Course summary
Multiply your skills, knowledge and career prospects with a double degree in arts and law. You can immerse yourself in arts majors such as history, digital media or politics and international relations, while at the same time gathering the qualifications for a legal career.
You may undertake voluntary legal experience and professional placement with legal firms, or undertake community arts learning opportunities, helping you build practical skills and develop professional networks.
Graduates can pursue career opportunities that combine proficiency in the arts and law; and those specific to each discipline. This may include working in private practice as a solicitor or barrister, in government departments, non-government agencies, legal organisations or careers in the media, public relations and creative industries.
The Bachelor of Laws fulfils the academic requirements to practise law in Australia. Professional admission authorities also require law graduates of all universities to complete practical legal training or similar to practise as a lawyer.
Applicants who do not have the required entry mark for this double degree are encouraged to apply for the Bachelor of Arts. If a student achieves the required grade point average during that course, they may then apply for transfer into the double degree.
Multiply your skills, knowledge and career prospects with a double degree in arts and law. You can immerse yourself in arts majors such as history, digital media or politics and international relations, while at the same time gathering the qualifications for a legal career.
You may undertake voluntary legal experience and professional placement with legal firms, or undertake community arts learning opportunities, helping you build practical skills and develop professional networks.
Graduates can pursue career opportunities that combine proficiency in the arts and law; and those specific to each discipline. This may include working in private practice as a solicitor or barrister, in government departments, non-government agencies, legal organisations or careers in the media, public relations and creative industries.
The Bachelor of Laws fulfils the academic requirements to practise law in Australia. Professional admission authorities also require law graduates of all universities to complete practical legal training or similar to practise as a lawyer.
Applicants who do not have the required entry mark for this double degree are encouraged to apply for the Bachelor of Arts. If a student achieves the required grade point average during that course, they may then apply for transfer into the double degree.
See the Bachelor of Arts for majors available.
Course Learning Outcome |
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Access, manage, research and evaluate sources of information using intellectual and practical skills relevant to legal research and policy issues in professional practice. Apply critical analysis, reasoning and reflexivity to social and cultural situations and problems. Demonstrate the ability to develop a persuasive independent argument incorporating a range of perspectives and evidence. |
Apply legal reasoning, critical analysis and research to generate appropriate responses to legal problems. Develop innovative and creative responses to contemporary and historical social, environmental and cultural issues. |
Demonstrate an understanding of approaches to ethical decision-making and an ability to recognise, reflect upon, and respond to ethical issues likely to arise in professional contexts. Demonstrate an ability to recognise and reflect upon the professional responsibilities of lawyers in promoting justice and sustainability in service to the community. Investigate and evaluate issues with reference to principles of social justice and equity and according to ethical conventions. |
Demonstrate an understanding of a broad and coherent body of knowledge that includes the fundamental areas of law, the Australian legal system, and underlying principles and concepts, including international and comparative contexts, and the broader contexts within which legal issues arise. Demonstrate a depth and breadth of knowledge and understanding of society and culture in chosen disciplines of study. Apply disciplinary knowledge to diverse contexts. |
Learn and work independently by reflection and assessment of their own capabilities and performance, and seek and make use of feedback as appropriate, to determine personal and professional development needs and achievements. Access, evaluate and present information using academic conventions to inform decision-making and action. |
Collaborate and communicate using appropriate academic skills in ways that are effective, appropriate and persuasive for legal and non-legal audiences Communicate effectively in academic and professional settings in a variety of forms, including working autonomously or collaboratively. |
Apply an understanding of Australian Indigenous perspectives to all aspects of legal professional practice. Demonstrate a commitment to multicultural perspectives as well as specifically developing the ability to engage in a culturally competent way with Indigenous peoples. |
Law students can undertake voluntary legal experience and professional placement with legal firms or offices to build their practical legal skills and develop their professional networks.
In the Bachelor of Arts, students can undertake learning opportunities in the community through a number of units as well as through assessment opportunities.
The Bachelor of Laws fulfils the academic requirements for admission to the legal profession. Professional admission authorities also require law graduates of all universities to complete practical legal training or similar to be eligible to practise as a lawyer.
Students who intend to practise law outside Australia should check with the relevant country’s admission body to confirm their practising requirements.
Course overview
Course code
3207011
Course abbreviation
BA, LLB
Credit points
384
Equivalent units
32
Duration
4 years full-time; 8 years part-time
Duration
4 years full-time
Availability details
Domestic
Location | Teaching period | UAC code | QTAC code |
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Gold Coast | Session 1 | N/A | N/A |
Online | Session 1 | N/A | N/A |
Fee information
Course requirements
See the University’s Rules Relating to Awards, in conjunction with the Specific Award Rules listed below.
To be eligible to receive the Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Laws, students must complete the equivalent of 32 units (384 credit points), comprising:
- 21 core units (252 credit points), and
- 1 Arts Major (96 credit points), and
- 3 Arts Law Option units (36 credit points).
Exit Awards
Students may be eligible to exit with a Bachelor of Arts after completing the equivalent of 24 units (288 credit points), refer to the Bachelor of Arts Schedule of Units at https://www.scu.edu.au/study-at-scu/courses/bachelor-of-arts-3007099/2022/.
Students may be eligible to exit with a Bachelor of Laws after completing the equivalent of 24 units (288 credit points), refer to the Bachelor of Laws Schedule of Units at https://www.scu.edu.au/study-at-scu/courses/bachelor-of-laws-3007001/2022/.
Schedule of units
Course progressions
Your course progression is in the recommended order you should complete your course in. It is important that you follow this to ensure you meet the course requirements. For further assistance see How to Enrol in Units using My Enrolment.
Students should use course progression information to select units specific to their course and enrol in these units using My Enrolment
Browse uni-wide elective units by selecting Uni-wide elective in the advanced filter of the Unit search.
Browse shared majors and their units at Shared majors
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Complete the following units to satisfy the Requirements of the Award |
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First Year |
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LEGL1001 - Legal Research and Writing | |||
LEGL1005 - Legal Process | Note 1 | ||
LAWS2002 - Contract Law I | |||
LAWS2008 - Criminal Procedure | |||
LAWS2003 - Contract Law II | |||
LAWS2009 - Criminal Law | |||
LAWS2015 - Torts | |||
CLST1004 - Critical Thinking for Digital Times | |||
Second Year |
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LAWS2010 - Environmental Law | |||
LEGL1006 - Jurisprudence | |||
LAWS2007 - Corporations Law | |||
CRTV1002 - Create: Innovate: Change | |||
LAWS2005 - Constitutional Law | |||
LAWS2012 - Property Principles | |||
LAWS2017 - Principles of Equity | |||
POLT1002 - World Politics and Global Environmental Challenges | |||
Third Year |
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LAWS2016 - Evidence | |||
LAWS2013 - Civil Litigation and Procedure | |||
CLST2002 - Australia, Asia and the World | |||
Major Unit | |||
LAWS2006 - Administrative Law | |||
LAWS3003 - Professional Conduct | Note 1 | ||
Arts Law Option Unit | |||
Major Unit | |||
Fourth Year |
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Major Unit | |||
Arts Law Option Unit | |||
Major Unit | |||
Arts Law Option Unit | |||
Major Unit | |||
Major Unit | |||
Major Unit | |||
Major Unit |
Notes
Note 1: | Attendance at a compulsory workshop is required for this unit. |
Unit groups
Arts Law Option Unit
Title | Note | ||
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JUST2003 - Restorative Justice | |||
JUST2007 - Performances and Power in Literature and the Law | |||
JUST2008 - Justice Framed: Law in Films and in Graphic Novels/Comics | |||
JUST2009 - The Legalities of Artificial Intelligence | |||
JUST2010 - Myths for the Future: Law and Climate Fiction in the 21st Century | |||
JUST2011 - DNA and the Law | |||
LAWS2032 - Comparative Law | |||
LAWS2034 - The Rhetoric of Law | |||
LAWS2037 - Indigenous Jurisprudence | |||
LAWS2041 - Legal Fictions: Writing the Law | |||
LAWS2042 - Information Environmentalism | |||
LAWS2044 - Crimen Exceptum: The English Witch Prosecution in Context | |||
LAWS2048 - International Humanitarian Law | |||
LAWS2049 - Wisdom, Traditional Knowledge and Intellectual Property | |||
LAWS2052 - Psychiatry, Psychology and the Law | |||
LAWS2059 - International Human Rights Law | |||
LAWS2063 - Race and the Law | |||
LAWS2065 - Ecological Jurisprudence | |||
LAWS2066 - Climate Law and Policy | |||
LEGL2018 - Mediating Across Cultures | |||
POLT2005 - Struggles, Movements, and the Idea of Communism | |||
INDG1011 - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Legal Issues |