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Foundations in Law 5 - Senior Status - LAW00080H
- Department: The York Law School
- Credit value: 20 credits
- Credit level: H
- Academic year of delivery: 2023-24
- See module specification for other years: 2024-25
Module summary
This module considers core areas of law: Criminal law; European Union Law; the law of Obligations; Property Law; Public Law. These are the foundations of legal knowledge associated with progression to the legal professions.
Module will run
| Occurrence | Teaching period |
|---|---|
| A | Semester 2 2023-24 |
Module aims
This module enables you to continue to develop and deepen, to an advanced level, your understanding of key legal institutions, key areas of law (the 'core' subject areas of Criminal Law; European Law; Obligations (Contract, Tort and Restitution); Property Law (Land Law and Equity); Public Law (Constitutional and Administrative Law), and the relationships between and among them. You will build on the skills associated with problem-based learning, which you started to develop in Foundations in Law 1 to 4. You will continue to develop, and to evidence through your oral and written communication, key skills associated with legal scholarship, including those relating to the undertaking of research, the development of reasoned arguments, the use of evidence, and the practice of critical evaluation.
Module learning outcomes
1. Demonstrate a positive and significant contribution to your learning and development, and those of others, through regular attendance and active participation in learning activities in Foundations PBL workshops.
2. Critically analyse facts in a range of scenarios to identify stakeholder interests and legal issues
3. Critically and systematically evaluate primary and secondary legal sources located through the application of advanced research strategies
4. Critically and systematically analyse concepts and principles of the foundation subjects of English law, the relationships between them, and interests, perspectives and contexts relevant to law
5. Apply principles and rules of law to develop comprehensive, reasoned and sophisticated analyses of, and solutions to, legal problems
6. Critically evaluate, interpret and apply relevant sources to develop coherent, sophisticated arguments and fully reasoned conclusions
7. Communicate, in a structured and coherent manner, and with high levels of clarity and precision, orally and in writing, the results of your research and work, and your arguments and solutions
Module content
Learning in this module builds directly on the principles and rules of Criminal Law; European Law; Obligations (Contract, Tort and Restitution); Property Law (Land Law and Equity); Public Law (Constitutional studied in Foundations in Law 1 to 4, and complements Foundations in Law 6.
Indicative assessment
| Task | % of module mark |
|---|---|
| Essay/coursework | 10 |
| Essay/coursework | 45 |
| Essay/coursework | 45 |
Special assessment rules
None
Additional assessment information
Formative opportunities available through simulated assessment activities, in which students can, with support, scrutinise, respond to and discuss assessment tasks. Opportunities to generate and discuss items related to PBL activities.
Indicative reassessment
| Task | % of module mark |
|---|---|
| Essay/coursework | 10 |
| Essay/coursework | 45 |
| Essay/coursework | 45 |
Module feedback
Generic feedback will be provided with the opportunity for individual feedback.
Indicative reading
Foundations in Law 5 forms part of the problem-based learning component of the law undergraduate programmes. PBL does not involve the use of 'reading lists' in the conventional sense. A range of texts relating to legal institutions, and the 'core' subject areas of legal learning, namely Criminal Law; European Law; Obligations (Contract, Tort and Restitution); Property Law (Land Law and Equity); Public Law (Constitutional and Administrative Law) are available to students through the Law Trove resource to which YLS subscribes.