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Learning Methods

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Module Offerings

6110LAWSL-SEP-PAR

Aims

To enable students to examine the law relating to animals in terms of it's ethical, political and practical implications.

Learning Outcomes

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Demonstrate an awareness of the impact upon law of other disciplines including politics, sociology, economics and ethics.
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Demonstrate a well-developed ability to use a wide variety of standard legal and other electronic sources of information.
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Demonstrate an ability to apply gained legal knowledge to complex problems, to reflect upon and evaluate this application and to draw logical reasoned conclusions that are supported by argument and legal authority.
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Demonstrate an ability to present an argument in a way which is comprehensible to others and which addresses their particular concerns or questions.

Module Content

Outline Syllabus:1. Philosophy Science and Animal Rights. 2. How should the law treat animals? 3. Animal’s in experimentation. 4. Biotechnology and Animals. 5. International Protection of Animals. 6. Wildlife in the UK.
Module Overview:
To enable students to examine the law relating to animals in terms of it's ethical, political and practical implications. This module seeks to develop a critical understanding of the philosophical and practical foundations of the law relating to animals. The module seeks to enable students to examine whether animals are given adequate protection in the law and how this compares as between countries and between the species.
Additional Information:This module seeks to develop a critical understanding of the philosophical and practical foundations of the law relating to animals. The module seeks to enable students to examine whether animals are given adequate protection in the law and how this compares as between countries and between the species.

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