C10124v8 Bachelor of Laws
Award(s): Bachelor of Laws (LLB)UAC code: 604000 (FT) (Autumn session), 604001 (PT) (Autumn session)
CRICOS code: 013614G
Commonwealth supported place?: Yes
Load credit points: 192
Course EFTSL: 4
Location: City campus
Overview
Career options
Course intended learning outcomes
Admission requirements
Assumed knowledge
Credit recognition
Course duration and attendance
Course structure
Course completion requirements
Course diagram
Course program
Honours
Professional recognition
Other information
Overview
This course teaches students foundational knowledge and skills in law and its practice. UTS: Law graduates are increasingly in demand in the legal profession and in other employment sectors where legal knowledge and skills are valued. Today's law graduates are employable in a wide range of roles and responsibilities, including to advise and counsel parties, act as negotiators, manage project teams and resolve disputes.
This course provides full-time or part-time study for students wishing to obtain a professional legal qualification that satisfies the requirements for admission as a lawyer.
Students have the opportunity to engage in deeper study of the law by undertaking a number of law options and incorporate a broad variety of other disciplines by enrolling in options from other faculties.
Career options
Career options include lawyer or legal policy adviser within a government or corporate department, private law firm or community law centre, or negotiating treaties or work in legislation drafting with the Attorney-General's Department.
Course intended learning outcomes
| 1.0 | A coherent understanding of fundamental areas of legal knowledge including the Australian legal system, social justice, cultural and international contexts and the principles and values of ethical practice. |
| 2.0 | A capacity to value and promote honesty, integrity, accountability, public service and ethical standards including an understanding of approaches to ethical decision making, the rules of professional responsibility and, an ability to reflect upon and respond to ethical challenges in practice. |
| 3.0 | A capacity to think critically, strategically and creatively including an ability to identify and articulate legal issues, apply reasoning and research, engage in critical analysis and make reasoned choices. |
| 4.0 | Well-developed cognitive and practical skills necessary to identify, research, evaluate and synthesise relevant factual, legal and policy issues. |
| 5.0 | Effective and appropriate communication skills including highly effective use of the English language, an ability to inform, analyse, report and persuade using an appropriate medium and message and an ability to respond appropriately. |
| 6.0 | The ability to implement appropriate self-management and lifelong learning strategies including initiating self-directed work and learning, judgment and responsibility, self assessment of skills, personal wellbeing and appropriate use of feedback and, a capacity to adapt to and embrace change. |
Admission requirements
Applicants must have completed an Australian Year 12 qualification, Australian Qualifications Framework Diploma, or equivalent Australian or overseas qualification at the required level.
The English proficiency requirement for international students or local applicants with international qualifications is: Academic IELTS: 6.5 overall with a writing score of 6.0; or TOEFL: paper based: 550-583 overall with TWE of 4.5, internet based: 79-93 overall with a writing score of 21; or AE5: Pass; or PTE: 58-64; or CAE: 176-184.
Eligibility for admission does not guarantee offer of a place.
International students
Visa requirement: To obtain a student visa to study in Australia, international students must enrol full time and on campus. Australian student visa regulations also require international students studying on student visas to complete the course within the standard full-time duration. Students can extend their courses only in exceptional circumstances.
Assumed knowledge
Proficiency in English.
Credit recognition
Students who have already completed a degree in another discipline may apply for exemption from 48 credit points of general law electives. Details about applying for credit recognition can be found in undergraduate course information.
Course duration and attendance
The course duration is four years of full-time or six-and-a-half years of part-time study. Full-time students have approximately 12–14.5 contact hours per week and part-time students have approximately 7–9.5 contact hours per week. Timetable constraints may require attendance at both day and evening classes.
Course structure
The course comprises a total of 192 credit points. The study components for course completion are:
- 108 credit points of compulsory core law subjects,
- 30 credit points of law options, this includes, either:
- 30 credit points of law options, or
- 30 credit points of legal futures and technology options
- a 6-credit-point legal theory option
- 48 credit points of law or non-law electives, made up of either:
- 48 credit points of subjects offered by other faculties of the University (for students who have not received exemption on the basis of a recognised prior degree), or
- 18 credit points of practical legal training (PLT) subjects plus 30 credit points of electives.
Industrial training/professional practice
To practise as a lawyer in NSW, students need to successfully complete an accredited legal qualification (e.g. Bachelor of Laws) and an accredited course of practical legal training (PLT), which UTS offers through its PLT program.
Students enrolled in the Bachelor of Laws have the option of completing the PLT program within their undergraduate law degree. Alternatively, students who wish to practise as lawyers in NSW can complete their Bachelor of Laws by including further law electives and then undertake a postgraduate course in PLT, such as the Graduate Certificate in Professional Legal Practice (C11232).
Course completion requirements
| STM90832 Core (Law) | 108cp | |
| CBK90391 Options | 48cp | |
| CBK91729 LLB options | 30cp | |
| CBK90923 Options (Legal Theory UG) | 6cp | |
| Total | 192cp |
Course diagram
Course program
The two programs below show the standard programs of study for a full-time student and a part-time student with 30 credit points of law options.
The 84 credit points of optional subjects are made up of:
- 30 credit points of law options from CBK90922 or MAJ09443
- a 6-credit-point legal theory option from CBK90923, and either
Students wishing to study the new major MAJ09443 Legal Futures and Technology need to study 76106 Technology Law, Policy and Ethics (Capstone 1) in the Autumn session of their final year and 76107 Applied Project in Law, Innovation and Technology (Capstone 2) in their final Spring session.
| full time | ||
| Year 1 | ||
| Autumn session | ||
| 70102 Foundations of Law | 8cp | |
| 70103 Ethics Law and Justice | 6cp | |
| 70114 Criminal Law and Procedure | 8cp | |
| Spring session | ||
| 70211 Contracts | 8cp | |
| 70311 Torts | 8cp | |
| 70616 Australian Constitutional Law | 8cp | |
| Year 2 | ||
| Autumn session | ||
| 70317 Real Property | 8cp | |
| 70104 Civil Practice | 6cp | |
| 70327 Commercial Law | 6cp | |
| 71116 Remedies | 6cp | |
| Spring session | ||
| 70517 Equity and Trusts | 8cp | |
| 70617 Administrative Law | 8cp | |
| 70109 Evidence | 6cp | |
| Year 3 | ||
| Autumn session | ||
| 70108 Public International Law | 6cp | |
| Select 18 credit points from the following: | 18cp | |
| CBK90922 Options (Law UG) | 30cp | |
| Spring session | ||
| 70417 Corporate Law | 8cp | |
| Select 6 credit points from the following: | 6cp | |
| 76008 Jurisprudence | 6cp | |
| 76033 Animal Law and Policy in Australia | 6cp | |
| 76057 Judgment and the Rule of Law | 6cp | |
| 76081 Gender and Law | 6cp | |
| 78039 Wickedness and Vice | 6cp | |
| 76902 Law and Literature | 6cp | |
| 76012 Criminology | 6cp | |
| 76092 Advanced Property | 6cp | |
| 76068 Indigenous Peoples and the Law | 6cp | |
| Select 12 credit points from the following: | 12cp | |
| CBK90922 Options (Law UG) | 30cp | |
| Year 4 | ||
| Autumn session | ||
| Select 24 credit points from the following: | 24cp | |
| CBK90390 Options | 30cp | |
| Spring session | ||
| 75411 Practical Experience | 0cp | |
| 75422 Transactional Practice | 6cp | |
| 75424 Legal and Professional Skills | 6cp | |
| 75423 Litigation and Estate Practice | 6cp | |
| Select 6 credit points from the following: | 6cp | |
| CBK90390 Options | 30cp | |
| part time | ||
| Year 1 | ||
| Autumn session | ||
| 70102 Foundations of Law | 8cp | |
| 70103 Ethics Law and Justice | 6cp | |
| Spring session | ||
| 70311 Torts | 8cp | |
| 70114 Criminal Law and Procedure | 8cp | |
| Year 2 | ||
| Autumn session | ||
| 70211 Contracts | 8cp | |
| 70616 Australian Constitutional Law | 8cp | |
| Spring session | ||
| 70327 Commercial Law | 6cp | |
| 70104 Civil Practice | 6cp | |
| 70109 Evidence | 6cp | |
| Year 3 | ||
| Autumn session | ||
| 70317 Real Property | 8cp | |
| 70617 Administrative Law | 8cp | |
| Spring session | ||
| 70517 Equity and Trusts | 8cp | |
| 71116 Remedies | 6cp | |
| Year 4 | ||
| Autumn session | ||
| 70417 Corporate Law | 8cp | |
| 70108 Public International Law | 6cp | |
| Spring session | ||
| Select 12 credit points from the following: | 12cp | |
| CBK90922 Options (Law UG) | 30cp | |
| Year 5 | ||
| Autumn session | ||
| Select 18 credit points from the following: | 18cp | |
| CBK90922 Options (Law UG) | 30cp | |
| Spring session | ||
| Select 18 credit points from the following: | 18cp | |
| CBK90390 Options | 30cp | |
| Year 6 | ||
| Autumn session | ||
| Select 6 credit points from the following: | 6cp | |
| 76008 Jurisprudence | 6cp | |
| 76033 Animal Law and Policy in Australia | 6cp | |
| 76057 Judgment and the Rule of Law | 6cp | |
| 76081 Gender and Law | 6cp | |
| 78039 Wickedness and Vice | 6cp | |
| 76902 Law and Literature | 6cp | |
| 76012 Criminology | 6cp | |
| 76092 Advanced Property | 6cp | |
| 76068 Indigenous Peoples and the Law | 6cp | |
| Select 6 credit points from the following: | 6cp | |
| CBK90390 Options | 30cp | |
| Spring session | ||
| 75424 Legal and Professional Skills | 6cp | |
| 75422 Transactional Practice | 6cp | |
| Year 7 | ||
| Autumn session | ||
| 75411 Practical Experience | 0cp | |
| 75423 Litigation and Estate Practice | 6cp | |
| Select 6 credit points from the following: | 6cp | |
| CBK90390 Options | 30cp | |
Honours
Students can graduate with a Bachelor of Laws (Honours) if they complete 76090 Research Methodology and 76040 Research Thesis within the course. The Bachelor of Laws (Honours) may be awarded with first or second class honours, which does not require an additional honours year. The rules concerning the Bachelor of Laws (Honours) can be found in undergraduate course information.
Students who meet the criteria for honours are eligible for transfer into the appropriate undergraduate honours exit course on completion of all coursework. This transfer into an honours exit course is managed by the Student Centre and occurs just prior to graduation.
Students who undertake the Legal Futures and Technology major and who meet the criteria for honours can choose to undertake honours as part of their degree.
Professional recognition
This course satisfies the requirements for admission to the Supreme Court of NSW as a lawyer provided students undertake the optional practical legal training program as part of the course or at the completion of the course. Check with the NSW Legal Profession Admission Board (LPAB) for time constraints.
Other information
Further information is available from:
UTS Student Centre
telephone 1300 ask UTS (1300 275 887)
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