This module is for undergraduate students to study abroad in their second year, Semester 2 (only for courses that offer this option). With this module, you can spend a semester at one of the University’s approved partner institutions worldwide – from Europe to the Americas, Asia Australia or Canada.  

Study Abroad plays an important role in the University's commitment to an engaging, challenging, and thriving learning culture. It offers opportunities to experience other academic cultures and foster intellectual maturity while enhancing co-curricular skills and students' long-term employability. 

Study abroad for credit is permitted on existing university-approved courses only. Students are awarded credits and grades at the partner institution, which are converted into Sheffield Hallam credits and grades on return and included in the Sheffield Hallam degree classification. 

Please check and refer to the webpage How study abroad works. You must submit a Learning Agreement outlining the modules you will be taking at the partner institution. The Learning Agreement will be signed off by your academic tutor to ensure that the Learning broadly covers the Learning Outcomes set out in your course curriculum during your study abroad.  

Module aim:    

The aim of this module is to enhance students’ professional development through the completion of and reflection on meaningful work placement(s).  

A work placement will provide students with opportunities to experience the realities of professional employment and experience how their course can be applied within their chosen industry setting. The placement will: 

• Allow student to apply the skills, theories and behaviours relevant and in addition to their course 

• Enable students to enhance their interpersonal skills in demand by graduate employers – communication, problem solving, creativity, resilience, team work etc.  

• Grow their student network and relationship building skills. 

• Provide student with insights into the industry and sector in which their placement occurs 

• Help student make informed graduate careers choices. 

Indicative Content:  

In this module students undertake a sandwich placement (min 24 weeks / min 21 hours per week) which is integrated, assessed and aligned to their studies.  

Their personal Placement Academic Supervisor (PAS) will be their key point of contact during their placement and will encourage and support students to reflect on their experience, learning and contribution to the organisation they work for.  

To demonstrate gains in professional development, students will be required to share their progress, learning and achievements with their Placement Academic Supervisor and reflect on these for the summative piece of work. 

This module provides a real-world understanding of key aspects of commercial law, with a focus on the often-complex relationships that exist between multiple parties and stakeholders. , You’ll consider the aims of commercial law in the light of the local, national and global commercial environment – including environmental and social governance (ESG) in which companies operate.  

You’ll study topics such as:  

• The agency relationship  

• Creation, duties, rights and termination 

• Passing of property and risk 

• Nemo dat rule and exceptions 

• Statutory implied terms 

This module develops your understanding of how the main company structures in the UK are formed, owned, managed, operated, governed and dissolved – in the context of avoiding or resolving legal disputes. We’ll provide local, national and global awareness of the social, legal and economic importance of companies in our daily lives.  

You’ll study topics such as:  

• Company promotion and formation 

• Constitutional rules 

• Corporate governance  

• Directors’ management roles, powers and duties 

• Shareholders’ strategic roles 

• Legal environmental, social and governance obligations  

• Decision making in companies 

• Shares and shareholding in companies 

• Protections for minority shareholders 

• Company insolvency, liquidation and dissolution 

This module provides you with the opportunity to experience the realities of working within the criminal justice system via simulated scenarios. Through in-person and remote learning, you’ll develop an understanding of the theoretical underpinnings of the criminal justice system and how these affect practice.  

You’ll study topics such as:    

• A range of criminal justice processes 

• Organisations operating within the criminal justice system  

• The criminal justice process as a whole 

• Developing practice with criminological and criminal justice theory  

• Understanding models of criminal justice in practice  

• Due process, bureaucratic efficiency, victims and public engagement 

• Managing offending behaviour, denunciation and degradation 

• Legal framework within which key decisions are taken 

• Action planning and evidence-based decision making 

• Reflection on practice and development of professional identity

This module provides an understanding of the legal basis of employment relations in the UK, applying knowledge to real-world problems within the foundations of employment contracts, employment status, fair and unfair dismissals, and equality in the workplace. You’ll develop wider commercial awareness of the legal, economic and political forces which shape employment rights and protections (vs managerial power).  

You’ll study topics such as:  

• Employment status 

• Contracts of employment 

• Dismissals 

• Equality, diversity and inclusion 

• Professionalism 

This module builds your professional practice experience to focus on your personal and professional development, developing the attributes of a critical reflective practitioner. You’ll continue your placement with A local external professional provider of legal services or within our in-house Hallam Legal Advice Centre and Justice Hubs, underprofessional and academic supervision to support your development of reflective practice skills. 

You’ll apply learning and skills such as: 

• Critical reflective professional practice 

• Practical skills 

• Personal values 

• Professional graduate attributes 

This module provides knowledge and real-world understanding of family law, its application in practice to the breakdown in relationships, and a critical awareness of its dynamic nature. You’ll consider key principles not only within a domestic setting, but where relevant from an international context as well.   

You’ll study topics such as:  

• Marriage, civil partnerships and cohabitation 

• Divorce and dissolution of civil partnerships 

• Financial and property disputes following divorce/dissolution 

• Domestic abuse 

• Parental rights, parental responsibility and children’s rights 

• Private child law disputes and resolution 

• Public child law  

• Child protection and the role of the state 

This module develops your knowledge and understanding of immigration control and immigration rules. You’ll explore the applicability of domestic and international immigration law and asylum legal principles and norms 

You’ll study topics such as: 

• Historical development of immigration control 

• Human rights and immigration law 

• Detention and extradition 

• Control of entry  

• Control after entry   

• Citizenship and right of abode 

• International and UK refugees and asylum law  

This module develops your practical skills and knowledge based on research of intellectual property law. 

You’ll study topics such as: 

• Copyright and neighbouring rights 

• Patent, design and plant variety rights 

• Trademarks and domain names 

• Control of anticompetitive practices  

• Assignment licensing contract models 

• IP private international law 

This module explores and critically analyses systems, processes and debates of international criminal law and justice, through a variety of methods and interdisciplinary perspectives.

You’ll study topics such as: 

• The history of international criminal law and justice  

• Core crimes of international criminal law 

• Structure and jurisdiction of the international criminal court 

• The role and impact of victims  

• Contemporary debates, challenges and inequalities  

• International and interdisciplinary perspectives 

• The future of international criminal law and justice 

This module develops your knowledge and understanding of the main international and domestic human rights documents, in the context of the wider social and political environment.  

You’ll study topics such as: 

• Theoretical, ideological and moral foundation of human rights  

• Historical and institutional history of human rights 

• Current structures of human rights protection 

• Established and emerging rights and their development  

• Globalisation, environmental rights and humanitarian intervention 

• Conflicting narratives of human rights 

• Social justice, popular, and governmental approaches to human rights discourse 

This module provides an understanding of key legal rules and principles for medical law. You’ll explore the scope and role of medical law, human rights and ethics in light of the local, national and global commercial environment they operate within.  

You’ll study topics such as:  

• Ethical principles 

• Assisted reproduction 

• Abortion 

• Consent 

• Medical negligence 

• Euthanasia 

• Organ transplantation  

• Global regulation  

This module provides a real-world understanding of key principles and aspects of the law of criminal evidence.  

You’ll study topics such as: 

• Burdens and standards of proof, competence and compellability 

• Corroboration and care warnings 

• The rule against hearsay evidence 

• Confession evidence 

• Identification evidence 

• Opinion evidence 

• Discrimination, unfairness and inequalities in the operation and development of the rules of evidence

This module provides a sound knowledge and understanding of the legal procedures and institutional frameworks comprising Public Law, in the context of public interest campaigns. 

You’ll study topics such as:  

• Nature and scope of Public Law 

• The development of modern administrative law  

• The use of law and legal processes to effect social, political and ethical change 

• Accountability of public bodies through judicial procedure 

• Procedural aspects of judicial review 

• Grounds for judicial review  

• Procedural impropriety, illegality and unreasonableness 

• Judicial review and human rights law and procedure 

• Oral advocacy and legal argument presentation skills 

This module explores branches of public international law, providing a solid understanding of the associated sources and structures. You’ll critique the Eurocentric roots of public international law, the challenges and inequalities that remain, and how they’re being resisted.  

You’ll study topics such as:  

• History of public international law 

• Sources of public international law 

• International organisations 

• Subjects, statehood and self-determination 

• Public international law and the use of force 

• Law of armed conflict  

• International humanitarian law  

• Future of public international law 

The module will be delivered through a variety of synchronous and asynchronous delivery methods encompassing both in person and remote learning teaching.

This module examines a variety of real-life sport situations that require you to appreciate the social, business, legal and ethical dilemmas involved in the resolution of sporting disputes. You’ll explore, analyse and discuss possible resolutions to specific dilemmas – increasing your understanding of the role of those involved in the sport experience and their influence on social, business and legal aspects. 

You’ll study topics such as: 

• Anti-doping law 

• Football law 

• The Bosman Case  

• The European Commission’s policy for sport 

• European competition law and self-regulation 

• Sport agents and regulation 

• Broadcasting rights 

• Civil and criminal liability in sport