Program Overview

International Foundation Year in Art, Media & Architecture
The International Foundation Year in Business, Management & Law will prepare you for an undergraduate degree in fields such as accounting, finance, law, marketing and logistics.

You will study core modules, which are general skills subjects, and optional modules tailored to your chosen area of study, all of which are important for your academic development.

Why study Business, Management & Law?

• Engage with local businesses, employers and University departments to make connections before starting your undergraduate degree
• Choose from career-focused, professional degrees with a high graduate employment rate
• Gain even more employability skills outside of your classes with our integrated CareerAhead activities
• Benefit from unique pathway opportunities designed to give you the skills and knowledge valued by industry
• The University of Huddersfield is joint 1st in England for professionally qualified staff (HESA, 2021), where 100% of permanent teaching staff are Fellows of the Higher Education Academy.

Once you have succesfully completed International Foundation Year in Business, Management and Law, and achieving the required grades, you will join the first year of your undergraduate degree at the University of Huddersfield.

Leading to: Law LLB (Hons)

Whether you’re intending to use the LLB degree as the start of your legal career in the legal profession, or as the stepping stone for other career opportunities, make Huddersfield Law School your first choice to what could be a brilliant, dynamic and rewarding future.

Giving you the very best in legal teaching, this degree gives you access to seven Foundations of Legal Knowledge (FLK) modules as well as many different optional modules from your second year onwards with a whole third year devoted to your own choices. You can create a business law pathway, social justice and human rights pathway or focus on wider areas of law such as family law, environmental law or international law. This degree is for students who choose careers both in law, both solicitor and barrister as well as the wider associated professions in business, finance, education, public policy and; public service, for instance and also provides the ideal bridge towards postgraduate study.

Taking a Huddersfield Law School degree means you can choose to take an LLB in Law, LLB in Law and Practice or an MLaw (incorporating LLB) as an integrated Masters in Law and Practice. Whichever pathway you choose, all degree programmes support you in exploring your options and the career path you wish to take and you can change your route right through into your second year and choose the path that is best for you, for your final year. We also offer an LLB in Law with Criminology, if you want to study a different discipline alongside law.

As well as gaining an understanding of the law itself, studying a law degree will teach you a wide range of essential transferrable skills such as how to construct an argument, how to present yourself and your ideas, the importance of attention to detail, and the ability to work in a team as well as on your own initiative. We’ll help you to build your employability skills while you study, making you stand out to potential employers.

How will you learn?

You will learn through practical application and delivered lectures, workshops, seminars and group work sessions.

• Here at Huddersfield, you’ll be taught by an academic team with a diverse range of academic and professional experience. This ensures that what you’re taught, and how you’re taught, reflects what you need to know now, as well as giving you the resources to understand future trends and practices. Your tutors will help you prepare to thrive in the ever-changing world of accounting and finance.
• You’ll be able to connect with leading accounting firms thanks to our Partners in Accountancy scheme. The Partners in Accountancy firms will offer accountancy and finance students direct input to their studies from leading case studies on technical and professional areas and providing careers support.
• In your third year we’ll give you the opportunity to take a placement year that could see you employed in a graduate level position in an organisation.