On this route of study, students take a minimum of 40 (two modules), and a maximum of 60 credits (three modules) in Years 1 and 2, and a minimum of 20 (one module), and maximum of 40 credits (two modules) in Year 3. Students studying part-time must take at least one module per semester. 120 taught credits must be completed before embarking on the dissertation stage.
The dissertation is compulsory and must be taken in the student's final year on completion of the taught element of the programme (ie 120 credits/six modules).
More information is available at: 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