Law and Accounting (Hons) University of Derby

Overview

How you will learn

On this Law and Accounting (Hons) degree at University of Derby you'll be taught through a variety of methods, such as:

• lectures
• seminars
• workshops and tutorials
• student presentations
• debates
• one-to-one sessions with a tutor
• work projects
• self-directed study
• video discussions with overseas partner institutions
• case preparation
• mooting where you present a legal issue against opposing counsel in a mock court case
• interviewing
• negotiation

Engaging in real or simulated legal practice, you will build a range of the key skills required to succeed in the legal sector at every stage of the course.

You will also develop skills in legal scholarship, with the chance to undertake problem-based research and original academic enquiry. If our teaching team consider the work you produce to be of sufficient quality, it could be published in the Derby Law School Journal.

Through peer assisted mentoring scheme, students from later years of the course also give helpful guidance and support to first year students.

Careers

Studying a Law based course can open up a range of roles in fields such as education profession, libraries, museums, archives, law, the civil service, management, marketing and the uniformed service.

Accounting and finance graduates are in demand the world over, so you will have the opportunity to work in many diverse fields. Our former students have gone on to excel in local practices, multinational accounting firms, merchant banks and other major businesses.