Law and Criminal Justice
Wrexham University
UCAS Code: LC21 | Bachelor of Arts (with Honours) - BA (Hons)
Wrexham University
UCAS Code: LC21 | Bachelor of Arts (with Honours) - BA (Hons)
Entry requirements
A level
Accepted alongside A-Levels as part of overall 96-112 UCAS Tariff requirement.
Access to HE Diploma
96-112 UCAS Tariff points
96-112 UCAS Tariff points
Accepted as part of overall 96-112 UCAS Tariff requirement.
96-112 UCAS Tariff points from International Baccalaureate Certificates
96-112 UCAS Tariff points
Accepted alongside Irish Leaving Certificate Higher Level as part of overall 96-112 UCAS Tariff requirement. Where GCSE Maths, English and/or Science are required these must be at O4 or above.
Pearson BTEC Level 3 National Extended Diploma (first teaching from September 2016)
Scottish Advanced Higher
96-112 UCAS Tariff points
Scottish Higher
96-112 UCAS Tariff points
UCAS Tariff
Accepted as part of overall 96-112 UCAS Tariff point requirement.
About this course
Why choose this course?
Our Law degree provides a grounding for a career in law by focussing on the academic and professional foundations for sitting the Solicitors Qualifying Examination (SQE) 1 and 2 and the Bar Training Course.
The course:
- *Is part of a subject area rated first in the UK for student satisfaction in the Sociology subject league tables, Complete University Guide 2023.
- *Is part of the Sociology CAH3 subject group rated 2nd out of UK universities for teaching in the National Student Survey 2021. It was also rated 1st out of Welsh universities for learning opportunities, assessment and feedback, academic support, organisation and management, learning community, student voice, students' union and overall satisfaction in the National Student Survey 2021.
- *Is part of a subject area rated 4th in the UK and 1st in Wales overall in the Criminology subject league tables, The Guardian University Guide 2022. In the same league tables, the subject area was also rated 1st in the UK for satisfaction with teaching, 1st in the UK for satisfaction with the course, and 1st in the UK for satisfaction with assessment.
- *Is rated 1st in the UK for teaching quality and 1st in Wales for student experience in the Criminology subject league tables, Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide 2022
Key Course Features:
- The programmes cover the necessary legal subjects, referred to in the professional bodies’ qualifying regulations as the Foundations of Legal Knowledge and the SQE1 Functioning Legal Knowledge (FLK) subject areas.
- The course includes qualifications, of which the law elements have been developed in partnership with legal professionals representing firms local to the University.
- Work-based modules allow the student to develop legal experience.
- Combine law and criminal justice modules and tailor your studies to your interests.
Modules
What you will study
YEAR 1 (LEVEL 4)
MODULES
Legal System and Skills (core)
Public Law: Constitutional and Administrative Law (core)
Contract Law (core)
European Law and Global Problems (core)
2 optional Criminal Justice modules from the departmental portfolio
YEAR 2 (LEVEL 5)
MODULES
Criminal Law (core)
Tort (core)
Equity and Trusts (core)
Legal Ethics and Professional Standards (core)
2 optional Criminal Justice modules from the departmental portfolio
YEAR 3 (LEVEL 6)
MODULES
Property and Land Law (core)
Law Dissertation (core)
3 optional Criminal Justice modules from the departmental portfolio
The information listed in this section is an overview of the academic content of the programme that will take the form of either core or option modules. Modules are designated as core or option in accordance with professional body requirements and internal academic framework review, so may be subject to change.
Assessment methods
Teaching & Assessment
Opportunities for formative assessments will feature regularly in order that students can gauge their own benchmarks and plot their own progress. These will include short pieces of writing and online exercises. Levels five and six will also include formative assessments but these will be less frequent and more self-directed i.e. students will be expected to be active in identifying their own strengths and limitations.
A range of summative assessments has been designed to encompass rigorous academic requirements and also to accommodate individual differences in preferred learning style. Consequently, there is a mix of essays, online multiple-choice tests, individual and group presentations and role-plays. Exams feature prominently. This is because to become a solicitor in England and Wales from 2021 onwards, two SQA exams must be passed. Accordingly, it is prudent to progressively expose students to examination conditions to develop their familiarity and skills in such assessments.
Importantly, some of the assessments have been designed to reflect the professional requirements of legal practice - associated with the accurate and professional presentation of evidence/knowledge and self.
Teaching and learning
Wrexham University is committed to supporting our students to maximise their academic potential.
We offer workshops and support sessions in areas such as academic writing, effective note-making and preparing for assignments. Students can book appointments with academic skills tutors dedicated to helping deal with the practicalities of university work. Our Student Support section has more information on the help available.
In terms of particular needs, the University’s Inclusion team can provide appropriate guidance and support should any students require reasonable adjustments to be made because of a recognised prevailing disability, medical condition, or specific learning difference.
Tuition fees
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Wrexham (Main Campus)
School of Social and Life Sciences
What students say
We've crunched the numbers to see if overall student satisfaction here is high, medium or low compared to students studying this subject(s) at other universities.
How do students rate their degree experience?
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Sociology
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Who studies this subject and how do they get on?
Most popular A-Levels studied (and grade achieved)
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Most popular A-Levels studied (and grade achieved)
Social policy
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After graduation
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Sociology
What are graduates doing after six months?
This is what graduates told us they were doing (and earning), shortly after completing their course. We've crunched the numbers to show you if these immediate prospects are high, medium or low, compared to those studying this subject/s at other universities.
Top job areas of graduates
We have quite a lot of sociology graduates, although numbers fell last year. But graduates still do pretty well. Most sociology graduates go straight into work when they complete their degrees, and a lot of graduates go into jobs in social professions such as recruitment, education, community and youth work, and housing. An important option for a sociology graduate is social work - and we're short of people willing to take this challenging but rewarding career. Sociology is a flexible degree and you can find graduates from the subject in pretty much every reasonable job — obviously, you don't find many doctors or engineers, but you do find them in finance, the media, healthcare, marketing and even IT. Sociology graduates taking further study often branch out into other qualifications, like teaching, law, psychology, HR and even maths, so don’t think a sociology degree restricts you to just one set of options.
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Social policy
What are graduates doing after six months?
This is what graduates told us they were doing (and earning), shortly after completing their course. We've crunched the numbers to show you if these immediate prospects are high, medium or low, compared to those studying this subject/s at other universities.
Top job areas of graduates
Just over 1,600 students graduated in social policy in 2015, which makes it one of the smaller social studies subjects. This is a popular subject at Masters level — 750 Masters in social policy were awarded last year - and so a lot of the more sought-after jobs in management and research tend to go to social policy graduates with postgraduate degrees. For those who leave university after their first degree, then jobs in social care (especially community and youth work) and education, the police, marketing and human resources and recruitment are popular — along with local government, although there are fewer of those jobs around than in the past. This degree is a bit less reliant on London for jobs than other similar subjects, so if you'd like to work outside the capital, it might be worth considering - although the jobs still tend to be in big cities.
What about your long term prospects?
Looking further ahead, below is a rough guide for what graduates went on to earn.
Sociology
The graph shows median earnings of graduates who achieved a degree in this subject area one, three and five years after graduating from here.
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Social policy
The graph shows median earnings of graduates who achieved a degree in this subject area one, three and five years after graduating from here.
£18k
£22k
£22k
Note: this data only looks at employees (and not those who are self-employed or also studying) and covers a broad sample of graduates and the various paths they've taken, which might not always be a direct result of their degree.
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