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| Location | Domestic | International |
|---|---|---|
| Online |
Unit description
Introduces students to the practical, performative and ethical arts of courtroom advocacy. Students learn about forensic rhetoric and other aspects of courtroom behaviours
Unit content
Topic 1: Advocacy as Rhetorical Performance
Topic 2: The Five Faculties of Rhetoric
Topic 3: Delivery: The Breath (“of an unfee’d lawyer”?)
Topic 4: Gesture, Costume, Staging and Props
Topic 5: Judgment and Fair Hearing
Topic 6: Persuasive Authority: Metaphor and Analogy
Topic 7: Mooting
Learning outcomes
Unit Learning Outcomes express learning achievement in terms of what a student should know, understand and be able to do on completion of a unit. These outcomes are aligned with the graduate attributes. The unit learning outcomes and graduate attributes are also the basis of evaluating prior learning.
| On completion of this unit, students should be able to: | GA1 | GA2 | GA3 | GA4 | GA5 | GA6 | GA7 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | perform with technical competence, imagination and professionalism in methods of mooting and the arts of appellate court advocacy | Intellectual rigour | Knowledge of a discipline | Communication and social skills | ||||
| 2 | demonstrate practical awareness of the ethical aspects of the roles and responsibilities of courtroom advocates and judges | Intellectual rigour | Knowledge of a discipline | |||||
| 3 | show critical familiarity with classical, renaissance and modern theories and techniques of forensic rhetoric | Intellectual rigour | Knowledge of a discipline | |||||
| 4 | communicate complex ideas clearly and persuasively, by demonstrating the faculties of performance rhetoric | Intellectual rigour | Knowledge of a discipline | |||||
| 5 | demonstrate reflective appreciation of personal competence in the art of advocacy | Intellectual rigour | Knowledge of a discipline | |||||
On completion of this unit, students should be able to:
- perform with technical competence, imagination and professionalism in methods of mooting and the arts of appellate court advocacy
- GA1: Intellectual rigour
- GA4: Knowledge of a discipline
- GA6: Communication and social skills
- demonstrate practical awareness of the ethical aspects of the roles and responsibilities of courtroom advocates and judges
- GA1: Intellectual rigour
- GA4: Knowledge of a discipline
- show critical familiarity with classical, renaissance and modern theories and techniques of forensic rhetoric
- GA1: Intellectual rigour
- GA4: Knowledge of a discipline
- communicate complex ideas clearly and persuasively, by demonstrating the faculties of performance rhetoric
- GA1: Intellectual rigour
- GA4: Knowledge of a discipline
- demonstrate reflective appreciation of personal competence in the art of advocacy
- GA1: Intellectual rigour
- GA4: Knowledge of a discipline
Prescribed texts
- Kindle only edition : Adrian Whitfield QC, 2015, The Art of Persuasion: Tradition and Technique , Middle Temple.
Teaching and assessment
Fee information
Domestic
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International
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