Program Overview

BA Law

Course Overview

This twenty-first century BA Law degree encompasses a range of traditional and contemporary legal subjects and will deliver the skills and competences that will make you ‘career ready’ and enhance your employability in a legal context.

BA Law is a practical law degree designed to meet employer needs and is taught by experienced legal professionals and academics who are active for large organisations such as GRETA, the Youth Justice Board, and the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights.

Upon completion, you will be eligible to continue your legal training along the Solicitors Qualifying Examination (SQE) route, or the Bar Professional Training Course (BPTC). Successful completion of particular modules will grant you exemption from certain professional examinations. We also offer a number of modules specifically designed to prepare you for the SQE and its mode of assessment.

BA Law offers a number of options, including the opportunity to do a work placement module in different areas of law, or to study abroad in the second year at one of our many partner universities in Europe, USA, Canada and Australia.

Modules

Year 1

• Core
  • Contract Law (LC13820, 20 credits)
  • Criminal Law (LC10520, 20 credits)
  • Legal Skills and Research (LC10420, 20 credits)
  • Legal and Criminal Justice Systems (LC10120, 20 credits)
  • Tort (LC11120, 20 credits)
  • Public Law (LC10620, 20 credits)
• Options
  • Introduction to Criminology (LC12220, 20 credits)
  • Law in Action (LC13220, 20 credits)

Year 2

• Core
  • European Law (LC20720, 20 credits)
  • Public Law (LC20620, 20 credits)
  • Equity and Trusts (LC24920, 20 credits)
  • Land Law (LC24820, 20 credits)
• Options
  • Climate Change and Environmental Law (LC27720, 20 credits)
  • Commercial Law (LC26220, 20 credits)
  • Crime and the Media (LC24320, 20 credits)
  • Employment Law (LC26820, 20 credits)
  • Family and Child Law (LC26420, 20 credits)
  • Humanitarian Law (LC27620, 20 credits)
  • Intellectual Property Law (LC28620, 20 credits)
  • International Law (LC26920, 20 credits)
  • Introduction to Criminology (LC22220, 20 credits)
  • Medicine Ethics and the Law (LC26720, 20 credits)
  • Principles of Evidence (LC26520, 20 credits)
  • Psychological Explanations of Criminal Behaviour (LC28120, 20 credits)
  • Sports Law and Society (LC27920, 20 credits)
  • Treatment and Rehabilitation of Offenders (LC29120, 20 credits)
  • Youth Crime and Justice (LC26120, 20 credits)
  • Community Justice (LC20320, 20 credits)
  • Company Law (LC27220, 20 credits)
  • Contemporary Issues in Criminology (LC24220, 20 credits)
  • Drugs and Crime (LC28220, 20 credits)
  • Human Rights (LC25220, 20 credits)
  • Police, Policing and Society (LC21020, 20 credits)
  • Psychopathology (LC29220, 20 credits)
  • Technology, Artificial Intelligence and the Law (LC22420, 20 credits)
  • Victimology (LC20820, 20 credits)

Year 3

• Core
  • No core modules
• Options
  • Advocacy Skills (LC39920, 20 credits)
  • Business Law and Practice and Solicitors Accounts (LC31420, 20 credits)
  • Climate Change and Environmental Law (LC37720, 20 credits)
  • Commercial Law (LC36220, 20 credits)
  • Community Justice (LC30320, 20 credits)
  • Company Law (LC37220, 20 credits)
  • Contemporary Issues in Criminology (LC34220, 20 credits)
  • Crime and the Media (LC34320, 20 credits)
  • Criminal Law and Practice (LC31620, 20 credits)
  • Critical and Radical Criminology (LC37120, 20 credits)
  • Dispute Resolution in Contract and Tort (LC31520, 20 credits)
  • Drugs and Crime (LC38220, 20 credits)
  • Employability Skills for Professionals (LC36620, 20 credits)
  • Employment Law (LC36820, 20 credits)
  • Family and Child Law (LC36420, 20 credits)
  • Human Rights (LC35220, 20 credits)
  • Humanitarian Law (LC37620, 20 credits)
  • Intellectual Property Law (LC38620, 20 credits)
  • International Law (LC36920, 20 credits)
  • Introduction to Criminology (LC32220, 20 credits)
  • Law and Criminology Dissertation (LC39020, 20 credits)
  • Legal Practice and Public Law (LC31320, 20 credits)
  • Medicine Ethics and the Law (LC36720, 20 credits)
  • Police, Policing and Society (LC31020, 20 credits)
  • Principles of Evidence (LC36520, 20 credits)
  • Property Law and Practice (LC31820, 20 credits)
  • Psychological Explanations of Criminal Behaviour (LC38120, 20 credits)
  • Psychopathology (LC39220, 20 credits)
  • Sports Law and Society (LC37920, 20 credits)
  • Technology, Artificial Intelligence and the Law (LC32420, 20 credits)
  • Treatment and Rehabilitation of Offenders (LC39120, 20 credits)
  • Victimology (LC30820, 20 credits)
  • Wills, Trusts and Estates Law and Practice (LC31720, 20 credits)
  • Youth Crime and Justice (LC36120, 20 credits)
  • Equity and Trusts (LC34920, 20 credits)
  • Land Law (LC34820, 20 credits)

Careers

BA Law from Aberystwyth will make you a strong candidate for training to become a barrister or a solicitor, if that is the path you choose. It will also give you an excellent springboard into a wide range of other career areas. You will graduate with a plethora of important skills that you can present to future employers, which will open up a range of exciting opportunities in areas such as criminology, financial management, business, human resources, international relations, journalism and education.

Teaching & Learning

You will be taught through a combination of innovative and high-quality lectures, tutorials and seminars.

Our lectures will introduce you to key concepts and relevant up-to-date information. You will also have access to recorded versions of lectures.

Our tutorials and seminars are an opportunity for you to discuss specific legal themes or topics, and to evaluate and obtain feedback on your individual learning while at the same time improving your construction of legal arguments.

You will be assessed through essays, exams, study logs or portfolios and oral presentations including mooting exercises.

A personal tutor will be assigned to you for the duration of your degree course. Your personal tutor will be your key contact if you have any issues or queries.

Student Testimonials

Law is a challenging subject which stretches me each and every day and that is exactly why I enjoy it! Thanks to both the brilliant staff and the extensive resources available to students, the challenge remains one which I’ve never felt was out of my grasp. Aberystwyth itself is a great town, ideal for a variety of students. It has something to offer for everyone, and I know of no better place to make close friends. The town is very relaxed and welcoming, and when it is sunny there is no place in the UK I’d rather be. Andrew James Hall

The combination of a brilliant course with a beautiful town is perfect. I have loved studying Law at Aberystwyth over the past 3 years. Although it has been hard work and exhausting, it has been thrilling and challenging as well. All the lecturers, tutors and staff are fantastically friendly and helpful and care about the department and the way modules are taught. The Law library houses everything you need for your degree, so you don’t need to go far. Law attracts so many different personalities and students from different backgrounds and spending 3 years with them is great. The modules offer great choice. William Pryce

Typical Entry Requirements

• UCAS Tariff: 128 - 104
• A Levels: ABB-BCC
• GCSE requirements (minimum grade C/4): English or Welsh
• BTEC National Diploma: DDM-MMM
• International Baccalaureate: 30-28
• European Baccalaureate: 75%-65% overall
• English Language Requirements: See our Undergraduate English Language Requirements for this course. Pre-sessional English Programmes are also available for students who do not meet our English Language Requirements.

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