Bachelor (Honours)
Graduates may use their combined skills to work as an in-house lawyer for cultural institutions government or regulatory bodies or in law firms with specialist interests in the creative industries.
If you choose to pursue a creative career your legal knowledge will benefit you in the process of commissioning projects administration business law and management intellectual property law commercial law and contract negotiation.
This course 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. We offer PLT in the form of the Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice.
In order to complete this course you must complete a total of 528 credit points comprising 192 credit points from the Bachelor of Creative Industries and 336 credit points from the Bachelor of Laws (Honours). You will study creative industries and law units in your first four years and for the remainder of this course you will concentrate on law studies.
Creative Industries componentThe core of the program centres on Creative Enterprise studios that offer authentic problem-based activities coupled with work integrated learning skills in entrepreneurship and commercial links that engage in creative start-ups. Early in your degree you choose 24 credit points of introductory units to experience your preferred majors with the option to undertake defined breadth units in other relevant areas. Using this experience you then decide upon a creative industries major.
You will complete:
You will complete 336 credit points of core units and a mixture of law electives made up of
*Students commencing from 2019 may select a general law elective in place of the introductory law elective
**Students commencing from 2019 have the option to complete the Law Technology and Innovation minor or 4 non-law electives (48 credit points) or a university wide minor in place of 4 general law electives (48 credit points). 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
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.
In order to complete this course you must complete a total of 528 credit points comprising 192 credit points from the Bachelor of Creative Industries and 336 credit points from the Bachelor of Laws (Honours). You will study creative industries and law units in your first four years and for the remainder of this course you will concentrate on law studies.
Creative Industries componentThe core of the program centres on Creative Enterprise studios that offer authentic problem-based activities coupled with work integrated learning skills in entrepreneurship and commercial links that engage in creative start-ups. Early in your degree you choose 24 credit points of introductory units to experience your preferred majors with the option to undertake defined breadth units in other relevant areas. Using this experience you then decide upon a creative industries major.
You will complete:
You will complete 336 credit points of core units and a mixture of law electives made up of
*Students commencing from 2019 may select a general law elective in place of the introductory law elective
**Students commencing from 2019 have the option to complete the Law Technology and Innovation minor or 4 non-law electives (48 credit points) or a university wide minor in place of 4 general law electives (48 credit points). 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
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.