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Undergraduate Module Descriptor
LAW3156: Immigration, Nationality and Asylum Law
This module descriptor refers to the 2019/0 academic year.
Module Aims
This module aims to provide you with an understanding of the legal structures and the regulation of immigration control, nationality law and asylum in the UK. The module will place legal controls in their historical, social, and political context. It, will require you to demonstrate in-depth understanding of key legal principles and enable you to analyse them within an inter-relating multi-level structure of governance and to consider how these principle reflect the inter-relationship of law and social and political pressures
| On successfully completing the programme you will be able to: | |
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| Module-Specific Skills | 1. demonstrate detailed knowledge of the main sources, history and current framework of immigration, nationality and asylum law in the UK and of a substantial range of major concepts, values and principles relevant to its application; 2. demonstrate critical awareness of a wide range of social and contextual implications of the area of immigration, nationality and asylum law; 3. identify, explain and critically evaluate key issues in immigration, nationality and asylum law and to apply relevant rules and theories. |
| Discipline-Specific Skills | 4. demonstrate detailed knowledge of legal concepts and their contextual/social/political implications |
| Personal and Key Skills | 5. plan and undertake tasks, individually and with others, with minimum guidance, to reflect critically on the learning process and make use of feedback 6. manage time independently and efficiently in preparing for learning activities, to be proactive in developing own learning, and to work independently within a limited time frame to complete a specified task |