The successful candidate will be able to: identify and solve legal problems through critical and creative thought; approach and study personal and professional activities in a responsible, ethical and effective manner; do effective legal research by gathering, analysing and critically evaluating information; communicate effectively in writing and verbally; co-operate effectively with others in society; use technology effectively and responsibly to the advantage of the community as a whole; See the law as a component of a system of interdependent systems within the community where problem-solving cannot occur in isolation.
Type: undergraduate degree
Duration: 5 years full time
Compulsory Subjects
First year subjects:
- Introduction to legal studies
- Legal history
- Mathematics literacy
- Skills and competency in lifelong learning
- Computer literacy
- Computer usage
- Roman law
Second year subject:
- Criminal law
- Family law
- Legal practice
- Legal skills
- Law of persons
Third year subjects:
- Criminal law
- Labour law
- Law of succession and administration of estates
- Legal interpretation
- Legal practice
- Criminal procedure
- Law of contract
- Law of evidence
Fourth year subjects:
- Law of business enterprises
- Law of delict
- Legal pluralism
- Legal practice
- Commercial law contracts, consumer and insurance law
- Public law
- Instruments of payment and immaterial property law
- Law of things
- Public law
- Tax law
Fifth year subjects:
- Capita selecta from private law
- Civil procedure
- Jurisprudence
- Legal practice
- Public law
- International law
- Law of insolvency and liquidation
- Law of third party compensation
Careers: Attorney, legal advisor, lawyer, judge.
Source: www.ufs.ac.za