Bachelor (Honours)
Designed in consultation with industry to ensure you acquire a strong foundation of knowledge and experience our law programmes support and develop students to successfully transition from university to their legal career.
Law students benefit from innovative scholarly teaching and learning through:
You will have opportunities in areas that involve cyberlaw intellectual property and legal regulation of the internet. You could work in software development maintenance or IT system building as a business analyst computer scientist data communications specialist database manager electronic commerce developer systems analyst or web designer.
Although many of our graduates become practising lawyers a law degree may also provide the foundation for a career in government a community organisation or business. Our graduates have an excellent track record of securing exciting positions.
The Bachelor of Information Technology is accredited by the Australian Computer Society.
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. We offer PLT in the form of the Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice.
Students are required to complete 528 credit points comprised of 192 credit points for the Bachelor of Information Technology program and 336 credit points for the Bachelor of Laws program.
Requirements for the completion of the Bachelor of Information Technology component are as follows:
Information Technology Majors
Choose your primary area of study also known as your major in the following specialisation areas: Computer Science or Information Systems.
Under the Law component 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):
Students are required to complete 528 credit points comprised of 192 credit points for the Bachelor of Information Technology program and 336 credit points for the Bachelor of Laws program.
Requirements for the completion of the Bachelor of Information Technology component are as follows:
Information Technology Majors
Choose your primary area of study also known as your major in the following specialisation areas: Computer Science or Information Systems.
Under the Law component 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.
Honours-level units
96 credit points of the following honours units will be used to determine the honours levels of the LLB (Hons):