Assessment Type | Assessment length / details | Proportion |
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Semester Assessment | One essay of 5000 words | 100% |
On completion of this module, students should be able to:
1. Display a knowledge and understanding of the main institutions of International criminal law.
2. Identify and examine similarities and differences between them.
3. Demonstrate an understanding of the reasons for their differential categorization: International, Mixed or domestic status.
4. Present critical and well-informed argument relating to the establishment and operation of International Criminal Law institutions for the prosecution of offenders.
5. Locate and evaluate the relevant literature and materials in this field and use them in critical discussion of the subject.
6. Critically evaluate and test the arguments relating to the need for international criminal courts and tribunals.
Skills Type | Skills details |
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Application of Number | N/A |
Communication | Written communication is developed by the presentation of information and argument in written answers and in a more informal way by the use of Blackboard to encourage communication among students and between students and staff. Oral communication skills are developed at the residential study schools. Written communication assessed only. |
Improving own Learning and Performance | Distance learning, by its very nature, requires strong individual learning and performance structures and this module further develops key skills in this area. |
Information Technology | The module is delivered almost entirely by distance learning which relies heavily on the use of electronic information resources and on-line learning and teaching. |
Personal Development and Career planning | Independent learning enhances time management skills. Studying the module will also develop an enhanced capacity for critical thought and the ability to work independently. |
Problem solving | By the examination and discussion of actual and hypothetical case studies. |
Research skills | By the examination and discussion of actual and hypothetical case studies. |
Subject Specific Skills | None. |
Team work | Team working skills will be encouraged and developed in group activities and discussions at the residential study schools. |
This module is at CQFW Level 7