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International Trade and International Finance (ECN6006)
This module explores the economic and financial implications of globalisation by examining contemporary topics in international trade and international financial markets. It enables the consideration the impact of the contemporary trading and financial system on areas key business decision making.
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Managing Change (HRL6004)
This module considers the importance of change management and how it can be achieved and sustained. You will examine how change affects organisations and the individuals who work within them. You will go on to evaluate the means by which change can be analysed and implemented, considering the interactions between strategy, policy, human resources, and the organisational environment.
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Equality and Diversity in the Modern Organisation (HRL6007)
This module will provide you with a broad understanding of equality and diversity in the workplace. You will consider the paradigms underpinning regulation and voluntarism, organisational equality and diversity at the levels of strategy and operational practice, and how group and individual identities are constructed in the workplace.
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Leadership Practice (HRL6009)
In this module, you will explore the role of leadership within organisations, including both the practical and theoretical aspects of leadership, and how such concepts can change over time. You will reflect on your own ability to act as a leader and your role in teamwork-based scenarios.
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Strategy and Leadership (STO6003)
This module brings a problem-focused view to Strategy, Leadership and their interaction through Strategic Leadership. Particular consideration is given to strategic analysis, the development, evaluation and implementation of strategies and appropriate styles of leadership which facilitate this. The ethical and moral responsibilities of leaders will be critiqued, along with the development of relationships between organisational decision makers, leaders, and followers, within businesses.
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Enterprise, Innovation and Creativity (STO6004)
The module will enable you to use creative processes to develop an innovative and viable business concept and to pitch for resources from potential stakeholders.
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Dissertation (LAW601)
The production of a substantial dissertation on a legal or legally related area with content and form determined by the student. For the LLB (Hons) Law with CCJ programme, the dissertation will be set in context.
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Criminal Law and Practice (LAW603)
This module will build on the principles taught in Criminal Law, and introduces students to the practical/professional application of criminal litigation; it will look at the criminal justice process from investigation and the decision to charge; detention and interrogation, and introduce the substantive law and rules around criminal evidence; funding criminal legal services; through to the criminal litigation process; and sentencing and appeals.
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Environmental Law (LAW604)
The module provides an examination of key themes in environmental law, with a focus on the generation, application and enforcement of this law within a critical and applied context.
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Family Law (LAW605)
This module will examine the principles of family law from both theoretical and practical perspectives.
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Human Rights Law (LAW606)
This module provides an in-depth analysis of the law relating to human rights with reference to national, regional and international law principles. It examines the development and scope of fundamental rights in both theory and practice, and the legitimate limits and restrictions on rights in the interests of balancing conflicting interests in democratic societies.
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Public International Law (LAW607)
A module that focuses on the primary legal principles of the public international legal order, before supporting the development of in-depth understanding of a chosen international legal area of a contemporary nature.
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Work Based Action Research (LAW609)
A 20 credit module in which students develop intellectual, practical, transferable and ethical skills in a work-based learning context. This module is designed primarily for students completing an academic dissertation who also want some exposure to work-based learning and the chance to apply their research skills in a practical setting. The emphasis is on providing advice in relation to current problem for a community-based organisation. Students may be placed within one of the Law School's Law Clinic projects or within a Law Clinic partner organisation or they may choose to find the whole or part of their work experience independently. The project does not need to be "pure" law, but must be law related.
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Business Law and Practice (LAW610)
This module considers the "life" of business organisations, how they operate and how they are governed. It critically assesses the concepts and principles of corporate law as well as key elements of practice and procedure in how they operate and are governed. The module builds upon elements of contract law and applies them in a commercial setting.
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Employment Law (LAW612)
This module provides students with knowledge of a specialist area of law, namely Employment Law, whilst also continuing to offer development of transferable and practical legal skills.
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Immigration Law (LAW614)
This module focuses on the key and topical issues in Immigration, Nationality and Refugee law in the UK. The UK's system of immigration control is fully considered and there is some emphasis on the application of decision making to those entering the UK both for immigration purposes and as refugees. There is consideration of the global and European context and of the influence of policy, politics and the media in the field.
