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 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
Program Structure
USC Law School courses
Introductory courses (4)
LAW101 Accounting Principles
LAW102 Information Systems in Organisations
LAW103 Discovering Management
LAW104 Business Law
Advanced courses (20)
14 required courses:
LAW201 Discovering Science
LAW202 Introduction to Marketing
LAW203 Biodiversity and Ecology
LAW204 Statistics with Teeth: Understanding Ecological Data
LAW205 Advanced Research Methods and Statistics
LAW206
LAW301 Corporate Governance and Social Responsibility
LAW302 K'gari-Fraser Island Field Studies
LAW303 Special Field Studies Topic
LAW304 Analytical Sciences
LAW401 Special Research Project
LAW402 Workplace Learning I
LAW403
LAW404
PLUS select 6 elective courses from:
LAW305 Communication and Thought
LAW306 Professional Experience: Orientation to the Profession
LAW307 Discovering Science
LAW309 Introduction to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Education
LAW310 Individual Learner Needs
LAW311 Professional Experience: Managing Learning Environments
LAW312 Teaching Junior Secondary Science 1
LAW313 Teaching Junior Secondary Science 2
LAW315 Teaching Junior Secondary Geography
LAW316 Teaching Junior Secondary Mathematics
LAW405 Teaching Senior Secondary Science 1
LAW406 Teaching Senior Secondary Science 2
LAW407 Teaching Senior Secondary Geography
LAW408 Teaching Senior Secondary Mathematics
LAW409 Health, Law and Ethics
LAW410 Preparation for Practice 2
LAW411 Drug Therapy
LAW412 Contexts of Practice: Health Alteration
LAW414 Nursing Practice 2
LAW415 Palliative, Rehabilitation and Continuing Care
The following 2 elective courses are only available to students who have been accepted into honours in Law:
LAW440 Preparation for Practice 3
LAW441 Contexts of Practice: Complex Care
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 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health and Cultural Safety
CMN104 Nursing Practice 3
CMN116 Contexts of Practice: Mental Health Care
COR109
Advanced courses (11)
CMN200
CMN213
CMN238 Nursing Internship
CMN246
CMN247
CMN260 Life Crisis - Translating Theory Into Caring Practice
CMN266 Understanding Crime
CMN304 Punishment and Corrections
CMN320 Justice and the Australian Legal System
CMN351 Foundations of Human Behaviour
CMN352 Business Law(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
- 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 Coordinator
- Honours in Law available for high performing students