Undergraduate Course: Jurisprudence (LAWS08085)

Course Outline
School	School of Law	College	College of Humanities and Social Science
Course type	Standard	Availability	Available to all students
Credit level (Normal year taken)	SCQF Level 8 (Year 2 Undergraduate)	Credits	10
Home subject area	Law	Other subject area	None
Course website	None	Taught in Gaelic?	No
Course description	The course studies law as an institutional normative order within a philosophical and sociological context. Firstly it asks how law to be seen as a system. What does it mean to say that the law is normative and does that presuppose a particular standard of behaviour? Secondly it looks at concepts within the law such as property, contract, responsibility and analyses them within a philosophical and sociological context

Information for Visiting Students
Pre-requisites	None
Displayed in Visiting Students Prospectus?	Yes

Course Delivery Information

Delivery period: 2012/13 Semester 1, Available to all students (SV1)						WebCT enabled: No		Quota: None
Location	Activity	Description	Weeks	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
Central	Lecture		1-11	11:10 - 12:00
Central	Lecture		1-11				11:10 - 12:00
First Class	First class information not currently available
Additional information	tutorial attendance is required
Exam Information
Exam Diet	Paper Name		Hours:Minutes
Main Exam Diet S1 (December)			1:30
Resit Exam Diet (August)			1:30

Delivery period: 2012/13 Semester 1, Part-year visiting students only (VV1)						WebCT enabled: No		Quota: None
Location	Activity	Description	Weeks	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
Central	Lecture		1-11	11:10 - 12:00
Central	Lecture		1-11				11:10 - 12:00
First Class	First class information not currently available
Additional information	tutorial attendance is required
Exam Information
Exam Diet	Paper Name		Hours:Minutes
Main Exam Diet S1 (December)	Paper 1		1:30
Resit Exam Diet (August)	Paper 2 Resit		1:30

Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes
The aim of the course is to enable students (most of you from the Faculty of Law, but some from other faculties, and some from other Universities, whether in Europe or elsewhere) to form a wider understanding, each from your own point of view, of the nature and working of the law as a central feature of human societies. It is an important objective of the course that you should develop your own opinions about the subjects discussed; agreement with the opinions of those teaching the course is neither expected nor desired, far less required for the passing of examinations. On the other hand, opinions are expected to be well-informed ones, and therefore adequate knowledge of the theories and positions discussed in the course is a prerequisite of success. 1 To think critically about the law 2 To develop skills in working independently through the ability critically to read texts and gathering and analysing evidence to support arguments

Assessment Information
100% Examination April diet Visiting Student Variant Assessment One written assignment (100%), 2,500 words

Special Arrangements
None