Bachelor (Honours)
Satisfactory completion of Year 12 in an Australian school system or equivalent.
Bachelor of Design (Industrial Design)
This hands-on program gets you involved with the design of realistically detailed products suitable for manufacture with a focus on real-world industry engagement.
Your studies include learning the creative design process technical aspects of product design design management computer-aided industrial design (CAID) technology human factors and ergonomics and design research coupled with innovation aesthetics marketing cultural and social values and design leadership.
You will be prepared for your career with a range of activities and opportunities such as hands-on design units project presentations international study tours entrepreneurial incubation programs and real-world internships. You'll also benefit from our strong collaborative links with world-class international and national industry professionals.
Many graduates work as industrial designers in consultancies or design departments of product manufacturers or as entrepreneurs who design their own products. Use your double degree skills as an in-house lawyer for industrial designers corporate identity designers new product developers or as an intellectual property lawyer.
Other careers include usability expert service designer interaction designer interface designer corporate identity designer model maker movie concept designer visualisation expert automotive designer design manager design researcher computer-aided design expert game designer design leadership expert and strategic design expert.
Bachelor of Laws (Honours)The defining nature of our law degree is the unique balance between theory and practice. During your degree you will complete the academic law units required for admission to legal practice and choose elective units that align with your career interests.
Through your study you will develop necessary legal skills such as legal research problem solving dispute resolution and oral and written communication.
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.
Use your skills as an in-house lawyer for industrial designers corporate identity designers new product developers or as an intellectual property lawyer.
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.
Students are required to complete 528 credit points made up of 192 credit points for the Bachelor of Design (Industrial Design) program and 336 credit points for the Bachelor of Laws program. You will study design and law units in your first four years and for the remainder of this course you will concentrate on law studies.
Design 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
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.
Students are required to complete 528 credit points made up of 192 credit points for the Bachelor of Design (Industrial Design) program and 336 credit points for the Bachelor of Laws program. You will study design and law units in your first four years and for the remainder of this course you will concentrate on law studies.
Design 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
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.