Benefit from an academically rigorous and career-enhancing education, which includes unique work-related modules designed to give you the practical edge needed in today's competitive employment market. Once you have completed the foundation year, you progress to a fully-qualifying degree, satisfying the standards of the Solicitors Regulation Authority and Bar Standards Board for legal training.
The course is suitable if you don't meet the entry requirements for our LLB (Hons) Law course. You share the first year with other Business, Law, Criminology and Psychology foundation students, before moving on to your subject specific degree.
We have highly motivated, knowledgeable and creative staff across the department, who bring a breadth and depth of skills from legal practice. This enables high quality learning of the core aspects of the discipline and a range of specialist topics and areas of study.
You learn through:
- lectures
- seminars
- workshops
- team meetings
- moots
- peer learning
- placement activity
- visits
- guest lectures
In the foundation year, you build your subject specific and general business knowledge alongside developing academic skills to prepare you for starting your subject specific undergraduate degree. You will be provided with an overview of the key concepts, ideas, approaches, research and general knowledge to the topic areas and will have the opportunity to question, debate and discuss these within your seminar groups.å You will receive feedback regularly from your tutors, peers and through guided self-reflection to help you develop the skills and knowledge needed to undertake the various module assessments.
