Undergraduate Module Descriptor

LAW3100: Human trafficking and modern slavery

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

Module Aims

After completing this module, you will have gained a detailed understanding and appreciation of the key topics in the law on human trafficking. You will develop your legal research skills, particularly in the realms of analysis, critical thinking and problem-solving.

You will learn to critically engage with theoretical debates and conflicting standpoints on human trafficking and its interplay with borders, migration, labour regulation and access to rights. Furthermore, you will develop an understanding of counter-trafficking law’s role in creating and maintaining complex, yet limiting categories of victimhood in human trafficking in a national and international context.

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 detailed knowledge and understanding of the principle features of the law on human trafficking, including the scope, but also limitations of counter-trafficking legislation; the history of human trafficking and its legacies; the complex notions of victimhood and culpability 2. Demonstrate coherent and critical knowledge of the relationship between law, policy and societal norms in the area of human trafficking 3. Identify, explain and critically assess/analyse issues arising in the context of human trafficking and modern slavery and apply relevant legal rules to those issues
Discipline-Specific Skills	4. Exercise critical thinking, judgment and analysis concerning the assumptions and aspirations of law 5. Select and explain relevant information from primary and secondary legal resources, independently and efficiently using appropriate techniques
Personal and Key Skills	6. Identify, retrieve and use a range of resources with minimal guidance 7. Manage time independently and efficiently in preparing for learning activities, to be proactive in developing your own learning

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
Essay outline	1,000 words	1-7	Written feedback; individual consultation meetings with students as required

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
Essay	100	2,750 words	1-7	Written feedback; individual consultation meetings with students as required

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
Essay	Essay (2,750 words)	1-7	August\September reassessment period