Bachelor (Honours)
Satisfactory completion of Year 12 in an Australian school system or equivalent.
Bachelor of Communication (Entertainment Industries)
This course equips you with the critical thinking skills and professional know-how to successfully navigate the dynamic creative practices industrial structures and legal mechanisms in such global industries as film television music games and sports among others.
By graduation you will learn how to research implement and critically assess a range of strategic activities from identifying talent developing pitches and negotiating contracts to engaging culturally diverse audiences and evaluating the impact of new technologies.
Bachelor of Laws (Honours)The defining nature of our law degree is the unique balance between theory and practice. During your degree you'll complete the academic law units required for admission to legal practice as well as elective units that align with your career interests.
Through your study you'll develop necessary legal skills such as legal research problem solving dispute resolution and oral and written communication.
With your combined knowledge of communications and law you may work as a lawyer specialising in clients in the media and communication arena intellectual property lawyer defamation lawyer entertainment director producer publisher or in-house lawyer for an organisation specialising in events large-scale performances or theme parks.
Our course will also help you understand and promote the ethical standards of the legal profession and to appreciate international and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander perspectives.
Our Bachelor of Laws (Honours) is a higher qualification than a bachelor degree as it has honours-level content integrated throughout the course. The advanced knowledge and skills in this course will benefit your professional career or future research and study.
With your combined knowledge you may work as a lawyer specialising in clients in the media and communication arena intellectual property lawyer defamation lawyer entertainment director producer publisher or in-house lawyer for an organisation specialising in events large-scale performances or theme parks.
The law degree is approved by the Queensland Legal Practitioners Admissions Board. If you want to become a lawyer at the end of your degree you will need to complete further practical legal training (PLT) before you can apply for admission to practice. Successful completion of PLT allows you to apply for admission as solicitor but if you want to be a barrister you will need to also pass the Bar Exams. We offer PLT in the form of the Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice.
You are required to complete 528 credit points made up of 192 credit points for the Bachelor of Communication (Entertainment Industries) program and 336 credit points for the Bachelor of Laws program. You will study communication and law units in your first four years and will concentrate on law studies for the remainder of this course.
Communication componentYou will complete:
You will complete 336 credit points of core units and a mixture of law electives made up of
*You may select a general law elective in place of the introductory law elective
**In place of 4 general law electives (48 credit points) you have the option to complete the Law Technology and Innovation minor or 4 non-law electives or a university wide minor. Successful completion of a minor will be recognised on the academic record and/or the Australian Higher Education Graduation Statement.
Law technology and innovation minor units
Honours-level units
96 credit points of the following honours units will be used to determine the honours levels of the LLB (Hons):
Study overseas while earning credit towards your QUT degree with one of our worldwide exchange partners. Overseas study can be for one or two semesters (or during the semester break) and the units you take can be in either degree area depending on how they match with your QUT course.
You are required to complete 528 credit points made up of 192 credit points for the Bachelor of Communication (Entertainment Industries) program and 336 credit points for the Bachelor of Laws program. You will study communication and law units in your first four years and will concentrate on law studies for the remainder of this course.
Communication componentYou will complete:
You will complete 336 credit points of core units and a mixture of law electives made up of
*You may select a general law elective in place of the introductory law elective
**In place of 4 general law electives (48 credit points) you have the option to complete the Law Technology and Innovation minor or 4 non-law electives or a university wide minor. Successful completion of a minor will be recognised on the academic record and/or the Australian Higher Education Graduation Statement.
Law technology and innovation minor units
Honours-level units
96 credit points of the following honours units will be used to determine the honours levels of the LLB (Hons):
Study overseas while earning credit towards your QUT degree with one of our worldwide exchange partners. Overseas study can be for one or two semesters (or during the semester break) and the units you take can be in either degree area depending on how they match with your QUT course.