Bachelor of Commerce in Law

Associated Assessment Criteria for Exit Level Outcome 1

• Demonstrate integrated and systematic knowledge of the South African legal system.
• Identify and distinguish between various fields of law, their functions and applicability.
• Understand the legal status of the South African Constitution, analyse its implications for other fields of law.
• Identify, analyse, evaluate and critically reflect on Constitutional and/or statutory provisions in familiar and unfamiliar contexts.
• Understand legal methods and procedures and apply a range of legal methods from a variety of legal fields to resolve problems in the context of commercial practice.

Associated Assessment Criteria for Exit Level Outcome 2

• Demonstrate familiarity with the pertinent provisions, principles and procedures of the law governing South African commercial activity.
• Explain companies and other business structures and demonstrate an informed awareness of the legal framework within which these structures conduct business.
• Understand the legal rules and principles pertaining to competition, labour, taxation and insolvency in a commercial context.

Associated Assessment Criteria for Exit Level Outcome 3

• Demonstrate integrated knowledge of the rules of the law of contract.
• Ability to identify and solve problems pertaining to contractual relationships in commercial contexts.
• Analyse, evaluate and apply principles of the law of property and the law of delict.
• Apply principles of private law to civil disputes in commercial contexts.

Associated Assessment Criteria for Exit Level Outcome 4

• Demonstrate an integrated and well-rounded understanding of the business management function.
• Ability to apply business management principles in a strategic manner.
• Explain and analyse organisational behaviour.
• Understand and comply with legal corporate governance requirements.
• Apply principles of Strategy.
• Apply financial management techniques, interpret financial information in practical contexts.

Associated Assessment Criteria for Exit Level Outcome 5

• Recognise ethical standards in world-of-world contexts, evaluate and justify actions based on those standards.
• Recognise the political, economic, social and technological context in which the accounting function operates.
• Manage self, others and own learning within the context of continuous professional development.

Integrated Assessment

Integrated Assessment is ordinary practice in this type of qualification and is essential to ensure that the purpose of the qualification is achieved in relation to the professional focus carried by the qualifier and in terms of its propositional and declarative knowledge, vocational relevance, reflexive competency and critical cross-field learning outcomes. Successful learners will undertake an extensive process in which assessments progressively build the learners' integrated competency to a point where the learner is able to express - through a range of mechanisms measured against valid, reliable and transparent criteria - that they can operate effectively in an entry level professional position within the knowledge system specified by the qualification title. Formative assessment integrates the cycle of teaching and learning, and assessment. Study guides and texts contain self-assessment exercises. The scheme of work includes formal assessments in the form of tests and/or assignments based on the learning material and students are graded and provided written feedback. The process is continuous and focuses on smaller sections of the work and limited in the number of outcomes assessed. Summative assessments are in the form of proctored examinations, or equivalent assessment such as a research report which assesses a representative selection of the outcomes practised and assessed in the formative stage. Summative assessment also tests the learner's ability to manage and integrate a large body of knowledge to achieve the stated outcomes of a full course.