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The module introduces candidates to the interesting challenges that ICT presents today and covers many anchor points that may serve as a bridge to their interests and lifestyles.

It also means you understand the value of scholarships, allowing you to move on to postgraduate programs at the СÀ¶ÊÓƵ.

You'll explore theories of international relations, the nature of the international system, and factors like conflict, globalisation, and international organisations. You'll also dive into key global issues such as climate change, gender, and human rights.

You'll learn to conduct research using both qualitative and quantitative methodologies. You'll also enhance your ability to understand and construct arguments, evaluate the rationale and evidence behind claims, assess the credibility of sources, and deliver well-structured, critically reasoned arguments and opinions both verbally and in writing.

You'll learn to identify and evaluate different types of constitutions, learn the structure of the UK government and institutions, and analyse systems of government using comparisons with other states.

You'll cover the principles governing offer, acceptance, consideration and the intention to create legal relations.

You'll also discuss the content of contracts, the incorporation of different terms and the common law and statutory controls on exclusion clauses as well as practical drafting techniques employed by contract lawyers. 

You'll explore the basics of what the law seeks to achieve within a democracy, identification of the main classifications and sources of law, and detailed examination of the process of parliamentary and judicial law making.

You'll also look at European influences during the UK's time in the EU, and a detailed study of the Human Rights Act.

You'll learn how to use academic databases and journals through a series of tasks which will have direct relevance to topics you studied in other modules.

You'll develop your abilities in academic writing by writing a short essay, case study analysis or similar written artefact in each lecture session.

You'll gain an overview of the history of legal scholarship. By the end of the module, you'll have a solid understanding and the ability to apply essential legal knowledge and skills. This will prepare you to progress onto degree level study at the СÀ¶ÊÓƵ.

When you complete this module successfully, you'll be able to:

• Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the principles and rules of equity and the law of trusts
• Use independent research to examine a particular aspect of the law of equity and trusts
• Analyse problem situations and apply the appropriate legal principles to that situation in order to construct coherent and logical conclusions

When you complete this module successfully, you'll be able to:

• Demonstrate knowledge of the nature and extent of the mechanisms for the protection of human rights in the UK legal system

• Understand the role of the European Court of Human Rights in shaping UK human rights practice

• Analyse the main methods and tools of human rights adjudication

• Apply their knowledge and understanding of human rights legislation to problem scenarios in order to reach reasoned conclusions

When you complete this module successfully, you'll be able to:

• Show knowledge and understanding of the main principles and concepts of Land Law

• Apply their knowledge and understanding of Land Law to communicate in writing a solution to a legal problem in a clear and concise manner

• Compare and contrast the facts within a given scenario using statute and case law to recognise ambiguity and provide arguable conclusion

When you complete this module successfully, you'll be able to:

• Develop the skills necessary to engage in critical analysis of the law
• Identify and apply a range of appropriate legal research methods
• Access and retrieve relevant sources and assess their quality and authoritative value
• Develop a range of legal writing skills relevant to professional communication and academic research

The learning outcomes of this module are:

• Develop knowledge and understanding of the subject area that is reflective and questioning.

• Think independently, analytically and creatively about the subject area.

• Appraise different critical standpoints of social control.

• Locate, access and critically engage with information pertinent to the subject matter.

• Recognise and discuss the importance of social justice.

• Develop and further intellectual curiosity for the subject area.

The learning outcomes of this module are:

• Develop critical, reflective knowledge and understanding of state crimes concepts (of commission and omission), examining and critiquing the boundaries of subject knowledge in a disciplinary context.
• Appraise the nature of state crimes of commission, including crimes against humanity and State Crimes Against Democracy.
• Appraise the nature of state crimes of omission, including state-corporate and environmental market-based crimes, contemporary slavery and trafficking of human beings.
• Critically examine by synthesising existing knowledge to generate ideas and creative solutions in the international communities' response to state crimes that is infused with a sense of responsibility allied to a commitment to ethical practice and social justice.

The learning outcomes of this module are:

• Recognise the varying disciplinary perspectives on the concept of security within a criminological framework.

• Critically discuss the drivers of societal risk and insecurity.

• Recognise the nature and impact of economic and political developments.

• Explain and assess the many forms of threat to the security of states, corporations and individuals.

• Identify and assess responses to security threats at the global, national, local, corporate and individual levels.

• Locate, interpret, question and summarise information from a number of different sources.

The learning outcomes of this module are:

• Develop knowledge of the principles and practices of penology.
• Engage creatively with the multi disciplinary basis of the subject area.
• Apply knowledge for the development of creative solutions to intractable problems.
• Engage in an ethical evaluation of the justifications for punishment.

The learning outcomes of this module are:

• Evaluate the history and sociology of policing organisations.
• Explain the role, organisation, and governance arrangements of policing in the UK.
• Analyse issues of trust and legitimacy within the police.
• Identify and analyse major challenges confronting policing agencies nationally and internationally.

When you complete this module successfully, you'll be able to:

• Know and recognize the varying disciplinary perspectives on the concept of the principles of economic crime investigation within criminological, legal, and economic frameworks
• Become familiar with the main types of organisations involved in investigating economic crime including SFO, NCA and FCA etc.
• Identify the different modes of investigative techniques employed in investigating economic crime
• Analyse information on the investigation techniques employed in real economic crime cases
• Gather, retrieve, and analyse information from a variety of sources

When you complete this module successfully, you'll be able to:

• Analyse the different types of wildlife crime and summarise environmental factors
• Recognise and examine the importance of environmental justice and sustainability
• Locate, access and engage with information pertinent to environmental justice and wildlife crime
• Interpret and assess new and existing knowledge
• Demonstrate intellectual curiosity and identify further opportunities within the subject area

The learning outcomes of this module are:

• Critically evaluate theoretical approaches to understand the nature, impact, and place of the discipline in contemporary society.
• Comprehensively critique the contributions of contemporary criminology to interpretations of late modern transgression and punishment.
• Critically appraise the significance of challenges posed by cultural transformations on criminology as a discipline.

The learning outcomes of this module are:

• Navigate international human rights case-law and critically evaluate their impacts on national criminal justice systems.
• Critically examine the reasons why human rights law fails to be enforced effectively within criminal justice.
• Critically compare different international and regional human rights instruments in their involvement with criminal justice.
• Critically assess how global issues affect the limitation of rights in criminal proceedings.
• Contextualise crime by applying a critical approach towards rights by taking into account social inequalities.

When you complete this module successfully, you'll be able to:

• Exhibit knowledge and understanding of key concepts pertaining to the law and governance of the European Union

• Identify and critically analyse European Union law principles as developed in the jurisprudence of the Court of Justice and scholarship

• Demonstrate ability to apply the rules and principles of European Union law to realistic problem scenarios

• Critically evaluate the underlying theoretical debates that inform and contextualize legal analysis and judicial reasoning in European Union law

When you complete this module successfully, you'll be able to:

• Demonstrate the ability to prepare and deliver advocacy (oral and/or written) appropriate to a realistic criminal law trial/hearing, evaluating the theory of advocacy and professional ethics
• Demonstrate the ability to prepare and deliver advocacy (oral and/or written) appropriate to a realistic civil law trial/hearing, evaluating the theory of advocacy and professional ethics
• Critically evaluate own strengths and weaknesses, challenge received opinion, reflect on action and seek out and make use of feedback to improve on own performance and development in oral and/or written argument
• Incorporate critical ethical dimensions in to advocacy (oral and/or written) to demonstrate an awareness of personal responsibility and professional codes of conduct with reference to theoretical and professional writing on advocacy

When you complete this module successfully, you'll be able to:

• Demonstrate solid understanding of relevant rules and procedures and their effect on practical problems

• Critically analyse factual situations and identify and apply relevant legal rules

• Critically analyse factual situations and identify and apply relevant procedures

• Draft formal legal documentation accurately

When you complete this module successfully, you'll be able to:

• Demonstrate detailed understanding of the law and practice in key areas of commercial law

• Critically evaluate the law relating to businesses and commercial transactions

• Critically analyse complex factual situations and identify and apply relevant legal concepts in order to reach reasoned conclusions and provide advice and recommendations

• Synthesise knowledge and understand of the law and apply complex statutory and case law material

• Demonstrate an awareness and good understanding of current legal issues and problems relating to businesses and commercial transactions

When you complete this module successfully, you'll be able to:

• Demonstrate detailed and coherent knowledge of substantive law, procedure and practice in one or more areas relevant to the clinical placement setting

• Display the ability to critically analyse legal problems and identify appropriate legal and practical resolution strategies

• Demonstrate an ability to effectively and appropriately communicate legal principles and advice to clinical placement service users

• Reflect upon and critically analyse learning from experiential practice in the clinical placement setting, identifying areas of strength, and those to improve upon

When you complete this module successfully, you'll be able to:

• Demonstrate a sound understanding of the relevant legislative framework
• Critically analyse factual situations and identify and apply relevant legal concepts
• Resolve novel problems relating to relevant aspects of company law

When you complete this module successfully, you'll be able to:

• Compare equality laws and policies across the globe, with a view to critically evaluating how legal questions around equality rights are addressed in different jurisdictions

• Achieve an in-depth understanding of different theories of equality and appraise their impact on existing anti-discrimination laws and their interpretation by national and international courts

• Critically engage with classic and recent judgments on equality and non-discrimination from national and international courts, as well as with cutting edge scholarship on topical questions of equality law, with a view to making evidenced-based assessments of interpretative and policy developments in equality law

• Demonstrate the ability to construct well-informed legal arguments, as well as the ability to engage with independent analytical and critical research with a view to producing robust legal analysis

When you complete this module successfully, you'll be able to:

• Demonstrate a wide-ranging ability to critically evaluate core concepts of data protection law by developing research, theoretical and practical understanding, so as to arrive at appropriate conclusions

• Demonstrate an awareness of practice-related issues and challenges pertinent to data protection law and policy

• Demonstrate a critical awareness and understanding of current/emerging legal and policy issues/challenges observable in the data protection field

• Work independently, and be able to reach reasoned conclusions from complex theoretical or problem-based data protection law-related scenarios, and provide advice and recommendations

• Demonstrate a comprehensive ability to form an argument through the research and synthesis of academic data protection law materials

• Communicate effectively about data protection law related ideas and concepts in a way that is comprehensible to others with knowledge of the subject

When you complete this module successfully, you'll be able to:

• Understand and critically analyse the key principles and concepts of discrimination

• Understand the key protected characteristics, and critically analyse how they manifest in disputes

• Understand the key protected characteristics, and critically analyse how they may conflict with each other

• Be able to question and critically analyse the key case law

When you complete this module successfully, you'll be able to:

• Demonstrate an in-depth and systematic understanding of Family and Child law through independent research

• Critically assess aspects of Family and Child Law

• Evaluate Family and Child law in action

When you complete this module successfully, you'll be able to:

• Demonstrate knowledge of the nature and extent of the mechanisms for the protection of intellectual property in the UK legal system

• Critically examine the main intellectual property rights available in the UK

• Develop logical and coherent arguments to support reasoned conclusions when answering problem or discussion based questions

• Demonstrate the ability to research points of law by using a variety of online and offline sources

When you complete this module successfully, you'll be able to:

• Demonstrate knowledge of the essential principles of the law governing the use of force and international humanitarian law
• Undertake independent research in the field of international law
• Critically examine rules of international law governing the resort to and conduct of an armed conflict
• Demonstrate an ability to ground an understanding of the relevant law within contemporary, real - world contexts

When you complete this module successfully, you'll be able to:

• Demonstrate detailed and coherent knowledge of substantive law, procedure and practice in one or more areas relevant to the clinical setting

• Display the ability to critically analyse legal problems and identify appropriate legal and practical resolution strategies

• Demonstrate an ability to effectively and appropriately communicate legal principles and advice to clients, lawyers and non-lawyers

When you complete this module successfully, you'll be able to:

• Outline the law relating to intestacy and advise as to an intestate estate distribution
• Explain key principles of the law of succession and evaluate the extent to which they apply to a particular scenario
• Apply your knowledge and understanding of the law to problem scenarios, analysing these in order to provide coherent and logical conclusions

When you complete this module successfully, you'll be able to:

• Implement an effective research methodology which may, where appropriate, also include an empirical and/or interdisciplinary approach, to meet the research objectives of the dissertation
• Display evidence of independent research through proper citation and discussion of relevant legal authorities and other appropriate primary and secondary sources
• Provide a clear explanation of the areas of the law and other appropriate issues relevant to the dissertation
• Demonstrate the ability to subject the law to effective doctrinal and critical analysis which, where appropriate, involves the synthesis of legal and contextual issues, and to formulate logical and reasoned conclusions and recommendations
• Adopt a structure and writing style appropriate to a legal dissertation at undergraduate level

When you complete this module successfully, you'll be able to:

• Formulate a plan suitable for development into an extended essay

• Display evidence of effective research through proper citation and discussion of relevant legal authorities and other primary and secondary sources

• Provide a clear and accurate explanation of the areas of the law relevant to the project

• Demonstrate higher level of intellectual skills drawn from a range of skills, including the ability to subject the law to effective doctrinal and critical analysis which, where appropriate, involves the synthesis of legal and contextual issues, and to formulate appropriate conclusions and recommendations

• Adopt a structure and writing style appropriate to a piece of independent legal research at undergraduate level

When you complete this module successfully, you'll be able to:

• Develop a knowledge of both fundamental principles and specific regimes of international law

• Undertake independent research in the field of international law and use this to inform written work

• Explore and reflect upon key debates situated within the field of international law

• Critically engage with contemporary developments in the field

You'll spend your working industry, with support from our Placement Office.

You'll complete a placement portfolio for the duration of the placement, which will outline your key learning activities, and attend a Placement Student Day at the University to discuss your placement experience with the Placement Officer or your course leader.

When you successfully complete your placement it will be recognised in your degree transcript of achievement, and your degree certificate will state `in the sandwich mode'.

You may also choose to receive a Certificate of Professional Practice from the Faculty of Business and Law.