Study Schemes
LLB Law and Criminology [MM91]
Academic Year: 2025/2026Single Honours scheme - available from 2020/2021
Duration (studying Full-Time): 3 years
Award Eligibility:Standard Awards; Excellence Scholarship;
Part 1 Rules
Year 1 Core (100 Credits)
Compulsory module(s).
Year 1 Options
Students must take one of the following modules dependant on language preference:
Part 2 Rules
Year 2 Options
Students can take 120 credits of optional modules from the range available within the Department. If you wish to have the Foundations of Law (FoL) as part of your degree, you MUST take and pass the following modules: Tort Law, Contract Law, Criminal Law, EU Law, Public Law, Land Law, Equity and Trusts, and Human Rights (these modules are available at different levels). 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.
Year 2 Options
Law subject module options (Language preference English LC / Welsh CT):
Cyfraith Gyhoeddus
Ecwiti a Chyfraith Ymddiriedolaethau
Community Justice
Public Law
Equity and Trusts
Human Rights
Commercial Law
Family and Child Law
Employment Law
International Law
Climate Change and Environmental Law
Drugs and Crime
Cyfraith Ewrop
Cyfraith Camwedd
Cyfraith Cytundebau
Cyfraith Tir
European Law
Tort
Technology, Artificial Intelligence and the Law
Contract Law
Land Law
Medicine Ethics and the Law
Company Law
Intellectual Property Law
Year 2 Options
Criminology subject module options (Language preference English LC / Welsh CT):
Yr Heddlu, Plismona a'r Gymdeithas
Lleoliad Gwaith Cyfiawnder Troseddol
Troseddau & Chyfiawnder Ieuenctid
Police, Policing and Society
Criminal Justice Placement
Youth Crime and Justice
Family and Child Law
Psychological Explanations of Criminal Behaviour
Final Year Core (20 Credits)
Compulsory module(s).
Final Year Options
Students can take 100 credits of optional modules from the range available within the Department. If you wish to have the Foundations of Law (FoL) as part of your degree, you MUST take and pass the following modules: Tort Law, Contract Law, Criminal Law, EU Law, Public Law, Land Law, Equity and Trusts, and Human Rights (these modules are available at different levels). 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.
Final Year Options
Law subject module options (Language preference English LC / Welsh CT):
Cyfraith Gyhoeddus
Ecwiti a Chyfraith Ymddiriedolaethau
Sgiliau Cyflogadwyedd ar gyfer Gweithwyr Proffesiynol
Public Law
Legal Practice and Public Law
Business Law and Practice and Solicitors Accounts
Dispute Resolution in Contract and Tort
Equity and Trusts
Human Rights
Commercial Law
Family and Child Law
Employability Skills for Professionals
Employment Law
International Law
Climate Change and Environmental Law
Drugs and Crime
Cyfraith Ewrop
Cyfraith Tir
Sgiliau Cyflogadwyedd ar gyfer Gweithwyr Proffesiynol
European Law
Criminal Law and Practice
Wills, Trusts and Estates Law and Practice
Property Law and Practice
Technology, Artificial Intelligence and the Law
Land Law
Employability Skills for Professionals
Medicine Ethics and the Law
Company Law
Final Year Options
Criminology subject module options (Language preference English LC / Welsh CT):
Yr Heddlu, Plismona a'r Gymdeithas
Lleoliad Gwaith Cyfiawnder Troseddol
Trosedd & Chyfiawnder Ieuenctid
Troseddeg Feirniadol a Radical
Community Justice
Police, Policing and Society
Criminal Justice Placement
Youth Crime and Justice
Critical and Radical Criminology
Psychological Explanations of Criminal Behaviour
Final Year Options
In relation to the SQE modules available in the final year, 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