This will enable them to apply methods of philosophical analysis to legal issues and foster an awareness of the legal dimensions of moral and ethical issues. By the end of both degrees students will be equipped with highly developed skills of critical thought, analysis and argumentation. Graduates of the three-year BA degree would be ideally placed for careers in public and private strategic management and administration, journalism and the critical media, or academia. The four-year LLB degree fulfills the requirements of the academic stage of training for the legal professions and so students are able to proceed directly to professional training to become a solicitor or barrister. Graduates of this scheme would therefore, in addition to the career options set out for the BA, be able ultimately to enter one of the branches of the legal profession.
Students take four courses each year.
As the BA and LLB degrees share a common first and second year, students may be able to transfer between the two schemes at the end of the first or second academic year. As for the BA degree Third year After the first two years the focus of the LLB degree shifts in order to accommodate a greater number of law courses so that students gain sufficient grounding in the law to proceed to the professional phase of training. The University of Essex received its Royal Charter in 1965 and is now one of the UK's leading academic institutions. The single-site campus, just two miles from the centre of Colchester, is set in over 200 acres of beautiful parkland. Visitors to Essex almost invariably remark on the friendly and informal atmosphere - one of the advantages of a compact campus environment where people quickly get to know each other.