Undergraduate Module Descriptor

LAW3700: Law with Legal Placement: Placement Module

This module descriptor refers to the 2021/2 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 Skills	1. 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 Skills	4. demonstrate good awareness of the issues and complexities of legal practice;
Personal and Key Skills	5. 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

Module Content

Syllabus Plan

The module’s precise content may vary from year to year, it is however envisaged that the syllabus will cover most or all of the following topics:

Part I: The Transatlantic Relation and the West

Introduction
What and Who’s ‘West’?
Transatlantic Relations: History and Theory
Transatlantic Security Relations and NATO
The West and Civilizational Analysis

Part II: The West and World Order

The West and (Liberal) World Order
Western-Centrism in International Relations
Human Rights: Universal Norms or Western Standard of Civilization?
The Future of the West and World Order: Rising Powers and Authoritarianism

The Future of the West and World Order: Populism and the Far-Right

Final Seminar and Reflections

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).