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W200 Understanding Law This is a level two course (second year of an undergraduate degree) which forms part of the compulsory law course for a LLB (Hons). The course should be studied before the other compulsory courses as it provides an overview of the ideas that will be encountered in later courses. The Content The course provides an over view of constitutional, criminal, contract, tort and human rights law. Covered in more depth are legal terminology, sources of law, legal research and European Community law. The course is studied through 4 manuals each focusing on different areas of the course supported by tutorials, text ...  Read the complete review

~My experience with the OU~ I have been studying with the Open University (OU) for 2 and a half years now and would recommend it to anyone. I started studying with them because I fell pregnant at 19, and had to withdraw my successful application as a police officer, but didn't want to fall into limbo and be a stereotyped young mum. I started off aiming for a psychology degree, but then had this changed to a BSc Criminology and Psychological Studies. I thought this transfer would be very complicated but it couldn't have been any easier, just a few clicks of the mouse! Or, alternatively, you can call them and they will do it over the phone. I have no qualms ...  Read the complete review

I've been doing Open University courses for a few years now, and it's something that I get a lot of people sending me questions about, so I thought I'd write a review about it to help answer some of the frequently asked questions. ===How do you study?=== You get sent course books that were written especially for your course and you study them when you choose. You get a calendar that says roughly how fast you should be studying, but as long as you do your assignments before they are due, you are free to study when you choose. You generally get tutor marked assignments throughout the course (though it always depends on the exact courses you ...  Read the complete review

Was charged a lot of money for a few books and a DVD and just felt like a number on a conveyor belt without any study support. I passed W100 the law foundation course without any problems. After that I wanted to pass W200 and W201 so that I could have a Diploma in English Law, but it felt as if they passed me for W200 so they could have the money, then created lots of problems to make it difficult to pass W201. Three years is a long time to give up so much spare time to study, but as I didn't have any problems passing the previous years, I thought that just one more year to give up my spare time would be worth it, but couldn't have imagined the problems that would be ...  Read the complete review

Having taken the science foundation course years ago, I was pleased with the OU as the tutor seemed to be passionate about teaching and encouraged the students. He had spent plenty of time to hand write feedback for the assignments. As I was encouraged from my previous experience, I decided to sign up for the law course and it was completely different. I think they only do the job as it gives them free access (with my money) to the legal data base for their work outside of the OU, that they would have to pay lots of money for otherwise. The course is quite expensive at nearly £2000 a year and there isn't the summer school that most other courses have. There's one ...  Read the complete review