LLB Human Rights [M990]
Academic Year 2025/2026
Campus Aberystwyth
Single Honours scheme - available from 2000/2001
Duration 3 years
Aberystwyth University Standard Awards
- Entrance Scholarship / Merit Award
- Sports Bursary
- Music Bursary
- International Excellence Scholarship
- Residential Bursary
- Aberystwyth Bursary
- Care Leaver Bursary
Part 1 Rules
Year 1 Core (100 Credits)
Year 1 Options
Part 2 Rules
Year 2 Core (40 Credits)
Year 2 Options
Students must take Land Law / Cyfraith Tir and Equity and Trusts / Ecwiti a Chyfraith Ymddiriedau in either Year 2 or Year 3 of the degree scheme. Year 2 and Year 3 versions of each modules are mutually exclusive.
Year 2 Options
Students must take 80 credits of optional modules at Level 2 (please note that some optional modules are alternate year). Students may take 20 credits (of the 80) as elective modules outside of the Department (subject to the approval of both departments). Students will be directed by the Department towards optional modules which are related to the theme of the scheme. The Dissertation would also be related to the particular themes of the scheme. Appropriate co-requisite and/or pre-requisite modules must have been studied. For students starting their degree in 2019, 2020 or 2021 who wish to obtain a `Qualifying Law Degree? in order to qualify as a solicitor via the LPC route or as a barrister, , Human Rights (which is available at Level 2 and Level 3 and runs in alternate years) will be necessary as part of the 180 credits of `Foundation of Legal Knowledge? subjects.
Yr Heddlu, Plismona a'r Gymdeithas
Employment Law
Commercial Law
Cyflwyniad i Droseddeg
Drugs and Crime
Family and Child Law
Human Rights
Psychological Explanations of Criminal Behaviour
Climate Change and Environmental Law
Community Justice
Ecwiti a Chyfraith Ymddiriedolaethau
International Law
Troseddau & Chyfiawnder Ieuenctid
Final Year Core (20 Credits)
Final Year Options
Modules which have to be taken in the final year of the degree schemes, dependant on language, if not already taken in year 2.
Ecwiti a Chyfraith Ymddiriedolaethau
Final Year Options
Students must take 60 credits (or 80 or 100, depending on whether Equity and Trusts/Ecwiti a Chyfraith Ymddiriedau and/or Land Law/Cyfraith Tir have been taken at level 2) of optional modules (please note some optional modules are alternate year). Students may take 20 credits (of the 60, 80 or 100) as elective modules outside of the Department (subject to the approval of both departments). Appropriate co-requisite and/or pre-requisite modules must have been studied. Students must take at least 60 credits of theme related modules in Part Two. For students starting their degree in 2019, 2020 or 2021 who wish to obtain a `Qualifying Law Degree? in order to qualify as a solicitor via the LPC route or as a barrister, Human Rights (which is available at Level 2 and Level 3 and runs in alternate years) will be necessary as part of the 180 credits of `Foundation of Legal Knowledge? subjects.
Family and Child Law
Drugs and Crime
Human Rights
Introduction to Criminology
Sgiliau Cyflogadwyedd ar gyfer Gweithwyr Proffesiynol
Cyflwyniad i Droseddeg
Psychological Explanations of Criminal Behaviour
Climate Change and Environmental Law
Dispute Resolution in Contract and Tort
Business Law and Practice and Solicitors Accounts
Legal Practice and Public Law
Community Justice
Troseddeg Feirniadol a Radical
Yr Heddlu, Plismona a'r Gymdeithas
International Law
Commercial Law
Trosedd & Chyfiawnder Ieuenctid
Youth Crime and Justice
Employment Law
Employability Skills for Professionals
Technology, Artificial Intelligence and the Law
Sgiliau Cyflogadwyedd ar gyfer Gweithwyr Proffesiynol
Wills, Trusts and Estates Law and Practice
Medicine Ethics and the Law
Intellectual Property Law
Psychopathology
Trosedd yn y Gymru Gyfoes
Dioddefoleg
Contemporary Issues in Criminology
Employability Skills for Professionals
Criminal Law and Practice
Property Law and Practice
Company Law
Final Year Options
In relation to the SQE modules available in the final year, students may take up to found of the SQE modules, or up to five SQE modules if they have taken Land Law / Cyfraith Tir or Equity and Trusts / Ecwiti a Chyfraith Ymddiriedau in Year 2.
Final Year Options
Students should note the pre-requisite modules for LC31720 Trusts, Wills and the Administration of Estates and Trusts and LC31820 Property Law and Practice.
Contact for this page:
Law & Criminology, Aberystwyth University, Hugh Owen Building, Penglais, Aberystwyth, SY23 3DY
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Email: law@aber.ac.uk