Developing a research on a prescribed case study LLB module

Abstract

The project was designed to develop a 20-credit optional final year module on the LLB programme which incorporated several forms of ‘flexible’ (‘enquiry based’) learning into the School of Law curriculum, including: (a) the use of a multifaceted case study of a politically and/or legally controversial episode as the focus of study; and (b) embedding explicitly ‘reflective’ learning into a module.

Developing the new module brought with it an understanding of how student formative assessment of other students’ work can be supported and managed; how material collected for the multifaceted case study can be presented using WebCT; what staff skills are needed to organise and support collaborative team working by undergraduates; and (crucially) how methods for organising, supporting, and assessing explicitly ‘reflective’ and ‘enquiry based’ learning can be identified and incorporated into a module.