Cardiff Law School. Undergraduate Degree Programmes.

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1 Cardiff Law School Undergraduate Degree Programme

2 Cardiff Law School OUTSTANDING TEACHING FRIENDLY CULTURALLY DIVERSE SUPPORTIVE

3 1 INTERNATIONAL REPUTATION ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE EXCELLENT VIBRANT RESEARCH COMMITTED EXCELLENT CAREER PROSPECTS Are you ready to?

4 2 Dicover the Cardiff Experience A leading univerity... You ll be part of a Ruell Group univerity one of the top 24 UK reearch univeritie with global recognition. You can chooe from more than 300 degree programme. The Cardiff Univerity degree i known and repected worldwide, with a ubtantial number accredited by the profeion and other external bodie. in an outtanding city... You ll benefit from outtanding teaching in a reearch-led environment. Our highly qualified taff include two Nobel Laureate and everal Fellow of the Royal Society. You ll live in a friendly, compact and afe city, with all of your tudy, living and leiure need within walking ditance. with able and motivated tudent... Your money will go further at Cardiff with capital city attraction at affordable price including one of the lowet rate of all univerity citie for tudent accommodation. You ll be at a firt choice univerity where demand for place i trong. You ll be at an international univerity with tudent from more than 100 countrie. You'll be tudying in an environment with other able and motivated tudent who have top grade at A-level or equivalent. who have excellent career propect. You can be confident of your future in 2010, 94% of our tudent were employed or had entered further tudy within ix month of completing their tudie. You ll be in demand Cardiff i among the top 20 univeritie targeted by employer eeking high calibre graduate.

5 Welcome 3 Welcome Content At Cardiff, we are committed to providing an outtanding teaching and learning experience that i underpinned by our excellent reearch activity. We attract tudent from all over the world and offer a friendly, upportive and culturally divere environment in which to tudy. We offer a divere range of Law degree which enable you to tudy law on it own, or combine it with a ocial cience or modern language. Through our Centre for Profeional Legal Studie, we provide the highly regarded Bar Profeional Training Coure and the Legal Practice Coure, which ha conitently received the Solicitor Regulation Authority/Law Society highet rating, for tudent who wih to qualify a either barriter or olicitor of England and Wale. From September 2012, we will alo be offering the Graduate Diploma in Law (GDL) and an LLM in Legal Practice. We have a vibrant reearch culture and are recognied a a leading centre of legal reearch. In the 2008 Reearch Aement Exercie we were ranked 7th out of the 100 Law School in the United Kingdom and 95 per cent of our reearch activity wa claed a world leading or of international quality. The School occupie a ubtantial building on the Cathay Park campu, cloe to the law court, barriter chamber, major law firm and Welh Government office. It i alo cloe to the main ocial facilitie offered by the Student Union and the highly rated Univerity port complex. I look forward to welcoming you to Cardiff and I am ure that if you decide to tudy here, your time with u will be both educationally and ocially rewarding. Profeor Nigel Lowe Head of Cardiff Law School Cardiff: The City 4 Cardiff: The Univerity 6 Living in Cardiff 8 Studying Law 10 Experience Law in Action 12 International Student 14 Undergraduate Programme at Cardiff Law School 15 LLB Law Single Honour 17 LLB Law and Criminology 18 LLB Law and Politic 19 LLB Law and Sociology 20 LLB Law and Welh 21 Integrated Honour in Law and Language 22 LLB Law and French 23 LLB Law and German 24 Career 25 Further Study and Reearch 26 Equality and Widening Participation 28 Application 29 Point of Contact 29 Important information. Pleae read carefully. The Univerity offer the information contained in thi brochure a a guide only. It doe not contitute a contract and i not binding on propective tudent, tudent or the Univerity. While the Univerity make every effort to check the accuracy of the factual content at the time of publication, ome change will inevitably occur in the interval between publication and the academic year to which the brochure relate (Entry 2013). For example, degree programme may have changed in line with market and tudent demand, and reearch development. Applicant hould not therefore rely olely on thi brochure and hould viit the Law School webite ( for up-to-date information concerning coure content, accreditation, and entry requirement for the relevant academic year when conidering applying to the Univerity. 5000CLAWS0612

6 4 Cardiff: A capital city Cardiff: A capital city Cardiff i one of the bet place to tudy in Britain. It ha well-ituated, cheap houing, lively night out, friendly people, great hop and hundred of mile of countryide. It i all that any right-thinking freher could deire. Virgin Alternative Guide to Britih Univeritie The Univerity i urrounded by attractive parkland and i adjacent to Cardiff Catle and the city centre

7 Cardiff: A capital city 5 More online at: Cardiff i a thriving and attractive city which i widely recognied a an outtanding place in which to live and tudy. It combine all the advantage of a compact, friendly and inexpenive location with the cultural and recreational facilitie of a modern capital. Cardiff offer everything from the excitement of the city to the peace and tranquillity of the nearby coat and countryide. Such i the quality of the Cardiff experience that in a recent urvey, a large majority of tudent aid they would like to tay and live in the city after graduating. With it ditinctive character, good quality of life, and growing national and international reputation, it hot many high-profile porting and cultural event, including international rugby, occer, cricket and motor port, Cardiff Singer of the World and the UK larget free ummer fetival. Home to the world-renowned Welh National Opera, it boat pretigiou concert venue uch a the Wale Millennium Centre, St David Hall and the Motorpoint Arena, a well a the iconic Millennium Stadium, the National Mueum and Gallery of Wale, everal theatre and the hitoric Cardiff Catle. Cardiff i the location for award-winning televiion production, including Dr Who, Sherlock, Torchwood and Caualty, and the Dr Who Experience in Cardiff Bay i a popular new attraction. One of the UK top hopping detination, Cardiff outlet range from the 100 tore in the new 750 million St David Dewi Sant retail centre to indoor and outdoor market, and a facinating network of gla-canopied Victorian and Edwardian arcade. Cardiff alo ha more urban green pace than any other UK city, and offer eay acce to the countryide, coat and mountain. Cardiff i a young, vibrant city. A blend of beautiful old architecture and new, cutting-edge development. Comopolitan with a large tudent population. Daily Telegraph Guide to UK Univeritie The Millennium Stadium netle in the heart of the city, and i home to numerou porting event and concert throughout the year Don t jut take our word for it Cardiff ha it all: grand civic architecture in a breezy wateride location, uper-mart city bar jut a hort hop from lovely countryide. Guardian Univerity Guide Come and ee for yourelf Cardiff benefit from excellent road and rail link with Britain other major town and citie. London, for example, i two hour by train, and the M4 link both the wet and outh of England, a well a wet Wale. Travel to the Midland and to the North i equally convenient. The journey by road from Birmingham, for example, take only two hour. The main coach and railway tation are both centrally placed, and Cardiff alo benefit from an international airport. Cardiff i one of the UK mot ucceful retail centre Cardiff Bay, the city waterfront

8 6 Cardiff: A leading univerity Cardiff: A leading univerity Cardiff offer a compelling tudent experience: Ruell Group reearch credential, the full gamut of traditional undergraduate degree coure and relatively affordable living with hot and cold running nightlife on tap. Sunday Time Univerity Guide

9 Cardiff: A leading univerity 7 More online at: Cardiff Univerity ha an international reputation for excellence in teaching and reearch, built on a hitory of ervice and achievement ince 1883, and recognied by our memberhip of the Ruell Group of leading reearch-led univeritie. With attractive and compact campue, excellent tudent accommodation, and a hugely popular Student Union, all within eay walking ditance of each other in a thriving city, it i not urpriing that Cardiff i a univerity of firt choice among wellprepared applicant. We admit approximately 4,500 undergraduate entrant each year, the very large majority of whom are chool and college leaver, and have top grade at A-level or equivalent. While competition for entry i trong, Cardiff i an incluive univerity with a good record on widening acce and increaing participation, and we welcome application, irrepective of background, from everyone with the potential to ucceed at Cardiff Univerity. The Univerity Cathay Park campu i located in and around the impreive Portland tone building, park and wide treelined avenue that form Cardiff attractive civic centre. The majority of academic chool are located here - jut a few minute walk from the city centre. The four academic chool offering healthcare coure (excluding Optometry and Pharmacy) are baed at the Heath Park campu, approximately one mile away, which i alo home to the Univerity Hopital of Wale. Although dating from 1883, Cardiff i focued on the 21t century, and ha modern tateof-the-art building and facilitie. The Univerity ha inveted 200 million in it etate in recent year and mot academic chool have benefited from major refurbihment, including new and wellequipped laboratorie, lecture theatre, librarie and computing facilitie. The Univerity take it environmental, afety and ecurity reponibilitie very eriouly. We have recently introduced a comprehenive Energy, Water and Wate Policy, which i already making great aving in energy conumption. To upport the afety and ecurity of all member of the Univerity community and their property, there i 24- hour ecurity cover throughout the campu. What the Guide ay The Univerity i a confident and forwardlooking a the city it located in, and ha an excellent reputation for the quality of it teaching and reearch. Almot 60% of it reearch i ranked a world leading and it i a member of the Ruell Group of leading univeritie. Guardian Univerity Guide Cardiff i a tip top uni academically... hugely popular with it tudent. I Cardiff perhap the bet kept ecret among Britain univeritie? Virgin Alternative Guide to Britih Univeritie

10 8 Living in Cardiff Living in Cardiff A a fat developing capital city, Cardiff i a great place to be a tudent. It large enough to offer you an exciting variety of activitie and entertainment, but mall enough for you to feel comfortable in. Accommodation Cardiff offer guaranteed Univerity accommodation, good quality and value, and a range of reidence to uit individual preference and budget. All firt year undergraduate who apply during the normal UCAS admiion cycle are guaranteed a place in Univerity reidence. The Univerity i continually inveting in it tudent reidence, and the view of tudent are taken into account at the deign tage. Unuually for a civic univerity, mot of our reidence are within eay walking ditance of lecture theatre, librarie, laboratorie, the Student Union and city centre. There are 14 different reidence, providing more than 5,300 tudy bedroom and tudent can apply for the reidence which bet uit their preference, interet and budget. Some 70% have en-uite hower and toilet facilitie and all hall of reidence have computer network connection point and acce to Wi-Fi. Fee depend on the facilitie included and whether catered, part-catered or elf-catered, but price compare very favourably with thoe of other UK univeritie. Beide managing Univerity property, the Reidence Office maintain cloe link with the private ector and provide aitance to tudent eeking to rent or hare houe or flat. letting agency and Student Advice centre. In addition, it i home to CU TV and Xpre Radio (the tudent own TV and radio tation) and more than 150 cultural, political, religiou, ocial and porting ocietie. Jobhop The Unitaff Jobhop i a tudent employment ervice that provide caual, clerical and catering job around the Univerity to hundred of tudent. Student Law Society Cardiff Univerity Law Society i one of the larget and mot active tudent ocietie at the Univerity. In 2011/12 it introduced a Public Speaking Serie, which culminated in a Public Speaking Competition, held at the Law School. In 2012/13 the competition will be held at the Supreme Court, and be judged by a Jutice of the Supreme Court. Web: All tudy bedroom in the hall of reidence have computer network connection point and acce to Wi-Fi The Fitne and Squah Centre i located at the heart of the main campu Student Life The Student Union Cardiff Student Union i one of the bigget, bet and mot active in Britain. Solu, the Great Hall and the Taf Bar are among the Union major attraction. Solu i the tudent own high quality nightclub, and i the econd larget in South Wale. The Great Hall i a 1,500 capacity venue for major concert and the Taf Bar i the Union very own local. Other facilitie include CF10, a café offering a variety of hot and cold food, a general hop and off licence, Univerity bookhop, computer hop, a game room and video arcade, five full-ize nooker table and twelve pool table, atellite TV, banking and inurance ervice. The Union alo ha it own Solu i the Student Union high quality nightclub

11 Living in Cardiff 9 More online at: Student have acce to a wide range of modern facilitie, including Skype booth What the Guide ay Cardiff Student Union i the bigget and bet equipped in Britain. The Independent Cardiff Student Union i independently recognied a the bigget and bet in Britain. Equitable Student Book The Student Union provide an excellent range of facilitie, club and ocietie. The Time Good Univerity Guide Guaranteed accommodation in hall and houe for firt year. Very high quality and relatively cheap. Equitable Student Book Key Cardiff Law School Univerity Building Student Reidence How to find the School We are located in the Law Building, which it at the heart of the Cathay Park Campu, a hort walk from the city centre. The building i very cloe to Cathay railway tation and i eaily acceible from Univerity hall of reidence.

12 10 The School The School Law i a challenging and rewarding ubject which equip you to purue a range of career and our coure are deigned to enable you to fulfil your academic and vocational potential. Our teaching i informed by our world-leading reearch, and thi i reflected in the module we provide. of the kill required for a career in law and a wide range of profeion. We run a comprehenive programme of workhop and preentation deigned to help you take that firt tep in your career. A typical law lecture Studying law i about acquiring the ability to make, apply and critically analye precie ditinction and, epecially, to rapidly elect the relevant information from ource uch a report of court cae and tatute, and academic journal. Appreciating law in it ocial context i both demanding and atifying. Teaching, Learning and Aement You will be taught through a combination of lecture, tutorial and eminar, amounting to approximately ten to twelve hour a week of formal teaching. Thee, of coure, will be upplemented by your own private tudy and written aignment which will become more demanding a you progre. Teaching i organied in module, plit over two emeter (Autumn: 14 week, Spring: 17 week); in each there are 11 teaching week. Chritma, Eater and ummer vacation are not affected by the emeter ytem. Our teaching i upported by a ubtantial reliance on webbaed and other learning reource, to which you will have acce throughout your tudie. Your progre in each module will be aeed during and at the end of the emeter in which it i taught. All law module include aement, which are intended to ait your undertanding and to provide you and your tutor with an indication of your progre to date. Method of final aement vary from traditional written examination to a combination of examination and aeed eay, to portfolio. Peronal Tutor and Support At the tart of your coure you are aigned a peronal tutor, who i a member of the academic taff of the Law School. Student on integrated programme will have a peronal tutor in each chool. Peronal tutor are there to advie on academic and peronal matter in a confidential and informal manner. We aim to help overcome any problem, however great or mall, a moothly a poible. Your peronal tutor will monitor your academic progre and will alo upply reference in upport of any application you may make for job or potgraduate coure. We hope that you will enjoy a contructive relationhip with your tutor throughout your time a a tudent. We have an Undergraduate Academic Support Tutor whoe role i to provide advice on the many Univerity and Law School procedure and regulation that affect your tudie. We alo have a Diability and Specific Need Tutor to provide advice and upport for tudent with diabilitie. We offer writing kill upport where needed, for tudent whoe firt language i not Englih, and you can alo benefit from the facilitie and guidance of the Univerity Student Support Centre. Peronal Development and Career Planning We recognie that employability i crucial to all our tudent. The extra-curricular activitie we offer build on the knowledge you gain in the claroom and help you to develop many You will have acce to peronal development opportunitie and employability event that aim to increae your chance of ucce in the graduate job market, whatever your intended career path. At undergraduate level, Peronal Development Planning i deigned to help you develop a an independent learner; it will be of benefit not only during your time at Cardiff Univerity, but throughout your career. In particular, we will encourage you to attend the many Employability Skill event hoted by our Career Service and outide employer, and to regularly review your own development toward your career and academic goal. We liaie with legal practitioner to offer our tudent work experience. Thi include local law firm and barriter' chamber with whom we have good long-tanding relationhip, and our alumni who wih to help current Cardiff tudent gain thi valuable experience. We alo work to enure that thee opportunitie are acceible to all our tudent. A recent example i a new cheme with Clinton (a leading London practice pecialiing in Sport, Entertainment, Media and Family law) through one of our alumni who i managing partner at the firm. Clinton i offering a week' placement to tudent from background that are under-repreented in the legal profeion and who might not otherwie have acce to uch placement. Thi opportunity come with a mall burary from the Law School to cover tranport and accommodation cot. Student/Staff Panel Cardiff Law School ha a tudent/taff panel coniting of member of teaching taff and elected tudent member who meet to dicu academic iue. Any iue that you feel need attention can be highlighted to your tudent repreentative, who will raie the query with the panel. The work of the panel, alongide an annual feedback quetionnaire circulated to all tudent, mean that each coure i contantly reviewed to enure that it i the bet programme of tudy available for tudent.

13 The School 11 More online at: The Univerity offer ample pace for quiet tudy Library Cardiff Law Library i one of the larget in the UK and ha over 100,000 volume with ubcription to over 200 current periodical and law report. It i conveniently located in the Art and Social Studie Library, cloe to the Law Building. Student can borrow up to 12 book at any one time, with a tandard loan period of up to three week. Heavily demanded book, uch a recommended text, may be borrowed for horter period. In addition, electronic databae and retrieval ytem uch a Wetlaw UK, Lexi Library and HeinOnLine facilitate acce to many other major report and journal. Law Library taff are on hand to offer pecialit reearch aitance, including oneto-one and workhop training in information earching and mediated literature reearche. The Art and Social Studie Library contain group tudy room, a cyber lounge, an openacce PC area and a paciou graphic unit. Computing The Univerity ha a reource centre, very cloe to the Law School, which contain 260 networked tation. The Law School provide additional facilitie for tudent and complement the computing laboratorie within the Law Library. A a reult, every tudent normally ha free acce to appropriate computing facilitie at all time. Cardiff Law School deliver a range of material and learning reource via Learning Central, an internet-baed e-learning ytem which can be acceed by tudent anywhere, anytime. There i alo a dedicated tudent intranet, which enable tudent to acce information relating to their tudie and upload courework electronically. European Exchange Programme Student on any of the three-year LLB programme have the opportunity to take a year tudying abroad on one of our European Exchange Programme. Cardiff Law School ha exchange agreement with the hitoric and pretigiou Charle Univerity in Prague and the Univerity of Waraw. Public Lecture A a tudent of Cardiff Law School you will alo have the opportunity to attend Public Lecture given by high profile peaker. Previou lecturer have included the late Lord Bingham of Cornhill (former Senior Law Lord), Barone Kennedy of The Shaw QC, Lord Jutice Thoma and Lord Jutice Scott Baker (of the Court of Appeal), Sir Nichola Wall, (Preident of the Family Diviion of the High Court) and Lady Jutice Arden DBE (Head of International Judicial Relation for England and Wale). Gregynog Hall Conference Every Spring Cardiff law tudent have the opportunity to participate in a law conference at Gregynog Hall in mid-wale, which i alo attended by taff and tudent from three other Welh law chool. Lecturer and reearcher preent hort paper on a variety of legal topic outide the normal run of the degree yllabu, offering a ene of the breadth of the law and the facination of reearch. For many participant thi i alo the firt tate of the academic conference lifetyle - a weekend board and lodging in a large former manor houe et in 750 acre of magnificent ground. Reearch Some tudent may have the opportunity to develop reearch kill by providing reearch aitance for academic taff, or by working on their own project alongide their tudie. Example include a project funded under CUROP, the Univerity Undergraduate Reearch Opportunitie Programme, in which five tudent were elected to work on a ummer reearch project which focued on how the law operate to enforce or control contact between children and their parent after parental eparation. The project aimed to gauge level of profeional upport for change to the law which were deigned to enable court to facilitate and enforce contact more effectively. In addition to gaining hand-on experience of the proce of conducting reearch, thee tudent alo publihed the reult of their reearch in the leading pecialit practitioner journal, Family Law. And in a larger reearch exercie, all Family Law tudent took part in a joint project with thoe from another univerity to obtain information from over 3000 member of the public on attitude to the law of inheritance, which wa conidered by the Law Commiion in a recent review of the law.

14 12 Law in Action Law in Action Learning at Cardiff Law School in t jut confined to traditional lecture, eminar and tutorial. We are committed to extending extracurricular opportunitie to our tudent, helping to enhance their CV in a competitive graduate job market. Rhiannon Hughe and Marina Kaur-Channing, winner of 2012 National Client Conultation Competition Through our cheme, tudent learn that the law i not alway black and white, that there can be problem with legal practice, procedure and ytem, and that there i often not an eay anwer to a peron legal problem. Student gain eential kill in communication, reearch and teamwork. They are expoed to the problem of individual, whilt at the ame time facing the impact that law can have on the ociety in which we all live. Our two mot well-etablihed cheme are our Innocence Project and NHS Continuing Healthcare Scheme. Both of thee have won pretigiou national award and help by aiting member of the community and vulnerable group with matter for which there i in reality no legal aid. Cardiff Law School National Health Service Continuing Healthcare Scheme The NHS Continuing Healthcare Scheme addree the nationwide problem of aement for NHS continuing healthcare funding. Thi area of work revolve around ituation where the NHS i arguably reponible for care and hould fully fund it. Problem in thi area mainly affect eriouly ill patient, often elderly, in nuring home, but can alo apply if a peron need nuring care at home. We are the only Law School in the UK that run a pecialit legal advice clinic dealing with thi niche area of law and practice, and our cheme i recognied by the Alzheimer Society and organiation that ait the elderly. We are upervied by the larget law firm in Wale, Hugh Jame Solicitor, and our work won the Student Team Award at the pretigiou Law Society Junior Lawyer Diviion 10th Anniverary Pro Bono Award. Cardiff Law School Innocence Project Our tudent work under the uperviion of practiing olicitor and barriter on cae of long-term prioner maintaining their innocence of eriou crime for which they have been convicted. We have ucceeded in ubmitting ix cae to the Criminal Cae Review Commiion, the independent body that review poible micarriage of jutice. Progre on the tudent work can be followed on the Cardiff CaeWatch webite, a national educational experiment howcaing the quality and detail of our tudent work. Other Scheme Recently we piloted a training programme with Aylum Jutice, training tudent to become aylum advior accredited by the Office of the Immigration Service Commiioner. Other partnerhip initiative have included opportunitie to: volunteer with The Peronal Support Unit at the Civil Jutice Centre in Cardiff, become Appropriate Adult with the leading mental health charity, Hafal, and to be on a call rota to ait at local police tation. WRU Project From September 2012, working in partnerhip with the Welh Rugby Union, our tudent will provide a free legal advice ervice to Welh rugby club. The Scheme will be upported and underwritten by major law firm and barriter chamber with a bae in Cardiff. Student will alo work collaboratively to produce a legal newletter for rugby club featuring legal iue and update that may affect club. We are contantly developing and extending our pro bono opportunitie for tudent, and our portfolio will continue to grow.

15 Law in Action 13 Mooting Mooting i where two team of advocate argue a fictitiou legal appeal cae in front of a judge (uually a lecturer). It offer an opportunity to experience the courtroom firthand. Cardiff internal mooting competition i run jointly by the Student Law Society and taff at the School, and i extremely popular with tudent. In 2011, the Cardiff tudent team won the Welh National Mooting Competition. Experience of mooting i well repected by the legal profeion and help to build excellent tranferable kill. Mooting opportunitie in the medium of Welh are alo available through Coleg Cymraeg Cenedlaethol. Competition Cardiff Law School alo ha a long-tanding involvement with the International Client Conultation Competition ( where more than 100 law chool in the USA, Autralia and other commonwealth countrie howcae their legal advice kill. The 2012 International Final wa hoted by the Law Society of Ireland in Dublin, and a team from Cardiff repreented England and Wale, having beaten off tiff competition from 25 UK law chool. Centring on a imulated law office interview, it provide a valuable educational and cultural interchange between tudent, law teacher and legal practitioner. Panel of lawyer, academic and counellor are recruited locally a judge. The Negotiation Competition i the iter competition of the Client Conultation Competition, and i partly ponored by the Centre for Dipute Reolution (CEDR). Team of tudent from law chool in England and Wale try to negotiate a ettlement baed on realitic buine or commercial cenario. Thoe proceeding to the national final are rewarded with a day negotiation training at CEDR. The winning national team goe on to the international final.

16 14 International Student International Student More online at: Cardiff Univerity ha a long tradition of welcoming international tudent. With over 3,500 tudent from more than 100 countrie, the Univerity enjoy the many benefit of multiculturalim. The Law School attract tudent from more than 25 countrie. North America, the Caribbean, Africa and Aia are well repreented, with a number of tudent coming from, in particular, Canada, the Bahama, Malayia and India. Information relevant to tudent from pecific countrie i available on the Law School webite. Graduation Day i the highlight of your univerity experience Approximately 20 % of the School undergraduate intake comprie international tudent, and there are currently around 350 international tudent enrolled on it undergraduate and potgraduate programme. Fee and Scholarhip for International Student Fee are reviewed on an annual bai. A an indicator, the fee for were et at 11,900. The Law School currently offer two type of cholarhip excluively to tudent from outide the European Union who are enrolled a full fee paying tudent of international fee tatu. Thee are: Entrance Burarie of 1,000 each. Thee are available to all international tudent achieving excellence at A-level by obtaining grade of AAA; other equivalent qualification are alo conidered including an 83% average mark in the bet four ubject in Year 12 in the Indian School Certificate Examination, or obtaining 37 point in the International Baccalaureate. Merit Scholarhip worth 1,000, 3,000 or 5,000 a year. Thee are available to thoe who achieve outtanding academic performance whilt tudying on the LLB programme at Cardiff. We are committed to offering funding opportunitie to outtanding applicant. Further competitive cholarhip may be available, pleae check our webite for detail. Support for International Student The Univerity provide all the information and upport neceary to help eae the tranition to life a a tudent at Cardiff. Once you have been made an offer here you will receive advice on immigration, via, healthcare, climate and living in Cardiff. We can arrange to collect you by coach from Cardiff or Heathrow airport. We provide an induction programme and, in the week before enrolment, there are variou ocial event and viit to introduce you to Cardiff and to welcome you to Wale. comingtocardiff/index.html Study Skill Aitance Throughout the year the Univerity Englih Language Programme Office provide Englih language and writing coure to international tudent tudying, or intending to tudy, at Cardiff. Viit: Further Information Cardiff Law School Tel: +44 (0) Fax: +44 (0) law-international@cardiff.ac.uk Web: The International Development Diviion Tel: +44 (0) Fax: +44 (0) international@cardiff.ac.uk Web: The Englih Language Programme Office Tel: +44 (0) Fax: +44 (0) elt@cardiff.ac.uk Web:

17 The LLB Degree and Qualifying for the Legal Profeion The LLB Degree and Qualifying for the Legal Profeion 15 Student on every programme are able to complete the Qualifying Law Degree (QLD) requirement pecified by the Solicitor Regulation Authority and Bar Standard Board for practice in England and Wale. After graduation they then have the option to proceed directly to the vocational tage of training for the legal profeion in England and Wale: the Bar Profeional Training Coure or Legal Practice Coure, both of which can be undertaken at Cardiff Law School. The firt year of the three and four-year programme conit entirely of compulory module; all module taught in the Law School in thi year are required for a QLD. In the remaining two year (or three for the Law and Language programme), Single Honour tudent may elect further module required for a QLD or chooe from a wide election of optional module, many of which draw upon particular reearch trength of Cardiff Law School' taff. Student on Integrated programme have a range of module available in their other academic School, but are able to purue additional legal option if they wih. Law and Language tudent pending their year abroad in Germany, Autria or France can chooe from a broad range of coure in the local law. They finih tudying the law of England and Wale in their fourth year. All tudent are required to take module to the value of 1 in each year. You need 1 in order to proceed to the next year. The tructure and content of the degree are contantly under review. There may be ome change between the time of writing and your year of entry. We will pot change on the Law School webite. Not all of the optional module decribed in thi brochure will necearily be available every year. Module marked with comprie the Foundation ubject required by the Solicitor Regulation Authority and the Bar Standard Board for completion of a QLD. Senior Statu Degree Cardiff Law School run a two year, enior tatu degree for applicant with a degree in another dicipline. We require a good Honour degree (2:1 or equivalent), upplemented by good A-level and GCSE reult (if applicable). We will alo conider application from tudent who have attained a degree from outide the UK. In the firt year of the enior tatu programme, tudent tudy 1 in the mandatory firt year module: Public Law, Legal Foundation, Contract, Criminal Law, Land Law and Tort. In the final year of the programme, tudent are required to tudy 1, 60 compriing module in Law of the European Union and Trut and 60 from the optional module available.

18 16 The LLB Degree and Qualifying for the Legal Profeion What you will tudy In Year 1 all tudent (apart from thoe on the Senior Statu degree) will tudy the following compulory module: Legal Foundation What i law? Where and how do you find it? How do court reach deciion and what effect do thee have on tatute? How do you ue a legal databae? Thi module give grounding in reearch, analyi, writing and IT kill in a hand-on manner; it eek to etablih the analytical and tranferable kill you will need in all your legal tudie and beyond. Thi module alo introduce you to the intitution of the European Union and, in particular, their relationhip to the judicial intitution in thi country. Public Law Thi module i about the Contitution of the UK. It examine the working of Parliament, the executive and the judiciary, the rule and principle governing their inter-relationhip, and the impact of devolution on thee arrangement. Attention i given to the way in which the government may be held to be politically or legally accountable for it action, in particular under the Human Right Act A typical mall group tutorial Criminal Law A characteritic of many ocietie i the enforcement of tandard of behaviour through tate regulated punihment. Thi module deal with what ha to be proved againt defendant in criminal trial in England and Wale before they can be ubjected to uch punihment. Whatever the crime with which defendant are charged, there are certain matter which, a a general rule, have to be proved. The firt part of the module concentrate on thee general principle of criminal law. The econd part of the module involve an in-depth analyi of the contituent part of pecified offence. Contract Contract law i not only concerned with multimillion pound commercial deal. You make a contract every time you buy a CD, viit the cinema, catch a bu, or open a bank account. After examining the nature of contract and contractual liability, you will be conidering how agreement become binding contract and how untrue or mileading tatement can make the contract defective. You will then learn how to identify the partie obligation under the contract and how the law control the ue of 'unfair' term. Finally you will examine what contitute a breach of contract and the remedie that are available. Lloyd Ree Lloyd Ree will graduate thi ummer with a bright future ahead of him. He ha already ecured a training contract with Frehfield Bruckhau Deringer for February 2013, and they are ponoring him to do the accelerated Legal Practice Coure which he will tart at the end of July, in London. Lloyd wa offered two training contract, which i a tetament to all the hardwork and dedication he ha put into hi tudie. He alo took advantage of the extracurricular activitie offered by the Law School. In hi econd year he won the Cardiff Law School Mooting Competition with hi friend Lloyd Hopkin, and noted that the kill he gained a a reult of thi have helped him not only in hi tudie but alo in hi interview. The mooting competition helped me to be more confident in articulating my argument, a well a helping me to prioritie what to read. The former helped me in my interview and the latter i extremely ueful when it come to not only reviing for but itting exam. The kill gained in mooting alo helped Lloyd when Sky New came to Merthyr and he did a live interview with Kay Burley about the Spending Review. Lloyd alo pent time working on the Cardiff Innocence project, which involve tudent working under the uperviion of practiing barriter and olicitor on cae of long-term prioner who maintain their innocence of the eriou crime for which they have been convicted. He did a two week placement with Slaughter &May in ummer 2011, which helped him to decide that he wanted to purue a career in corporate law. Lloyd ha alo balanced hi tudent life with interet outide of law. He i helping to preerve the heritage of hi hometown of Merthyr through the Old Merthyr webite which he run with hi Uncle. Lloyd i alo reponible for ocial media and manage the project facebook page (that ha over 3800 like) and twitter feed. Aked what advice he would give to propective Cardiff Law tudent Lloyd aid, Work hard, make the mot of the opportunitie available in the Law School and balance thee with other interet.

19 LLB Law - Single Honour 17 LLB Law - Single Honour The ingle honour LLB give you the widet choice of optional module. In Year 2 and 3, we offer a wide range of module from the mot traditional uch a Juriprudence, to area of immediate ocial, political and economic interet uch a Company Law, Law of the European Union, Media Law and Medicine, Ethic and Law. Year One Legal Foundation Public Law Criminal Law Contract Year Two Module Cymraeg y Gyfraith (Legal Welh) Welh Devolution Land Law [20] Tort [20] Dicrimination and Law [20] Inurance Law Law and Religion [20] Land Law [30] Tort [30] Dicrimination and Law [30] Evidence French Law Labour Law Law and Religion [30] Media Law [20] Sociology of Law 30 credit 30 credit 30 credit 30 credit 10 credit 10 credit 30 credit 30 credit 30 credit 30 credit 30 credit 30 credit 30 credit 30 credit A typical tutorial in the Law School Building Year Three Module Law of the European Union [20] Trut [20] Company Law [20] Diertation [20] Environmental Law [20] Medicine Ethic and Law [20] Public International Law Law of the European Union [30] Trut [30] Adminitrative Law [30] Company Law [30] Diertation [30] Environmental Law [30] Family Law Human Right Law Intellectual Property Juriprudence Medicine Ethic and Law [30] Commercial Law 30 credit 30 credit 30 credit 30 credit 30 credit 30 credit 30 credit 30 credit 30 credit 30 credit 30 credit 30 credit Alice Vile Year of Graduation: 2011 In her final year, Alice Vile decided that law wan't really for her. She wanted to do omething more buine-like o attended preentation evening by PWC, Grant Thornton and Deloitte and realied that he could combine her legal background with her buine interet to work in the private client tax ector adviing client on their peronal tax affair. Alice i currently in her firt year a a graduate in the Private Client Tax department at Deloitte. Thi involve adviing individual with a lot of wealth on their tax affair - from big corporate executive to local farmer. She aid, Tax i baed primarily on legilation, regulation and guideline, o my law background help me to undertand legilation language and decipher the rule to apply them to the client ituation. Many of the law are teted through cae law, my law degree ha helped me greatly in reearching the applicable cae, judgement and ruling relating to the client ituation. Alo my law degree ha helped my writing tyle, a I can tructure a letter of advice to a client, explaining the reaon behind the advice given. Alice ha alo been involved with work for the Olympic a Deloitte i a main ponor. She i currently tudying for her ATT tax exam.

20 18 LLB Law and Criminology LLB Law and Criminology The Law and Criminology degree programme at Cardiff i deigned to equip you with an undertanding of core area of law and the legal ytem, a well a to provide a broad introduction to Criminology. Thi degree programme reflect the centrality of law in it ocial and political context. The Criminology part of the programme i intended to complement the content of the Law programme, by developing in tudent a critical appreciation of the procee of Criminological reearch, Criminological debate and the operation of the criminal jutice ytem. Year Two and Year Three In each of thee year you will tudy module to the value of of thee will be choen from the law module lited on page 17. The remaining option will be choen from the lit for Criminology below. There i a good taff-tudent relationhip within the Law School Year One Legal Foundation Public Law Criminal Law Contract And the following criminology module Introduction to Social Science Reearch Foundation of Contemporary Criminology Year Two Offending and Victimiation Repone to Crime Year Three Crime, Control, Regulation and Policing Diverity, Crime and Criminal Jutice Prion and Community Sanction Student have acce to a wide range of reading material to ait them with their tudy

21 LLB Law and Politic 19 LLB Law and Politic While law provide the framework for political action, political value and political force can create new legal framework. The Law and Politic degree, which i jointly run by the Law School and the Cardiff School of European Language, Tranlation and Politic, examine thi interface. It i deigned to equip you with a knowledge of core area of law and the legal ytem, a well a with an undertanding of politic, in particular the politic of Europe. Year One Legal Foundation Public Law Criminal Law Contract And the following politic module Introduction to European Integration And either Introduction to Political Thought Or Introduction to Government In each of your econd and final year you will tudy module to the value of 120 credit. Between 60 (minimum) and 80 (maximum) of thee credit will be choen from the law module lited on page 17. The remaining option will be choen from the lit of option for Politic below. Britih Politic Since 1945 Conducting Political Reearch Conflict, Security and Development Democracy in Crii? Election in the UK European Mind in the 20th Century European Union Security French Politic and Society Global International Organiation in World Politic Global Jutice Influencing Public Policy International Security: Concept & Iue Jutice & Politic of International Law Jutice & Politic: Contemporary Political Theory Managing a Difficult Democracy May 68: Marking Change in European Politic and Culture Modern Welh Politic Peronality & Power Political Thought from Marx to Nietzche Politic & Policie in the EU Politic Diertation Public Policy in Britain Theory & Practice in Comparative Politic Tranatlantic Relation International Law in a Changing World Wetern European Politic and Society Student work together in eminar group

22 20 LLB Law and Sociology LLB Law and Sociology The Law and Sociology LLB degree programme i deigned to equip you with an undertanding of core area of law and the legal ytem, a well a to develop your undertanding of, and interet in, contemporary ociological theorie, reearch method and debate. The Law and Sociology LLB reflect the centrality of law in it ocial and political context. The two ubject are intended to complement each other, providing a timulating cro-referencing of idea and method. Year One Legal Foundation Public Law Criminal Law Contract And the following ociology module Introduction to Social Science Reearch Sociology, Society and Social Change Year Two and Year Three In each of your econd and final year you will tudy module to the value of 120 credit. Between 60 (minimum) and 80 (maximum) of thee credit will be choen from the law module lited on page 17. The remaining option will be choen from the lit of option for Sociology. Advanced Sociology of Health, Medicine and Illne Brazil: Sociological and Anthropological Perpective Children and Childhood Conflict & Change in Educational Policy Contemporary Debate and Iue in Social Science Crime Control, Regulation and Policing Diverity, Crime and Criminal Jutice Equality and Diverity in Education and Work Gender Relation and Society Globaliation and Social Change Human Development Identity and Individual Difference Inequality and the Diviion of Labour Iue in Social and Cultural Pychology Language And The Mind Learning, Biology and Cognition Metropoli: Urban Life and Conumer Culture Migration, Race and Ethnic Relation Myth, Monter and Legend New Frontier in Sociology Offending and Victimiation Poverty, Social Policy and Income Maintenance Power, Culture and Identity Power, Politic and Policy Prion and Community Sanction Pychology and Social Behaviour Repone to Crime Social Policy Analyi Social Reearch Method Social Theory Sociology of Culture Sociology of Education The Body, Health and Medicine

23 LLB Law and Welh 21 LLB Law and Welh Thi programme i available to applicant who wih to combine the tudy of law with the tudy of the Welh language. It i not uually appropriate for thoe learning Welh a a econd language, a it require tudent to be fluent in the language already. Student will purue module in the Law School and the School of Welh. Year One Legal Foundation Public Law Criminal Law Contract And the following Welh module Cyflwyniad i'r Gymraeg Llenyddiaeth Gymraeg Year Two You will tudy the following law module Welh Devolution 10 credit Legal Welh 10 credit And the following Welh module Cymraeg y Gweithle a'r Gymuned You will tudy further module up to the value of 80 credit: 60 credit will be choen from the law module on page 17 and will be choen from the Welh module lited. In Year 3 you will tudy the following law module Law Diertation You will tudy further module up to the value of 100 credit: credit will be choen from the law module on page 17 and credit will be choen from the Welh module lited. Welh module (Year Two and Year Three) Ailddehongli Llenyddiaeth yr Oeoedd Canol Amlddiwylliannedd yn y Diwylliant Cymraeg Bla ar Ymchwil Cyfieithu Proffeiynol Cymdeithaeg yr Wyddeleg 10 credit Cymru ar Daith: Llên Teithio Cymraeg 10 credit Dafydd ap Gwilym Llên y Ddina 10 credit Llenyddiaeth er 1900 Soioieithyddiaeth 10 credit Theori a Beirniadaeth Lenyddol 10 credit William Pantycelyn a'r Emyn Ygrifennu Creadigol

24 22 Integrated Honour in Law and Language Integrated Honour in Law and Language Among Cardiff Law School' tronget programme are the law and language programme, pioneered here around thirty year ago. We offer degree in Law and French or Law and German. Legal practice increaingly take place on a global tage, and Cardiff LLB programme in law and language aim to produce lawyer not only fully competent in the law of England and Wale, but alo fluent in the choen language and converant with the general culture, political intitution and legal ytem of another country. Thee programme conit of four year tudy, the firt two and final year pent at Cardiff, the third year pent at a univerity in France, Germany or Autria. Student will purue module in the Law School and the School of European Language, Politic and Tranlation (EUROP). Both are full-time four-year programme. Part of each programme conit of French or German tudie undertaken in the Cardiff School of European Language, Politic and Tranlation, including tuition to proficiency in reading, peaking and writing the relevant language. The other part, undertaken in the Law School, combine a thorough grounding in the Law of England and Wale with an introduction to the legal ytem of France or Germany/Autria. The year abroad i the mot ditinctive feature of our integrated degree. Thi i pent in the Law Faculty of a Univerity in a country whoe language you are tudying. The earlier year aim to give a olid foundation in both linguitic and national legal kill, upon which you can build while abroad and which will allow you to take full advantage of the benefit of tudying in a foreign univerity environment. Cardiff Law School ha exchange agreement under the ERASMUS cheme with the Univeritie of Amien, Nante, Poitier, Renne and Touloue in France, Halle, Kontanz and Paau in Germany, and Innbruck in Autria. Aitance with the funding of the year abroad i regularly received from the ERASMUS programme of the European Union through it Lifelong Learning Programme. The link between Cardiff and it partner univeritie are cloe and each year member of taff from Cardiff viit them to hold lecture for local tudent. They alo act a hot for lecturer from the partner univeritie who come to Cardiff to deliver lecture for the tudent on the Law & Language degree programme. Module and Credit Year One Legal Foundation Public Law Contract Criminal Law French or German language Other French or German tudie Total credit Year Two Law module French or German Law French or German language plu from option in EUROP Total credit Year Two-S French, German or Autrian Law coure taken abroad French, German or Autrian Law legal diertation, aeed in Cardiff French or German Studie diertation, aeed in Cardiff Total credit Year Three Law Module French or German Language Other French or German Studie Total credit Law School Law School Law School 20 (Credit will be awarded in Cardiff for work that i aeed abroad) Law School EUROP EUROP EUROP EUROP 40 Up to