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.
- * 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’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.
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.
Honours is available for high performing students.
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
USC Law School courses
Introductory courses (4)
LAW101 Animal Form, Function and Evolution
LAW102 Marine Vertebrates: Sharks, Seabirds, Fish, Turtles and Whales
LAW103 Biodiversity and Ecology
LAW104 Science Research Methods
Advanced courses (20)
14 required courses:
LAW201 Animal Ecology Field Course
LAW202 Endangered Animals and their Conservation
LAW203 Cell Biology
LAW204 Discovering Science
LAW205 Animal Ecophysiology
LAW206 Statistics with Teeth: Understanding Ecological Data
LAW301 Terrestrial Vertebrate Diversity and Ecology
LAW302 Invertebrate Biology and Ecology
LAW303 Coastal and Marine Ecology
LAW304 Animal Behaviour
LAW401 Global-Change Ecology
LAW402 K'gari-Fraser Island Field Studies
LAW403 Special Field Studies Topic
LAW404 Special Research Project
PLUS select 6 elective courses from:
LAW305 Workplace Learning I
LAW306 Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
LAW307 Coastal Conservation Planning
LAW308 Communication and Thought
LAW309 Earth's Surface Processes, Materials and Soils
LAW310 Introduction to Environmental Management
LAW311 Biodiversity and Ecology
LAW312 Science Research Methods
LAW313 Plant Diversity and Ecology
LAW314 An Introduction to Geographic Information Science and Technology
LAW315 Measuring Sustainability
LAW316 Terrestrial Vertebrate Diversity and Ecology
LAW405 Environmental Management Systems and Processes
LAW406 Communicating Sustainability
LAW407 Environmental and Resource Economics
LAW408 Integrated Environmental Management
LAW409 Professional Practice: Legal Frameworks and Issues
LAW410 Planning and Environmental Law
LAW411 Indigenous Peoples and the Environment
LAW412 Special Research Project
LAW413 Workplace Learning I
LAW414 Evidenced Based Decision Making
LAW415 Finance and Accounting for Managers
The following 2 elective courses are only available to students who have been accepted into honours in Law:
LAW440 Innovation Management and Professional Development
LAW441 Marketing in a Global Environment
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 (4)
CMN103 Strategy, Governance and Ethics
CMN104
CMN116
COR109
Advanced courses (11)
CMN200
CMN213
CMN238
CMN246
CMN247
CMN260
CMN266
CMN304
CMN320
CMN351
CMN352 (24 units)
Note: 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:
- Complete 4 introductory level (100 coded) required law courses
- Complete 14 advanced level (200/300/400 coded) required law courses
- Complete 6 law elective courses
- Complete 4 introductory level (100 coded) required courses from the School of Communication including the core course (COR109 )
- Complete 11 advanced level (200/300 coded) required creative writing courses
- Complete an additional 2 advanced level (200/300 coded) required creative writing courses
- 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 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 Leaders.
- Honours in Law available for high performing students.