Law with History (Hons)

Overview

Your Law with History (Hons) programme at New College of the Humanities will allow you to prepare for your career and follow your passions. In your degree, you will take all of the courses required for a Qualifying Law Degree, preparing you to take the professional training courses for qualification as a solicitor or barrister. 

Your History minor will further develop your skills of evaluating evidence. In acquiring knowledge of the past, you will reflect critically on the complex and often contradictory information about history that is available to us now.

Programme aims

The aims of the major (Law) part of the programme are to:

• Enable students to be awarded with a Qualifying Law Degree which acts as a qualification for those wishing to progress to the vocational and professional stages of training to become solicitors or barristers in England and Wales.

• Provide a thematic basis to academic legal studies which aligns to career paths which are attractive to alumni of the College, in particular careers in which knowledge and understanding of corporate, commercial and employment matters are valuable.

• Provide legal knowledge and skills in areas which align with the College’s LAUNCH programme in developing entrepreneurial abilities.

• Prepare students for further study on postgraduate courses, whether academic (doctoral, masters or other), vocational or professional.

• Enable students to acquire knowledge and understanding of the human past and to reflect critically on the complex, and often contradictory, information available to us now about that past.