10.2 Law and Business
A very warm welcome to Law and Business at the University of Exeter, Cornwall. We are all so pleased that you will be joining us in September!
We look forward to meeting you in person during your induction week (w/c 16th September) and the start of your law and business studies (w/c 23rd September). In the meantime you can find out a bit more about us through our staff profiles. We are very proud to be part of the staff team for the innovative Law and Business degree programmes and are delighted that you are going to be a part of our sixth cohort. We are committed to creating a diverse and thriving student community, achieved by providing a supportive learning environment which nurtures individual talent throughout your time with us.
From your very first day with us you will be part of the Campus Community and we have a great mix of activities to introduce you to being a student at the University of Exeter in welcome week. You will be introduced to your ‘law firm’ in your first week and will continue to study your law subjects with them throughout first year, taking on big challenges like our trials in Legal Foundations, through to small tasks such as reading cases and solving legal problems. Your firm is a great support as you start to study law and business and we hope that you find some true friends and colleagues amongst the people you meet.
Key contacts
Subject Lead: Mark Mackarel
Deputy Director of Education and Student Experience (DDESE): Nick Pointon
Senior Tutor: Dr William White
Academic Tutor: You will be assigned an academic tutor whom you will meet as part of your induction to your course. This person will be on hand to help you settle into studying at university, to signpost you to relevant support with any challenges you face and to help guide you in your future choices. Your academic tutor will typically stay with you throughout all years of your studies and can provide references in support of future applications that you make.
The Law and Business Team: We are a friendly and welcoming team - please do feel that you can talk to any of us in confidence. When you receive your University of Exeter ID you can also book a meeting with any of us using our centralised booking system. You can find out our direct contact details and a little bit more about us in our staff profiles.
Your Student Representatives: Each year group is represented by student representatives on the SSLC (Staff-Student Liaison Committee), a forum for students to provide feedback about the course as we go along. Keep an eye out for details of the election of year 1 subject reps from the Students’ Union (in the first couple of weeks of term).
Your Mentors: We run a mentor programme for first years run by students who are in the second and third year of their studies in the Faculty of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences. Our fantastic mentors run study sessions every week in term time. These will appear on your timetable, and are a mixture of workshops and writing café sessions. You will also meet your peer transition tutors during welcome week who are there to answer any questions and help you to settle in.
The Info Point, Peter Lanyon Building: The font of all knowledge and able to answer all your questions about changing modules, submissions and much more, the Info Point team (sometimes called 'the Hub') are absolutely great! If in doubt, ask the Hub!
Expectations for attendance and engagement
We expect you to attend all your timetabled classes. If you are unable to attend a class because you are ill, you should report your absence via the iExeter absence reporting tool. You should also email your lecturer directly to let them know that you will not be able to attend, and to find out what work you will need to do to make up for your absence. If you have a longer illness and are absent for more than 7 days in a row, you will need to get a doctor’s certificate and lodge this with the Info Point in the Peter Lanyon Building on campus. Failure to attend classes can result in disciplinary action and will be reflected in the provision of references for future applications. It will also mess things up for your fellow students – so be present.
What can I do to prepare for joining?
We don’t expect you to complete any preparatory work before you get here, but if you’re keen to acclimatise yourself to your course and explore a little before term starts, we’ve put together some suggestions to whet your appetite for things to come:
- Imogen Moore and Craig Newbery-Jones, The Successful Law Student: An insider’s guide to studying law (2nd edition, OUP)
- Catherine Barnard, Janet O’Sullivan, and Graham Virgo, What about Law? Studying Law at University (3rd edition, Bloomsbury)
- Raymond Wacks, Law: A Very Short Introduction (3rd edition, OUP
Our community
As someone studying on a law and business degree you are a member of both the Law and Business Schools here. Law is part of a big department which also includes students studying humanities, politics and languages. You will have lots of opportunities to get together with other students who are also part of these departments, during induction week and beyond.
There are also some societies, supported by the Law and Business Schools, which you might be interested in joining. These include Flamank Law Society, Lawyers Without Borders, 7 Principles Advisory Committee Negotiation Society and Women in Business. We also have lots of societies in the SU which our students really enjoy being part of. If you’re looking for a society and can’t find it, create it! The Students’ Union actively supports (and funds) the creation of new societies on campus.
Activity
In the meantime, we would love it if you could start getting to know one another by posting a brief introduction in the Forum below, telling us who you are, what programme you are on, and if you have a legal hero, who they are. If you would like to upload a picture which sums up where you are today we would love to see them.
To post, simply click 'REPLY.'
Please be aware that any comments and contributions in this forum are open to the general public and NOT just other students in the cohort.
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