Year 1 (60 credits)
This year focuses on building skills with strong foundational teaching. The module ‘Understanding the Law’ builds a platform of essential skills and helps students to transition to the expectations of a university degree. In addition to the core law modules, students gain a good basic foundation of accounting by completing two introductory accounting modules. Students do not need to have previously studied accounting and the accounting modules are optional in year two. Students also choose optional modules in Digital Business, Economics or Legal Irish.
Compulsory Core Modules (50 credits)
- Understanding the Law (10 credits)
- Contract Law (10 credits)
- Constitutional Law (10 credits)
- Tort Law (10 credits)
- Introduction to Financial Accounting (5 credits)
- Introduction to Management Accounting (5 credits)
- Optional Modules (10 credits)
Digital Business
- Information Management for Business (5 credits)
- Business Information Systems (5 credits)
Economics
- Principles of Microeconomics (5 credits)
- Principles of Macroeconomics (5 credits)
- Language
- Legal French/ Legal German/ Teanga an Dlí (Legal Irish) (10 credits)
Year 2 (60 credits)
In second year students develop their skills further with modules such as ‘Mooting’ which helps develop communication and advocacy skills. In addition to the core law modules, students will also complete two modules in Taxation which will give them the ability to understand and apply tax legislation in a number of different scenarios. Students also choose optional modules in Accounting, Digital Business, Economics, Management or Legal Irish.
- Compulsory Core Modules (45 credits)
- Criminal Law I & II (10 credits)
- European Union Law I & II (10 credits)
- Company Law I & II (10 credits)
- Taxation I & II (10 credits)
- Mooting (5 credits)
- Optional Modules (choose 15 credits)
Accounting
- Management Accounting I (5 credits)
- Business Finance I (5 credits)
- International Financial Reporting I (5 credits)
Economics
- Applied Microeconomics for Business (5 credits)
- Macroeconomics and the Business Environment (5 credits)
- Principles of Microeconomics (5 credits)
- Principles of Macroeconomics (5 credits)
Digital Business
- Business Information Systems (5 credits)
- Information Management for Business (5 credits)
- Cybersecurity (5 credits)
- Management
- Employment Relations (5 credits)
- Management (5 credits)
- Language
- Legal French/ Legal German/ Teanga an Dlí (Legal Irish) (10 credits)
Year 3 (60 credits)
Customise your experience by choosing either professional work placement or study abroad.
Caithfidh na mic léinn a dhéanann Teanga an Dlí seimeastar amháin ag staidéar ar champas Gaeltachta Ollscoil na hÉireann Gaillimh ar an gCeathrú Rua agus seimeastar amháin eile ar shocrúchán oibre i dtimpeallacht lán-Ghaeilge. (Students who study Legal Irish will spend one semester studying at NUI Galway’s Gaeltacht campus in An Cheathrú Rua and one semester of professional work placement in an Irish-speaking environment.)
Year 4 (60 credits)
In addition to completing core law modules including ‘Revenue Law’, students will have the opportunity to shape their degree by choosing a specialist stream. Students will also complete a ‘Guided Research Essay’ on a topic of their choice and will be supported by an academic mentor who will meet with them to discuss their research essay.
Compulsory Core Modules (35 credits)
- Revenue Law I & II (10 credits)
- Guided Research Essay (5 credits)
- Land Law (10 credits)
- Equity Law (10 credits)
- Optional Specialist Streams (25 credits)
Students will have the opportunity to shape their degree by choosing a specialist stream. Students may choose one of the following specialist streams including the ‘General’ stream which allows students to choose modules from multiple streams. Certain specialist streams have prerequisite modules which must be passed before choosing the stream in the final year.
Business and Commercial Law
- Banking Law (5 credits)
- Alternative Dispute Resolution (5 credits)
- Labour Law I (5 credits)
- Labour Law II (5 credits)
- Commercial Law (5 credits)
- International Trade Law (5 credits)
- Law and Economics (5 credits)
- Industrial and Intellectual Property Law (5 credits)
- Comparative Competition Law (5 credits)
- Law and Innovation (5 credits)
Economics
Compulsory modules for this stream:
- Microeconomics and Public Policy (5 credits)
- Macroeconomics and Public Policy (5 credits)
Optional Modules for this stream:
- Econometrics (5 credits)
- Health Economics (5 credits)
- Money & Banking (5 credits)
- Environmental and Natural Resource Economics (5 credits)
- Development Economics (5 credits)
- Economics and Philosophy (5 credits)
- International Economics (5 credits)
- Economics of Financial Markets (5 credits)
- Public Economics (5 credits)
- Marine Economics (5 credits)
Accounting
- Management Accounting II (5 credits)
- Management Accounting III (5 credits)
- International Financial Reporting II (5 credits)
- International Financial Reporting III (5 credits)
- Business Finance I (5 credits)
- Business Finance II (5 credits)
The Legal Professions
- Administrative Law I (5 credits)
- Jurisprudence I (5 credits)
- Evidence I & II (10 credits)
- Choose a module from another stream (5 credits)
- Management
- Labour Law I (5 credits)
- Labour Law II (5 credits)
- Human Resource Management (5 credits)
- Work in a Global Context (5 credits)
- Business Strategy (5 credits)
- Digital Business and Analytics
- Database Technologies (5 credits)
- Decision Modelling and Analytics (5 credits)
- Business Intelligence & Analytics (5 credits)
- Implementing Digital Innovation (5 credits)
- Advanced Research Topics in Information Systems (5 credits)
- Law and Innovation (5 credits)
