The Laboratory of Shariah, the Program of Islamic Family Law, Faculty of Islamic Studies UMM, has conducted the Studium Generale of the Legal Practices for the Second Semster 2019-2020, on Tuesday, September 10, 2020. Due to its postpone during the pandemic of Covid-19 outbreak, this program has been organised by online. The LS Team has facilitated the program via the Canvas and LMS UMM platform. Some of its video materials have been posted at the YouTube Channel of the LS. For its interractive studies, the LS is using Zoom application.
The Studium General has been opened by the Head of the LS, R. Tanzil Fawaiq Sayyaf. He states that this program facilitates HKI UMM's students to comprehend the legal practices, although all the process that they have is by online." He, furthermore, says that "It is the first online study program that we have organise. When it has worked properly and we have any progress of it, it would be implemented for the long term."
One of its tutor, Agus Supriadi, Lc., M.H.I, who has concerned about the study of Islamic heritage law (mawarith) has been able effectively delivering his online tutorial. It has been, indeed, supported by the best facilities that HKI UMM has. As a consequence, students have enjoyed their process of learning and even most of them have had marking A.
However, it has been an exception for some courses of legal practices that needs such direct interations. For instance, the course of the Procedure of the Private Law and the Courts, Juridiction and Procedures, and especially for the Simulation of the Court. Consequently, for these courses, the LS has invited the students to study at the laboratory, althought they have to deal with strictly the Covid-19 UMM Protocols.
For the next program, the LS intends to produce the videos covering all the study materials of the legal practices courses.[]