Undergraduate Module Descriptor

LAW2701: Law Placement

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

Module Aims

This 2^nd year module forms part of the LLB with Professional Placement pathway. This non-credit bearing module aims to help students on this programme to prepare for the placement year that will take place in the third year of their degree. The module aims to assist students in their job/placement search and to provide a general preparation for successful participation in the workforce.

The combination of workshops, lectures and e-learning units focus on securing a placement, work-readiness and professionalism.

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. understand the impact of behaviour, ethics and health and safety in the workplace; 2. understand the importance of continuing personal and professional development in the workplace; 3. understand the academic requirements that they are expected to fulfil during the placement year.
Discipline-Specific Skills	4. locate information sources that will help them identify: a) The skills - discipline specific and transferable - that they should acquire by completing their degree b) Career options where a degree in their subject area is essential (where relevant), career options where a degree in their subject area is desirable, career options where a degree in their subject area would be useful.
Personal and Key Skills	5. locate information sources that will help them to identify, critically reflect on and provide examples from their own experiences to demonstrate the personal and key skills that they have developed and that graduate employers value most highly.

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.

Indicative Reading List

This reading list is indicative - i.e. it provides an idea of texts that may be useful to you on this module, but it is not considered to be a confirmed or compulsory reading list for this module.