Subjects overview
This program can be completed in 3 years 8 months (11 semesters)
Core Curriculum
Students must complete the following three (3) subjects plus CORE11-004 Beyond Bond: Professional Development and Community Engagement.
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CORE11-011: Critical Thinking and Communication (10CP)
In this subject, students will be introduced to critical thinking and clear expression. They will evaluate arguments, identify assumptions, judge patterns of inference, and recognise and apply various methods of reasoning. Students will learn how to clarify and visually represent their thinking to make better decisions, evaluate and use evidence, and communicate more effectively in their writing and speaking. Using these skills, students will structure and write an academic essay and deliver an oral presentation.
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CORE11-012: Responsibility, Integrity and Civic Discourse (10CP)
Integrity, and the courage and capability to act on one’s sense of responsibility, are key components of a thriving life. Responsibility, Integrity and Civic Discourse fosters students’ lifelong commitment to responsible discourse and action in all spheres of human interaction, recognising the global aspect to contemporary citizenship. Students explore the complex relationship between character, responsible action, and creative critical thinking, learning how to reflect on and articulate their unique sense of global citizenship and responsibility. By accentuating the importance of justification and articulation of the reasons for our actions, students exercise their critical, communicative, and cooperative capabilities so that they can thrive with integrity in the multiple contexts of action they will face as private, civic, professional, and global citizens.
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CORE11-013: Collaboration for Global Change (10CP)
In today's work and study environments, individuals often encounter complex, open-ended problems that necessitate collaboration in both physical and virtual realms and across sectors and specialisations. In Collaboration for Global Change, students engage collaboratively to craft genuine solutions for global issues. In this context, students link their endeavours to specific sustainable development goals, thus positioning their actions as contributions to global citizenship. As they learn to defend their ideas and perspectives, students apply critical thinking, design thinking, problem-solving, and communication skills within a problem-based learning environment. This comprehensive approach equips them with the necessary skills and mindset to excel in future work, academic pursuits, and global initiatives.
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Beyond Bond Program
To keep up with the ever-changing work landscape, we aim to help our students future-proof their careers by developing broader employability skills that are actively sought out by employers. Unique to our University, Beyond Bond is a compulsory professional development program with a practical, activity-based approach that is integrated into all undergraduate degrees.
Foundation Subjects
Students must complete the following seventy credit points (70CP).
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BUSN12-200: Responsible and Sustainable Organisations (10CP)
Considering the increasingly complex environmental, social and governance challenges facing today's business organisations, it is essential to develop an integrated understanding of business and its role in society. In this subject, students will be challenged to explore a multinational business from multiple perspectives to develop a systems view of the organisation and its global business environment. Through readings, discussions, case studies, projects and other learning activities, students will develop a more nuanced view of the purpose and functioning of business, the expectations of stakeholders, and the challenges and opportunities inherent in addressing those expectations. This exploration will include understanding the functional areas of business as well as how each can work together in an overall design to enable an integrative and innovative approach to responsible and sustainable business.
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COLB11-100: Global Citizenship (10CP)
The course encourages participants to identify and overcome the primary barriers to effective global citizenship found in epistemological, political, and historical modes of thinking. Students will also explore how an absence in institutions and civil society of robust concepts of global citizenship can institute dehumanising social and political practices. Through investigating such practices, participants will explore how a notion of global citizenship can inform critical thinking on issues such as climate change, international justice, and human rights. Furthermore, students will learn to propose effective solutions to such global challenges and evaluate the effectiveness of proposed policy and action. Ultimately, students in this course will consider a range of contemporary and imminent global challenges and gain proficiency in thinking critically about them and applying insights to their own lives.
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COLB11-103: Leading with AI (10CP)
Leading with AI equips students with the understanding, and critical capacities necessary to lead with confidence in a world shaped by AI. Students will explore foundation models, bots, and agents, and develop advanced prompt engineering skills through hands-on projects and creative exploration. More than just a technical overview, the subject empowers students to build their own AI toolkits and reflect on how AI can augment their personal agency, creativity, and decision-making. Through simulated scenarios, students will manage a “personal AI workforce,” applying AI tools to practical tasks such as communication, research, time management, and content creation. They will examine the social, ethical, and political implications of AI disruption across domains including business, education, healthcare, and media. Emphasis is placed on the role of human judgment, the limits of automation, and how AI reshapes identity, relationships, and responsibility. Future-focused assessments challenge students to critically evaluate AI developments, design ethical implementation strategies, and envision how intelligent systems could transform their chosen field. By the end of the subject, students will be equipped with practical skills, critical insight, and digital agency to not only keep pace with AI, but to lead its responsible and innovative use across industries, communities, and all areas of life and work.
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COLB11-104: Resourcing Transformation (10CP)
This subject equips students with the foundational knowledge and strategic resourcing skills required to effectively build entrepreneurial ventures and manage personal finances. Blending financial literacy with an understanding of non-financial capital, students will explore how human, social, organisational, physical, and regulatory resources can be mobilised alongside traditional funding. The curriculum covers budgeting, investing, and capital planning, while also examining networks, leadership, culture, and legal frameworks as drivers of sustainable growth. Designed to provide practical tools for both individuals and founders, the subject combines simulations, case studies, and project-based learning. Students will gain the confidence and competence to leverage diverse resources to initiate, manage, and scale transformative ventures.
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COLB12-110: Trust and Privacy in the Digital Age (10CP)
Emergent digital processes and virtual spaces create new business and governance opportunities and risks. This subject introduces a range of challenges related to trust, privacy, ethics and governance, which arise from digitally-mediated practices. Using a case-based approach, students will analyse significant controversies from a range of disciplines. Topics to be canvassed may evolve as the technological landscape develops and, in light of what is topical at any given time, may include the legal and ethical issues surrounding such matters as: data privacy, and the collection, processing and use of personal data; the protection of intellectual property rights in areas such as computer programs, new inventions and designs through patent, copyright, and design protection; cybersecurity and cybercrime; issues surrounding the rise of algorithms, including through blockchain/distributed ledger technology; the rise of artificial intelligence and machine learning; and the potential liability of social networks over the spread of sensitive or inaccurate information. This subject prepares students not just to understand the ramifications of an organisations’ digital practices, but more broadly to assist organisations in producing strategies and solutions for effective economic, political, and social processes.
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COLB12-120: Design: Process, Methods and Mindsets (10CP)
This subject challenges students to understand and use processes and models at the core of design thinking. Students are given problems that challenge even the greatest organisations and minds both in and out of business, often referred to as wicked problems. Students will demonstrate design thinking processes by framing a problem and choosing from a set of transdisciplinary tools and strategies, such as abductive reasoning, spatial modelling, ideation, prototyping and implementation, to deliver innovative solutions. Students who successfully complete this subject will have the knowledge and skills to use ‘design thinking’ as professionals, in teams and for society.
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COMN12-302: Digital Media and Society (10CP)
This subject examines changes to the global media environment to help you prepare to become a knowledge worker who will work in the rapidly changing professional employment market. Some of the most profound changes have occurred in global communication networks, digitalisation of media, mobile content creation and delivery, human-machine interaction, virtualisation, artificial intelligence, big data, and video, sound and text democratisation. These global media trends are examined in their social context drawing on interdisciplinary studies that include humanities, arts, social sciences, and business. You will learn about these and you will create professional public media content to demonstrate your digital knowledge and skills.
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Experiential Subjects
Students must complete the following forty credit points (40CP).
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COLB11-101: Global Challenges 1 (10CP)
Global Challenges 1 is the first in a two-part sequence that guides students through the identification and exploration of a significant global challenge that will form the foundation of a major project across Global Challenges 1 and 2. In this subject, students begin by developing advanced skills in critical thinking, argument construction, and evidence evaluation. They explore what constitutes truth in different contexts and how to communicate effectively across diverse audiences. Students then investigate the scope and complexity of their chosen problem, integrating theoretical frameworks and practical insights to understand its social, political, and ethical dimensions.
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COLB12-100: Immersion 1: Work-Based Experience (10CP)
Immersion 1: Work-Based Experience provides students with a transition from study to the workplace. This subject offers an experiential application of previously studied theories and methodologies within a simulated professional context. Students will complete a work-based project as they enhance their understanding of the workplace.
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COLB13-110: Immersion 2: Work Placement (10CP)
Immersion 2: Work Placement provides students with the opportunity to further their theoretical understanding and practical application of workplace principles. This subject is grounded in experiential learning in which students will be required to complete a discipline-related work placement. Successful completion of the placement is essential in order for students to gain the practical experience necessary to demonstrate their ability to effectively engage industry experts and professionals and adhere to workplace requirements. To support work placements, students will participate in regular peer and business mentor sessions. Through these sessions, students will develop skills in critical reflection and professional goal setting, as evidenced through portfolio completion.
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Entrepreneurial Transformation Major
Students must complete the following sixty credit points (60CP).
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ENFB11-101: Everyday Entrepreneurship (10CP)
Everyday Entrepreneurship refers to a perspective that embraces the diverse forms of entrepreneurship beyond the traditional focus on business startups and rapid growth to include self-sufficient individuals who create their own ventures using resourcefulness and talent to address economic, social and environmental opportunities. Thus, everyday entrepreneurs contribute to their communities in myriad ways. This subject aims to provide students from all academic backgrounds with a broad introduction to entrepreneurship. With a focus on dispelling common myths and misperceptions about entrepreneurs and the entrepreneurial process, students will not only explore the characteristics and mindset of entrepreneurs but also the broad applications of the capabilities from the creation of new business ventures to applications in corporate innovation and continuous improvement to social entrepreneurship and taking on the grand challenges facing our planet.
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ENFB13-305: Entrepreneurial Finance (10CP)
Entrepreneurial ventures need capital to support their business models, grow market share and create shareholder value. This subject explores the core considerations in addressing the financing needs and challenges to support the launch and growth of new ventures. Major topics include investment analysis, capital structure and valuation. Financing options available to new ventures at various stages of development are examined in depth. The criteria used by investors, debt financiers and other players in the capital market are also considered.
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MGMT13-311: Leading Innovation and Change (10CP)
A ubiquitous challenge in organisational life is how to effectively initiate, implement and sustain desired change. Although organisations continue to expend staggering amounts of time and resources on change initiatives, the majority of such efforts do not achieve their intended outcomes. In this subject, students will explore the underlying reasons for these failures to examine the fundamental nature of change and the challenges that change agents at different organisational levels face as they plan and execute change. Since organisations consist of people, students begin with an examination of individual change to explore fundamental concepts before extending and expanding their scope to consider change at the organisational level. Students will have the opportunity to apply and test their understanding of change management principles through readings, case study discussions, exercises, role plays and individual and group projects.
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MKTG11-100: Marketing Fundamentals (10CP)
Marketing is the art and science of understanding and satisfying customer needs by creating value for both the customer and the marketer. Facilitating these exchanges requires several interrelated processes and activities including market research, market segmentation, product, pricing, promotional strategies and distribution. In this introductory subject, you will explore the various theories and frameworks of marketing and learn to apply them to marketing phenomena around you.
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MKTG13-312: Digital Marketing for Customer Engagement (10CP)
This subject aims to provide students with a comprehensive understanding of the theory and practice of digital marketing. It focuses on the behavioural considerations of target buyers and how search engine, email, mobile and content marketing may be strategically leveraged to build profitable customer relationships. This experiential subject offers students the opportunity to practice Internet marketing through planning, researching, executing, analysing, and iterating multi-format Internet marketing campaigns. It also features the use of artificial intelligence to augment and enhance performance.
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PUBR12-100: Social Media Strategy and Tactics (10CP)
Social Media Strategy and Tactics delivers a strong foundation in social media as a strategic communications tool. The subject takes a hands-on, practical approach underpinned with applied theoretical knowledge that informs the strategic and planned use of social media channels and messaging. Throughout the subject, you will analyse industry best practices and create a suite of social media tactics. This subject embodies experiential, authentic learning: you will learn by doing, produce work informed by theory and policy, and reflect on social media use compared to best practice.
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Required Law Subjects
Students must complete the following one hundred and seventy credit points (170CP).
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LAWS11-105: Legal Foundations A (10CP)
Legal Foundations A is an introductory compulsory subject in the Bachelor of Laws program offered by the Faculty of Law. The subject examines the nature and sources of law, with a primary focus on legal problem solving. Emphasis is placed on the development of the following skills: legal research and reasoning, and legal writing and drafting.
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LAWS11-106: Legal Foundations B (10CP)
Legal Foundations B is an introductory compulsory subject in the Bachelor of Laws program offered by the Faculty of Law. The subject examines a broad range of foundational topics, including legal history, legal theory, legal practice and procedure, and legal careers. Emphasis is placed on the development of the following skills: oral communication and advocacy, dispute resolution and collaboration, and legal ethics and professionalism.
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LAWS11-107: Foundations of Private Law (10CP)
Foundations of Private Law is an introductory compulsory subject in the Bachelor of Laws program offered by the Faculty of Law. The subject introduces the structure and sources of private law and the process of private law reasoning. It also provides an overview of tort law, examines a range of specific torts including nuisance and trespass, and considers relevant remedies as well as vicarious liability. Emphasis is placed on the development of legal writing and drafting skills.
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LAWS11-108: Foundations of Public and Criminal Law (10CP)
Foundations of Public and Criminal Law is an introductory compulsory subject in the Bachelor of Laws program offered by the Faculty of Law. The subject introduces the aims, doctrines and institutions of public law and criminal law and procedure. It considers the separation of powers and constraints on the exercise of power, as well as accountability institutions. It introduces students to Public International Law and Rights and specifically considers rights in the criminal law context as well as general doctrines of criminal law. Emphasis is placed on the development of legal research and reasoning skills.
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LAWS11-201: Contract Law A (10CP)
Contract Law A is a compulsory subject in the Bachelor of Laws program offered by the Faculty of Law. The subject examines the nature and preconditions of contractual liability. This includes study of the requirements for the formation of a contract, the law's approach to terms that comprise a contract, and the various ways in which a contract might be discharged. Emphasis is placed on the development of the following skills: dispute resolution and collaboration, and legal ethics and professionalism.
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LAWS11-202: Tort Law (10CP)
Tort Law is a compulsory subject in the Bachelor of Laws program offered by the Faculty of Law. The subject focuses on the elements of liability in the tort of negligence, including duty of care, breach of duty, damages, and defences to liability. Attention is also paid to the general issue of the balance of risk and benefit in establishing liability and to particular problems associated with establishing a duty of care in negligence. Emphasis is placed on the development of legal research and reasoning skills.
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LAWS11-203: Criminal Law (10CP)
Criminal Law is a compulsory subject in the Bachelor of Laws program offered by the Faculty of Law. The subject examines criminal offences (including fatal and non-fatal offences against the person, and offences against property), criminal defences (including accident, mistake, self-defence, provocation and insanity), and criminal procedure (including preliminary examination, indictments, pre-trial applications, trial, verdicts, sentencing and appeal). Emphasis is placed on the development of the following skills: oral communication and advocacy, and legal ethics and professionalism.
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LAWS11-204: Property Law A (10CP)
Property Law A is a compulsory subject in the Bachelor of Laws program offered by the Faculty of Law. The subject introduces the general principles of the law relating to property (real and personal property). It covers a range of topics including the meaning, purposes and categories of property, the concepts of ownership and possession, the fragmentation of proprietary interests, personal property security interests, and the Torrens system of land title. Emphasis is placed on the development of legal writing and drafting skills.
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LAWS11-216: Constitutional Law (10CP)
Constitutional Law is a compulsory subject in the Bachelor of Laws program offered by the Faculty of Law. This subject examines the fundamentals of Australian constitutional law, often in a comparative context. Topics considered include the rule of law, the separation of powers, principles of constitutional interpretation, the rules governing exercises of legislative, executive and judicial power, constitutional change, constitutional principles relating to individual rights and freedoms, the relationship between federal, state and territory governments, including inconsistency of laws, and fiscal federalism. Emphasis is placed on the development of legal research and reasoning skills.
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LAWS11-217: Contract Law B (10CP)
Contract Law B is a compulsory subject in the Bachelor of Laws program offered by the Faculty of Law. The subject builds on the content of Contract Law A to examine the impact on contractual obligations of common law doctrines, equitable principles and statutory initiatives. This includes consideration of misleading conduct, unconscionable and illegal contracts, consumer contracts, and remedies for breach of contract. Emphasis is placed on the development of oral communication and advocacy skills.
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LAWS11-218: Property Law B (10CP)
Property Law B is a compulsory subject in the Bachelor of Laws program offered by the Faculty of Law. The subject builds upon the real property concepts covered in Property Law A to examine topics relevant to real property transactions including co-ownership, mortgages, easements, licences and leasehold estates, covenants and boundaries, strata title and native title. Emphasis is placed on the development of the following skills: dispute resolution and collaboration, and legal ethics and professionalism.
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LAWS11-310: Corporate Law (10CP)
Corporate Law is a compulsory subject in the Bachelor of Laws program offered by the Faculty of Law. The subject examines the law relating to registered companies, focusing on the formation, management, governance, financing, and dissolution of corporate entities, often drawing on comparative and transnational examples and themes. Specific topics include the incorporation process and the concept of corporate personality, the corporate constitution and replaceable rules, share capital and dividends, directors’ duties and defences, shareholders’ rights and remedies, and winding up of companies. Emphasis is placed on the development of the following skills: oral communication and advocacy, and legal ethics and professionalism.
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LAWS11-313: Equity (10CP)
Equity is a compulsory subject in the Bachelor of Laws program offered by the Faculty of Law. The subject builds on concepts encountered in other private law subjects to explore the principles of equity and the law of trusts. It considers the origins and history of the equitable jurisdiction; the relationship between equity and common law; and essential concepts and doctrines of equity, including fiduciary duties and equitable remedies. The subject also provides an introduction to the law of trusts, focusing on types of trusts, their creation, and the rights and obligations that follow from trusteeship. Emphasis is placed on the development of legal research and reasoning.
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LAWS11-317: Administrative Law (10CP)
Administrative Law is a compulsory subject in the Bachelor of Laws program offered by the Faculty of Law. The subject examines the nature and scope of judicial and administrative review of government decisions and actions, at both the federal and state level. Topics include access to government information (freedom of information and access to reasons), ombudsman, merits review tribunals and judicial review under the Constitution/common law and statute. Emphasis is placed on the development of legal writing and drafting skills.
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LAWS11-318: Evidence (10CP)
Evidence is a compulsory subject in the Bachelor of Laws program offered by the Faculty of Law. The subject examines the law and practice relating to evidence in civil and criminal proceedings, focusing on substantive admissibility and procedural rules. Topics covered include basic principles and categories of evidence, competence, compellability and examination of witnesses, privilege, the hearsay rule and its exceptions, admissions and confessions, and illegally obtained evidence. Emphasis is placed on the demonstration of the following skills: legal research and reasoning, and oral communication and advocacy.
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LAWS11-325: Civil Dispute Resolution (10CP)
Civil Dispute Resolution is a compulsory subject in the Bachelor of Laws program offered by the Faculty of Law. The subject examines the procedures involved in initiating, conducting, resolving, enforcing, or appealing the outcome of civil proceedings in state and federal courts. Specific attention is paid to jurisdiction, commencing proceedings, joinder of claims and parties, pleadings and amendment of pleadings, disclosure, interlocutory applications, settlement, costs, and execution of judgments and appeals. The subject also considers alternative methods of dispute resolution, in particular, negotiation, mediation and arbitration. Emphasis is placed on the demonstration of the following skills: legal writing and drafting, and dispute resolution and collaboration.
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LAWS11-326: Legal Profession (10CP)
Legal Profession is a compulsory subject in the Bachelor of Laws program offered by the Faculty of Law. The subject focuses on the regulation of the legal profession and the scope of lawyers’ professional responsibilities, including operation of trust accounts. Emphasis is placed on the demonstration of legal ethics and professionalism skills.
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Law Electives
Students must choose seventy credit points (70CP) in subjects from the following electives.
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Law Faculty Undergraduate Electives (LAWS13 and LAWS17)
Any Law undergraduate subject that has a code beginning with LAWS13 or LAWS17.
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Law Specialisation - Corporate and Commercial Law (UG)
This Corporate and Commercial Law Specialisation provides students with an opportunity to gain knowledge relating to the law and legal principles and issues relevant to corporate and commercial legal practice.
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Law Specialisation - International and Comparative Law (UG)
This International and Comparative Law Specialisation provides students with an opportunity to gain knowledge and compare the operation of different legal systems in an international context.
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Law Specialisation - Contemporary Legal Issues (UG)
This Contemporary Legal Issues Specialisation provides students with an opportunity to gain knowledge and insights relating to social and contemporary challenges confronting current lawmakers.
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Law Specialisation - Legal Practice (UG)
This Legal Practice Specialisation provides students with an opportunity to gain knowledge and develop practical legal skills relevant to lawyering processes and practice.
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Law Specialisation - Canadian Law and Practice (UG)
This Canadian Law and Practice specialisation provides students with an opportunity to gain knowledge of Canadian law specifically relating to administrative, constitutional and criminal areas of law.
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Law Specialisation - Legal Innovation and Technology (UG)
This Legal Innovation and Technology specialisation provides students with an opportunity to enhance their professional qualifications for a future-focused legal career.
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Law Specialisation - Climate Law (UG)
This Climate Law specialisation provides students an opportunity to seek knowledge and skills in climate change and consequences.
Optional Major
Students are encouraged to undertake an optional Major. This will replace sixty credit points (60CP) of elective subjects.
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Climate Law
This Climate Law major provides a mechanism for climate law and practice to be taught to those students seeking the knowledge, skills and professional qualification to be maximally effective in understanding and addressing climate change and consequences.
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Legal Innovation and Technology
This Legal Innovation and Technology major enhances the professional qualification by preparing students for a future—focussed legal career.
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