General transferable skills: Staffordshire University

(Transcript of a section of the General transferable skills report, 1998)

Strategy and target group

Undergraduate.

Specific skills module or integration of skills?

Both integrated and specific. LLB Year 1: legal study and critique module includes legal research and IT skills. In tort students participate in client interviewing. In commercial law students participate in mooting and in discrimination law they get the opportunity to practice their presentation skills.

Learning support

Legal study and critique module offers advice on what to do in lectures, tutorials, assignments and study techniques including time management.

All core modules have collaborative learning groups of students.

Specific skills

Students get the opportunity to practice the following skills; client interviewing, mooting, oral assessments in tutorials and presentation skills, negotiation.

Where the skill is assessed (for example tutorial participation, presentation skills) then feedback is provided.

Last Modified: 30 June 2010