On this degree you will learn through a combination of lectures, seminars, tutorials, informal but scheduled one-on-one support, and self-directed learning, such as research, reading, and writing.
All of these are supported by a virtual learning environment, Durham University Online (DUO). Seminars and tutorials are much smaller groups than lectures, small enough to allow one-on-one interaction with academic staff. Durham Law School is one of only a handful of law schools that teaches in groups as small as eight students.
This emphasis on small-group teaching reflects a conscious choice to enhance the quality of the learning experience rather than the number of formal sessions.
Small-group teaching and one-on-one attention from your academic advisor at the start of your degree is part of the learning experience throughout leading to more independent research, including a capstone dissertation – supported by one-on-one supervision – that makes up a third of your final year credits.
In this way, the degree systematically transforms you from a consumer of knowledge in the classroom to a generator of knowledge, ready for professional or postgraduate life. These formal teaching arrangements are supported by ‘drop-in’ surgeries with teaching staff and induction sessions that begin in the week before the start of the degree and continue at key times throughout each year of the course.
You can also attend an extensive programme of research-focused seminars where staff and visiting scholars present their cutting-edge research.
We review course structures and core content (in light of e.g. external and student feedback) every year, and will publish finalised core requirements for 2022 entry from September 2021.
**For more information on this course, please see our website.**
Course Details - Modules
The LLB degree is a highly flexible three-year, full-time course. There are approximately 300 students on each year of the LLB. While providing a solid grounding in the main areas of English and Welsh law, it also allows for individual specialisation through a variety of optional modules offered by the School and other departments in the University.
The degree course provides the opportunity to obtain a Qualifying Law Degree as recognised by the Solicitors Regulation Authority and the Bar Standards Board. (Please note: whether or not a degree exempts a student from the academic stage of training to be a solicitor or barrister depends on the modules that the student studies. In practice, virtually all of our students choose to study the modules that are required by the Law Society and Bar Council, and do gain a Qualifying Law Degree.)
Year 1
The modules which you will take in your first year are designed to provide a solid foundation of legal knowledge which can be built upon in subsequent years. You will study all of the following:
Introduction to English Law and Legal Method (20 credits)
Tort Law (20 credits)
Contract Law (20 credits)
EU Constitutional Law (20 credits)
UK Constitutional Law (20 credits)
The Individual and the State (20 credits).
Year 2
In the second year, you will need to study three further modules in order to obtain a Qualifying Law Degree. You may then take a further three optional modules, giving you the chance to tailor the course to your own requirements. The compulsory modules for Qualifying Law Degree purposes are:
Criminal Law
Land Law
Trusts Law.
An indicative list of optional modules is given in the list below. However, you may also, at the discretion of the departments concerned, elect to take a 20-credit module from the open modules (at first or second year) offered by another department at Durham University.
Examples of optional modules:
Administrative Law (20 credits)
Advanced Issues in Public Law (20 credits)
Commercial Law (20 credits)
Employment Law (20 credits)
The European Internal Market and Its Citizens (20 credits)
Public International Law (20 credits)
Religion and Law (20 credits)
Law, Gender and Society (20 credits)
Law of Family Relationships (20 credits)
Legal Frontiers (20 credits)
Evidence and Criminal Process (20 credits)
Contemporary Issues in Biolaw (20 credits)
Philosophy of Human Rights Law (20 credits).
Year 3
In the final year, you will study one compulsory 40-credit Dissertation module and four optional modules. You will choose at least three modules (60 credits) from Level 3 (with an indicative list given below), with the possibility to select one module from Level 2. It may also be possible for you, at the discretion of the departments concerned, to elect to take a 20-credit module from the open modules offered by another department at Durham University at second or third year (although if the chosen module is at Level 2, you will not be entitled to choose a Level 2 Law module).
Full details of the topics covered in individual modules are available on the Law School website www.durham.ac.uk/law
Course Details – Assessment Method
Assessment Methods are not listed for this Course.
Course Details – Professional Bodies
Professional Bodies are not listed for this Course.
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:
D86
Campus Name:
St Chad's College
Campus code:
Points of Entry
The following entry points are available for this course:
Year 1
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
Specific subjects excluded for entry:
General Studies and Critical Thinking.
Information:
All applicants are also required to sit the LNAT (www.lnat.ac.uk).
Applicants taking Science A-levels that include a practical component will be required to take and pass this as a condition of entry. This refers only to English A Levels.
Departments will normally make offers based on Advanced Highers. In the absence of 3 Advanced Highers, where these are not offered by the applicant’s school, offers comprising of Advanced Highers and Highers or a number of Highers may be made on a case by case basis. All applicants are also required to sit the LNAT (www.lnat.ac.uk).
We require 60 credits with a minimum of 45 credits at level 3 (or equivalent). Applicants may be required to meet additional subject-specific requirements for particular courses at Durham. All applicants are also required to sit the LNAT (www.lnat.ac.uk).
All applicants are also required to sit the LNAT (www.lnat.ac.uk).
General information on subjects/grades required for entry:
To include 6, 6, 6 from Higher Level subjects. All applicants are also required to sit the LNAT (www.lnat.ac.uk).
Subject specific A-levels (or equivalent) may be required. All applicants are also required to sit the LNAT (www.lnat.ac.uk).
All applicants are also required to sit the LNAT (www.lnat.ac.uk).
All applicants are also required to sit the LNAT (www.lnat.ac.uk).
All applicants are also required to sit the LNAT (www.lnat.ac.uk).
Our contextual offer for this programme is A level AAB (or equivalent), To find out if you’re eligible, please visit: www.dur.ac.uk/study/ug/apply/contextualoffers/
Please click the following link to find out more about qualification requirements for this course
https://www.dur.ac.uk/study/ug/apply/entry/
Minimum Qualification Requirements
Minimum Further Information are not listed for this Course.
English language requirements
Test
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AdditionalDetails
Durham University welcomes applications from all students irrespective of background. We encourage the recruitment of academically well-qualified and highly motivated students, who are non-native speakers of English, whose full potential can be realised with a limited amount of English Language training either prior to entry or through pre-sessional and/or in-sessional courses.
It is the normal expectation that candidates for admission should be able to demonstrate satisfactory English proficiency before the start of a programme of study, whether via the submission of an appropriate English language qualification or by attendance on an appropriate pre-sessional course.
Acceptable evidence and levels required can be viewed by following the link provided.
