C04147v4 Master of Legal Studies
Award(s): Master of Legal Studies (MLS)UAC code: 942406 (Autumn semester), 945406 (Spring semester)
CRICOS code: 021717M
Commonwealth supported place?: No
Load credit points: 48
Course EFTSL: 1
Location: City campus
Note(s)
The Master of 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 Master of Legal Studies to be credited towards these degrees.
Overview
Career options
Admission requirements
Course duration and attendance
Course structure
Course completion requirements
Articulation with UTS courses
Other information
Overview
The UTS: Law Legal Studies program meets the growing market 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 develop expertise in specialist legal areas such as compliance and intellectual property law.
The Master of Legal Studies attracts students from a wide variety of backgrounds interested in expanding their skills 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 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).
Admission requirements
Applicants require a bachelor's degree in a discipline other than law.
Note that completion of a bachelor's degree alone does not guarantee entry into this course. Admission is at the discretion of the Associate Dean (Teaching and Learning).
Course duration and attendance
The Master of Legal Studies can be completed in a minimum of one year of full-time study or two years of part-time study.
The course features a variety of attendance patterns, including distance teaching (requiring no on-campus attendance), intensive block attendance and weekly on-campus evening classes.
Course structure
From 2008, the course requires completion of core subjects (30 credit points), including two compulsory introductory subjects and a choice of two further foundation subjects, plus a further three option subjects (18 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 particular, refer to the correct structure of the Legal Studies major choice in CBK90501).
Students may also elect to undertake up to a maximum of 12 credit points of postgraduate subjects offered in other faculties in the University. Enrolment in non-law subjects is at the discretion of UTS: Law and the faculty in which the subject is offered.
Core subjects are timetabled in Autumn and Spring semesters 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:
Course completion requirements
| STM90689 Core subjects | 30cp | |
| CBK90588 Options | 18cp | |
| Total | 48cp |
Articulation with UTS courses
Students enrolled in the Graduate Diploma in Legal Studies (C07074) may internally transfer to the master's program. Subjects undertaken within the graduate diploma are recognised within the master's.
Other information
Further information for future students is available from:
email law@uts.edu.au
Further information for current students is available from:
