Law (Senior Status), LLB (Hons)

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A law degree taught over two years for non-law graduates

Key Course Details

2 Year Full Time

UCAS Code: 85M8
Mode of Study: Campus Based
Typical Offer: See Entry Requirements
Location: Singleton Park Campus

Start Date	Tuition Fees - Year 1
Sep 2024	£ 9,000

2 Year Full Time

UCAS Code: 85M8
Mode of Study: Campus Based
Typical Offer: 2:1 - More Information
Location: Singleton Park Campus

Start Date	Tuition Fees - Year 1
Sep 2024	£ 16,550

This course is available through Clearing

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Course Overview

If you want to study law and already hold a degree in a different discipline from outside the UK, then this two-year Senior Status LLB is for you.

You will learn how the legal and criminal justice systems work in England and Wales and gain a comprehensive grounding in the core areas covered by a law degree.

Alongside the core compulsory modules, you can study optional modules from a wide range of subject areas, including: family law, employment law, cybercrime, competition law, and medical law.

Throughout your senior status degree, you will develop excellent research and analytical skills and learn to present your ideas effectively both verbally and in writing.

All of our undergraduate Law programmes contain the foundations of legal knowledge needed to enter the legal profession. Our programmes provide a strong foundation for students who may wish to take the Solicitors Qualifying Examinations (SQE) in the future, and satisfy the academic stage of training required by the Bar Standards Board for those wishing to become barristers.

Why Law (Senior Status) at Swansea?

Based at the Hillary Rodham Clinton School of Law, you will benefit from being part of a lively and diverse research and teaching environment with students at its heart.

Swansea University has an established and growing reputation for law teaching and research. The School of Law is recognised as a source of expertise and as having an impact on policy and practice in a diverse range of fields of practice. The School is wholly committed to continuous improvement in teaching and learning, and to putting students at the centre of its activities.

Law at Swansea is ranked:

12^th in the UK for Teaching Quality (Times Good University Guide 2024)
13^th in the UK for Student Experience (Times Good University Guide 2024)
Top 15 in the UK for Teaching Satisfaction (Guardian University Guide 2024)
Top 150 in the World (QS World Rankings 2024), and
90% of Graduates are in Work &/or Study 15 Months after Leaving Swansea University (HESA 2023)

Your Law (Senior Status) Experience

We offer an inclusive, student-focussed learning environment and community. Modules are delivered and assessed in a variety of different ways and you will be encouraged to take responsibility for your own learning, to work independently as well as with others, to act professionally, and to master new skills. As well as teaching and learning activities we offer a broad range of opportunities for you to get involved: from research-based placements, to working with clients, to developing advocacy and other skills. Our thriving Law Clinic offers students the opportunity to get involved in giving advice to clients and we have programmes of extra-curricular mooting, negotiation and interviewing.

Our undergraduate degree structure, with its range of final year optional modules, gives you plenty of scope to tailor your studies to your particular interests, career goals, or ambitions.

We offer a range of work placement opportunities in a wide range of settings.

Law (Senior Status) Employment Opportunities

Studying a law degree can lead to a range of careers. We aim to equip students with multiple skills to enhance their graduate prospects. Our graduates go on to a wide variety of careers, which include being a:

barrister, civil servant, lecturer, legal executive, local government officer, paralegal, police officer, prison officer, researcher, solicitor, stockbroker or trading standards officer.

Modules

LLB Law (Senior Status) structure.

Your first year is made up of compulsory modules covering the core areas of a Law degree. You continue studying these core themes in your second year, together with a number of optional modules.

Year 1 (Level 5)

FHEQ 5 Undergraduate / HEDip

Compulsory Modules

Module Name	Module Duration	Credits	Module Code
Public Law	September-June	30	LAQ223
Tort Law	September-June	30	LAQ224
Skills for the study of Law	September-June	20	LAQ225
Legal System	September-January	10	LAQ226
Contract Law	September-June	30	LAQ227

Year 2 (Level 6)

FHEQ 6 Undergraduate / Honours

Students choose 120 credits from the following:

Compulsory Modules

Module Name	Module Duration	Credits	Module Code
Criminal Law	September-June	30	LAQ335
Equity & Trusts	September-June	20	LAQ338
Land Law	September-June	30	LAQ339

Optional Modules

Semester 1 optional modules

Choose Exactly 20 credits from the following Modules:

NOTE : Please select 20 credits from the list below. It is not a requirement for you to complete LAA339 Dissertation. If you would like to select Dissertation module, please ask application form from solstudy@swansea.ac.uk.

Module Name	Module Duration	Credits	Module Code	Guidance
Family Law: Adult Relationships	September-January	20	LAA302
Commercial Sales	September-January	20	LAA303
Environmental Law 1 - Regulatory Law Approaches	September-January	20	LAA310
Employment Law: Rights and Obligations	September-January	20	LAA314
Counter-terrorism Law	September-January	20	LAA320
Criminal Evidence	September-January	20	LAA321A
Human Rights Law	September-January	20	LAA324
Cybercrime	September-January	20	LAA328
Medical Law	September-January	20	LAA330
International Law - Principles and Procedures	September-January	20	LAA333
Jurisprudence	September-January	20	LAA335
Company Law: Incorporation, Constitution and Control	September-January	20	LAA336
Law dissertation	September-June	20	LAA339	There is an application procedure and there are eligibility criteria. If you intend to apply to take a dissertation module, please see the Dissertation Handbook on Canvas HUB:Law. While you wait to hear whether your application for dissertation is successful, please choose the module you would wish to take if you were not permitted to take the dissertation module. If you are accepted onto the dissertation module, we will make the necessary changes to your module selection.
Foundations in LegalTech	September-January	20	LAA357
Clinical Legal Education	September-January	20	LAA366	Available to a limited number of students.
Street Law	September-January	20	LAA368	Available to a limited number of students.
Advocacy	September-January	20	LAA393	Available to a limited number of students
Law of Succession	September-January	20	LAA398

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Semester 2 optional modules

Choose Exactly 20 credits from the following Modules:

NOTE : Please select one module from the list below. It is not a requirement for you to complete LAA339 Dissertation. If you would like to select Dissertation module, please ask application form from solstudy@swansea.ac.uk.

Module Name	Module Duration	Credits	Module Code	Guidance
Family Law: Parents & Children	January-June	20	LAA301
World Trade Law	January-June	20	LAA304
Law, Science and Technology (LST)	January-June	20	LAA3101
Law and the Nature Crisis	January-June	20	LAA312
Employment Law: Enforcing Rights	January-June	20	LAA315	To select this module you must have pursued LAA314.
Negotiations	January-June	20	LAA317	Available to a limited number of students. You are not able to take this module if you have pursued LAA233.
Criminal Evidence Law and Psychology	January-June	20	LAA323A
Foundations in Legal Practice	January-June	20	LAA326
Media Law	January-June	20	LAA327
Human Rights & Social Justice	January-June	20	LAA329
Company Law: Governance, Rights and Liquidation	January-June	20	LAA337	To select this module you must have pursued LAA336.
Cymraeg y Gyfraith	January-June	20	LAA348	This module is delivered in Welsh.
Canadian Constitutional Law	January-June	20	LAA362
Clinical Legal Education	January-June	20	LAA367	Available to a limited number of students.
Intellectual Property Law	January-June	20	LAA391
The Law of Devolution in Wales	January-June	20	LAA395
Medical Law: Reproduction	January-June	20	LAA399

Entry Requirements

We have vacancies across a variety of subjects for September 2024 entry – please call our Clearing Helpline on 0808 175 3071.

We also welcome enquiries from candidates researching starting a course in 2025 - please see our Entry Requirements Page to find out typical offer ranges or get in touch by email or by telephone 01792 295111.

Are you an international student, waiting on exam results or an English Language test score? If so, we'd encourage you to apply through our free and easy to use direct application system, as you may be eligible for a conditional offer.

How You're Taught

We are proud to provide an outstanding educational experience, using the most effective learning and teaching approaches, carefully tailored to suit the specific needs of your course. Apart from a small number of online-only courses, most of our courses consist of in-person, on-campus teaching, enabling full engagement with your lecturers and fellow students.

Practical skills sessions, lab work seminars, and workshops predominantly take place in person, allowing for group working and demonstrations. We also operate virtual labs and Simulated Learning Environments which will facilitate greater access to training opportunities in the future. However, our approach also includes the use of some online learning to support and enhance traditional face-to-face teaching.

Online learning may take place ‘live’ using software such as Zoom, allowing you to interact with the lecturer and other students and to ask questions. Lecture recordings also allow for more flexibility to revisit material, to revise for assessments and to enhance learning outside of the classroom. Some modules have extra resources in Canvas, such as videos, slides and quizzes enabling further flexible study.

This course may offer some modules taught through the medium of Welsh or bilingually for students who consider themselves to be fluent Welsh speakers. For more details on the provision available see the Welsh Provision expander below.

Welsh Provision

No Provision

Unfortunately, there is currently no formal Welsh-medium provision on this course. If you would like to let us know that you are interested in pursuing an element of your course through the medium of Welsh, please email astudio@abertawe.ac.uk to indicate your interest along with your year of entry and we will do our best to see what is possible.

Whilst this course does not offer academic content delivered in Welsh, the University can provide you with the following, and Academi Hywel Teifi is here to support you:

An interview through the medium of Welsh when applying for a place.
The option to receive your personal correspondence in Welsh, English or bilingually.
The option to write and submit your coursework or exams through the medium of Welsh (even if you have chosen to study in English), and your work will be marked in Welsh.
A Welsh-speaking Personal Tutor.
One-to-one support to improve your academic Welsh language skills.
An opportunity to gain an additional free qualification that serves as evidence of your Welsh language ability for future employers.
Opportunity to be a member of the Swansea University Branch of the Coleg Cymraeg Cenedlaethol.

To learn more about the above and all the opportunities available to you through the medium of Welsh, visit Academi Hywel Teifi's undergraduate pages.

Meet Your Lecturers

Our law degrees are taught by experts, some of whom are experienced legal practitioners and all of whom have a wealth of legal knowledge to pass on to our students.

You can find out more about our academic expertise on our staff pages.

Tuition Fees

Start Date	UK	International
September 2023	£ 9,000	£ 15,750
September 2024	£ 9,000	£ 16,550

Fees for full time Undergraduate UK students may be increased in subsequent years of study by an inflationary amount determined by Welsh Government.

Fees for full time Undergraduate EU/International students will increase by 3% for each subsequent year of study.

You can find further information of your fee costs on our tuition fees page.

You may be eligible for funding to help support your study. To find out about scholarships, bursaries and other funding opportunities that are available please visit the University's scholarships and bursaries page.

Current students: You can find further information of your fee costs on our tuition fees page.

Funding and Scholarships

You may be eligible for funding to help support your study.

To find out about scholarships, bursaries and other funding opportunities that are available please visit the University's scholarships and bursaries page.

Academi Hywel Teifi at Swansea University and the Coleg Cymraeg Cenedlaethol offer a number of generous scholarships and bursaries for students who wish to study through the medium of Welsh or bilingually. For further information about the opportunities available to you, visit the Academi Hywel Teifi Scholarships and Bursaries page.

Additional Costs

Access to your own digital device/the appropriate IT kit will be essential during your time studying at Swansea University. Access to wifi in your accommodation will also be essential to allow you to fully engage with your programme. See our dedicated webpages for further guidance on suitable devices to purchase, and for a full guide on getting your device set up.

You may face additional costs while at university, including (but not limited to):

Travel to and from campus
Printing, photocopying, binding, stationery and equipment costs (e.g. USB sticks)
Purchase of books or texts
Gowns for graduation ceremonies

Careers and Employability

Swansea Employability Academy (SEA) will support you at each stage of your career journey helping you build a bright future.

Our career support services include:

Employability workshops, employers’ talks, bespoke events and careers fairs
Individual advice and guidance from professionally qualified Careers Advisers
Help with finding jobs, internships, work placements and volunteering opportunities
Access to information resources on a wide range of career management topics
Advice and guidance on postgraduate study and funding
Funding to support student internship opportunities and Student Society/Club events.

We also provide help and advice for Swansea University Alumni up to two years after you graduate.

Academic Support

As well as subject specific support by college teaching staff and your personal tutor, the Centre for Academic Success provides courses, workshops and one-to-one support in areas such as:

Academic writing
Maths and statistics
Critical thinking
Time management
Digital skills
Presentation skills
Note taking
Revision, memory and exam techniques
English language skills (if English is not your first language).

In addition, if you have a Specific Learning Difficulty (SpLD), disability, mental health or medical condition, the Centre for Academic Success have Specialist Tutors to support your learning, working alongside the Disability Office and Wellbeing Service to support all your needs and requirements whilst studying at Swansea University.

Academic Support at the School of Law

Each student is assigned a Personal Tutor to help with:

Academic guidance
Personal development planning
Guidance on finding help with personal issues (which affect your wellbeing, attendance, and progress through University)

There are student representatives in each year of our law programme as well as a School representative for undergraduate students. The school also has a dedicated Student Information Office who will be able to offer academic assistance throughout your studies.

Study Abroad and Global Opportunities

To learn more about study abroad, visit our Go Global webpages. Enrolment on a programme with a semester/year abroad does not guarantee you a semester/year abroad placement. Spaces are limited and subject to a competitive selection process. In the event you do not secure a semester/year abroad placement, you will be transferred to the standard variant of your degree scheme without a semester or year abroad.

International summer programmes are open to students from all schools. Programmes typically range from 2 to 6 weeks, across destinations such as China, Zambia, South Korea, Japan, Canada and across Europe. For more information about programmes and eligibility visit our Summer Abroad webpages.

How to Apply

Apply now – UK, EU and international students.

For further information please see our Guide to Clearing.

EU students - visa and immigration information is available and will be regularly updated on our information for EU students page.

Application Deadlines

We recommend that you submit your application to our courses as early as you can in advance of our application deadlines. Courses will close earlier than the application deadlines listed if all available places are filled. You can find further information on our Application Deadlines webpage.

Additional Information

Student Societies

At Swansea, we have a range of law-focused societies, which offer opportunities for you to meet fellow students and take part in a variety of activities. These societies are all run for students, by students, and include:

Contact Details

Make an undergraduate enquiry

International students contact our International Team