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QUT (Queensland University of Technology)

  • 17% international / 83% domestic

Bachelor of Science/Bachelor of Laws (Honours)

  • Bachelor (Honours)

Combine science and law to work as a barrister, intellectual property lawyer or inventor, or in areas including trade secrets, genetic modification and environmental law disputes.

Key details

Degree Type
Bachelor (Honours)
Duration
5.5 years full-time
Course Code
419712, 083029M
Study Mode
In person
Intake Months
Feb, Jul
ATAR
87

About this course

Highlights
  • QUT's law degree prepares you to think ahead and take advantage of employment opportunities in growth areas or newly emerging sectors, such as intellectual property and technology.
  • Benefit from meaningful connections with high profile industry employers and classes with leading law experts.
  • Learn to develop practical solutions that impact on the real world.
  • Be at the cutting edge of international science education with access to QUT's new multimillion dollar research and teaching facilities, including our $230 million Science and Engineering Precinct.
  • Enhance your career prospects with skills like analytical and writing skills that can be applied in both a science and/or legal profession.
  • Complete 2 separate degrees in 5.5 years full-time.
Highlights
  • QUT's law degree prepares you to think ahead and take advantage of employment opportunities in growth areas or newly emerging sectors, such as intellectual property and technology.
  • Benefit from meaningful connections with high profile industry employers and classes with leading law experts.
  • Learn to develop practical solutions that impact on the real world.
  • Be at the cutting edge of international science education with access to QUT's new multimillion dollar research and teaching facilities, including our $230 million Science and Engineering Precinct.
  • Enhance your career prospects with skills like analytical and writing skills that can be applied in both a science and/or legal profession.
  • Complete 2 separate degrees in 5.5 years full-time.

Entry requirements

Study locations

Gardens Point

What you will learn

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 plus choose elective units that align with your career interests. Crucially you will develop legal skills such as interviewing negotiation drafting and advocacy. You will complete assessment tasks that prepare you for the work you will undertake in the real world. You can also opt for a work placement in law firms government departments and community organisations. There are opportunities for virtual work placements where you will complete an online project for a real client.

By combining your law degree with a science degree you could help develop solutions in the areas of climate change long-term ecological impacts energy and geosystems food security and water resource management. Our science degree is designed in consultation with industry government and the professions. You will apply theories to real-world situations.

QUT's Bachelor of Laws (Honours) is a higher-level 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.

Assessment items or practicum

Designed in consultation with industry to ensure you acquire a strong foundation of knowledge and experience our programmes support and develop students to successfully transition from university to their legal career.

Students benefit from innovative scholarly teaching and learning through:

  • progressive assessments and open book exams
  • an emphasis on independent learning and research skills
  • small groups in core subjects
  • practical skills and industry connections from work placements industry projects mock trials mooting competitions and analysis of real cases and legislation.

Peer support programs

QUT Law provides a variety of peer support programs so first-year law students are encouraged to learn from students studying in their second and third year. These programs give you extra support in your transition to university. First-year students gain insight and perspective while second-year and third-year students gain leadership experience.

Career pathways

Careers and outcomes

As a graduate you may enter legal practice with an education in both the content and process of science and data analysis. This will enable you to deal with the complexities of litigation that have a scientific or technological focus such as inventions trade secrets quantitative evidence genetic modification and constitutional disputes giving rise to environmental issues.

On the other hand you may choose to follow a career path in the sciences enhancing your opportunities in a particular discipline such as environmental science or biotechnology through your knowledge of the law.

Professional recognition

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.

Graduates will satisfy the requirements for membership in the relevant professional body for their science major.

Possible careers
  • Analytical chemist
  • Astrophysicist
  • Barrister
  • Biochemist
  • Biologist
  • Biotechnologist
  • Biotechnology scientist
  • Chemist
  • Chemist industrial
  • Coastal scientist
  • Conservation biologist
  • Contract administrator
  • Corporate secretary
  • Crown law officer
  • Ecologist
  • Environmental health officer
  • Environmental scientist
  • Environmental manager
  • Exploration geologist
  • Forensic biologist
  • Forensic chemist
  • Geologist
  • Geophysicist
  • Geoscientist
  • Government officer
  • Hydrogeologist
  • In-house lawyer
  • Industrial chemist
  • Inventor
  • Laboratory assistant
  • Laboratory technician (chemistry)
  • Lawyer
  • Legal risk manager
  • Life scientist
  • Mapping scientist/photogrammetrist
  • Marine scientist
  • Medical physicist
  • Microbiologist
  • Mine geologist
  • Molecular biologist
  • Natural resource scientist
  • Physicist
  • Plant biotechnologist
  • Policy officer
  • Policy analyst
  • Population ecologist
  • Project manager
  • Public servant
  • Scientist

Course structure

Students are required to complete 528 credit points comprised of 192 credit points for the Bachelor of Science program and 336 credit points for the Bachelor of Laws program. You will study science and law units in your first four years and for the remainder of this course you will concentrate on law studies.

Under the Science component students will complete 60 credit point of core units which includes 6 credit point units. Students will choose any of the following science majors (132 credit points) that are offered in the Bachelor of Science (ST01) course: biological sciences chemistry earth science environmental science and physics.

Under the Law component you will complete 336 credit points of core units and a mixture of law electives made up of

  • 19 Core units (240 credit points)
  • 1 introductory law elective* (12 credit points)
  • 5 general law electives** (60 credit points)
  • 2 advanced law electives (24 credit points)

*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

  • Law and Data Analysis (LLB250)
  • Law and Design Thinking (LLB251)
  • Regulating Artificial Intelligence and Robotics (LLB341)
  • Regulating the Internet (LLB345)

Honours-level units

96 credit points of the following honours units will be used to determine the honours levels of the LLB (Hons):

  • Legal Research (LLH201)
  • Administrative Law (LLH206)
  • Ethics and the Legal Profession (LLH302)
  • Corporate Law (LLH305)
  • Legal Research Capstone (LLH401) (24 credit points
  • two 12-credit point Advanced Law Electives

Students are required to complete 528 credit points comprised of 192 credit points for the Bachelor of Science program and 336 credit points for the Bachelor of Laws program. You will study science and law units in your first four years and for the remainder of this course you will concentrate on law studies.

Under the Science component students will complete 60 credit point of core units which includes 6 credit point units. Students will choose any of the following science majors (132 credit points) that are offered in the Bachelor of Science.(ST01) course: biological sciences chemistry earth science environmental science and physics.

Under the Law component you will complete 336 credit points of core units and a mixture of law electives made up of

  • 19 Core units (240 credit points)
  • 1 introductory law elective* (12 credit points)
  • 5 general law electives** (60 credit points)
  • 2 advanced law electives (24 credit points)

*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

  • Law and Data Analysis (LLB250)
  • Law and Design Thinking (LLB251)
  • Regulating Artificial Intelligence and Robotics (LLB341)
  • Regulating the Internet (LLB345)

Honours-level units

96 credit points of the following honours units will be used to determine the honours levels of the LLB (Hons):

  • Legal Research (LLH201)
  • Administrative Law (LLH206)
  • Ethics and the Legal Profession (LLH302)
  • Corporate Law (LLH305)
  • Legal Research Capstone (LLH401) (24 credit points
  • two 12-credit point Advanced Law Electives