Undergraduate Module Descriptor

LAW2701: Law Placement

This module descriptor refers to the 2021/2 academic year.

Module Content

Syllabus Plan

It is envisaged that the syllabus will include the following topics although precise content and order may vary.

Year 2 Securing your Placement – Review of expectations/responsibilities during the placement search and placement approval process (including how to seek approval for a placement, health and safety and risk assessment).
Health and Safety and what to do when you secure a placement.
Professionalism in the Workplace: Ethics and Culture.
Introduction to placement year academic assessments.
Pre-Placement Briefing Session – Student Responsibilities and Support.
OPTIONAL: skills sessions, mock interviews, etc.
OPTIONAL: Appointments with Employability and Placement Advisors to review student progress in securing a professional placement and advise on CV/LinkedIn and applications.

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
8	16	0

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

Category	Hours of study time	Description
Scheduled Learning and Teaching activity	8	Lectures (online recorded) & synchronous sessions
Guided Independent Study	16	Individual participation in e-learning tasks, research of potential roles, writing applications, etc.

Online Resources

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

ELE – LAW2701 – Law Placement

Career Zone on-line careers resources:

Deciding: http://www.exeter.ac.uk/careers/research/careerplanning/deciding/

Planning: http://www.exeter.ac.uk/careers/research/careerplanning/planning/

Competing: http://www.exeter.ac.uk/careers/research/careerplanning/competing/

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
LinkedIn Assignment	LinkedIn Profile	2 and 5	Verbal feedback from the CSSIS/Law School Placements Team and the central careers service Careers Consultants

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.

...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
This module is not formally assessed, however it is possible to fail the module. Students are required to attend all compulsory sessions and complete the formative assignment

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
None	None	N/A	N/A

Re-assessment notes

Attending all compulsory sessions and completing the formative assignment are required to pass LAW2701, which is a pre-requisite for progression to LAW3701.

Those students who fail to meet the pre-requisites for LAW3701 will be transferred back to the three-year degree.