About this program
Law and Politics BA (Hons)
Law
This degree covers tort, contract, criminal, and property law. It also introduces practical skills such as case analysis, negotiation and alternative dispute resolution, drafting, interviewing and mooting.
You'll develop the ability to understand connections between legal topics; this replicates legal and paralegal practice, where problems are rarely neatly packaged. You'll also be supported to develop your professional practice and employability skills throughout the degree.
Politics
Our Politics course takes a creative and collaborative approach to global political issues. Our Politics modules have been carefully designed to encourage you to look across the boundaries between different disciplines.
You'll focus on contemporary change, movements and action. You'll also explore the historical and philosophical contexts in which political ideas develop, and investigate the social, environmental and cultural impacts of these.
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Program content
Year one
Gain a broad understanding of English legal systems and criminal law. Contextualise your learning and develop your professional identity and employability skills. Develop skills of case analysis and understand research methods.
Year two
Focus on extending your legal understanding to include subjects such as contract law and EU law. You'll develop a range of skills including negotiation and advocacy.
Continue to contextualise your learning and extend your employability skills by selecting from a range of law, business, criminology and sociology options. You'll also be supported and encouraged to take a work placement.
Year three
Explore property and tort law while developing skills of drafting and presenting. Select from a range of;interdisciplinary optional modules, such as cybercrime, leadership and management, and ethnicity and society.
Scholarships & funding
Several scholarship options are available. Please check the university website for more information.
Tuition
International students Full time: £14,400
Qualification
Program Intended Learning Outcomes
Law
Sources of law: To systematically understand the range, limitation and uses of and primary and literary sources of/on law and, through evaluation, select and precisely use these.
Foundations of legal knowledge: To critically understand multiple fields of contemporary law and their practical application through systematic study, from institutional, local, national and international perspectives.
The context and interrelationships of law: T o evaluate the complex interrelationships of law with society-at-large.
Legal and non-legal remedies: To diagnostically and evaluatively problemsolve, and identify and recommend routes to dispute resolution, including through projects.
Politics
Knowledge Systematic and detailed knowledge of, and criti cal engagement with, the key approaches, met hods and theories used in the study of politics.
Contextual knowledge The ability to identify and undertake the critical analysis and sustained evaluation of a wide ran ge of contemporary and historical sources rele vant to the study of politics, and the effective deployment of this material in written, visual and oral presentations.
Contextual knowledge The ability to identify and undertake the critical analysis and sustained evaluation of a wide ran ge of contemporary and historical sources rele vant to the study of politics, and the effective deployment of this material in written, visual and oral presentations.
Continuing studies
Work Experience and Placement Opportunities
In almost all cases, you will be encouraged to take placement opportunities. These can be in any relevant position, in legal practice (independently, or in an industry setting) or in an ancillary position (e.g. governance; human resources; finance; courts or prison services; social welfare organisations).
Whilst you are welcome to engage in extra-curricular placements (that is, those arranged beyond the scope of your degree), there are two placement modules to support you if you wish to earn credits for your placement activities:
- Open 'Work Placement Module (BMA5120): 4 weeks work experience during your second year, which attracts 20, Level-5 credits
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