Bachelor (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 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.
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:
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.
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.
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.
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
*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 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
*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):