Awards
Target Award
Programme Offerings
Full-Time
Educational Aims of the Course
The aim of this programme is for students to gain academic and intellectual progression in a number of areas of law and criminal justice, together with the acquisition of specific knowledge and skills. Within the context of the University's mission statement and responsiveness to national and international needs, curriculum innovation and continuing quality enhancement, the programme objectives are to:
Provide students with knowledge and critical analysis of key themes of law and criminal justice.
Provide advanced legal knowledge and skills directly relevant to law and criminal justice through the delivery of intellectually stimulating course content underpinned in many areas by internationally recognised research.
Provide critical analysis of the complexities arising in the fields of law and criminal justice using challenging and informing global and comparative perspectives. The course is underpinned by the significance of engagement with existing and emerging research and advanced scholarship.
Develop originality in the application of knowledge, together with a practical understanding of how established techniques of research and enquiry are used to create and interpret knowledge in the discipline.
Learning Outcomes
Teaching, Learning and Assessment
The methods used to enable outcomes to be achieved and demonstrated are as follows:
All Learning Outcomes contained within this programme of study are assessed through the core and option modules.
Assessment is used to judge student performance against the standards set. Assessment is used to give students the opportunity to demonstrate achievement of the relevant learning outcomes in accordance with The QAA UK Quality Code. Formative through group interaction in the preparation of work for seminars, and summative through the completion of course works and final dissertation.All taught modules, both Core and Option, are assessed summatively via written coursework. These assessments will require students to display independent learner status through exposition, knowledge and understanding of the stated Learning Outcomes for each Module and the programme as a whole.