Module LAW2108H for 2019/0
- Overview
- Aims and Learning Outcomes
- Module Content
- Indicative Reading List
- Assessment
Undergraduate Module Descriptor
LAW2108H: Pre-LLM: Contract and Commercial Law
This module descriptor refers to the 2019/0 academic year.
Module Aims
This module is available only to students on the HKUST-Exeter Programmes in Law who are looking to proceed onto the Exeter LLM in Commercial Law. It is one of three pre-LLM modules designed to get you up to speed with a breadth of law subjects so that your study of the LLM in Commercial Law is a success. This module refreshes your knowledge of contract law, and introduces commercial law, with the aim of contributing a solid basis from which to progress onto the LLM in Commercial Law next year.
On successfully completing the programme you will be able to: | |
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Module-Specific Skills | 1. demonstrate knowledge of contract and commercial law and a range of major concepts, values and principles relevant to its application 2. identify, explain and discuss key issues in contract and commercial law and to apply relevant rules and theories |
Discipline-Specific Skills | 3. demonstrate knowledge of legal concepts and their contextual, social, and political implications 4. identify key elements of legal problems, identify their relative significance and select appropriate methods for investigating and evaluating them |
Personal and Key Skills | 5. work independently and to manage time efficiently in preparing for scheduled learning activities, exercises and assessments 6. manage relevant learning resources, information, and learning strategies, and to develop own arguments and opinions with some guidance |
Module Content
Syllabus Plan
Whilst the module’s precise content may vary from year to year, it is envisaged that the syllabus will cover some or all of the following topics:
- Contract law: Offer, acceptance, certainty, intention, consideration
- Implied terms, express terms
- Breach, remedies
- Vitiating factors
- Unjust enrichment
- Sale of goods
- Financing international sale of goods
- Agency
- Bailment
Learning and Teaching
This table provides an overview of how your hours of study for this module are allocated:
Scheduled Learning and Teaching Activities | Guided independent study | Placement / study abroad |
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12 | 138 | 0 |
...and this table provides a more detailed breakdown of the hours allocated to various study activities:
Category | Hours of study time | Description |
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Scheduled Learning and Teaching | 12 | 12 x 1 hour tutorials |
Guided Independent Study | 120 | 12 x 10 hour preparation for tutorials |
Guided Independent Study | 8 | Preparation for formative assessment |
Guided Independent Study | 10 | Preparation for summative assessment |
Online Resources
This module has online resources available via ELE (the Exeter Learning Environment).
How this Module is Assessed
In the tables below, you will see reference to 'ILO's. An ILO is an Intended Learning Outcome - see Aims and Learning Outcomes for details of the ILOs for this module.
Formative Assessment
A formative assessment is designed to give you feedback on your understanding of the module content but it will not count towards your mark for the module.
Form of assessment | Size of the assessment (eg length / duration) | ILOs assessed | Feedback method |
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Exam-style questions discussed in tutorials | 12 x 1 hour tutorials | 1-6 | Oral |
Essay | 1500 words | 1-6 | Written and oral |
Summative Assessment
A summative assessment counts towards your mark for the module. The table below tells you what percentage of your mark will come from which type of assessment.
Coursework | Written exams | Practical exams |
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100 | 0 | 0 |
...and this table provides further details on the summative assessments for this module.
Form of assessment | % of credit | Size of the assessment (eg length / duration) | ILOs assessed | Feedback method |
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Essay | 100 | 2500 words | 1-6 | Written and oral |
Re-assessment
Re-assessment takes place when the summative assessment has not been completed by the original deadline, and the student has been allowed to refer or defer it to a later date (this only happens following certain criteria and is always subject to exam board approval). For obvious reasons, re-assessments cannot be the same as the original assessment and so these alternatives are set. In cases where the form of assessment is the same, the content will nevertheless be different.
Original form of assessment | Form of re-assessment | ILOs re-assessed | Timescale for re-assessment |
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Essay | Essay (2500 words) | 1-6 | Ref / Def period |