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LS5087: CRITICAL LEGAL THINKING AND SCHOLARSHIP (2014-2015)

Last modified: 28 Jun 2018 10:27


Course Overview

This compulsory course provides students from diverse legal and educational backgrounds with a common understanding of the core research, analytical, and writing skills which would be required to excel in LLM-Taught courses.  It commences with a few lectures and progresses to working within smaller groups in a workshop environment and finally to the submission of an individual counting assignment.  It also incorporates elements such as library workshops to provide students with hands-on experience with the resources available for course and dissertation work.

Course Details

Study Type Postgraduate Level 5
Session First Sub Session Credit Points 15 credits (7.5 ECTS credits)
Campus None. Sustained Study No
Co-ordinators
  • Dr Catherine Ng

What courses & programmes must have been taken before this course?

None.

What other courses must be taken with this course?

None.

What courses cannot be taken with this course?

None.

Are there a limited number of places available?

No

Course Description

Lectures: 1. Induction (1 hr) 2. Information Retrieval (2 hrs) 3. Critical Thinking (2 hrs) 4. Argument Construction – an anatomy (2 hrs) 5. Legal Scholarship (2 hrs) The contents of lectures may shift to suit student needs at each particular session. Workshops: 1. Library retrieval tools (3 x 2 hr) 2. Avoiding Plagiarism (2 hr) Tutorial: deriving a thesis statement (1 hr/group)

Further Information & Notes

This course is compulsory for all postgraduate taught law students.

Contact Teaching Time

Information on contact teaching time is available from the course guide.

Teaching Breakdown

More Information about Week Numbers


Details, including assessments, may be subject to change until 31 August 2023 for 1st half-session courses and 22 December 2023 for 2nd half-session courses.

Summative Assessments

First attempt: Assessment will be based upon course attendance and submission of a compulsory 500-word written exercise. All students will have to satisfactorily attend all lectures and workshops, and complete all assignments (counting and non-counting) in the same half session in which they register (see point 22). The course will be assessed on a pass/fail basis only. Resit: Re-attendance of course in the following half session.

Formative Assessment

There are no assessments for this course.

Feedback

None.

Course Learning Outcomes

None.

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