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DEGREE REGULATIONS & PROGRAMMES OF STUDY 2017/2018

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Year 1 Academic year: 2017/18, Starting in: September

Notes:
Students studying full time take 60 credits (three modules) in the September semester and 60 credits (three modules) in the January semester, followed by the dissertation at the end of the January semester. 120 taught credits must be completed before embarking on the dissertation stage. The dissertation is compulsory and must be taken on completion of the taught element of the programme (ie 120 credits/six modules).

For further information see:
http://www.law.ed.ac.uk/teaching/online_distance_learning/llm_degrees/key_information/study_durations

Please note that a minimum of 100 credits (five modules) and a maximum of 120 credits (six modules) must be selected from the module groups A, B, C and D (Group A) for this programme.

A maximum of 40 credits (two modules) may be selected from any one of groups A, B, C and D.

Group A includes medical law subject area modules.
Group B includes intellectual property law subject area modules.
Group C includes IT law subject area modules.
Group D includes international commercial law subject area modules.

A maximum of 20 credits (one module) can be taken from the group E modules in this programme.

Group E includes modules across all four subject areas. **Please note that a course from this collection can only be taken with the approval of your Programme Director.**

Please note also that if a student has already taken two modules from a single subject area, ie two modules from one of groups A-D, they can only take a module from group E that belongs to a different subject area. For guidance on which modules belong to which subject area, please see http://www.law.ed.ac.uk/teaching/online_distance_learning/llm_degrees/llm_in_law/modules

Compulsory courses

You must take these courses

Course options

Group A

Select between 0 and 40 credits in this group.

Courses from School(s) F - Law (Online Distance Learning) (LLM) (Full-time) - Level(s) 11

Select between 0 and 40 credits of the following courses
AND

Group B

Select between 0 and 40 credits in this group.

Courses from School(s) F - Law (Online Distance Learning) (LLM) (Full-time) - Level(s) 11

Select between 0 and 40 credits of the following courses
AND

Group C

Select between 0 and 40 credits in this group.

Courses from School(s) F - Law (Online Distance Learning) (LLM) (Full-time) - Level(s) 11

Select between 0 and 40 credits of the following courses
AND

Group D

Select between 0 and 40 credits in this group.

Courses from School(s) F - Law (Online Distance Learning) (LLM) (Full-time) - Level(s) 11

Select between 0 and 40 credits of the following courses
AND

Group E

Select between 0 and 20 credits in this group.

Courses from School(s) F - Law (Online Distance Learning) (LLM) (Full-time) - Level(s) 11

Select between 0 and 20 credits of the following courses
Notes:
**Please note that a course from this collection can only be taken with the approval of your Programme Director.**

Please note also that if a student has already taken two modules from a single subject area, ie two modules from one of Groups A-D, they could normally only take a module from Group E that belongs to a different subject area.**

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