LLB (Hons) with Criminology
Education with the personal touch
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LLB (Hons) with Criminology
Duration: 3 years full time Course fees: £9,945 per year* *These fees apply if you are starting this course between September 2013 and August 2014. We recommend you check fees as they can change. Costs can increase each year.
Start date: September UCAS Code: M1M2
How you’ll learn You will follow the legal process from crime scene to courtroom, undertake problem-based research, and specialise through original academic enquiry. Lectures and tutorials are delivered by the UK’s most effective law teaching team. Teaching support includes fortnightly individual tutorials (Year One), professional skills coaching (Year Two) and a customised curriculum, aimed at developing your practise of research specialisms (Year Three). You will also have access to independent practitioner mentors.
Why choose this course?
Your career
International expertise - Inspiring teaching - Cutting edge research ▪ Most effective law teaching in the United Kingdom (Guardian, 2012) ▪ LLB with Criminology 100% graduate employment rate. (DLHE 2012) ▪ 95% Student Satisfaction (NSS 2012) ▪ Exceptional facilities: courtrooms, crime labs, interviewing suites and crime house (Skills for Justice 2012) ▪ Exceptional library provision (BIALL 2010/2011).
On completion of the LLB, you could enjoy a successful career at home or abroad as a Solicitor or Barrister. You could work in private practice, local government, the CPS, courts, law centres, Police, banking, commerce, industry or education. An LLB degree is a valuable qualification in itself and even if you don't want to become a practitioner you will find that it still provides a stepping-stone to many other careers.
AUTUMN
STAGE ONE
SPRING AUTUMN
STAGE TWO
Contract Law: Theory & Practice
Land Law SPRING
This course develops students as legal specialists who have an in-depth understanding of crime and crime response techniques. Students can further specialise in criminal justice, investigation, offender management or gender crime. While Criminal Psychology and Applied Victimology are recommended for all students there are over twenty modules of optional study available.
AUTUMN
Language – A qualification such as IELTS 6.0 (with a minimum of 5.5 in all areas) or TOEFL – 550 (paper based), 213 (computer based), 80 (internet based). See our website for other accepted qualifications or phone us: +44 (0)1332 591698.
About the course
STAGE THREE
Entry requirements: Academic – 300 UCAS tariff points, of which at least 240 must be from your International Baccalaureate or equivalent qualification.
What you’ll cover
SPRING
Where you will study: Derby Campus – Kedleston Road site
Tortious Liability & Negligence
Constitutional Law & Civil Liberties
Legal Context, Skills & Ethics
Specific Torts & Remedies
Administrative Law & Human Rights
Practice-based clinic
Criminal Law: Principles and Application*
European Union Law
Advanced Legal Skills and Ethics
European Union Trade Criminal Property Law and its International Practice-based clinic Offences and Practice* Context Criminology Option
Equity and Succession Criminology Option
Criminology Option OR Criminology Option (if Miscarriages of Justice not taken)
Miscarriages of Justice or Advanced/ Applied/ Combined Legal Studies**
* May be studied at Stage 3 in place of a Criminology option, in which case options may be taken from Criminology at Stage 2 ** These modules can be taken as a year-through module or in a single semester.
Additional information You’ll get full exemptions from the first stage of the Bar Standards Board and Solicitors Regulation Authority professional exams, and it’s also recognised by the Council of Legal Education (Northern Ireland).
The skills and knowledge I've obtained through moots, crossexaminations and advocacy in Derby's brilliant setting of a fully functioning Courtroom has been outstanding. Rachel Crossey
Options
▪ Hate, Ethnicity & Crime ▪ Sexual Behaviours: Social, Cultural and Legal Responses ▪ Work Placement
▪ Cybercrime ▪ Youth, Crime and Justice ▪ Policing and Police Powers ▪ Understanding Desistance
Get in touch Faculty of Business, Computing and Law Reception E: law@derby.ac.uk T: +44 (0) 1332 591896 www.derby.ac.uk/law www.facebook.com/DerbyUniLaw http://twitter.com/DerbyUniBCL
The information in this leaflet was correct when we produced it, but please check our website for the most up to date information.
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