BSP1004X- Legal Environment of Business
At this level content is fairly standard. What you learn are relevant statutes (eg Unfair Contract Terms Act) and common law cases, tests (how courts administer "rules", eg what are the standard requirements for a contract to be established) and the occasional theorem (the philosophical principles behind the rules) for each subject area. The major subject area you will encounter is contract law, which is quite useful, because it shows you how contracts are actually made, and how to resolve disputes in a contract.
Lecture + Tutorials:
There are webcasts! And, tutorials are participation graded. You never know how much you are supposed to speak up to get the full participation points, because this is (I think) confidential. The general guide is to speak up as much as you can, but competition for each question is intense. Even more intense is how the lecturer handles it: get everyone who raised their hand to answer. To be safe, be comprehensive in your answer so that you always have something to add on to the person before you.
Finals:
Open book! Both suggested textbooks are equally useful and have the same content. The only difference is that she based the last lecture, answering questions about contract law, on a sample contract in Prof Ravi's textbook. The one set of past year questions she supplied are quite sufficient for finals preparation but if that's not enough for you, she also provided optional past year papers in the business library.
On a side note, I found someone selling the past year papers online. Beware the scammers.
GEK1542 - Forensic Science
I finally succumbed to the hype. I took it, and have mixed feelings... Such fuss over the bid points when it is the content people should be worrying about :/ The whirlwind one-lecture-per-topic tour - from medical forensics to insect forensics to blood and gunshot pattern analysis - was comprehensive in hindsight, but it was definitely quite a bore sitting through the bits where they talk about insect life cycles and how they measure the angle of blood spatter and other very technical details. Despite this, I don't think the module can be considered any help if you are considering a career as a forensic analyst... but it is a useful introduction to what is meant to be a very broad, inter-disciplinary science. Fun fact: it takes 15 years to become an official senior forensic pathologist (including 5 years of med school).
Lectures:
Some of the lecture notes are mostly just news articles and photos, and some are actually useful; clear and organized. But every topic is important, so if the lecture notes are bad, just read up around the topic a bit because the lecturers also provide some supplementary things.
Practical
Follow instructions, know your notes well, and keep an eye on time management.
Essay
Make sure you know exactly what the lecturer wants with the question. Because there are odd questions like "How did Sherlock Holmes change the face of forensic science" or something. Ask directly or email, and enquire about useful sources for research.
Final:
100 MCQs aren't honestly that bad (compared to the BSP1004X final, which is 2 hours of non-stop writing) If you know your stuff, you can pull through with time to spare. Maybe because the profs are all former prosecutors and all, there was disproportionately large emphasis on the legal aspects, like law of evidence, hearsay, role of coroner etc. Don't take my word for it, though.
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