Module LAW3700 for 2021/2
- Overview
- Aims and Learning Outcomes
- Module Content
- Indicative Reading List
- Assessment
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.
On successfully completing the programme you will be able to: | |
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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 |
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1200 |
...and this table provides a more detailed breakdown of the hours allocated to various study activities:
Category | Hours of study time | Description |
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Legal Work Placement | 1200 | Varies by organisation |
Online Resources
This module has online resources available via ELE (the Exeter Learning Environment).
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 |
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Reflective log to be submitted to the Programme Director within 28 days of the end of the placement | 500 words to be completed for the first department in which you are placed. | 1-7 | Written feedback |
Business Report draft | No more than 1,000 words | 1-7 | Oral feedback |
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 |
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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 |
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Business Report | 50 | 3,500 words due within 28 days of the end of the placement | 1-7 | Written feedback |
Placement Presentation | 30 | 10-minute presentation to be delivered to a panel of placement professionals and academic representatives | 1-7 | Oral and written feedback |
Reflective Log | 20 | 500 words to be completed for each term plus an additional 800 words to be focused on innovation in law / developments and the future of the legal profession | 1-7 | Written feedback |
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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 |
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Business Report | Business Report (3,500 words) | 1-7 | August/September reassessment period |
Placement Presentation | Action Plan (30%) | 1-7 | August/September reassessment period |
Reflective Log | Reflective Essay (1,800 words) | 1-7 | August/September reassessment period |
Re-assessment notes
Deferred students will be reassessed in the element that has been mitigated. Students will be referred only if they achieve under 40% overall. If this is the case students will then be reassessed in any elements they have failed.
Please note if students do not achieve 40% on the reassessment attempt, they will be put on to the three year variant of their programme. This module will appear on your transcript as a fail, and you will no longer have ‘with Legal Placement’ in your degree title.
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.
Transatlantic Relations
Alcaro, Riccardo, Peterson, John, and Greco, Ettore (eds.) (2016), The West and the Global Power Shift: Transatlantic Relations and Global Governance (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan).
Anderson, Jeffrey, Ikenberry, G. John, and Risse-Kappen, Thomas (eds.) (2008), The End of the West? Crisis and Change in the Atlantic Order (Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press).
Lundestad, Geir (2005), The United States and Western Europe since 1945: From “Empire” by Invitation to Transatlantic Drift (Oxford: Oxford University Press).
The West
Browning, Christopher S. and Lehti, Marko (eds.) (2013), The Struggle for the West: a Divided and Contested Legacy (Abingdon, Oxon ; New York: Routledge)
Hellmann, Gunther and Herborth, Benjamin (eds.) (2017), Uses of 'the West': Security and the Politics of Order (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press).
O’Hagan, Jacinta (2002), Conceptualizing the West in International Relations: From Spengler to Said (Houndmills, N.Y.: Palgrave).
The West and World Order
Buzan, Barry and Lawson, George (2015), The global transformation: history, modernity and the making of international relations (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press).
Fukuyama, Francis (2006), The End of History and the Last Man (New York: Free Press).
Huntington, Samuel P. (1996), The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order (New York: Simon & Schuster).
Ikenberry, G. John (2011), Liberal Leviathan: the Origins, Crisis, and Transformation of the American World Order (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press).
Vitalis, Robert (2015), White world order, black power politics: The birth of American international relations (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press).
Zarakol, Ayse (2010), After defeat: how the East learned to live with the West (Cambridge University Press).