LLB Law and Politics (Integrated)
Cardiff, United Kingdom
DURATION
3 Years
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Full time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
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EARLIEST START DATE
Sep 2025
TUITION FEES
GBP 22,700 / per year *
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
* for overseas | for home year two and three: £9,250 / year one: £9,000
Introduction
Unquestionably the relationship between Law and Politics is an interdependent one.
Both subjects have a huge impact on all our lives regardless of age, ethnicity and social background. This programme allows you to combine these fascinating topics within the interdisciplinary environment of the School of Law and Politics.
You will gain a comprehensive grounding in Law by studying the foundation modules (which constitute the academic stage of training that is currently necessary to become a solicitor or barrister in England and Wales) across the three years of your programme. Alongside your Law modules, you will study Politics modules that explore how parliaments and governments function and evaluate political ideas such as power, freedom, democracy, conflict, legitimacy and accountability.
Why Study this Course
Links to Political Institutions
Benefit from links to Westminster parliament, Senedd Cymru, the European Union and NATO.
Complement your Academic Studies
We offer a range of pioneering pro-bono projects where you can work with clients under professional supervision.
Professional Accreditation
Course accredited by the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA).
Experience Politics in Action
Choose a module taught in conjunction with Westminster which includes teaching by clerks of the House of Commons and study visits.
Placement Opportunities
Gain valuable graduate-level experience as a paralegal including case management, legal research and legal writing.
Admissions
Scholarships and Funding
Loans and Grants
Financial support information for students.
Bursaries
We wish to ensure that financial circumstances are not a barrier to your undergraduate study opportunities.
Scholarships
We wish to recruit the very best students and to help us achieve this, we offer a number of scholarships.
Part-time Undergraduate Funding
Information about funding for part-time students.
Financial Support for Asylum Seekers
Information for asylum seekers about the financial support we offer undergraduates and options for funding from outside the University.
Curriculum
This is a three-year, full-time course, consisting of 120 credits a year. The final degree classification that you are awarded is based on the grades you achieve in the modules that you take in years two and three.
During the course of your degree, you will be able to take the Foundations of Legal Knowledge modules that constitute the Qualifying Law Degree.
In your second year, you will have the opportunity to apply for a work placement which will be carried out in the third year of your LLB Law degree. The full-time, salaried placements will be open to you via a competitive application process which aims to replicate the graduate recruitment processes you will encounter after leaving university. During your placement, you will undertake legal practice as paralegals and will be performing graduate-level roles. You will develop key practitioner skills such as case management, legal research and legal writing in addition to generic employability skills such as time management, and team and commercial awareness. Placements will be located in Cardiff and will count for 10% of degree classification.
Year One
You will study modules to the value of 120 credits in your first year.
You will take four compulsory 20-credit Law modules and two optional 20-credit modules in Politics in your first year, providing you with a solid base for the next two years of your degree programme.
Core Modules for Year One
- Contract [20]
- Criminal [20]
- Legal Foundations [20]
- Public Law [20]
Optional Modules for Year One
- Y Da, Drwg are Gwleidyddol: The Good, the Bad and the Political
- Introduction to International Relations
- Introduction to Political Thought
- Introduction to Government
Year Two
You will study modules amounting to 120 credits in total, 80 of which are to be chosen from the list of optional Law modules available. The remaining modules will be taken from the list of options in Politics.
If you wish to obtain a qualifying Law degree, you will notice that our QLD modules (Tort and Land Law) are offered with a range of credit weightings. This provides you with flexibility in your module choices but also allows you to study the modules needed for a qualifying law degree.
The list of optional modules is kept under review on an annual basis in light of factors such as staff resources and student demand. The final honours classification is based on the assessments taken in years two and three.
Optional Modules for Year Two
- Land Law [20]
- Tort [20]
- Discrimination and Law [20]
- Cyfraith Tir [20]
- CAMWEDD [20]
- Welsh Devolution
- Datganoli yng Nghymru
- French Law I
- French Law II
- Land Law [30]
- Tort [30]
- Discrimination and Law [30]
- Sociology of Law
- Crime, Law and Society
- Media Law [30]
- Cyfraith Tir [30]
- CAMWEDD [30]
- Welsh Devolution [30]
- Datganoli yng Nghymru [30]
- Legal Practice: Foundation Skills
- Miscarriages of Justice: The Cardiff Innocence Project
- Public International Law
- Law and Poverty
- International Relations of the Cold War
- Digital Technologies and Global Politics
- Global Governance
- EU Politics
- From Espionage to Counter-Terrorism: Intelligence in Contemporary Politics
- Modern Welsh Politics
- Modern Political Thought: Machiavelli to Mill
- Damcaniaethu a Dadfeilio'r Gymdeithas Gyfalafol
- The Barbarians are Coming!: Cross-cultural Political Theories
- Ideas and Ideology in British Politics
- Animals, Air, and Areas Beyond National Jurisdiction - The Politics of Global Environmental Regimes
- Governing Modern Britain
- Personality, prejudice, and polarisation: Political Psychology
- Critical Approaches to Middle East Politics
- Data Science for Politics and International Relations
- Revolutionising the Political Order: British Social Theory in the Eighteenth Century
- Doing Political Research
- Elections in the UK
- Gender, Sex and Death in Global Politics
- Credoau'r Cymry
- British Politics since 1945
- International Security: Concepts and Issues
- Global Justice
- International Law in a Changing World
Year Three
In year three, you will choose between 60 and 80 credits from Law modules and the remaining 40-60 credits will be chosen from Politics options.
If you wish to obtain a qualifying Law degree, you will notice that our QLD modules (Law of the European Union and Equity and Trusts) are offered with a range of credit weightings. This provides you with flexibility in your module choices but also allows you to study the modules needed for a qualifying law degree.
Optional Modules for Year Three
- Law of the European Union [20]
- Company Law [20]
- Dissertation [20]
- Dissertation (Cymraeg)
- Legal History [20]
- Cyfraith yr Undeb Ewropeaidd [20]
- Healthcare, Ethics and Law
- Equity and Trusts
- Ecwiti ac Ymddiriedolaethau [20]
- Financial Crime [20]
- International Law and Transnational Challenges [20]
- Law of the European Union [30]
- Company Law [30]
- Dissertation [30]
- Family Law
- Human Rights Law
- Commercial Law
- Traethawd Hir [30]
- Legal History [30]
- Cyfraith yr Undeb Ewropeaidd [30]
- Global Problems and Legal Theory
- Law and Literature
- Healthcare, Ethics and Law [30]
- Equity and Trusts [30]
- Ecwiti ac Ymddiriedolaethau [30]
- Law & Governance in Practice: Work Placement Module [30]
- Intellectual Property Law: Copyright, Patents and Trade Marks
- Environmental Law and Policy
- Evidence
- Financial Crime [30]
- International Law and Transnational Challenges [30]
- The History of Thought in International Relations
- International Politics in the Nuclear Age
- Africa in International Thought and Practice: Colonialism, Anticolonialism, Postcolonialism
- Bombs, Bullets and Ballot-boxes: the Northern Ireland Conflict, 1969 to 1998
- Political Economy: Rationality in an Irrational World?
- Popular Culture and World Politics
- War and Society
- Justice, Legitimacy and International Law
- Latin American Politics
- Sex, Drugs and Public Policy
- Visual Global Politics
- Politics in Practice: Work Placement Module
- Be the Change: Governing without the State
- The Politics of Populism in Europe
- Governing Global Public Health: Viral Pandemics, and the Global Drugs 'Epidemic'
- Anglo-American relations and Cold War defence
- China in the World
- Strategy in Theory and Practice
- The Political Economy of Wales: From Coal to Covid-19
- Economy Wleidyddol Cymru: o 'Oes y glo' i 'Oes y clo'
- The End of the World as We Know It
- After the West: IR 2.0
- US Government and Politics
- Cyfiawnder Byd-eang
- Cenedlaetholdeb, Crefydd a Chyfiawnder: Hanes Athroniaeth yr 20fed Ganrif yng Nghymru
- Parliamentary Studies Module
- International Relations Dissertation
- Politics Dissertation
- Global International Organisation in World Politics
- Personality and Power
How will I be Assessed?
Modules are assessed through examination or coursework or by a combination of the two. The format of coursework varies encompassing standard essays, extended essays, portfolios of work produced across a whole academic year and written solutions to legal problems. Examinations take place in January or in the summer. Coursework is submitted on designated dates during the academic year.
Throughout your studies, you will complete various pieces of work which do not count towards your final module mark but are designed to help you achieve the learning outcomes for your modules and to prepare for your examinations and coursework. This work might be written or oral and may be submitted formally to a tutor or presented during tutorials or seminars. This work will normally be done during your independent study time.
Feedback on this work is given frequently and in a wide variety of formats and is intended to help you identify strengths and weaknesses in your learning, as well as give indications of how you might improve in your performance in examinations and coursework.
The optional final-year dissertation provides you with the opportunity to investigate a specific topic of interest to you in-depth to acquire detailed knowledge about a particular field of study, to use your initiative in the collection and presentation of material and to present a clear, cogent argument and draw appropriate conclusions.
Program Outcome
What Skills Will I Practise and Develop?
A law degree develops your ability to organise facts and ideas in a systematic way, identifying relevant information and evaluating these to formulate advice for a client or a legal argument.
You will also:
- Enhance your ability to argue in an objective, reasoned, professional manner, with due regard to authority and acceptable citation methods
- Develop your ability to undertake independent learning and effectively manage your time
- Enhance your team-working skills, contributing constructively and reliably
- Develop your communication skills, both orally and in writing
- Learn how to use subject-specific electronic sources, databases and the Virtual Learning Environment to gather evidence and research legal questions
- Grasp complex issues with confidence
- Ask the right questions about complex texts
- Have an imaginative appreciation of different views and options and analyse these critically
- Identify and apply relevant data
- Develop practical research skills
- Propose imaginative solutions of your own that are rooted in evidence
- Communicate clearly, concisely and persuasively in writing and speech
- Work to deadlines and priorities, managing a range of tasks at the same time
- Learn from constructive criticism and incorporate its insights
- Work as part of a team, developing a collaborative approach to problem-solving
- Use IT programs and digital media, where appropriate
- Take responsibility for your own learning program and professional development
Program Tuition Fee
Career Opportunities
Degrees in Politics provide you with a foundation for a wide range of careers such as in non-governmental organisations, global development, international business, diplomacy and intelligence in government, journalism, and policy research, as well as a basis for more specialist subjects taught at postgraduate level.
Students who have studied Law and have chosen to work immediately following their degree have obtained roles as negotiators, paralegals, mortgage handlers and lawyers with law firms such as Hugh James Solicitors, Admiral Law, Eversheds LLP and NHS Wales Legal and Risk Services.
However, a law degree doesn’t restrict graduates to careers within the legal profession. Each year a number of law graduates enter professions as diverse as finance, sales and marketing, digital communications and recruitment.
You will have access to a dedicated Careers Consultant at the School of Law and Politics. They arrange practical employability workshops throughout the year which cover topics including writing CVs and covering letters, preparing for employer selection days and interviews, job search strategies and sourcing work.