DEGREE REGULATIONS & PROGRAMMES OF STUDY 2017/2018

Students on the 20-month route of the PG Certificate programme take one 20-credit module in each of their three semesters of study. In the first year of the Certificate programme (two semesters), you will take 40 credits, and in your second year (one semester), 20 credits.

To be awarded the Postgraduate Certificate, you must complete a total of 60 credits of study.

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

On successful completion of the programme, you have the option of either graduating with the PG Certificate or, subject to obtaining an average of at least 50% across your modules (i.e. having demonstrated a Masters-level performance), you may request a transfer onto one of the eLLM programmes.

Please note that a maximum of 40 credits (two modules) may be selected from any one of groups A, B, C or D. Each of these groups includes a set of modules belonging to a particular subject area:

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/postgraduate_certificate_in_law/modules.

An exception to this rule may be approved for PG Certificate students intending to progress to the LLM Medical Law & Ethics by online distance learning, in which case a third medical law module may be taken from group A or group E, subject to the approval of your Programme Director.

Students on the 20-month route of the PG Certificate programme take one 20-credit module in each of their three semesters of study. In the first year of the Certificate programme (two semesters), you will take 40 credits, and in your second year (one semester), 20 credits.

To be awarded the Postgraduate Certificate, you must complete a total of 60 credits of study

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

On successful completion of the programme, you have the option of either graduating with the PG Certificate or, subject to obtaining an average of at least 50% across your modules (i.e. having demonstrated a Masters-level performance), you may request a transfer onto one of the eLLM programmes.

Please note that a maximum of 40 credits (two modules) may be selected from any one of groups A, B, C or D. Each of these groups includes a set of modules belonging to a particular subject area:

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/postgraduate_certificate_in_law/modules

An exception to this rule may be approved for PG Certificate students intending to progress to the LLM Medical Law & Ethics by online distance learning, in which case a third medical law module may be taken from group A or group E, subject to the approval of your Programme Director.