C07074v4 Graduate Diploma in Legal Studies

Award(s): Graduate Diploma in Legal Studies (GradDipLS)
CRICOS code: 021718K
Load credit points: 36
Course EFTSL: 0.75
Faculty/institute responsible: Law
Location: City campus

Note(s)

The Graduate Diploma in Legal Studies is not a professional legal qualification. Applicants seeking to be admitted to practise should refer to the Juris Doctor (C04236) or the Bachelor of Laws (C10124). Students may apply for some subjects undertaken within the Graduate Diploma in Legal Studies to be credited towards these degrees.

Overview
Career options
Additional admission requirements
Course duration and attendance
Course structure
Course completion requirements
Articulation with UTS courses
Other information

Overview

The UTS Legal Studies program meets the growing need for non-law graduates working in the public and private sectors to have a thorough understanding of the legal and regulatory framework in which they operate. This includes an understanding of foundational legal concepts such as contract law and tort law, methods of legal research and theory, as well as the opportunity to sample specialist legal areas such as compliance and intellectual property law.

The Legal Studies program attracts students from a wide variety of backgrounds interested in expanding their skill portfolio to include an understanding of the legal framework, including professionals from the insurance, human resources, banking and finance industries, managers and administrators, and HSC legal studies teachers.

Career options

The Legal Studies program particularly benefits accountants and auditors, business development managers, compliance managers, engineers and architects, financial advisers and planners, IT professionals, law enforcement officers, paralegals, policy officers in the public, private and non-profit sectors, property developers and public sector managers and administrators (especially those who work in Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Department of Communications, Information Technology and the Arts, the Attorney-General's Department and Treasury).

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).

Course duration and attendance

The Graduate Diploma in Legal Studies can be completed in a minimum of one year of full-time study or one-and-a-half years of part-time study.

The course is offered in a variety of attendance patterns, including intensive block attendance and weekly on-campus evening classes.

Course structure

The course requires completion of core subjects, including two compulsory introductory subjects and a choice of two further foundation subjects (30 credit points), plus a further option subject (6 credit points). (Refer to the course entry in the UTS:Handbook 2007 for the pre-2008 course structure. For a current listing of subjects in each course, refer to the Study package directory in the UTS:Handbook 2008. In particular, refer to the correct structure of the Legal Studies major choice, in CBK90501).

Core subjects are timetabled every semester and option subjects are regularly timetabled but not all option subjects listed are offered in any one semester. Timetabled subjects are offered subject to sufficient student interest. The current timetable can be found at:

http://timetable.uts.edu.au

Course completion requirements

STM90689 Core subjects		30cp
CBK90593 Options		6cp
Total		36cp

Articulation with UTS courses

Graduate Diploma candidates may transfer to the Master of Legal Studies (C04147). Candidates do not take out the Graduate Diploma, rather subjects undertaken within the Graduate Diploma are applied towards the Master's.

Other information

Further information is available from:

telephone +61 2 9514 3444
Service Desk https://servicedesk.uts.edu.au