General Course Information
1.1 Course details
| Course code: | LLAW6273 |
| Course name: | Practicum Project |
| Programme offered under: | LLM Programme |
| Semester: | First + Second |
| Prerequisites / Co-requisites: | No |
| Credit point value: | 9 credits |
| Cap on student numbers: | 50 |
1.2 Course description
The Practicum shall comprise a 5,000 word writing project based on (i) one or more short clinical attachment programme(s) as the Programme Director may approve in a hospital, any other appropriate healthcare or biomedical institution, or any other appropriate medico-legal setting and/or (ii) an academic attachment programme as the Programme Director may approve. The duration and the number of hours of such attachment programme(s) shall be as approved by the Programme Director. Each student will be required to declare that he or she has no interest or relationship with his or her supervisor in the clinical or academic attachment programme(s), as the case may be. If any institution to which the student is attached in the clinical and/or academic attachment programme(s) is not on the list of pre-approved institutions as updated from time to time, the student will be required to justify his or her choice.
Students will be paired with an academic or practitioner mentor, who will assist in preparing for the practicum project. Students will be provided with guidance in improving their research and writing skills over the course of the writing process. Each student will meet regularly with his/ her assigned mentor to develop his/ her ideas for his/ her writing project and assess his/ her progress in preparation for the presentation.
Students will be placed with a partner organization after consultation with their assigned academic or practitioner mentors. They must receive a satisfactory written report from the supervisor at the placement organization reflecting that the student has demonstrated a serious approach to the work assigned, as well as shown satisfactory attendance at and completion of tasks assigned. Satisfactory maintenance of an Electronic Journal documenting weekly objectives, work output and achievement of goals is also required. Finally, students must submit a research paper on a topic related to the work of the placement organisation (to be agreed in consultation with the Programme Director and the supervisor).
As for the presentation, students will be scheduled to give a class presentation of their practicum project experience. Nontraditional formats may be explored subject to the Programme Director’s approval.
1.3 Course teachers
| Name | E-mail address | Office | Consultation | |
| Course convenor | Calvin Ho | cwlho@hku.hk | CCT 803 | By email |
Learning Outcomes
2.1 Course Learning Outcomes (CLOs) for this course
CLO 1 Students will be able to develop the ability to engage in original research work and build capacity for critical legal analysis and argument.
CLO 2 Students will be able to show serious intellectual engagement with current academic debates in medical ethics and law and make original contributions.
CLO 3 Students will be able to demonstrate mastery of their knowledge and skills gained through their learning experiences in the LLM in Medical Ethics & Law programme by integrating them with important concepts from related disciplines.
CLO 4 Students will be able to demonstrate the ability to orally present and defend work and engage constructively with scholarly criticism and feedback.
2.2 LLM Programme Learning Outcomes (PLOs)
Please refer to the following link: https://course.law.hku.hk/llm-plo/
2.3 Programme Learning Outcomes to be achieved in this course
| PLO A | PLO B | PLO C | PLO D | PLO E | PLO F | |
| CLO 1 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| CLO 2 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| CLO 3 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| CLO 4 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Assessment(s)
3.1 Assessment Summary
| Assessment task | Due date | Weighting | Feedback method* | Course learning outcomes |
| Practicum experience | TBC | 50% | 3, 4 | 1, 2, 3, 4 |
| Writing project | TBC | 50% | 3, 4 | 1, 2, 3, 4 |
| *Feedback method (to be determined by course teacher) | |
| 1 | A general course report to be disseminated through Moodle |
| 2 | Individual feedback to be disseminated by email / through Moodle |
| 3 | Individual review meeting upon appointment |
| 4 | Group review meeting |
| 5 | In-class verbal feedback |
3.2 Assessment Detail
To be advised by course convenor(s).
3.3 Grading Criteria
Please refer to the following link: https://www.law.hku.hk/_files/law_programme_grade_descriptors.pdf
Learning Activities
4.1 Learning Activity Plan
| Seminar: | Not applicable |
| Private study time: | TBA |
Remarks: the normative student study load per credit unit is 25 ± 5 hours (ie. 150 ± 30 hours for a 6-credit course), which includes all learning activities and experiences within and outside of classroom, and any assessment task and examinations and associated preparations.
4.2 Details of Learning Activities
To be advised by course convenor(s).
Learning Resources
5.1 Resources
| Reading materials: | Reading materials are posted on Moodle |
| Core reading list: | TBA |
| Recommended reading list: | TBA |
5.2 Links
Please refer to the following link: http://www.law.hku.hk/course/learning-resources/