Undergraduate Module Descriptor

LAW3700: Law with Legal Placement: Placement Module

This module descriptor refers to the 2019/0 academic year.

Module Aims

This module aims to provide you with a detailed insight into the work of the law and innovative changes and developments in the legal profession. Through a variety of forms of assessment, it intends to encourage you to reflect on your practical experience and to give you a deeper and broader understanding of current legal issues affecting the legal profession.

Intended Learning Outcomes (ILOs)
This module's assessment will evaluate your achievement of the ILOs listed here – you will see reference to these ILO numbers in the details of the assessment for this module.
On successfully completing the programme you will be able to:
Module-Specific Skills	1. demonstrate critical awareness of the similarities and differences in approaches to law between a practical workplace-based experience and academic study at Exeter 2. demonstrate competence in locating, understanding and applying legal materials in the workplace; 3. demonstrate critical awareness of innovative approaches to law and developments in the future of the legal profession to help prepare for further legal study
Discipline-Specific Skills	4. demonstrate good awareness of the issues and complexities of legal practice;
Personal and Key Skills	5. demonstrate an awareness of the complexities of living and working in a professional environment, 6. successfully to negotiate those complexities; 7. identify and reflect on personal tasks and challenges and to learn from their resolution

Module Content

Syllabus Plan

Placements for this module will be secured by the Law School. You will be provided with suitable preparatory materials and appropriate guidance during the second year of the degree and required to complete a non-credit bearing on-line module in professionalism. You will join your employer without returning to Exeter at the start of your third year and will re-join your Exeter degree programme at the start of your fourth year. The legal placement will run from early October until the end of March. Whilst on placement you will take direction from your host organisation.

Following selection onto the LLB with Legal Placement Programme in your second year, you will be required to ensure that all necessary paperwork is completed in due time, and to attend preparatory meetings. You will be provided with contact details for both the host organisation and for Exeter University. You will be asked to maintain regular contact with the Programme Director at Exeter, who will also visit you during the placement. Your workload, hours etc. will be negotiated by yourself and the organisation hosting your placement. You must liaise with your potential final year dissertation supervisor (see LAW3047B) during your placement and keep the Programme Director informed of your dissertation plan progress.

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
		1200

...and this table provides a more detailed breakdown of the hours allocated to various study activities:

Category	Hours of study time	Description
Legal Work Placement	1200	Varies by organisation

Online Resources

This module has online resources available via ELE (the Exeter Learning Environment).