LLB (Hons) Law with Foundation Year

Module: 3GK015

Credits: 20

Period: 1

Type: Core

Locations: Wolverhampton City Campus

You will have the opportunity to study and understand contemporary social issues from different disciplinary perspectives. You will engage with current academic debates about a range of social issues and debate and discuss ideas about the social world that will challenge and extend your thinking. The module will provide an exciting basis for your future study of the Social Sciences.

Module: 3GK012

Credits: 40

Period: 1

Type: Core

Locations: Wolverhampton City Campus

This module is designed to introduce you to university life. It will support you in exploring the university environment. It will also introduce you to the wide variety of academic skills needed to succeed at university and will support you in the development of these skills.

Module: 3GK013

Credits: 40

Period: 1

Type: Core

Locations: Wolverhampton City Campus

In this module, you will work collaboratively with other students on a project that reflects an area of shared interest relating to the broad themes of Business, Law or the Social Sciences. You will have the opportunity to work as a small team to devise, design and plan a project relating to a topic of shared interest. In many aspects of life and work, teamwork and collaboration are the norm to solve real world-problems. This group-based project will allow you to develop a range of skills, including leadership skills, time-management, negotiation, communication, creativity, problem-solving and critical thinking skills. By investigating and responding to a complex question, challenge or problem, you and your group will acquire a deeper knowledge of your topic. The module will conclude with a conference, where your group’s project will be presented to the other groups in your class.

Module: 3GK014

Credits: 20

Period: 1

Type: Core

Locations: Wolverhampton City Campus

This module introduces you to Wolverhampton and the people who live there using concepts and insights from a variety of academic subjects, for example Social Policy, Sociology, History, Criminology and Criminal Justice, Law, and Politics, amongst others. You will explore a range of cultural and social issues.

Module: 4LW018

Credits: 20

Period: 2

Type: Core

Locations: Wolverhampton City Campus

Through the study of this module, students will develop key independent study skills as well as areas of their legal knowledge, using practical legal research skills to further their knowledge base within the context of guided learning activities. They will be supported in this process by a series of lectures focusing on research techniques and workshops / seminars in which these skills will be applied. The module will enhance their skills in research, reasoning, interpretation, writing, presentation and organisation. In addition to legal skills and knowledge, employability issues will be also be addressed in this module, enabling students to research career paths and develop CVs and applications for specific organisations both within and outside of the legal profession . The Wolverhampton Enterprise and Employability Award (WEEA) (Bronze & Silver Awards) will be completed as part of the module. The Wolverhampton Enterprise and Employability Award (WEEA) is an award which gives students and graduates recognition for work experience and career management activities. It can be completed through career related modules or as an extra-curricular activity. The WEEA will benefit students by supporting them to gain a better understanding of the workplace that they will enter upon graduating, to build plans to tackle the transition between studying and work and to build the work experience and skills required to prove to employers that they are employable.

Module: 4LW023

Credits: 20

Period: 2

Type: Core

Locations: Wolverhampton City Campus

Constitutional and Administrative Law looks at the organisation of the State, key aspects of the British Constitution, Parliamentary Sovereignty, Judicial Control, the Human Rights Act 1998, the European Convention on Human Rights and the Equality Act 2010

Module: 4LW003

Credits: 20

Period: 2

Type: Core

Locations: Wolverhampton City Campus

The module aims to develop a knowledge and understanding of the basic principles of contract law by considering the requirements for a legally binding agreement, with particular emphasis on the formation of a contract and the contents of a contract, including exclusion of liability.

Module: 4LW020

Credits: 20

Period: 2

Type: Core

Locations: Wolverhampton City Campus

The Criminal Law module involves study of the general principles of criminal law including secondary participation and attempts. It covers the requirements of various offences that may be committed against the person including murder, manslaughter and non-fatal offences. As well as offences against the person, the module involves the study of theft, burglary, robbery, fraud, criminal damage and arson. As criminal liability requires that the actus reus and mens rea of the crime has been committed in the absence of a valid defence, the module also looks at intoxication and self-defence, along with murder-specific defences.

Module: 4LW022

Credits: 20

Period: 2

Type: Core

Locations: Wolverhampton City Campus

The module aims to provide students with foundation knowledge of the principal features of the English Legal System as well as developing many of the practical lawyering, study and employability skills required by students throughout their legal education and into employment. The approach is very practical and designed to enable students to develop the required skills at their own speed. Personal development planning and self-reflection are important features of this module.

Module: 4LW005

Credits: 20

Period: 2

Type: Core

Locations: Wolverhampton City Campus

This module will cover the basic character of tortious liability; The origins of the tort of negligence. The historical development of the duty of care. The standard of care and breach of the duty of care. Causation in fact and law. Nervous shock law. Pure economic loss and liability for omissions. Occupiers' liability and trespass to the person. You will also examine the availability of tortious defences in these areas.

Module: 5LW024

Credits: 20

Period: 3

Type: Core

Locations: Wolverhampton City Campus City Campus ...