BA (Hons) Law and Sociology with Foundation Year

Bucks New University

Bachelor's degree

In High Wycombe

£ 9,250 VAT inc.

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Description

  • Type

    Bachelor's degree

  • Location

    High wycombe

  • Duration

    4 Years

This programme focuses on the development of enhanced transferrable skills and employability-focused opportunities for students, while ensuring the emergence of sound social scientific understanding of the nature of social and economic change from a socio legal perspective.

This joint programme is excellent preparation for a wide variety of occupations and sectors, including commercial businesses, charities, government and nongovernment agencies, healthcare, community support organisations, police and other criminal law agencies and departments, including probation.

Facilities

Location

Start date

High Wycombe (Buckinghamshire)
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High Wycombe Campus, Queen Alexandra Road, HP11 2JZ

Start date

On request

About this course

The sector that this course is aimed at is changing, and becoming much more litigious, for example NHS medical and social services have invested heavily in legal expertise buy in and legal training, including medical records witness training, with negligence cases growing rapidly. Legal knowledge and awareness is at the heart of decision-making.

Key employers, and work opportunities, include commercial employers, small and large, banks and insurance agencies, human resources, in-house company and industry advisers, as well as law firms, advocacy agencies, the courts, legal advice providers, and civil service departments. This degree will also prepare you to work in charities, including gender action support groups, environmental groups, child support and domestic violence support groups, local housing trusts as well as the police, probation, private investigation and the NHS.

Applicants who do not meet the minimum requirements for the 3-year undergraduate programme, or those who do not feel fully prepared for a Level 4 course, will be considered for the 4-year programme including a Foundation Year.

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Subjects

  • IT Law
  • Sociology
  • Understanding
  • Policy
  • Society
  • Criminal law
  • Legal Systems
  • Procedural Law
  • Research
  • Professional
  • Social

Course programme

This module map provides a list of the modules that make up your course.

Each module is worth a specified number of credits (typically either 15 or 30 credits for undergraduate courses). Compulsory (or ‘core’) modules cover key subject knowledge, while ‘option’ modules enable you to develop your own interests. For a full-time course you must take modules worth a total of 120 credits at each level of the course. The number of option modules you can take depends on the number of compulsory modules at each level. You can find more information about how your course is structured via the Academic Advice pages.

Our teaching is informed by research and employer requirements, and modules change periodically to reflect developments in the subject area. In addition, where we have insufficient numbers of students interested in an option module, this may not be offered. If an option module does not run, we will advise you as soon as possible and help you choose an alternative module.

The modules available on this course are as follows:

Foundation Year Modules
  • Ways of Knowing about the Social World
  • Preparing for Success, Knowledge and Creativity
  • Preparing for Success: Self Development and Responsibility
  • Inquiry Based Learning
Year 1 Modules
  • Making Sense of Society: Understanding the Social World
  • Policy and Society
  • Making Sense of Society: The Sociological Imagination
  • Policy in Context
  • Criminal Law
  • English Legal Systems
  • EU Constitutional and Procedural Law
Year 2 Modules
  • EU Internal Market Law
  • Research Methods
  • Gender, Sexuality and Society
  • Law of Tort
  • Human Rights and Crimes Against Humanity (optional)
  • Issues in Criminology (optional)
  • Citizenship, Welfare and Society (optional)
  • Understanding the work environment (optional)
  • Ethical Issues in Health and Social Science (optional)
  • Professional Skills 3 (optional)
  • Criminal Justice (optional)
  • Media Law 1 (optional)
  • Employment Law (optional)
  • Family Law (optional)
Year 3 Modules
  • Law of Evidence
  • Children and Law
  • Dissertation
  • Globalization and Social Change
  • Disability, Mental Health and the Criminal Justice System (optional)
  • Aging through the life-course (optional)
  • Global Health and Society (optional)
  • Media Law 2 (optional)
  • Environmental Law (optional)
  • Victimology (optional)

Additional information

Full Time International, February 2019: £11,000 per year

Full Time Home and EU, September 2019: £9250 per year

Full Time International, September 2019: £12,000 per year

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BA (Hons) Law and Sociology with Foundation Year

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