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What’sinsideOurcourses 04 Law LLB(Hons) 05 Law and Practice LLB(Hons) 06 Law with Criminology LLB(Hons) 07 Integrated Masters in Law and Practice MLaw (incorporating LLB(Hons)) 11 Apply to us Start your journey with us hud.ac/apply 3
Your course Whether you’re intending to use the LLB degree as the start of your legal career in the legal profession or as the stepping stone for other career opportunities, Huddersfield Law School will give you the very best in legal teaching. This degree gives you access to a number of different optional modules and whole final year devoted to your own choices. You can create a business law pathway, social justice and human rights pathway or focus on wider areas of law such as family law, environmental law or international law. As well as gaining an understanding of the law itself, studying a law degree will teach you a wide range of essential skills such as how to construct an argument, how to present yourself and your ideas, the importance of attention to detail, and the ability to work in a team as well as on your own initiative. You’ll gain a firm understanding of legal principles and core legal concepts and you will be able to start focusing on the topics that interest you in your second year and spend your final year studying your choices from a wide range of specialised modules. You may decide to take up the opportunity to be part of our Legal Advice Clinic, where you’ll work closely with practising solicitors and help them with real cases.* from Year 2 subject to availability and successfully completing competency assessment.
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Example modules • Public Law • Law in Society • EU Law • Environmental Law • Humans Right Law • International Law Your future Previous graduates from this subject area have gone on to roles such as Solicitor, Trainee Solicitor, Paralegal, Legal Assistant, People Operations Partner and Housing Officer in organisations including Eversheds, Holden Smith, Irwin Mitchell, Ison Harrison Solicitors, Knights Plc, Ramsdens, Ridley & Hall, Schofield Sweeney Solicitors, Waddington Turner Wall, Walker Morris, Williscroft Solicitors, as well as working with local councils, Finance and **LinkedInAviation.** Course info Course length: 3 years full-time 4 years inc. placement year Entry requirements: ABB/DDM/128 “Gaining issues.”ofofapplyresearchtogreathasLegalexperiencepracticalattheAdviceClinicgivenmeaopportunitypracticemyskillsandmyknowledgedifferentareaslawtoeveryday Dervinder Roth LLB (Hons) Law, Legal Assistant at Freeths LLP For more detailed course information, visit courses.hud.ac.uk4
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Our Law and Practice degree focuses on developing your real-world skills as well as developing your advocacy, legal drafting and legal practice skills. You’ll build a solid foundation for you to become a competent and knowledgeable practitioner of law. This degree provides an intensive pathway in your third year with all modules designed to allow you to work towards taking the new Solicitor’s Qualifying Exams (SQE1), following the completion of your law degree.
As well as gaining an understanding of the law itself, studying a law degree will teach you a wide range of essential skills such as how to construct an argument, how to communicate with clients, the importance of attention to detail, and the ability to work in a team as well as on your own initiative. You’ll gain a firm understanding of legal principles and core legal concepts. You’ll be able to start focusing on the topics that interest you in your second year and will spend the whole of your final year studying legal practice skills-based modules. You may decide to take up the opportunity to be part of our Legal Advice Clinic, where you’ll work closely with practising solicitors and help them with real cases.*
*Available from Year 2 and subject to successfully completing a competency assessment. Example modules • Criminal Law • Law in Society • Business Law and Practice • Professional Conduct • Equity and Trusts • Dispute Resolution Your future Previous graduates from this subject area have gone on to roles such as Solicitor, Trainee Solicitor, Paralegal, Legal Assistant, People Operations Partner and Housing Officer in organisations including Eversheds, Holden Smith, Irwin Mitchell, Ison Harrison Solicitors, Knights Plc, Ramsdens, Ridley & Hall, Schofield Sweeney Solicitors, Waddington Turner Wall, Walker Morris, Williscroft Solicitors, as well as working with local councils, Finance and **LinkedInAviation.** Course info Course length: 3 years full-time 4 years inc. placement year Entry requirements: ABB/DDM/128 “I would absolutely recommend the University to a potential student. Providing that you throw yourself into the experience and put the work in, the opportunities on offer both during university and afterwards are expansive. I also found the environment to be a very friendly and welcoming one, with lecturers who are keen for their students to succeed and will go the extra mile to facilitate that.” Jordan Yelland-Hey MLP(Hons) Law inc LLB, Trainee Solicitor at Clarion Solicitors For more detailed course information, visit courses.hud.ac.uk 5
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Your prospects for students remain strong in the areas of law and criminology, management consultancy, multinational organisations and government agencies. Recent graduates from similar courses at the University, have gone on to work for leading FTSE-100 companies, the Government, the media, industry and manufacturing.
Course info Course length: 3 years full-time 4 years inc. placement year Entry requirements: ABB/DDM/120 85% Graduates employed* *Percentage of graduates from this subject who are in work and/or further study fifteen months after graduating (HESA Graduate Outcomes 18/19, UK domiciled graduates). For more detailed course information, visit courses.hud.ac.uk
The LLB (Hons) Law with Criminology is a distinctive programme offering you the ability to take a law degree and combine this with criminology. It offers an excellent way to prepare for a career in the field of criminal justice (for example, Crown Prosecution Service, the police service, probation service, prison service or other related fields). This course will enable you to study the essential foundations of law while exploring the impacts and explanations for crime including punishment and victimisation. You’ll gain an in-depth understanding of legal principles and core legal concepts. You’ll take law and criminology modules each year and be able to start focussing on the topics that interest you in your second and third year, when you can choose from a range of optional modules. You’ll be taught by experts from both disciplines who have a wide range of research and practice specialism, giving you an insight into what it is like working in positions in the criminal justice or legal practice fields.
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In your final year, you will gain access to a range of specialist modules such as Commercial Property, Employment or Family Law and Practice and Immigration and Asylum Practice to help prepare you for professional practice in these fields.
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Alongside this, if your application to the Legal Advice Clinic is successful, you’ll get the opportunity* to spend up to a full academic year working with solicitors with real life clients building up your formal Qualifying Legal Work Experience, which is needed to become a solicitor. As well as gaining an understanding of the law itself, studying a law degree will teach you a wide range of essential skills such as how to construct an argument, how to communicate with clients, the importance of attention to detail, and the ability to work in a team as well as on your own initiative.
As you would expect, the course is rigorous and engaging, for outcomes that are highly rewarding. Graduating with a law degree (LLB(Hons)), as well as with a Masters qualification, you’ll learn the skills designed to allow you to work towards taking the new Solicitor’s Qualifying Exams and be able to pace these over years three and four.
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This degree is a unique programme that aims to give you access to both a wide range of legal theory by incorporating a full LLB law degree, as well as taking an extended approach to professional practice with additional specialist practicebased training and clinical legal experience.*
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*Available from Year 2 subject to availability and successfully completing a competency assessment. modules Dispute Resolution Legal Advice Clinic Criminal Litigation Conduct Family Law and Practice Immigration and Asylum Law and Practice future Previous graduates from this subject area have gone on to roles such as Solicitor, Trainee Solicitor, Paralegal, Legal Assistant, People Operations Partner and Housing Officer in organisations including Eversheds, Holden Smith, Irwin Mitchell, Ison Harrison Solicitors, Knights Plc, Ramsdens, Ridley & Hall, Schofield Sweeney Solicitors, Waddington Turner Wall, Walker Morris, Williscroft Solicitors, as well as working with local councils, Finance and Aviation.
The Global Professional Award also gives you the chance to get involved in projects and activities organised by external organisations, departments at the University and the Students’ Union, which is a fantastic way to meet new people and try new things.
• Self-motivated • Enterprising • Resilient
• Able to collaborate with others
You will be supported to complete the Award by staff who are specialists in the three areas of Careers and Employability, Wellbeing and Enterprise, plus the lecturers on your course and your PATs will help you to understand how you can get involved.
Becoming a highly employable graduate
We make it as simple as possible. You will complete the award through online sessions and activities. This will take approximately 1 hour per week, so you will still have plenty of time to focus on your degree and your social life.
• A confident leader • Globally and socially aware
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Find out more about the Global Professional Award at hud.ac/gpa
How do I complete the Award?
Completing the Award will support you to transform into a highly employable graduate who is:
At Huddersfield, we are proud to inspire global professionals, which is why you will study the Global Professional Award alongside your undergraduate degree.* On completion of the Award, you’ll receive a Level 5 Award in Leadership and Management, from the Chartered Management Institute (CMI), meaning you’ll graduate from the University with an internationally recognised professional qualification, alongside the specialist subject skills and knowledge you gain as part of your degree, which may help to set you apart from other graduates.
The Careers and Employability focus of the course helps you to understand what employers want in graduates and leaders, and gives you the opportunity to develop these skills and capabilities. The Wellbeing focus of the course provides you with the opportunity to develop tools that will contribute to your physical and mental health at university and as a graduate. The Enterprise focus nurtures your entrepreneurial spirit and helps you to develop the skills necessary to forge your own career path.
*Full-time, undergraduate first degrees with a minimum duration of three years. This does not include postgraduate, foundation, top-up, accelerated or apprenticeship degrees
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For example, it may be necessary to make a major change to reflect changes in the law or the requirements of the University’s regulators; to meet the latest requirements of a commissioning or accrediting body; to improve the quality of educational provision; in response to student, examiners’ or other course evaluators’ feedback; and/or to reflect academic or professional changes within subject areas. Major changes may also be necessary because of circumstances outside our reasonable control, such as a key member of staff leaving the University or being unable to teach, where they have a particular specialism that can’t be adequately covered by other members of staff; or due to damage or interruption to buildings, facilities or equipment. Major changes would usually be made with effect from the next academic year, but this may not always be the case. We will notify you as soon as possible should we need to make a major change and will carry out suitable consultation with affected students. If you reasonably believe that the proposed change will cause you detriment or hardship we will, if appropriate, work with you to try to reduce the adverse effect on you or find an appropriate solution. Where an appropriate solution cannot be found and you contact us in writing before the change takes effect you can cancel your registration and withdraw from the University without liability to the University for future tuition fees. We will provide reasonable support to assist you with transferring to another university if you wish to do so.
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Changes to a course you have applied for
This brochure was prepared in the spring of 2022 for courses starting in September 2023 and is up to date as at the date of publication. Any subsequent changes to information will be published in the course information listings on our website courses. hud.ac.uk , and you should check this for the latest information before you apply.
Changes to your course after you enrol as a student
In exceptional circumstances, we may, for reasons outside of our control, be forced to discontinue or suspend your course. Where this is the case, a formal exit strategy will be followed and we will notify you as soon as possible about what your options are, which may include transferring to a suitable replacement course for which you are qualified, being provided with individual teaching to complete the award for which you were registered, or claiming an interim award and exiting the University. If you do not wish to take up any of the options that are made available to you, then you can cancel your registration and withdraw from the course without liability to the University for future tuition fees and you will be entitled to a refund of all course fees paid to date. We will provide reasonable support to assist you with transferring to another university if you wish to do so.
Changes to option modules
We will only make major changes to the core curriculum of a course or to our services if it is necessary for us to do so and provided such changes are reasonable. A major change in this context is a change that materially changes the services available to you; or the outcomes, or a significant part, of your course, such as the nature of the award or a substantial change to module content, teaching days (part time provision), classes, type of delivery or assessment of the core curriculum.
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If we propose to make a major change to a course that you are holding an offer for, then we will tell you as soon as possible so that you can decide whether to withdraw your application prior to enrolment.
Where your course allows you to choose modules from a range of options, we will review these each year and change them to reflect the expertise of our staff, current trends in research and as a result of student feedback or demand for certain modules. We will always ensure that you have a range of options to choose from and we will let you know in good time the options available for you to choose for the following year.
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We will always try to deliver your course and other services as described. However, sometimes we may have to make changes as set out below:
We hope you’ve found all the information you need to inspire you to become a student here at Huddersfield. Now all you need to do is apply.
If you want to start your course in September 2023, you can apply through UCAS any time from 1 September 2022 onwards. Please make sure UCAS receives your application by the first application deadline in January 2023. Please see hud.ac/faa for more information. Our institution code is HUDDS H60. Contact us Got a question? Get in touch with us. Tel. +44 (0)1484 472956 Email. sbuscourseadmin@hud.ac.uk@huddersfieldbusinessschool@UoHBusinessSch
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