The module gives early exposure to the skills you will need to undertake successful study of the law, and also provides a number of transferable skills which you can use both in academic study and in your future career, whether that is in law or some other area.
Led by one of the UK's leading experts on legal education, the module will support you in the transition to study in higher education and will provide a solid basis for studying law throughout your undergraduate career.
Demonstrate familiarity with the concepts of precedent, ratio decidendi, obiter dicta and the significance of dissenting judgements will be achieved by assessments: 1
Demonstrate familiarity with the Parliamentary process relating to the creation of legislation, and the doctrine of Parliamentary Sovereignty will be achieved by assessments: 1
Demonstrate an ability to locate, retrieve and use case reports, statutory materials and a range of secondary legal and non-legal materials. will be achieved by assessments: 1
Demonstrate an ability to think and write critically about the law. will be achieved by assessments: 1
Demonstrate an ability to use appropriate legal writing conventions, and the ability to structure answers to problem questions and legal essays. will be achieved by assessments: 1
Seminars 10 hours (to include 2 hours library skills)
Directed Study Activities 30 hours
Self-Study 103 hours.
Total = 150 hours
Each topic is 'front loaded' so that students will have undertaken a number of tasks which will then form the subject of discussion, guidance and feedback in seminars.
In those seminars, students will be working in flexible teams of two to four on particular learning tasks.
The seminar leader will supervise, advise and give feedback to those individual groups within the larger seminar group.
Seminars are not general discussion groups but are workshop based with considerable student-tutor interaction.
The directed study activities have been carefully devised to require the individual student to undertake 'real' learning tasks (not simple advance reading) such as retrieving legal materials on line and producing these in seminar for scrutiny by the group.
Similarly, different types of analysis (say doctrinal and socio-legal) are compared by critiquing samples of such writing.
The module is also designed to enhance independent learning.
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