**Course overview**
- Gain a broad introduction to the basics of law and criminology at one of the UK’s leading providers of legal education on our Law Foundation Entry Degree. It’s a great stepping stone to a degree programme.
- You’ll acquire core skills and legal knowledge to help you to progress onto a degree programme. It’s a course that’s underpinned by research of international excellence.
- You’ll gain a real insight into the legal profession with regular visits from leading practitioners, academics and judges.
- You’ll be supported in finding legal placements as part of the course and our North West based alumni offer graduate placements.
**Why study with us**
- You’ll develop transferable skills in oral and written communication, language and digital technology, critical thinking, group work and personal development planning.
- You’ll be taught by leading academics and staff who are professionally qualified as solicitors and barristers and hear from professors who are involved in ground-breaking research.
- Our moot court room gives you invaluable real-life experience, it’s where we host mooting competitions, advocacy training and visiting speakers.
**Further information**
- The School is at the cutting edge of research in a number of specialist legal areas including investigations into crime and criminal justice.
- Over 50% of research is classed as internationally significant or world leading. Our externally funded projects have included looking at an Alcohol Policy for Europe, Hate Crime in Europe and International War Crimes.
- There are opportunities for you to contribute to research projects through intern schemes.
Course Details - Modules
Year 1: Core: Introduction to Academic Skills in Higher Education, Introduction to Issues in Law and Criminology. Options: Introduction to Human Rights and Debating, Introduction to Business Law and Commercial Awareness, Introduction to Family Law, Introduction to Psychology, Introduction to Sociology
Year 2: Core: Lawyers Skills and Personal Development, Legal System, Public Law, Contract Law. 2 options from a range offered (subject to numbers), including: Defamation and Privacy in the Media, Judicial Process, Foundations in Human Rights
Year 3: Core: EU Law, Criminal Law, Tort Law, Legal Research and Reasoning and Professional Development. 2 options from a range offered (subject to numbers), including: Mooting and Legal Debating, Family Law, Media Law, Employment Law, Human Rights in the UK, Criminology, Sentencing & Treatment of Offenders, Sports Law, War Crimes Trials
Year 4: Core: Land Law, Trusts & Equity, Interviewing Employability and Personal Development. 3 options from a range offered (subject to numbers), including: Medicine and the Law, Intellectual Property Law, Company Law, Criminal Law Relating to Sex & Violence, Criminal Evidence, EU Business Law, Placement (worked based learning for lawyers.), Terrorism and the Law, Dissertation, Project, Law Clinic
Course Details – Assessment Method
Assessment Methods are not listed for this Course.
Course Details – Professional Bodies
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How to Apply
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.
Application Codes
Course code:
M101
Institution code:
C30
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Points of Entry
The following entry points are available for this course:
Foundation
Entry Requirements for Advanced Entry (Year 2 and Beyond)
Entry Requirements for Advanced Entry are not listed for this Course.
International applicants
Standard Qualification Requirements
64 UCAS points at A2
P (D or E)
64 UCAS points
64 UCAS points
64 UCAS points
64 UCAS points at Higher Level subjects
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Minimum Qualification Requirements
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English language requirements
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Grade
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IELTS (Academic)
6.0
with no component score less than 5.5 (To have been taken within two years of the course commencement date)
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Unistats information
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Fees and funding
England
6000.0
Year 1
Northern Ireland
6000.0
Year 1
Scotland
6000.0
Year 1
Wales
6000.0
Year 1
Channel Islands
6000.0
Year 1
Additional Fee Information
Please note fees for the foundation year will be £6,000, and then £9,250 per year for the remainder of the course.
*subject only to annual increase in line with UK Retail Price Index inflation rate
Provider information
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Preston
PR1 2HE
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