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This course provides students with a knowledge and understanding of certain key points in Scottish legal history. Seminar topics have been chosen to show students how to evaluate primary material (thus developing a key honours-level skill of critical analysis) as well as to engage with academic debate (thus developing a key honours-level skill of handling complex and conflicting arguments). Students will also in some seminars engage with research projects based at Aberdeen.
| Study Type | Undergraduate | Level | 4 |
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| Term | Second Term | Credit Points | 25 credits (12.5 ECTS credits) |
| Campus | Aberdeen | Sustained Study | No |
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This course aims to provide students with a knowledge and understanding of certain key points in Scottish legal history. Main Learning Outcomes: Knowledge and Understanding. By the end of the course, students should have acquired: (1) Knowledge of aspects of Scottish legal-historical development and the relevant sources; (2) An awareness of the nature of legal-historical debate and of legal historiography. Subject-Specific Skills and Concepts. By the end of the course students, should have acquired: (1) First-hand experience dealing with legal-historical sources from various periods; (2) The ability to successfully carry out individual research on questions of legal-historical interest, including the ability to locate and evaluate relevant legal-historical source material. Key Skills (Transferable). By the end of this course, students should have inter alia the following generic skills: (1) A developed analytic ability; (2) The ability to communicate clearly complex ideas and arguments, both orally and in writing; (3) The ability to work effectively as a group and as an individual; (4) The ability to extract, analyse and apply information from a variety of sources.
Information on contact teaching time is available from the course guide.
| Assessment Type | Summative | Weighting | 50 | |
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| Assessment Weeks | 31 | Feedback Weeks | 34 | |
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2,000-word essay worth 50% of the overall grade. |
Word Count | 2000 | |
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| Assessment Type | Summative | Weighting | 50 | |
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| Assessment Weeks | 39 | Feedback Weeks | 42 | |
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2,000-word essay worth 50% of the overall grade. |
Word Count | 2000 | |
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There are no assessments for this course.
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Re-submission of failed element in re-sit diet; the failed course will be capped at grade 09 (D3). |
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| Factual | Remember | ILO’s for this course are available in the course guide. |
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