgement included: Concepts, tasks and principles of the law on enforcement of criminal

thereby generalizing the theoretical issues of the rule of critical legal thinking, the
students will have access to a system of knowledge about the skills and methods of
critical legal thinking, and the method of thinking in debating legal issues and methods of
thinking in the application of legal activities.
52. INL2003. International Comercial Law: 2 credits; Prerequisite: INL 2006
In this course, the students are provided with theoretical and practical knowledge
of international commercial law including 4 contents: The theoretical issues of
international commercial law; The provisions of the WTO in trade in goods, services,
intellectual property and trade-related investments; The theoretical and practical issues of
legal transactions in international trade contracts such as contracts of international sale of
goods, contracts of international transport, contracts of international insurance, contracts
of international technology transfer. It also provides the necessary knowledge on issues
such as billing, international credit, international e-commerce; The theoretical and
practical issues of resolving international trade disputes, such as negotiation, conciliation,
arbitration, court.
53. CAL3004. Administrative Procedure Law: 2 credits; Prerequisite: CAL2002
The students are provided with both theoretical knowledge and skills on the
process and content of a trial of administrative cases. The students will be able to practice
the trial of administrative cases during the course and have the knowledge that can be
applied immediately in practice. In the course, the students will have access to basic
concepts such as administrative cases, organization of the administrative court system, the
type of work under the jurisdiction of the Administrative Court; the conditions for
acceptance of administrative cases; and orders of a trial of administrative cases; the scope
of intervention of courts in administrative activities and administrative enforcement.
54. CIL3002; Intellectual Property Law: 2 credits; Prerequisite: CIL2009

25