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 2024 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 Exploring Business Research
LAW101 Introduction to the Creative Industries
LAW102 Playing with Words: an Introduction to Creative Writing Craft
LAW103 Performance 1
LAW104 Information Systems in Organisations
Advanced courses (20)
14 required courses:
LAW201 Exploring Twentieth Century Theatre
LAW202 International Trade and Finance
LAW203 Marketing in a Global Environment
LAW204 Finance and Accounting for Managers
LAW205 Strategy, Governance and Ethics
LAW206 Managing Across Global Cultures
LAW301 Leading and Managing Organisations
LAW302 Evidenced Based Decision Making
LAW303 Economics for Managers
LAW304 Global Business Management
LAW401 Accounting Principles
LAW402 Economics for Business
LAW403 Discovering Management
LAW404 Introduction to Criminology
PLUS select 6 elective courses from:
LAW305 Marketing Essentials
LAW306 Understanding Crime
LAW307 Punishment and Corrections
LAW308 Justice and the Australian Legal System
LAW309 Foundations of Human Behaviour
LAW310 Business Law
LAW311 Policing
LAW312 Australian Society: How does(n't) it work? - An Introduction to Sociology
LAW313 World of Work: Your Pathway to Employment
LAW314 Business, Governance and Society
LAW315 Applied Crime Prevention
LAW316
LAW405 Social Research
LAW406
LAW407
LAW408
LAW409
LAW410 Discovering Management
LAW411 Introduction to Data Science
LAW412 Creative Problem Solving with Programming
LAW413 Communication and Thought
LAW414 Exploring Business Research
LAW415 Accounting for Business
The following 2 elective courses are only available to students who have been accepted into honours in Law:
LAW440 Professional Experience: Orientation to the Profession
LAW441 English Language and Literacy
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.