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Unit Summary
Unit aim
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: | |
|---|---|
| 1 | perform with technical competence, imagination and professionalism in methods of mooting and the arts of appellate court advocacy |
| 2 | demonstrate practical awareness of the ethical aspects of the roles and responsibilities of courtroom advocates and judges |
| 3 | show critical familiarity with classical, renaissance and modern theories and techniques of forensic rhetoric |
| 4 | communicate complex ideas clearly and persuasively, by demonstrating the faculties of performance rhetoric |
| 5 | demonstrate reflective appreciation of personal competence in the art of advocacy |
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
- demonstrate practical awareness of the ethical aspects of the roles and responsibilities of courtroom advocates and judges
- show critical familiarity with classical, renaissance and modern theories and techniques of forensic rhetoric
- communicate complex ideas clearly and persuasively, by demonstrating the faculties of performance rhetoric
- demonstrate reflective appreciation of personal competence in the art of advocacy