You will experience a range of teaching methods throughout your course including lectures small group formats (tutorials) online learning environments self-directed or collaborative study experiential learning and problem-based learning.
Your usual week will be made up of twelve hours of lectures along with fortnightly one-hour tutorials.
During your time with us you will foster self-management skills including an ability to reflect on your own learning make effective use of feedback and an ability to work in a team.
You will develop the ability to conduct independent research including accurate identification of issues which require researching retrieval and critical evaluation of relevant information from a range of appropriate sources including primary legal sources.
The level of challenge and achievement you will be faced with is gradually increased throughout your course.
Our learning teaching and assessment procedures will give you the opportunity to demonstrate that you have met the necessary skills and qualities within your law course. We recognise the importance of inclusive practice and are sensitive to equal opportunities requirements as indicated by good practice and relevant legislative obligations.
A wide range of assessment methods are used to determine your overall achievement; these assessments may be timed or untimed seen or unseen continuous or examination based.
Tasks that you might encounter could include essays and reports of varying length; case notes; statutory interpretation; briefs; critiques of articles; oral video presentations; moots; skills-based assessments; reflective learning journals; research project dissertation; and work clinic-based assessments.
What will you study on this course?
In Year 1 students will take 80 credits from the following topics Contract Law Criminal Law Legal Skills and Public Law. There are also optional modules available in topics such as Britain: Blitz to Brexit: UK politics and the post-war world The Six Lives of Henry VIII Introduction to Modern History 1815-1914 Monarchs Monks and Miracles: Europe in the High Middle Ages 1000-1250 Wales: Princes to Tudors and Wales in the Modern World.
In Year 2 students will take 80 credits from the following topics Equity and Trusts Land Law Law Justice and Procedure and Tort Law. There are also optional modules available in topics such as Britain in the Jazz Age Holy Wars 1095-1197 Making History Royal Propaganda in England and Wales 1509-1685 The Civil Wars: England and Wales 1588-1660 The Guardians of Heritage The Lion of Justice: The Life and Reign of Henry I (1068-1135) Twentieth Century Ideas & Movements Victorian Britain 1837-1901 Under the Hammer: Edward I Re-igniting the Dragon: Wales since 1939 The Age of Reform: Britain 1770-1835 The Kingdom of Man and the Isles 1000–1300 and Work placement
In Year 3 students will take credits from the following topics The UK EU Law and Brexit Practical Professional Skills Business Law & Practice Property Practice and Wills & Estates. Students will take 40 credits from Law topics such as Business Law & Practice Commercial Law Criminal Law Dissertation Endangered Wildlife and International Law Environmental Law Family and Welfare Law Intellectual Property Law International Law and Contemporary Issues International Law of the Sea Law and Social Justice Law and Technology Law Justice and Rights Media Law Preserving Cultural Heritage Property Practice Sports Law Wills & Estates and Work Placement. Students will also take 40 credits from topics in History such as Heritage and Identity Hot Wars of the Cold War: Korea and Vietnam Life of the edge: frontier society in Roman Britain Reformation and Counter-Reformation in Europe The Kingdom in the Sun: Norman Sicily c. 1000-1189 The United States 1877-1945 Twentieth Century Ideas and Movements Wales and Europe in the Renaissance: Image Language Identity & the Role of the Gentry c.1450-1630 The Age of the Castle and Work Placement.
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