Awards

Target Award

Award Description:Bachelor of Arts with Honours - BAH
Alternative Exit
Alternative Exit
Alternative Exit

Programme Offerings

Full-Time

F2F-JMU-SEP

Sandwich Year Out

F2F-JMU-SEP

Educational Aims of the Course

The aims of the BA Law and Business are to: Develop graduates with a comprehensive understanding of contemporary issues in law and business in a business focused environment. Develop graduates with an understanding and critical appreciation of the interface between law and business. Develop students as independent learners. Enhance students' written and oral communication skills. Develop graduates with an awareness of professional values and ethics associated with law and business. Provide students with the personal and key skills to enable students to work effectively on their own and within teams. Develop graduates with critical thinking skills valued by modern employers. Support students to attain a broad range of independent learning skills relevant to the modern workplace. Encourage students to fully engage with the development of employability skills by completing a self-awareness statement

Teaching, Learning and Assessment

Acquisition of learning is through a full range of teaching methods including, lectures, seminars, workshops, moots, case studies and through extensive use of the iVLE. Assessment methods are specified in the individual module handbooks and will include a combination of seen or unseen examinations, coursework essays, presentations, moots and dispute resolution exercises. The programme modules will look to embed innovative teaching and assessment methods based on sound pedagogy. Intellectual skills will be developed through small group sessions and assessment methods, both formative and summative. Skills and Principles for Law and Business in Level 4 will focus on the early development of such skills. Intellectual skills will be assessed throughout the programme and will include essay and report writing, presenting oral argument and seen and unseen examinations. Practical skills are developed in a progressive manner thorough the individual modules throughout all levels of the programme. The individual programme modules employ a variety of methods of assessment to measure such skills, including report writing, presentations and oral communication skills. Development of transferrable skills are embedded into the individual programme modules. Assessment of transferrable skills is made through the range of formative and summative assessment techniques employed throughout the programme.

Opportunities for work related learning

Students are given the opportunity and are encouraged to engage with LJMU Careers Service, which aims to equip students with the skills required in the workplace. Students will have the opportunity to undertake a work based placement or an additional study year abroad following completion of level 5.

Programme Structure

Programme Structure Description

The programme is studied over three years full time (360 Credits) or four years full time (480 Credit) for the sandwich/study abroad option. At Level 4 all modules are core At Level 5 80 credits are core and 40 credits optional. Students must take 20 credits of Law Options and … For more content click the Read More button below.

Structure

Entry Requirements

A levels
BTECs
International Baccalaureate
Other international requirements

HECoS Code(s)

(CAH16-01) law
(CAH17-01) business and management