Course summary

• Study modules to provide you with knowledge and skills in law.
• Prepare for the Solicitors Qualifying Examination or other professional legal qualifications.
• Gain a variety of legal experience in our on-campus environments.
• Develop employability skills by working with legal sector professionals.
• Consider the possibility of undertaking placements in the UK and overseas.

On this course you’ll learn and apply the law practically. You’ll gain experience in our own law firm, SHU Law, and the Helena Kennedy Centre for International Justice. Through the modules you study, you’ll develop excellent legal knowledge and skills – while shaping your degree around your own interests and aspirations.

How you learn

All our courses are designed around a set of key principles based on engaging you with the world, collaborating with others, challenging you to think in new ways, and providing you with a supportive environment in which you can thrive.

At every level of your course, you’ll have the opportunity to learn the law and the personal and practical skills required to apply the law to a variety of simulated and real-life scenarios. Our award-winning tutors are experts in their fields. You’ll be taught by lecturers who are expert legal researchers, and who have years of experience in the legal profession.

You learn through

• Lectures and interactive workshops
• Independent research
• Case studies in both simulated and live client environments
• Practice-based learning centred around live client case work, conducted in small groups under the supervision of legal professionals.

You’ll have the chance to study core modules and electives relating to all aspects of criminal, civil and commercial law – with the opportunity to select modules that are of most interest to you in your final years.

You will be supported in your learning journey towards highly skilled graduate employment in a number of ways. These include

• support throughout your studies from your own dedicated academic advisor, committed to your personal and professional development as a confident, reflective and autonomous learner 
• access to our Skills Centre with one to ones, workshops and online resources to help you to plan and structure your assignments
• employability opportunities such as project work, networking and field trips – and expert advice and guidance from our careers and employability team

Applied learning

Work placements

Our regulated and supervised on-campus law firm, SHU Law, offers you a unique chance to gain real-life experience working alongside solicitors on real cases throughout your studies.

We also have excellent links with the local, regional and national legal profession. Local firms provide assessed one-day-a-week placements for many of our students. Local professionals also provide work experience opportunities, give guest lectures, advise on casework and provide career guidance.

You’ll also study English law in its international context and encounter cross-jurisdictional issues through simulated and live client work. You may even be able to undertake work placements abroad, including opportunities to spend time in the summer working at law firms across the USA on predominantly criminal law cases. Typical placements involve working in a public defender's office.

Live projects

All our work-based legal professional practice areas and elective modules provide valuable experience that improves your legal skills and impresses future employers. You can gain experience in areas such as

• business and commercial
• litigation and employment
• family and private client
• voluntary work and human rights

All of our modules contain practical, applied activities – helping you to develop your legal knowledge and professional skills throughout your course.

Future careers

Your degree can be the first step towards a career in law, business or the public sector. The practical and work-based learning you take part in gives you a range of transferable skills of value in any future career path.

This course prepares you for a career in

• private practice law firms
• in-house legal teams
• barristers' chambers
• legal advice organisations
• business and commerce
• the criminal justice sector
• financial services
• the Crown Prosecution Service

Where will I study?

You study at Collegiate Campus through a structured mix of lectures, seminars and practical sessions as well as access to digital and online resources to support your learning.

Collegiate campus

Collegiate Campus can be found just off Ecclesall Road, a bustling student district.

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Location

Collegiate Crescent
Sheffield
S10 2BP

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Entry requirements

Modules

Module and assessment information for future years is displayed as currently validated and may be liable to change. When selecting electives, your choices will be subject to the core requirements of the course. As a result, selections may be limited to a choice between one of two or more specified electives in some instances.

Fees and funding

Additional course costs

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Legal information

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