Business Law

Take the first step towards a range of exciting careers in business and commercial law with our specialised LLB degree programme.

You will gain a comprehensive grounding in the core areas covered by a law degree. As your studies progress, you can choose from a wide range of subject areas with a business focus, including: trade law, media law, commercial sales, and employment law.

Throughout your business law degree, you will develop excellent research and analytical skills and learn to present your ideas effectively both verbally and in writing.

All of our undergraduate Law programmes contain the foundations of legal knowledge needed to enter the legal profession. Our programmes provide a strong foundation for students who may wish to take the Solicitors Qualifying Examinations (SQE) in the future, and satisfy the academic stage of training required by the Bar Standards Board for those wishing to become barristers.

We offer an inclusive, student-focussed learning environment and community. Modules are delivered and assessed in a variety of different ways and you will be encouraged to take responsibility for your own learning, to work independently as well as with others, to act professionally, and to master new skills. As well as teaching and learning activities we offer a broad range of opportunities for you to get involved: from research-based placements, to working with clients, to developing advocacy and other skills. Our thriving Law Clinic offers students the opportunity to get involved in giving advice to clients and we have programmes of extra-curricular mooting, negotiation and interviewing.

Our undergraduate degree structure, with its range of final year optional modules, gives you plenty of scope to tailor your studies to your particular interests, career goals, or ambitions.

This programme presents you with the chance to study abroad for a year at one of our partner institutions. Broadening your horizons and picking up new life experiences and skills can help to give you a competitive advantage when entering the world of work.

Your first year of study is made up of compulsory modules covering a range of themes.

Compulsory modules are studied by all students on the programme, meaning you are automatically enrolled.

Examples of compulsory modules include:
• Contract Law
• Law of Tort
• Public Law

In your second and third year you will study a mixture of compulsory and optional modules from a wide range of subject areas.

Examples of optional modules in recent years have included:
• Commercial Sales
• Employment Law: Rights and Obligations
• Media Law
• Intellectual Property Law
• World Trade Law

Your final year will consist mostly of optional modules, with the option of undertaking an independent dissertation project.

For the full programme structure and module breakdown, please visit our webpage at: www.swansea.ac.uk/undergraduate/courses/law/llb-business-law

We offer a variety of assessment methods within our programmes.

In addition to traditional examinations and essays, examples of alternative assessment may include:
• Writing a letter of advice to a client
• Blog and poster writing
• Group-based tasks

Throughout your undergraduate law degree, you will develop excellent research and analytical skills and learn to present your ideas effectively both verbally and in writing.

For full breakdown of course structure and assessment please visit our course page at: www.swansea.ac.uk/undergraduate/courses/law/llb-business-law or get in touch with us at study@swansea.ac.uk