The BCL Law with Politics Degree Course
The BCL (Law with Politics) is an exciting four-year interdisciplinary law degree that combines the BCL curriculum with the undergraduate Politics course. The primary objective of the degree is to provide students with a thorough academic exposure to the discipline of Law and to show how that discipline relates to the discipline of Politics.
The BCL Law with Politics degree seeks to equip students with
• Knowledge of fundamental legal concepts and principles
• Understanding of law in its broader political and social context
• Ability to analyse law and to engage in legal reasoning
• Critical awareness of the overlapping concerns of political and legal theory particularly in the areas of law and morality, rights, constitutionalism, democracy, justice, and legitimacy
• Competence in the methods of political science (Irish politics, comparative politics, international relations, the European Union) and political theory
• Research skills within the fields of Law and Politics.
The degree has a modular and semesterised format with the Law and Politics subjects distributed over the four years of the programme. The ratio of 2/3 Law to 1/3 Politics will allow all the core Law subjects to be covered in full along with those required by the professional legal bodies. The curriculum for the degree in both subjects includes compulsory core modules and a choice of optional modules.
Further information
For information on BCL (Honours) Law with Politics please visit the UCD School of Law website.
Last updated on 05 Nov 2012
