A Law degree with a clinical focus
Law offers an intellectual challenge and the opportunity to help people with legal problems. Our Law program is designed to produce law graduates with a clinical focus.
- Only a full-time option is available to international students on a Student visa. Online programs are not available to Student visa holders.
- * Estimated tuition fees are based on 2025 rates. Refer to international fees for more information.
- Not all majors/minors and elective options are available at every campus. You should refer to the What Can I Study tab, and the proposed study sequence for your chosen campus and intake for further information.
Law offers an intellectual challenge and the opportunity to help people with legal problems. Our Law program is designed to produce law graduates with a clinical focus.
You’ll cover all the academic courses required for admission as a legal practitioner in Australia. You’ll conduct client interviews, prepare legal advice, undertake legal research and observe litigation and gain practical experience in USC’s Law Clinic and moot court.
From first year, you’ll work with local legal practitioners at the Suncoast Community Legal Service assisting real clients with their legal problems — an opportunity not available anywhere else in Queensland. Elective courses Legal Internship and Law Clinic are offered to students in the later years of their studies.
Honours is available for high performing students.
Career opportunities
Solicitor, barrister, government legal officer, judge's associate, law academic, corporate in-house counsel, business and public service administration.
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
Introductory courses (5)
COR109 Social Work in Health and Mental Health
LAW101 Master of Social Work Field Education 2
LAW102 International and Global Social Work
LAW103 Foundations of Sustainability
LAW104 Introduction to Indigenous Australia
Advanced courses (20)
14 required courses:
LAW201 Social Research
LAW202 Work Integrated Learning Project
LAW203 Education Research an Introduction
LAW204 Curriculum Development and Evaluation
LAW205 Pedagogies for Engagement
LAW206 Second Language Acquisition and Learning
LAW301 Second Language Teaching Methodologies
LAW302 Designing an Education Research Proposal
LAW303 Leadership for Learning Communities
LAW304 Assessment: Principles and Practices
LAW401 Interlanguage Phonology
LAW402 Language, Culture and Second Language Learning
LAW403 Professional Education Project
LAW404 Professional Education Project
PLUS select 6 elective courses from:
LAW305 Communicating Education Project Outcomes
LAW306 Accounting Principles
LAW307 Economics for Business
LAW308 Discovering Management
LAW309 Exploring Business Research
LAW310 Information Systems in Organisations
LAW311 Business Finance
LAW312 Business Law
LAW313 Financial Accounting
LAW314 Law of Business Associations
LAW315 World of Work: Your Pathway to Employment
LAW316 Company Accounting
LAW405 Management Accounting
LAW406 Taxation Law and Practice
LAW407 Contemporary Accounting Issues
LAW408 Auditing and Professional Practice
LAW409 Business, Governance and Society
LAW410 Introduction to Psychology A
LAW411 Communication and Thought
LAW412 Introduction to Psychology B
LAW413 Economics for Managers
LAW414 Accounting for Managers
LAW415 Business Law and Ethics
The following 2 elective courses are only available to students who have been accepted into honours in Law:
LAW440 Corporate Governance and Social Responsibility
LAW441 Managing Workplace Relations
Please note: Semester offerings for Law elective courses are subject to change and are dependent on student demand. For more information on elective availability please contact your Program Leaders.
Electives courses (7)
In addition to the requirement for 6 advanced level Law electives, you must select 7 elective courses from either faculty (Arts and Business or Science, Health, Education and Engineering) or from the USC Law School. Of these electives, 2 must be advanced level (200/300/400 coded) courses, and a maximum of 4 courses can be Law electives.
Note: Not all USC courses are available on every USC campus.
Total units: 384
Recommended study sequences
Program requirements and notes
Program requirements
In order to graduate you must:
- Complete 5 introductory level (100 coded) required law courses including COR109
- Complete 14 advanced level (200/300/400 coded) required law courses
- Complete 6 law elective courses
- Complete no more than 10 introductory level (100 coded) courses including COR109
- Complete 7 electives; of those a maximum of 4 can be law electives
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 Study Overseas 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.
- Semester offerings for Law elective courses are subject to change and are dependent on student demand. For more information on elective availability please contact your Program Leader.
- Honours in Law available for high performing students.