Law With A Foundation Year LLB (Hons)

Module Overview
Year 1 (Foundation Year): Principles of English Law, Crime in Context, Law of Obligations (Contract & Tort) and The Language of Law.

Year 2: English Legal System and Legal Skills, Law and Society, Contract and Problem Solving, Tort Law and Civil Remedies, Constitutional Law
Year 3: European Union Law, Administrative Law and Human Rights, Property Law and Application, Criminal Law, Choice of modules from: Business Law and Commercial Awareness, Urban Criminological Concepts, Legal Principles.
Year 4: Law of Trusts and Equitable Remedies plus a range of modules selected from areas such as Dissertation, Research Project, Family Law, Criminology, Criminal Justice and Punishment, Rules of Criminal Evidence, Environmental Law, Employment and Equality Law, Company Law, Commercial Transactions, Mooting and Intellectual Property Law.
You can also spend time advising real clients by opting to take our Clinic Module which operates around the Staffordshire University Legal Advice Clinic (SULAC) - which will provide you with the perfect opportunity to develop vital work- based skills.

The learning strategy for this award is based around problem-based and authentic learning experiences to enhance graduate skills for future employability and lifelong learning. Class contact will include a mixture of whole group and small group sessions, many taking place in a workshop setting to recreate problem-based and authentic learning scenarios and events. Students will be able to practise and develop oral and written communication skills, networking, conferencing and presentations, case-based scenarios as well as consideration of theoretical and critical perspectives to enhance knowledge and understanding.

The aim is to foster an academic community which promotes lifelong learning and is supported by research and practice informed teaching with learning strategies and technologies to support the student experience.

Learning will be organised into a series of small group sessions where students will be required to participate. Each session will be based around a problem or issue, and students will work towards a range of solutions by specifying objectives, identifying constraints, obtaining background information, applying both theory and practical skills to the subject matter and issue to be considered.
Large group sessions seek to establish an overview framework within which selected theories and principles of law can be more effectively developed. They will verify and consolidate knowledge and understanding and will engage in more detailed exposition of selected theories, rules and constraints.
The guided learning will incorporate a mixture of activities, some of which will require team work and online discussion. The learning will be facilitated by use of the VLE platform and discussions/interactions between students and tutors.
Students will be expected to be familiar with contemporary issues within the relevant field of law and although there will be a framework of knowledge and understanding, students will be actively, rather than passively, engaged in the process of both learning about, and increasing understanding of, the subject matter.