Students broaden their career options with combined studies in law and creative writing, gaining legal knowledge and advanced technical and creative skills in writing narrative.
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 choose from a variety of writing styles and genres such as writing for children and young adults, and contemporary and traditional adult fiction.
- * 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 choose from a variety of writing styles and genres such as writing for children and young adults, and contemporary and traditional adult fiction.
Career opportunities
Solicitor, barrister, government legal officer, corporate in-house counsel or careers with a communication focus.
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 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 3 introductory level (100 coded) required courses from the School of Communication
- Complete 8 advanced level (200/300 coded) required creative writing courses
- Complete an additional 2 advanced level (200/300 coded) requried creative writing courses
- Complete 2 elective courses from either Faculty
- Complete no more than 15 introductory level (100 coded) courses in total, including the core course
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.
- 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.
Program structure
School of Law courses
Introductory courses (5)
COR109 Geographic Information Science and Technology
LAW101 Neighbourhood Planning and Design Studio
LAW102 Participation and Conflict Resolution
LAW103 Social Research
LAW104 Communication and Thought
Advanced courses (20)
14 required courses:
LAW201 Introductory Bioscience
LAW202 Environment and Health
LAW203 Public Health Foundations
LAW204 Think Health
LAW205 Health Research and Evidence
LAW206 Introduction to Behavioural Health
LAW301 Science Research Methods
LAW302 Indigenous Wellbeing Foundations
LAW303 Concepts of Epidemiology
LAW304 Environmental Health Risk Management
LAW401 Advanced Research Methods and Statistics
LAW402 An Introduction to Geographic Information Science and Technology
LAW403 Health Promotion Needs Assessment and Planning
LAW404 Health Promotion Principles
PLUS select 6 advanced level (LAW200 /300/400 coded) elective courses from:
LAW305 Epidemiology and Biostatistics
LAW306 Health Promotion Implementation and Evaluation
LAW307 Infectious Disease Epidemiology
LAW308 Exploring Business Research
LAW309 Introduction to Systems Design
LAW310 Introduction to Computer Networks
LAW311 Communication and Thought
LAW312 Discovering Management
LAW313 Introduction to Data Science
LAW314 Creative Problem Solving with Programming
LAW315 Accounting for Business
LAW316 Strategic Management
LAW405 Business Law and Ethics
LAW406 Database Design
LAW407 Architecture and Systems Integration
LAW408 Network Management and Security
LAW409 Database Programming
LAW410 ICT Professional Practice
LAW411 Systems Analysis and Design
LAW412 ICT Industry Project
LAW413 Project Management
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.
School of Communication courses
Introductory courses (3)
CMN102 Immunology
CMN116 Integrated Physiology
PLUS select 1 course from:
CMN120 Science Research Methods
CMN130 Biochemical Pharmacology
CMN140 Pharmaceutical and Food Microbiology
BUS105 Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology
Advanced courses (10)
8 required courses:
CMN213 Medical Genetics
CMN238 Introduction to Pharmacology
CMN246 Languages and Linguistics
CMN247 Japanese A
CMN260 Japanese B
CMN266 Japanese C
CMN267 Japanese D
CMN320 Japanese E
PLUS select 2 elective courses from:
CMN228 Japanese F
EGL120 In-Country Japanese Studies A
EGL201 In-Country Japanese Studies B
EGL285 Languages and Linguistics
Elective courses (2)
Select 2 elective courses from either faculty (Faculty of Arts and Business or Faculty of Science, Health, Education and Engineering).
TOTAL UNITS 480