Student Handbook 2024/25 (Cert IP / Cert Trade Mark Law and Practice AND MSc Management of IP)

11.2. Course Content

CTWL for all students

As stated, CTWL is mandatory for students arriving with a condition. However, the Programme is open to all PG Law students irrespective of their entry status. This extends to native English speakers who have been regular attenders of this Programme over the years.

Semester 1 - EAL4791 CTW: Literacy Development

Reading is a central focus of the first half of this ten-week module as students are obliged to read extensively around their module topics. The module at this stage is designed to help them do this constructively as well as to develop knowledge and awareness of the layout, organisation and sequence of a variety of legal texts. The importance of reading extensively and selecting potentially useful material for their respective needs with greater efficiency, speed and confidence, is also addressed. The second part of the module is concerned with the requirements of exam writing and the preparation of a proposal for their dissertation. Both Teaching Periods provide students with an opportunity to write and receive feedback on their work.

Semester 1 - Dissertation Proposal Writing

As PG Law students are required to write and submit their dissertation proposals by the end of November/early December, the Language Centre offers a one-off supplementary session to all students in November to cover this requirement. The session addresses the components, approach and style of what is conventionally required for the QM proposal. Exact date/s and time/s will be available in the CTW section of the QMplus Dissertation Support Noticeboard.

CTW in Teaching Period Semester 2 is also available to ALL students. The overriding purpose in Teaching Period Semester 2 is on the development and honing of writing for the dissertation. Students will be given the opportunity to learn and practice the skills needed to allow them to progress effectively and independently throughout this final, taught- stage of the programme being studied.

Semester 2 EAL4792 CTWL: Dissertation Writing

Almost all PG law students are required to write a dissertation as well as submit coursework essays. Writing papers of this length accurately, while adhering to the formality and style required by Queen Mary, is a challenging undertaking for both foreign and English-speaking students alike. Accordingly, this ten- week module addresses some of the areas of dissertation writing that have regularly been a source of student difficulty in previous years. Students are provided with the opportunity to work through the process of planning and structuring their dissertations and apply academic writing skills for law that were developed in Teaching Period One. For Dissertation writing classes students attend one 2-hour class per week for 10 weeks between February and April.

N.B. Students not writing a dissertation are welcome to attend these classes in Semester 2. It is very much expected that they can derive benefit from them that can be put towards other LLM writing requirements.

Registering for CTWL Modules

Registration for the CTWL module in Semester Teaching Period will open on 23 September 2024. Classes, however, will begin in the week beginning 30 September 2024.

To register for these CTWL modules please use the In-sessional Course Bookings task available on MySIS - the online view of SIS, Queen Mary's Student Information System available at: https://mysis.qmul.ac.uk/ A list of all classes of EAL4791 (CTW: Literacy Development) with times and teaching locations will be available on MySIS for students to choose according to when they are free. Students are advised to enrol early as certain time slots can fill up very quickly. Class sizes are limited to 20-25 students and enrolment works on a first come first served basis.

Registration for semester 2 opens in mid December 2024. CTWL classes will resume after the exam period in late January 2025.