Legal Foundations

You'll undertake eight core modules and select one project module option, covering the seven foundations of legal knowledge and offering preparatory learning for elements of the Solicitors Qualifying Examination.

The learning structure will enhance your academic and organisational skills and develop new legal skills and knowledge. You'll have the opportunity to work with external partners to support clients with a range of legal problems, or to undertake a supervised research project on a legal area of your choice.

This course includes or offers the following modules. Please check the programme document for more information on which modules are core, required or optional.

Trimester One

You'll study modules:

• Legal Systems Research and Skills
• Constitutional and EU Law
• Obligations and Dispute Resolution
• Public Law

Trimester Two

You'll study modules:

• Property Law and Practice
• Criminal Law and Practice
• Business Law and Practice 
• Trusts, Wills and Estates

Trimester Three 

You'll have the opportunity to choose a Legal Clinic or Legal Research Project module option. The Legal Clinic module option offers the opportunity to gain legal experience in real world client scenarios.

Students that do not wish to complete the project modules can choose to exit the course with a PgDip qualification upon successful completion of the core modules.

You'll be assessed through a range of methods including examinations, tests, reports, essays, practical skill exercises, and portfolio and dissertation writing. The core modules include formative assessments similar to that used on the SQE.

You'll be taught using a range of methods including in-person seminars and practical skill workshops, supervision, client-based interaction and digital learning.

To find out more about how we teach and how you'll learn, please read our information on Your Learning and Teaching at BSU.

You'll get the chance to engage with a range of guest speakers and legal practice stakeholders, and you'll have the opportunity to visit the Bath Law Clinic at the beginning of the programme.

The Legal Clinic module option offers experience, learning and support that will enhance your legal practice knowledge and future employability.

The course has been designed to support you to make progress towards legal qualification in England and Wales. The course will also equip you to follow other law-related career paths.

You'll have the opportunity to compete in open competitions across a range of extracurricular activities including debating and mooting.

The course is taught at our Newton Park campus, with an option to visit Bath Law Clinic.

Our library offers a wide range of relevant materials including electronic sources. This online material can be accessed on and off campus enabling you to work at times that suit you.