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 mock court.
From first year, you’ll work with local legal practitioners at the Suncoast Community Legal Service assisting real clients with their legal problems. 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.
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)
Advanced courses (20)
14 required courses:
LAW201
LAW202
LAW203
LAW204
LAW205
LAW206
LAW301
LAW302
LAW303
LAW304
LAW401
LAW402
LAW403
LAW404
PLUS select 6 elective courses from:
LAW305
LAW306
LAW307
LAW308
LAW309
LAW310 Introduction to Human Development
LAW311 Research Methods and Analysis 2
LAW312 Strengths Based Counselling: Collaborative Approaches
LAW313 Social Psychology
LAW314 Motivation and Emotion
LAW315 Interpersonal and Group Skills
LAW316 Counselling for Crisis, Trauma and Loss
LAW405 Positive Psychology for Counselling
LAW406 Advanced Methods in Psychology
LAW407 Psychology of Health and Wellbeing
LAW408 Developmental and Family Counselling
LAW409 Cognitive and Perceptual Psychology
LAW410 Abnormal Psychology
LAW411 Ethics, Law and the Helping Professions
LAW412 Counselling Development and Supervision 1
LAW413 Counselling Placement 1
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 Intercultural and Indigenous Psychologies
CMN104 Personality and Assessment
CMN116 Counselling Development and Supervision 2
COR109 Counselling Placement 2
Advanced courses (11)
CMN200 Human Associative Learning
CMN213 Adult Development and Ageing
CMN238 Introduction to the Internet of Things
CMN246 Introduction to Engineering Design
CMN247 Introductory Calculus
CMN260 Biodiversity and Ecology
CMN266 Foundations of Engineering
CMN304 Introduction to Applied Mathematics
CMN320 Physics
CMN351 Science Research Methods
CMN352 Engineering Statics(24 units)
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.