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Programme Specification (Undergraduate) FOR ENTRY YEAR: 2020/
Date created: 26/2/2021 Last amended: 10/08/2021 Version no. 3
1. Programme title(s) and code:
LLB Graduate Entry
HECOS Code
HECOS Code %
UCAS Code (where required)
M
2. Awarding body or institution:
University of Leicester
3. a) Mode of study
Full-time
Type of study
Campus-based
4. Registration periods:
LLB Law
The normal period of registration is two years
The maximum period of registration four years
5. Typical entry requirements
An undergraduate degree good second class honours level, or its equivalent in any area of study.
IELTS: 6.
6. Accreditation of Prior Learning
Final Year entry is not possible.
7. Programme aims
The programme aims to
- provide a stimulating intellectual environment informed by the School’s research and
teaching strengths;
- build on the skills the graduates have already acquired;
- develop a critical understanding of the national and European legal orders;
- develop skills in legal reasoning, including problem solving, synthesis and logical analysis;
- develop a knowledge and understanding of cognate areas of law, including an awareness
of principles and values, and of ethics;
- develop an appreciation of the social and policy issues underlying the law;
- develop an appreciation the different approaches to the study of law adopted by
different types of legal scholars;
- develop legal research skills;
- develop various transferable skills, particularly in oral and written communication,
independent learning, including engagement with students’ own personal and
professional development and integrity, and information handling, including the ability to
work with a range of data;
- equip students with subject-specific and transferable skills in preparation for
employment not only in the legal profession, but also in a variety of highly skilled and
analytical roles in business, finance, education, public policy, public service, social
services in the UK and internationally.
8. Reference points used to inform the programme specification
- QAA Benchmarking Statement
- Framework for Higher Education Qualifications (FHEQ)
- UK Quality Code for Higher Education
- University Learning Strategy
- University Assessment Strategy
- University of Leicester Periodic Developmental Review Report
- External Examiners’ reports (annual)
- United Nations Education for Sustainable Development Goals
- Student Destinations Data
9. Programme Outcomes
Unless otherwise stated, programme outcomes apply to all awards specified in 1. Programme title(s).
Discipline specific knowledge and competencies
i) Mastery of an appropriate body of knowledge
Intended Learning
Outcomes
Teaching and Learning Methods How Demonstrated?
Demonstrate knowledge of various cognate bodies of Law and the principal features of the national and European legal institutions (BS2.4iv).
Lectures, tutorials, seminars, directed study and independent research across the whole range of modules.
Essays, examinations, seminar presentations and contributions to tutorial discussions, all of which involve problem solving and discussion topics.
ii) Understanding and application of key concepts and techniques
Intended Learning
Outcomes
Teaching and Learning Methods How Demonstrated?
Demonstrate awareness of and be able to show understanding through explaining a substantial range of major concepts, principles and rules of law and the legal institutions, values of law and justice and of ethics, as well as theories and context (BS 2.4iii and iv).
Lectures, tutorials, seminars, directed reading and independent research across the whole range of modules.
Essays, examinations, seminar presentations and contributions to tutorial discussions, all of which involve problem solving and discussion topics.
vi) Other discipline specific competencies
Intended Learning
Outcomes
Teaching and Learning Methods How Demonstrated?
Demonstrate the ability to conduct independent legal research using library resources and legal databases. This includes the accurate identification of issues which require researching, retrieval and evaluation of accurate, current and relevant information from a range of appropriate sources, including primary legal sources (BS2.4vi).
Written work; and preparation for seminars and tutorials, directed reading.
Assessed coursework, seminar presentations and contribution to tutorial discussions.
Transferable skills
i) Oral communication
Intended Learning
Outcomes
Teaching and Learning Methods How Demonstrated?
Display the ability to present reasoned arguments with clarity and coherence, and where requested respond to questions and instructions in relation to legal matters (BS2.4xi).
Seminars, tutorials, group work, individual consultations with staff and feedback on presentations.
Oral communication skills are demonstrated and provided with feedback in tutorials/seminars in Leicester.
ii) Written communication
Intended Learning
Outcomes
Teaching and Learning Methods How Demonstrated?
Demonstrate the ability to write in a suitable academic style; and where required respond to questions and instructions; to be critical and analytical; and to present data clearly in written forms of communication (BS2.4ix and xi).
Provision of writing guides, supervisions, formative coursework, preparation for seminars/tutorials, problem-solving exercises, independent research, individual consultations with staff and feedback on coursework and assessed work.
Assessed coursework, essay-based examinations, dissertation, group projects, and critical commentary.
iii) Information technology
Intended Learning
Outcomes
Teaching and Learning Methods How Demonstrated?
Demonstrate the ability to use the internet, specific electronic information retrieval systems, use of new learning technologies.
Support is provided by the Law School staff and open access computer facilities are available to all students. Computer practical classes, use of discussion boards and wikis on Blackboard, and independent study.
Students are expected to word process their written work. Essays, online discussion forums, technology-based exercises, problem-based exercises and other forms of assessed coursework.
Intended Learning
Outcomes
Teaching and Learning Methods How Demonstrated?
To be able to produce a word- processed essay or other text in accordance with a standard template.
Support is provided by the Law School staff and open access computer facilities are available to all students. Computer practical classes, use of discussion boards and wikis on Blackboard, and independent study.
Students are expected to word process their written work.
Essays, online discussion forums, technology-based exercises, problem-based exercises and other forms of assessed coursework.
Use IT effectively to support their studies including use of IT for bibliographic and archive searches, data analysis and written/visual presentation of work.
Support is provided by the Law School staff and open access computer facilities are available to all students. Computer practical classes, use of discussion boards and wikis on Blackboard, and independent study.
Students are expected to word process their written work.
Essays, online discussion forums, technology-based exercises, problem-based exercises and other forms of assessed coursework.
iv) Numeracy
Intended Learning
Outcomes
Teaching and Learning Methods How Demonstrated?
Demonstrate the ability to analyse, interpret and present relevant data, including textual, numerical and statistical, using statistical and graphical techniques; to make simple mathematical calculations (BS2.4vii).
The use of basic statistics and the ability to make simple mathematical calculations are included in a number of modules and are developed in lectures, tutorials and written work in those modules.
Essays, examinations, tutorials , technology-based exercises, problem-based exercises and other forms of assessed coursework.
v) Team working
Intended Learning
Outcomes
Teaching and Learning Methods How Demonstrated?
Demonstrate the ability to work in a group as a participant who contributes effectively to the group task including collaborative planning.
Students are expected to collaborate as part of tutorial preparation. In some modules, students are required to engage in a group exercise in a tutorial. Students are given the opportunity to participate in the team competitions of mooting, client interviewing and negotiation.
Group work assignments and/or project work, tutorial activities and Blackboard exercises; willingness to work collaboratively (BS2.4i)
vi) Problem solving
Intended Learning
Outcomes
Teaching and Learning Methods How Demonstrated?
Demonstrate the ability to apply knowledge to situations of varying complexity and to provide solutions to actual or hypothetical problems.
Lectures, tutorials, team problem solving exercises and seminars.
Essays, examinations, tutorials , technology-based exercises, problem-based exercises and other forms of assessed coursework.
transfer into the second year of the course for the degree of Bachelor of Laws in Law at the
University of Leicester.
2. Students who have passed the final year (year 2) examinations for the degree of Bachelor of
Laws Graduate Entry in Law may, in exceptional circumstances, on the approval of the Head of
School transfer into the final year of the course for the degree of Bachelor of Laws in Law at the
University of Leicester. Students are not permitted to choose options already studied in year 2.
3. Students permitted under paragraph 1 or paragraph 2 to transfer from the Bachelor of Laws
Graduate Entry degree to the degree of Bachelor of Laws will be subject to the scheme of
assessment for that degree.
In cases where a student has failed to meet a requirement to progress, he or she will be required to
withdraw from the course.
11. Criteria for award and classification
This programme follows the standard scheme of undergraduate award and classification set out in
Senate Regulations – see the version of Senate Regulation 5 governing undergraduate programmes
relevant to the year of entry. Note: legal foundation modules must be passed at 40%.
12. Special features
The LLB Graduate Entry provides an opportunity for graduates of another discipline (i.e. not law) to
achieve a degree in law over two years, which constitutes a qualifying law degree for the purpose of
exemption from the first stage of professional training in England and Wales. Such a qualification is
also exportable. These students will be more mature and have a broader range of skills and
knowledge from their previous educational experience, adding to the quality and diversity of the
overall student body. The target market includes Home/EU graduates and international graduates
wishing to undertake an LLB rather than the one year conversion course. This is a most effective
method of conversion of non-law graduates to the equivalent of law graduate status.
13. Indications of programme quality
- Performance in the National Student Survey
- External examiners’ reports
- Degree results and career destination statistics
- Annual Development Review reports
- Periodic Development Review reports
- Peer review of teaching and peer review of marking exercises
- Student-Staff Committee feedback
- Module Feedback
14. External Examiner(s) reports
The details of the External Examiner(s) for this programme and the most recent External Examiners’
reports for this programme can be found at exampapers@Leicester [log-in required]
Programme Specification (Undergraduate) FOR ENTRY YEAR: 2020/
Date created: 26/2/2021 Last amended: 10/08/2021 Version no. 3
Appendix 1: Programme structure (programme regulations)
The University regularly reviews its programmes and modules to ensure that they reflect the current status of the discipline and offer the best learning experience
to students. On occasion, it may be necessary to alter particular aspects of a course or module.
LLB Graduate Entry
Level 5/Year 1 2020/
Credit breakdown
Status Year long Semester 1 Semester 2
Core 90 credits 15 credits 15 credits
Optional n/a n/a n/a
120 credits in total
Core modules
Delivery period Code Title Credits
Year long LW2120 Constitutional and Administrative Law (Advanced)* 30 credits
Year long LW2130 Contract Law (Advanced)* 30 credits
Year long LW2410 The Law of Tort (Advanced)* 30 credits
Sem 1 LW2171 Analysing Law (Advanced) 15 credits
Sem 2 LW2172 Law, Justice and Society (Advanced) 15 credits
*Legal Foundation modules
Appendix 2: Module specifications
See undergraduate module specification database (Note - modules are organized by year of delivery).
Appendix 3: Skills matrix
