Provide sound legal advice.
Our Law program is designed to produce law graduates with a practical 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.
Our Law program is designed to produce law graduates with a practical focus.
You will cover all the academic courses required for admission as a legal practitioner in Australia.
Whether your interest is the global, international or national legal system, you will choose from a range of courses to prepare you for a career in the law.
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 the elective Law Professional Practice, or undertake a legal internship in a law workplace such as a law firm, court or legal aid service.
Law Honours is available, usually without extending the time required to complete your degree.
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) 60 units
COR109 Applied Systems Modelling
LAW101 Teaching Senior Secondary Geography
LAW102 Communication and Thought
LAW103 Professional Experience: Orientation to the Profession
LAW104 Introduction to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Education
Developing and Graduate courses (20) 240 units
14 required courses (168 units):
LAW201 Heritage: Australian and Global Contexts
LAW202 Talking History: Memory and the Past
LAW203 Nationalism and Identity in the 20th Century: Themes and Tensions
LAW204 Individual Learner Needs
LAW205 Professional Experience: Managing Learning Environments
LAW206 Junior Secondary Arts
LAW301 Teaching Junior Secondary English
LAW302 Teaching Senior Secondary Arts 1
LAW303 Teaching Senior Secondary English
LAW304 Diversity and Inclusion
LAW401 Literacy and Numeracy Across the Curriculum
LAW402 Secondary Assessment and Reporting
LAW403 Professional Experience: Individual Learner Needs
LAW404 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Perspectives in Learning and Teaching
PLUS select 6 Law elective courses (72 units) from*:
LAW307 The Psychology of Learning
LAW310 Using Data for Learning
LAW311 Secondary Professional Learning: The Professional Empowered and Engaged
LAW312 Biochemical Pharmacology
LAW318 Biochemistry
LAW407 Medical Biochemistry
LAW408 Nutritional Biochemistry
LAW414 Advanced and Transcultural Counselling
LAW415 Advanced Psychological Assessment and Reporting
LAW416 Clinical Psychological Practice 1
LAW417 Practicum Placement 1
LAW418 Advanced Research Design and Methods
LAW419 Clinical Psychological Practice 2
LAW420 Practicum Placement 2
The following 2 courses (24 units) are only available to students who have been accepted into honours in Law:
LAW440 Research Project 1
LAW441 Ethical Professional Practice of Psychology
*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 Coordinator.
Electives courses (7) 84 units
In addition to the requirement for 6 developing and graduate level Law electives (72 units), you must select 7 elective courses (84 units) from either faculty (Arts, Business and Law or Science, Health, Education and Engineering). Of these electives, 2 (24 units) must be developing and graduate level (200/300/400 coded) courses, and a maximum of 4 courses (48 units) can be Law electives.
Note: Program structures are subject to change. 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:
- Successfully complete 384 units as outlined in the Program Structure
- Complete no more than 10 introductory level (100 coded) courses (120 units), including the core course
Program notes
- Completing this program within the specified (full-time) duration is based on studying 48 units per semester (normally 4 courses) and following the recommended study sequence
- The unit value of all courses is 12 units unless otherwise specified
- It is each students responsibility to enrol correctly according to your course requisites, program rules and requirements and be aware of the academic calendar dates
- 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
- Refer to the Managing your progression page for help in understanding your program structure, reviewing your progress and planning remaining courses.
- 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