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Law with Legal Placement: Placement Module

Module description

This module will assess your learning on your legal placement as a compulsory element of the LLB with Legal Placement Programme. It significantly increases and deepens your understanding of the legal workplace and issues relating to legal professionalism and the future of law beyond the academic learning in your academic modules. It gives you a deeper understanding of legal practice and learning through the experience of a different learning culture, develops your practical law skills (both through work experience and through writing your dissertation plan), broadening your overall experience of learning. The aim of the 'reflective log' element of the module is to focus your awareness on the impact of your placement, comparing expectations with realities and developing a critical awareness of reality of the legal workplace. You will be enabled to reflect on the problems posed by different working conditions and by the challenges of everyday life in an unfamiliar social and economic environment.

This module is only for students taking the LLB with Legal Placement.

Module aims - intentions of the module

This module aims to provide you with a detailed insight into the work of the law and innovative  changes and developments in the legal profession. Through a variety of forms of assessment, it intends to encourage you to reflect on your practical experience and to give you a deeper and broader understanding of current legal issues affecting the legal profession.

Intended Learning Outcomes (ILOs)

ILO: Module-specific skills

On successfully completing the module you will be able to...

• 1. demonstrate critical awareness of the similarities and differences in approaches to law between a practical workplace-based experience and academic study at Exeter
• 2. demonstrate competence in locating, understanding and applying legal materials in the workplace;
• 3. demonstrate critical awareness of innovative approaches to law and developments in the future of the legal profession to help prepare for further legal study

ILO: Discipline-specific skills

On successfully completing the module you will be able to...

• 4. demonstrate good awareness of the issues and complexities of legal practice;

ILO: Personal and key skills

On successfully completing the module you will be able to...

• 5. demonstrate an awareness of the complexities of living and working in a professional environment,
• 6. successfully to negotiate those complexities;
• 7. identify and reflect on personal tasks and challenges and to learn from their resolution

Syllabus plan

Placements for this module will be secured by the Law School. You will be provided with suitable preparatory materials and appropriate guidance during the second year of the degree and required to complete a non-credit bearing on-line module in professionalism. You will join your employer without returning to Exeter at the start of your third year and will re-join your Exeter degree programme at the start of your fourth year. The legal placement will run from early October until the end of March. Whilst on placement you will take direction from your host organisation.

Following selection onto the LLB with Legal Placement Programme in your second year, you will be required to ensure that all necessary paperwork is completed in due time, and to attend preparatory meetings. You will be provided with contact details for both the host organisation and for Exeter University. You will be asked to maintain regular contact with the Programme Director at Exeter, who will also visit you during the placement.  Your workload, hours etc. will be negotiated by yourself and the organisation hosting your placement. You must liaise with your potential final year dissertation supervisor (see LAW3047B) during your placement and keep the Programme Director informed of your dissertation plan progress.

Learning activities and teaching methods (given in hours of study time)

Details of learning activities and teaching methods

Formative assessment

Summative assessment (% of credit)

Details of summative assessment

Details of re-assessment (where required by referral or deferral)

Re-assessment notes

Deferred students will be reassessed in the element that has been mitigated.   Students will be referred only if they achieve under 40% overall. If this is the case students will then be reassessed in any elements they have failed.

Please note if students do not achieve 40% on the reassessment attempt, they will be put on to the three year variant of their programme. This module will appear on your transcript as a fail, but you will no longer have ‘with Legal Placement’ in your degree title.

Indicative learning resources - Basic reading

Generally not applicable.

To be provided via the Professionalism in Law preparation module and in consultation with the Programme Director and employer regarding the specifics of the placement.

Key words search

Legal Placement, Law, Work Experience.