Study Schemes
BA Law [M103]
Academic Year: 2025/2026Single Honours scheme - available from 2000/2001
Duration (studying Full-Time): 3 years
Award Eligibility:Standard Awards; The Coleg Incentive Scholarship;
Part 1 Rules
Year 1 Core (100 Credits)
Compulsory module(s).
Year 1 Options
Students must take one of the following modules:
Part 2 Rules
Year 2 Core (40 Credits)
Compulsory module(s).
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). 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’, 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
Cyflwyniad i Droseddeg
Ecwiti a Chyfraith Ymddiriedolaethau
Troseddau & Chyfiawnder Ieuenctid
Community Justice
Police, Policing and Society
Introduction to Criminology
Equity and Trusts
Human Rights
Youth Crime and Justice
Commercial Law
Family and Child Law
Employment Law
International Law
Climate Change and Environmental Law
Psychological Explanations of Criminal Behaviour
Drugs and Crime
Trosedd yn y Gymru Gyfoes
Dioddefoleg
Cyfraith Tir
Victimology
Technology, Artificial Intelligence and the Law
Contemporary Issues in Criminology
Land Law
Medicine Ethics and the Law
Company Law
Intellectual Property Law
Psychopathology
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 schemes. Year 2 and Year 3 versions of each module are mutually exclusive.
Year 2 Options
If students wish to take all six SQE optional modules in year 3 of the degree schemes, because they wish to aim to qualify as solicitors through the SQE route, then they should take Land Law / Cyfraith Tir and Equity and Trusts / Ecwiti a Chyfraith Ymddiriedau in Year 2. If students do not take Land Law / Cyfraith Tir and Equity and Trusts / Ecwiti a Chyfraith Ymddiriedau in Year 2 of the degree schemes, then they will not be able to take all six SQE optional modules in year 3 and they will therefore not be able to take modules which cover all functioning legal knowledge for SQE 1.
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.
Final Year Options
Students must take 80 credits (or 100 or 120, 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 80, 100 or 120) 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. 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
Cyflwyniad i Droseddeg
Trosedd & Chyfiawnder Ieuenctid
Sgiliau Cyflogadwyedd ar gyfer Gweithwyr Proffesiynol
Troseddeg Feirniadol a Radical
Traethawd Estynedig y Gyfraith a Throseddeg
Community Justice
Police, Policing and Society
Legal Practice and Public Law
Business Law and Practice and Solicitors Accounts
Dispute Resolution in Contract and Tort
Introduction to Criminology
Human Rights
Youth Crime and Justice
Commercial Law
Family and Child Law
Employability Skills for Professionals
Employment Law
International Law
Critical and Radical Criminology
Climate Change and Environmental Law
Psychological Explanations of Criminal Behaviour
Drugs and Crime
Law and Criminology Dissertation
Trosedd yn y Gymru Gyfoes
Dioddefoleg
Sgiliau Cyflogadwyedd ar gyfer Gweithwyr Proffesiynol
Traethawd Estynedig y Gyfraith a Throseddeg
Victimology
Criminal Law and Practice
Wills, Trusts and Estates Law and Practice
Property Law and Practice
Technology, Artificial Intelligence and the Law
Contemporary Issues in Criminology
Employability Skills for Professionals
Medicine Ethics and the Law
Company Law
Intellectual Property Law
Law and Criminology Dissertation
Psychopathology
Final Year Options
In relation to the six SQE modules available in the final year, students should take all six SQE modules, three in semester 1 and three in semester 2, if they wish to aim to qualify as solicitors through the SQE route once they have graduated. This is only possible if students have taken Land Law / Cyfraith Tir and Equity and Trusts / Ecwiti a Chyfraith Ymddiriedau in Year 2 of the degree schemes. Other students may take up to four 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 (Equity and Trusts / Ecwiti a Chyfraith Ymddiriedau) and LC31820 Property Law and practice (Land Law / Cyfraith Tir)
Department of Law & Criminology, Hugh Owen Building, Aberystwyth University, Aberystwyth, Ceredigion, SY23 3DY
Tel: Department: +44 (0)1970 621537 Admissions: +44 (0)1970 622021 Fax: (01970) 622729 Email: law@aber.ac.uk
Aberystwyth University Standard Awards
- Entrance Scholarship / Merit Award
- Sports Bursary
- Music Bursary
- International Excellence Scholarship
- Residential Bursary
- Aberystwyth Bursary
- Care Leaver Bursary