Undergraduate Module Descriptor

LAW3700: Law with Legal Placement: Placement Module

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

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).

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
Reflective log to be submitted to the Programme Director within 28 days of the end of the placement	500 words to be completed for first department in which you are placed.	All	Written feedback
Business Report draft	No more than 1,000 words	All	Feedback by tutor via skype or face-to-face

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
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
Business Report	50	3,500 words due within 28 days of the end of the placement	All	Written feedback
Placement Presentation	30	10 minute presentation to be delivered to a panel of placement professionals and academic representatives	All	Oral and written feedback
Reflective log	20	500 words to be completed for each term plus an additional 800 words to be focused on innovation in law / developments and future of legal profession.	All	Written feedback

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
Business Report	Business Report, 3,500 words (50%)	All	August/ September assessment period
Placement Presentation	Action Plan (30%)	All	August/ September assessment period
Reflective Log	Reflective Essay 1,800 words (20%)	All	August/ September assessment period

Re-assessment notes

Deferred students will be reassessed in the element that has been mitigated. Students will be referred only if they achieve under 40% overall. If this is the case students will then be reassessed in any elements they have failed.

Please note if students do not achieve 40% on the reassessment attempt, they will be put on to the three year variant of their programme. This module will appear on your transcript as a fail, but you will no longer have ‘with Legal Placement’ in your degree title.