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Law with Legal Practice with Foundation Year
- 2 Study options
- Undergraduate
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Course summary
Overview
This LLB (Hons) Law with Legal Practice with Foundation Year degree offers a practical way to enter the legal profession. You'll graduate ready to work as a trainee legal executive and have the option to start your career with completed industry qualifications, thanks to our CILEX accredited modules.
This course is designed around the outcomes you’ll need to study for the Solicitors Qualifying Exam (SQE), so you'll cover all the foundations of legal knowledge and have plenty of opportunities to build your practical skills. You’ll be able to demonstrate more practical experience of dispute resolution, legal drafting and legal practice than on our other law courses.
In your foundation year, you'll develop the knowledge you need to move on to the first year of LLB (Hons) Law with Legal Practice . It will bridge the gap to uni, with the knowledge and academic skills you'll need to start.
From your second year onwards, you’ll develop key solicitor skills such as negotiating, client interviewing and legal writing. And by working with real clients in our Legal Advice Clinic you'll also gain three months of work experience that can count towards your qualifying work experience for the SQE.
If you choose to complete an optional paid placement year before or after your third year, you’ll graduate with a year of industry experience too.
Modules
Course Modules
Foundation year In your foundation year, you'll gain the knowledge you need to move on to the first year of LLB (Hons) Law with Legal Practice. It will bridge the gap to uni, with the knowledge and academic skills you'll need to start. Throughout the year, you'll learn to critically engage with information, undertake literature reviews, enhance your academic writing, and gain awareness of different types of research. When you successfully complete this year, you'll get a guaranteed place on the first year of the LLB (Hons) Law with Legal Practice. Years 2, 3 and 4 After your first year, you will transfer to LLB (Hons) Law with Legal Practice. The modules you study in years 2, 3 and 4 (and year 5 if you do a placement year) can be found on the relevant course page.
Ways to study this course
Campuses
- Main Site
Study options
- Bachelor of Law (with Honours) • Full-Time • Integrated foundation year • 4 Years
- Bachelor of Law (with Honours) • Full-Time • Placement (mandatory) • Integrated foundation year • 5 Years
Start dates
Application codes
- Institution code:
- P80
Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF)
University of Portsmouth has participated in the Teaching Excellence Framework. These ratings were awarded in 2023, for four years.
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How to apply
Application codes
- Institution code:
- P80
This course may be available at alternative locations, please check if other course options are available.
Course optionsEntry requirements
Typical qualification requirements
A level
32 tariff points at A level.
T LevelPass (D or E)
UCAS TariffOffer: 32
32 tariff points at A level, or equivalent.
Scottish HigherNot accepted
Access to HE Diploma
Pass the Access to HE Diploma.
GCSE/National 4/National 5
2 GCSEs at Grade E/2 or above to include English and mathematics.
Scottish Advanced Higher
32 tariff points.
Pearson BTEC Level 3 National Diploma (first teaching from September 2016)PP
International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme
32 UCAS tariff points to include a Higher Level subject.
Pearson BTEC Level 3 National Extended Diploma (first teaching from September 2016)PPP
Leaving Certificate - Higher Level (Ireland) (first awarded in 2017)
32 points to include a Higher Level subject.
Leaving Certificate - Ordinary Level (Ireland) (first awarded in 2017)
32 points to include a Higher Level subject.
Pearson BTEC Level 3 National Extended Certificate (first teaching from September 2016)M
Welsh Baccalaureate - Advanced Skills Challenge Certificate (first teaching September 2015)
32 points from the Advanced Welsh Baccalaureate including 1 A level, plus the Advanced Skills Challenge Certificate.
Cambridge International Pre-U Certificate - Principal
Cambridge Pre-U to include a Principal Subject at M3.
English language requirements
| Test | Grade | Additional details |
|---|---|---|
| IELTS (Academic) | 5.5 | English language proficiency at a minimum of IELTS band 5.5 with no component score below 5.5. |
| PTE Academic | 59 | An overall score of 59 with a minimum of 59 in each skill. |
| TOEFL (iBT) | 72 | 72 with a minimum of 18 in Reading, 17 in Listening, 20 in Speaking and 17 in Writing. |
| Cambridge English Advanced | Cambridge English: Advanced (CAE) taken after January 2015. An overall score of 162 with no component score less than 162. | |
| Cambridge English Proficiency | Cambridge English: Proficiency (CPE) taken after January 2015. An overall score of 162 with no component score less than 162. | |
| Trinity ISE | Trinity College Integrated Skills in English (ISE) Level II with a Pass in all 4 components |
Historical entry grades data
This section shows the range of grades that students who received offers were previously accepted on to this course with (learn more).
It is designed to support your research but does not guarantee whether you will or won't get a place.
Admissions teams consider various factors, including interviews, subject requirements, and entrance tests. Check all course entry requirements for eligibility.
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Course optionsHistorical entry grades report
This report uses your grades to show how students with similar results have done when applying to this course in the past. Sometimes, there isn’t data for every possible set of grades. When that happens, universities and colleges occasionally fill in the gaps for sets of grades that are typically accepted.
Fees and funding
Tuition fees
No fee information has been provided for this course
Tuition fee status depends on a number of criteria and varies according to where in the UK you will study. For further guidance on the criteria for home or overseas tuition fees, please refer to the UKCISA website.
Additional fee information
Undergraduate fees for 2027 entry will be available shortly.
For more information about fees, go to https://www.port.ac.uk/study/undergraduate/undergraduate-fees-and-student-finance/tuition-fees-living-costs-and-other-study-costs
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