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 Skills1. 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 Skills4. demonstrate good awareness of the issues and complexities of legal practice;
Personal and Key Skills5. 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