UCAS code
M103 3 years
Location
Exeter (Streatham Campus)
Our LLB degree programme takes three years full-time to complete and covers all the foundation subjects that are required to pass the Academic Stage that forms part of the professional qualification as a barrister or solicitor.
Four modules of 30 credits each are taken per year. In the first year these are all compulsory, though there is the option of taking Advocacy and Work Experience as part of the Legal Foundations module. Legal Foundations also gives you the opportunity to see the law in action involving visits to legal institutions. In Term 2 you will have the choice between a work experience and an advocacy option, both of which will help you to develop your personal, legal and academic skills and enable you to articulate them. Students have worked in law firms, law courts and the chambers of London barristers.
In the second year you take three compulsory modules and one optional module, chosen from a wide range of specialist law subjects. In the third year you can choose three specialist modules in addition to the one compulsory module. You also have the opportunity to undertake a Dissertation or a Law in Action project on a chosen legal topic. In addition, in the second and third years, you can take up to 30 credits in a subject of interest to you, outside the discipline of law. Fifteen-credit module options are also available in the second and third years.
All our undergraduate degree programmes are accredited by the Law Society and have a series of compulsory modules which give you exemption from the academic stage of professional training. On graduation you can proceed to the Solicitors’ Legal Practice Course or Bar Professional Training Course.
Graduate LLB – we also offer a two year accelerated degree for non-Law graduates.
LLB with International Study
This programme is available to you only after you have taken the first year of our LLB Honours Law programme (M103). You may be able to transfer onto the LLB with International Study at the end of the first year if you get marks in the first-yar LLB exams equivalent to at least a mid to high 2:1 and are successful at interview - there are only two places per partner institution each year. Providing you maintain high academic levels during your second year, you can expect to spend the third year abroad in a law faculty in Australia, Singapore, Canada or the USA. Please note that you cannot apply for the LLB with International Study degree initially through UCAS. Please contact the School for further information.
