Hello!
 
(Hi y'all)
 
Several people have asked me to set out what I do with these subjects
over here, so , if you will forgive me polluting all your desktops...
 
students like my Consumer Law course because:
 
there are no exams (or at least I say so at the start)
 
there are no small group tutorials
 
and I spend the one semester lectures talking around rather than
through the law.
 
I specifically do not set chapters and review them in class.
 
I do, however, set my own book as the text!
 
As to assessment:
 
Our autumn semester runs from October to January - with a Christmas
break. At the lecture time in the week before Christmas I run a short
answer test. It's only worth 5% but they seem to show up - and it
keeps them off the piste.
 
During the semester I issue a series of page long story problems/ case
studies and offer one to one surgeries if they find the solutions
difficult - and to see to it that they test this - at the end of the
semester I set one of them as an in class 'examination' (that counts
for 35%)
 
and throughout the semester they each work on an individual project
(60%)
.
They choose the title, but it must be interesting to them (and more
importantly) interesting to me. The rule is that if they don't tell
me something I don't know they fail!
 
So at the moment I have 115 different research exercises going on out
there!
 
Now in semester 2 I run a course called 'consumer protection and
marketing law'.
 
This sells because there is no examination
there are no tutorials
and no lectures either.
 
Want to know more?
 
 
 
Pity about the Braves. I sat up all night.....
 
 
Peter.
 
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Peter Shears
Director of Legal Studies
Plymouth Business School
University of Plymouth
Drake Circus
Plymouth
PL4 8AA
England
 
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