**Course summary** Prepare for the degree with an extra foundation year at the start. - After the foundation year, gain real legal work experience in every year of your degree. - Take work placements in legal settings across the UK and overseas. - Study modules designed around the Solicitors Qualifying Examination. - Work in our on-campus law firm alongside practising lawyers and specialist academics. Overall on this course, you’ll gain the skills, experience, contacts and credentials you need to kick-start your legal career. You’ll do real legal work through our on-campus law firm while gaining a detailed legal education, designed around the Solicitors Qualifying Examination. When you graduate, you will not only have a law degree — you’ll have extensive legal work experience to support your qualification as a Solicitor. **How you learn** This foundation year is an entry route if you do not yet meet the entry requirements for our LLB (Hons) Law course, if you are not yet ready for degree level study, or if you are returning to study and would like to spend time getting up to speed with the demands of learning before embarking on a degree. You will share the foundation year with other Law, Criminology, Policing and Psychology foundation students, before moving on to your subject-specific degree. You learn through Lectures Seminars Workshops team meetings peer learning guest lectures You will receive feedback regularly from your tutors, peers and through guided self-reflection to help you develop the skills and knowledge needed to undertake the various module assessments. **Applied learning** On your LLB (Hons) Law course, following completion of your foundation year you will have a range of opportunities to apply your learning and gain valuable practical experience. **SHU Law** Our regulated and supervised on-campus law firm, SHU Law, offers law students a unique chance to get ahead with their solicitor qualifications. You’ll gain vital industry experience, working alongside Solicitors on real cases. Uniquely, your work with SHU Law is fully integrated into your course from your first year, and will continue throughout your studies. **Work placements** In your final year, you can choose to opt out of SHU Law work placements and enter an external legal setting. Placements have been taken at major national and international law firms such as Irwin Mitchell and DLA Piper, and often involve sitting in on real hearings and court cases with Solicitors. You may also gain a placement in areas such as local government, coroners’ offices or local law firms. There are also international work placements available in the USA, including at the Public Defenders’ Office in Savannah, and Innocence Project in San Diego (subject to the UK’s continued participation in the Erasmus+ programme following the Brexit transition period). **Social justice** Throughout the course, you’ll help and advocate for those who don’t have or can’t afford representation. You’ll have opportunities to work on our court helpdesks, providing vital free legal advice to members of the public, to contribute to projects in our Human Rights Clinic, which is part of the award-winning Helena Kennedy Centre for International Justice, and to work within the Refugee Family Reunion Clinic assisting refugees with family reunification applications.

Module and assessment information for future years is displayed as currently validated and may be liable to change. When selecting electives, your choices will be subject to the core requirements of the course. As a result, selections may be limited to a choice between one of two or more specified electives in some instances. You can take an optional placement in year three. Year 1 Compulsory modules Introduction To The Psychological, Political, Legal, Criminal Justice And Sociological Sciences 60 The Practice Of Law And Policing 60 Year 2 Compulsory modules Criminal Law And Practice 30 Dispute Resolution In Contract 30 Introduction To Law And Practice 30 Uk Constitutional Law And Practice 30 Year 3 Compulsory modules Dispute Resolution In Tort 30 Land, Property Law And Practice 30 Legal Professional Practice Development 30 Trusts & Equitable Wrongs (Including Wills And Administration Of Estates) 30 Year 4 Optional modules Placement Year Final year Compulsory modules Legal Professional Practice (Contentious) 30 Legal Professional Practice (Non-Contentious) 30 Elective modules Business Law And Practice 30 Commercial Law And Practice 30 Dissertation 30 Employment Law And Practice 30 Family Law, Policy And Practice 30 Human Rights Law And Practice 30 Immigration Law And Practice 30 Law And Medicine 30 Law Of Evidence And Practice 30 Sports Law 30

Coursework, exams, practical assessment

Solicitors Regulation Authority

The Bar Council

26 January This is the deadline for applications to be completed and sent for this course. If the university or college still has places available you can apply after this date, but your application is not guaranteed to be considered.

Course code: A098

Institution code: S21

Campus Name: Main Site

Campus code:

The following entry points are available for this course:

Year 1

Entry Requirements for Advanced Entry are not listed for this Course.

Please note the University will only admit students who are aged 18 or over at the point of enrolment.

Please click the following link to find out more about qualification requirements for this course

https://www.shu.ac.uk/courses/law/llb-hons-law-with-foundation-year/full-time/2021

Minimum Further Information are not listed for this Course.

Test	Grade	AdditionalDetails
IELTS (Academic)	6.0	Score of 6 with a minimum of 5.5 in all skills.

English Language Entry Requirement Information are not listed for this Course.

Student satisfaction : 79%

Employment after 15 months (Most common jobs): 70%

Go onto work and study: 90%

Our tuition fees for UK students starting full-time undergraduate study in 2022/2023 are regulated by the UK government and are yet to be confirmed. For an indication, our tuition fees for UK students starting this course in 2021/22 are £9,250 per year. Our tuition fees for International/EU students are also yet to be confirmed, however you can see the course page on the Sheffield Hallam Website for more information.

City Campus
Howard Street
Address3 are not listed for this Course.
Sheffield
S1 1WB