Programme And Module Handbook
 
Programme Specification


Date Specification Approved
College College Arts and Law
School Birmingham Law School
Department Law
Partner College and School Birmingham Business School
Collaborative Organisation and Form of Collaboration
Qualification and Programme Title LL.B. Law with Business with Year in Computer Science Full-time
Programme Code 807D
Delivery Location Campus
Language of Study English
Length of Programme 4 Year(s)
Accreditations This programme has no outside accreditations
Aims of the Programme This information is to be supplied
Programme Outcomes
Students are expected to have Knowledge and Understanding of: Which will be gained through the following Teaching and Learning methods: and assessed using the following methods:
The legal rules, principles and concepts of the "core" branches of law: Public Law (including constitutional law, administrative law and human rights); Law of the European Union; Criminal Law; Civil Rights and Obligations (including Contract, Tort and Restitution); Property Law.
The main legal institutions and law-making processes in England and Wales and the Eurpean Union.
The significance of social, political, economic or commercial contexts in which legal rules and principles are developed and operate and of ethical issues and dilemmas which arise for those making law and engaging in legal decision making.
A range of other areas of law and legal processes (according to the optional modules taken by the student).
The nature of economics and its impact on markets and business.
The nature of markets and customers and the role of marketing.
The nature of problems involved in the organisation and management of business, including financial control.
According to the module, one or more of the following: lectures; group tutorials; seminars; individual supervision; Canvas; self-directed reading and thinking.
According the module, one or more of the following:· formal examinations; course essays/project work; longer dissertations. Further information is available in the module descriptions. Informal assessment (not counting towards credit) takes place through written assignments in every module and tutors assess the capacity of students effectively to participate in group tutorials/seminars.
Students are expected to have attained the following Skills and other Attributes: Which will be gained through the following Teaching and Learning methods: and assessed using the following methods:
Ability to identify and locate a range of legal material relating to England and Wales and the European Union (including legislation, case law and academic commentary) using printed and electronic sources.
Ability to analyse legal material by: bringing together relevant information, following logic in argument, understanding judicial techniques of precedent and statutory interpretation.
Capability to evaluate and speculate about law and law-related material by: assessing and criticising arguments, assessing whether critical information is not available or presented in argument, evaluating the impact of law, considering possible policy options.
Oral and writing skills necessary to communicate facts and ideas and to offer advice about Law and Business Studies.
Gather, critically evaluate and synthesise evidence and information from a range of courses.
Teamwork skills needed to work effectively as a member of a small group.
Ability to carry out, working independently with very limited guidance, research projects in a range of Legal and Business Studies fields (including identifying accurately the issues that require research, compiling bibliographies and using an academic referencing system).
Ability to use basic information technology for legal research and writing in core and non-core areas of Law and a range of Business Studies fields (including word processing, email, the Internet, electronic databases of legal material).
Ability to monitor, reflect and build upon learning experiences and plan for personal and career development.
Some basic skills in numeracy (including scepticism about data and the ability to use numerical/statistical data in argument)
According to the module, one or more of the following:· lectures; group tutorials; seminars; individual supervision; Canvas; self-directed reading and thinking; training sessions in the use of information technology for legal research and writing. Progress reviews with personal tutor; CEPLER Professional Development Scheme; personal study; reflecting on implications of individual feedback on formative work; reflecting on individual and generic feedback on summative assessment. Further information is available in the module descriptions. The School of Law continues to use introducing personal development planning in which students reflect upon their own learning, performance and achievement to plan for their personal, educational and career development.
According the module, one or more of the following: formal examinations; course essays/project work; longer dissertations. Further information is available in the module descriptions. Informal assessment (not counting towards credit) takes place through written assignments in every module and tutors' comments on the student's participation in group supervisions.