C06055v3 Graduate Diploma in Law

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Overview

The Graduate Diploma in Law offers students the core law curriculum available within the Bachelor of Laws and Master of Law and Legal Practice degrees. The course assists the development of a detailed understanding of the Australian legal system.

This course offers graduates from disciplines other than law a course of study in the core law curriculum to assist them in their work or area of interest.

Career options

Career options include administrators or managers in business or government in areas that would benefit from a detailed understanding of the Common Law legal system.

Articulation

Additional admission requirements

Applicants require a Bachelor's degree in a discipline other than law.

Note that completion of a Bachelor's degree does not guarantee entry into this course. Admission is at the discretion of the Associate Dean, Teaching and Learning.

Additional assumed knowledge

The Faculty recommends that students read one of the following prior to entry: A Guide to Legal Problem Solving for Law Students, P Keyzer, Butterworths; or A Career in Law, J F Corkery (ed.), Federation Press.

Additional recognition of prior learning

Exemption from subjects in the Graduate Diploma will only be granted to students who have studied law in a recognised law school. Students who have studied law through the Law Extension Committee of the Supreme Court (LPAB) will not be granted exemptions.

The Faculty must be satisfied that the student has successfully completed a comparable subject elsewhere. To verify this, the student must produce a transcript of his or her academic record and a copy of the relevant institution's handbook containing a detailed description of the subject, together with the reading guide that was current at the time of study. Application for recognition of prior learning should be made at the point of application for admission to the course.

Course duration and attendance

The Graduate Diploma in Law can be completed in two years of full-time study or three years of part-time study.

Course acceleration may be permitted by enrolling in subjects totalling up to a maximum of 28 credit points per semester with the leave of the Faculty's Postgraduate Program Director.

Course structure

The Graduate Diploma requires the completion of 96 credit points of core law subjects.

Course completion requirements

Course program

Standard programs of study are given for a student studying on a full-time and part-time basis.

Other information

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