Students can pursue a career in law specialising in science-related fields.
Law program content has a clinical focus and includes all the courses required for admission as a legal practitioner in Australia: legal practice and ethics, contracts, torts, criminal law and procedure, equity / trusts, civil procedure, evidence, constitutional law, property law, administrative law and corporate law. Students can choose from a range of majors such as biology, biomedical science, biotechnology, chemistry, clinical measurement, environmental science, geography, health promotion, mathematics, public health and sustainability.
- * It is recommended that students planning to study part-time apply for the Bachelor of Laws rather than a double degree.
Law program content has a clinical focus and includes all the courses required for admission as a legal practitioner in Australia: legal practice and ethics, contracts, torts, criminal law and procedure, equity / trusts, civil procedure, evidence, constitutional law, property law, administrative law and corporate law. Students can choose from a range of majors such as biology, biomedical science, biotechnology, chemistry, clinical measurement, environmental science, geography, health promotion, mathematics, public health and sustainability.
Majors
Refer to Bachelor of Science
Career opportunities
Solicitor, barrister, patent attorney, government legal officer, scientist or others depending on the science major studied.
Registration
The degree is an approved academic qualification for admission to the legal profession. Graduates must undertake a further period of practical legal training before being admitted as a legal practitioner.
Program structure
Program requirements
In order to graduate you must:
- Complete 1 core course.
- Complete 4 introductory (100 level) required law courses.
- Complete 14 advanced (200/300/400 level) required law courses.
- Complete 6 law electives
- Complete 7 required introductory courses
- Complete 8 required courses towards a major
- The total number of introductory level courses cannot exceed 16
Program notes
- Completing this program within the specified (full-time) duration is based on studying 48 unit points per semester (normally 4 courses).
- Courses within this program are assessed using a variety of assessment methods including essays, seminar presentations, reports, in-class tests and examinations. Not all courses will necessarily include all methods.
- As part of your USC program, you may apply to participate in the Global Opportunities (GO) Program to undertake courses with an overseas higher education provider. It is advisable to contact your Program Advisor to discuss timing and course issues.
- When enrolling, refer to the Study Plan.
Program structure
Core course (1)
1 required course:
COR109 Advanced Sports Nutrition
Courses from Bachelor of Laws program
Introductory courses (4)
4 required courses:
LAW101 Exercise Prescription and Programming I
LAW102 Exercise Physiology I
LAW103 Mental Health and Neuroscience: Translational Research
LAW104 Youth Mental Health and Neurobiology
Advanced courses (20)
14 required courses:
LAW201 Neuroimaging Advances in Mental Health
LAW202 Understanding and Preventing Suicide
LAW203 Preparation for Practice 2
LAW204 Drug Therapy
LAW205 Contexts of Practice: Health Alteration
LAW206 Nursing Practice 2
LAW301 Research Foundations for Health Practice
LAW302 Health Law and Ethics
LAW303 Preparation for Practice 3
LAW304 Contexts of Practice: Complex Care
LAW401 Nursing Practice 3
LAW402 Contexts of Practice: Mental Health Care
LAW403 Preparation and Nursing Practice 4
LAW404 Leadership in Clinical Practice
Plus select 6 elective law courses from:
LAW305 Palliative, Rehabilitation and Continuing Care
LAW306 Life Crisis
LAW307 The Child Client
LAW308 Contexts of practice: child, youth and family
LAW309 Nursing Internship
LAW310 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health and Cultural Safety
LAW311 Professional Experience: Orientation to the Profession
LAW312 English Language and Literacy
LAW313 Science Research Methods
LAW314 Introduction to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Education
LAW315 Assessing Learning
LAW316 Professional Experience: Managing Learning Environments
LAW405 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Perspectives in Learning and Teaching
LAW406 Diversity and Inclusion
LAW407 Professional Experience: Individual Learner Needs
LAW408 Using Data for Learning
LAW409 Professional Experience: The Professional Teacher
LAW410 Teacher as Researcher
LAW411 Literacy and Numeracy Across the Curriculum
LAW412 The Psychology of Learning
LAW413 Introductory Counselling Skills
Courses from Bachelor of Science program
Introductory courses (7)
LFS100 Foundations of Human Behaviour
SCI105 Introduction to Indigenous Australia
SCI110 Introduction to Social Work and Human Services
Select 1 course from:
MTH100 Group Processes and Practice
MTH102
Select 1 course from:
SET111
1 introductory course from the Faculty of Science, Health, Education and Engineering
Select 2 courses from:
LFS112 Human Physiology
LFS122 Human Anatomy
SCI102 Biodiversity and Ecology
SCI107 Physics
SUS101 Foundations of Sustainability - Investigating Planetary Health
OR 2 introductory course from the Faculty of Science, Health, Education and Engineering
Major courses (8)
Select an 8 course major from the Science and Health Major study area
TOTAL UNITS 480