Enhance your Law degree with strong written communication skills
Develop advanced written communication and analytical skills for a career in law or other fields such as government, arts, media or the creative industries. Choose from a range of Law electives to suit your interests and career ambitions.
- 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.
- * It is recommended that students planning to study part-time apply for the Bachelor of Laws rather than a double degree.
- * It is recommended that students planning to study part-time apply for the Bachelor of Laws rather than a double degree.
Develop advanced written communication and analytical skills for a career in law or other fields such as government, arts, media or the creative industries. Choose from a range of Law electives to suit your interests and career ambitions.
You will cover all the academic courses required for admission as a legal practitioner in Australia. You will engage in active learning experiences and gain practical skills right from your first year. For example, you will observe volunteer lawyers conducting client interviews at an advice clinic operated by Suncoast Community Legal Service.
You will research answers to legal problems, prepare advice, present legal argument, observe court proceedings, and take part in simulated court presentations in our new Moot Court venue. You can further develop your skills by working with Legal Service clients under legal supervision in law professional practice, or undertake a legal internship.
Take advantage of careers for law graduates with especially strong English skills in areas such as parliamentary counsel, contract drafting, corporate writing and legal publishing.
Law Honours is available, usually without extending the time required to complete your degree.
Career opportunities
Graduates will have highly developed analytical and communication skills, equipped for a career in law including as a solicitor, barrister, government legal officer, corporate in-house counsel or careers with a communication focus such as government, education, arts, media, commerce, and industry.
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
USC Law School courses
Introductory courses (4)
LAW101 Teaching Senior Secondary Geography
LAW102 Teaching Senior Secondary Mathematics
LAW103 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Perspectives in Learning and Teaching
LAW104 Diversity and Inclusion
Advanced courses (20)
14 required courses:
LAW201 Professional Experience: Individual Learner Needs
LAW202 Using Data for Learning
LAW203 Professional Experience: The Professional Teacher
LAW204 Teacher as Researcher
LAW205 Literacy and Numeracy Across the Curriculum
LAW206 The Psychology of Learning
LAW301 Communication and Thought
LAW302 Chemistry
LAW303 Professional Experience: Orientation to the Profession
LAW304 Cell Biology
LAW401 Introduction to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Education
LAW402 Organic Chemistry
LAW403 Inorganic Chemistry
LAW404 Environmental Chemistry
PLUS select 6 elective courses from:
LAW305 Analytical Sciences
LAW306 Physical Chemistry
LAW307 Medicinal Organic Chemistry
LAW309 Biochemistry
LAW310 Teaching Senior Secondary Science 1
LAW311 Teaching Senior Secondary Geography
LAW312 Organic Chemistry
LAW313 Inorganic Chemistry
LAW315 Environmental Chemistry
LAW316 Analytical Sciences
LAW318 Individual Learner Needs
LAW405 Professional Experience: Managing Learning Environments
LAW406 Teaching Junior Secondary Science 1
LAW407 Teaching Junior Secondary Geography
LAW408 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Perspectives in Learning and Teaching
LAW409 Diversity and Inclusion
LAW410 Professional Experience: Individual Learner Needs
LAW411 The Psychology of Learning
LAW412 Literacy and Numeracy Across the Curriculum
LAW414 Secondary Assessment and Reporting
LAW415 Using Data for Learning
LAW416 Secondary Professional Learning: The Professional Empowered and Engaged
The following 2 elective courses are only available to students who have been accepted into honours in Law:
LAW440 Animal Form, Function and Evolution
LAW441 Invertebrate Biology and Ecology
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 Coordinator.
School of Communication courses
Introductory courses (4)
CMN103 Plant Diversity and Ecology
CMN104 Terrestrial Vertebrate Diversity and Ecology
CMN116 Coastal and Marine Ecology
COR109 Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
Advanced courses (11)
CMN200 Agricultural and Forest Ecology
CMN213 Plant Growth and Reproduction
CMN238 Public Health Foundations
CMN246 Health Promotion Assessment and Planning
CMN247 Health Promotion Principles
CMN260 Health Promotion Implementation and Evaluation
CMN266 Theories of Counselling: From Freud to Integrative Practice
CMN304 Introductory Counselling Skills
CMN320 Cognitive Behaviour Therapy: Skills and Applications
CMN351 Strengths Based Counselling: Collaborative Approaches
CMN352 Simulation in Practice Education(24 units)
Note: Program structures are subject to change. Not all USC courses are available on every USC campus.
Total units: 480
Recommended study sequences
Program requirements and notes
Program requirements
In order to graduate you must:
- Successfully complete 480 units as outlined in the Program Structure
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 which may include essays, seminar presentations, reports, in-class tests and examinations
- 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 Coordinator
- Honours in Law available for high performing students
- As part of your USC program, you may apply to Study Overseas to undertake courses with an overseas higher education provider
- Only a full-time study option is available to international students on a Student Visa
- Refer to the Planning your study page to manage your progression
- You may wish to use electives to complete an additional major or minor
- Register your selected major(s) and/or minor(s)