Before You Begin课前说明

Hello Coursera Learners and welcome to A Law Student's Toolkit. This course is meant to be a resource which law students, prospective law students, and those simply interested in Law, can come back to time and again to refresh their knowledge of some core legal concepts.
您好，Coursera 学习者们，欢迎来到《法学学生工具箱》。本课程旨在成为法学学生、有志于学习法律的学生以及那些对法律感兴趣的人可以反复查阅的资源，以更新他们对一些核心法律概念的了解。

Each video in the course is a self-contained lesson and the material can conceivably be completed in any order. That said, we would advise learners, especially those seeking a Course Certificate, to complete the modules in sequential order their first time through.
每门课程中的视频都是一个独立的课程，材料理论上可以按任何顺序完成。尽管如此，我们建议学习者，尤其是那些寻求课程证书的学习者，第一次学习时应该按照模块的顺序完成。

Your final grades will be calculated based on six peer reviewed assignments and two quizzes. The weighting is as follows:
您的最终成绩将基于六篇同行评审的作业和两次测验计算。权重分配如下：

Prof. Ayres and his team will be monitoring discussion forums sporadically throughout the year. Specifically, any of the discussions we have labeled with "Toolkit Topic" will be visited often by this courses' TAs. We encourage you to ask your questions in these and any other appropriate threads. Be sure to upvote those questions you would most like to see answered! That is all for now, enjoy the course!
艾尔斯教授及其团队将在全年不定期地监控讨论论坛。具体来说，我们将标记为“工具包主题”的任何讨论都将是该课程助教的常客。我们鼓励你们在这些以及其他任何适当的帖子中提问。确保为你们最希望得到回答的问题点赞！就到这里，祝你们享受课程！

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所有耶鲁学习者：一旦注册 Coursera 课程或项目，所有通讯都将由 Coursera 发送。请注意，您将不会通过 WhatsApp 移动应用程序收到课程通讯。由于 WhatsApp 的流行，许多学习者加入了可能存在诈骗的群组。请通过识别未知号码、要求金钱或个人信息来保持警惕，防范诈骗。

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