Bachelor of Laws and Bachelor of Arts

The Bachelor of Laws and Bachelor of Arts course provides you with double qualifications and skills that are well regarded in both the private and public sectors.

The Bachelor of Arts provides you with a multidisciplinary education that encourages you to gain knowledge in a range of humanities and social science disciplines.

You will explore disciplines that study the way humans recognise, record and debate human practices, meanings and values.

This will aid you in developing contemporary understandings both of the human condition and of how society operates.

The Bachelor of Laws course satisfies the academic requirement for admission as a legal practitioner.

Law graduates are also required to undergo a period of practical legal training before admission as a legal practitioner in Australia.

A law degree will provide you with the qualifications to pursue a number of careers in the field of law, including solicitor, barrister, government legal officer, judicial officer, law academic, company director, in-house counsel, diplomat and politician.

Core Geography and Environmental Studies Major History Major Liberal Arts Major Literary and Cultural Studies Major Social Enquiry Major Writing Major

Course Structure

--> In order to complete this course, you must:

1. Complete the core structure
2. Complete 2 majors

Core Structure

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In order to complete this course, you must:

- Complete the core structure

- Complete two arts majors which can be selected from:

Geography and Environmental Studies

History

Liberal Arts

Literary and Cultural Studies

Social Enquiry

Writing

Compulsory Law Units

Course Structure

--> In order to complete this course, you must:

1. Complete the core structure
2. Complete 2 majors

Geography and Environmental Studies Major

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This major offers a diverse set of units in geography, the environment and related discipline areas such as Geographic Information Systems. You will be exposed to an integrated humanities and social sciences approach that provides excellent foundational discipline knowledge as well as industry-specific knowledge and skills. You will explore contemporary environmental issues that will improve approaches to managing the environment. You will develop a unique set of knowledge and skills that are useful in a wide range of careers.

Level 1

Advanced

Course Structure

--> In order to complete this course, you must:

1. Complete the core structure
2. Complete 2 majors

History Major

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History is both a body of knowledge and a method of inquiry, a way of understanding ourselves and the world around us. It strives to comprehend complex processes of continuity and change and provides insights into how the past influences the present and the future. Historians draw on the largest storehouse of information that exists about how human beings actually behave: the past. Studying History, you will learn to identify, evaluate and interpret evidence, make informed judgements about its significance, debate your findings, and clearly and cogently communicate your informed opinions.

Level 1

Advanced

Course Structure

--> In order to complete this course, you must:

1. Complete the core structure
2. Complete 2 majors

Liberal Arts Major

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Liberal Arts provides you with an opportunity to design your own major by selecting eight units (48 credit points), including no less than four Advanced Level units, from the Arts majors. This will allow you the flexibility to pursue a study stream that suits your interests. You must meet any pre- and co-requisites for these units. Please note that the units selected must be chosen from the Arts majors in the Bachelor of Arts degree. Units selected for the Liberal Arts major may not be selected for any other major in the BA.

Course Structure

--> In order to complete this course, you must:

1. Complete the core structure
2. Complete 2 majors

Literary and Cultural Studies Major

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The Literary and Cultural Studies major brings together two distinct but complementary disciplinary approaches: literary studies, where literature is read for its own sake and for the values it reveals in stories, poems and plays about our lived and imaginary experiences; and cultural studies, where ideas and concepts derived from a broad study of culture are explored through a variety of texts including film, media, television, advertising and the like. You will be able to demonstrate advanced reading and writing skills while applying critical thinking and advanced modes of textual analysis to a broad range of texts, genres and media. You will communicate using cogent, discipline-based and context-relevant research and participate, both self-reflexively and ethically, in discipline critical debates.

Level 1

Advanced

Course Structure

--> In order to complete this course, you must:

1. Complete the core structure
2. Complete 2 majors

Social Enquiry Major

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In Social Enquiry, you will examine everyday social life through the systemic study of social structures and interactions. You will adopt both sociological and Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander perspectives. Sociology is the study of society with a focus on industrialised societies of the type that emerged out of the French and Industrial revolutions using variables such as race, class and gender. You will develop skills in applying investigative and interpretive tools for the analysis and evaluation of identity, crime and deviance, rural sociology, and health. Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander studies explains and critiques the contemporary life of Indigenous Australians through an understanding of pre-colonisation, colonisation, resistance and adaption, government policy, identity and the struggle for recognition and autonomy. You will examine a range of contemporary issues including land rights and country, racism, constitutional preambles, and community.

Level 1

Advanced

Course Structure

--> In order to complete this course, you must:

1. Complete the core structure
2. Complete 2 majors

Writing Major

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Writing across a range of genres requires an understanding and appreciation of established and emerging writing techniques. You will be exposed to diverse genres and writing styles. You will be able to write effective media releases, news stories, feature articles, blogs, and pieces for social media. You will exercise creativity through literary forms such as poetry, literary prose, creative non-fiction, and experimental writing.

Level 1

Advanced

NOTE

Students wishing to complete WRIT13013 Writing Project are required to have completed at least WRIT11023, COMM11007, WRIT11025, WRIT12010 and JOUR12010

Students will be able to undertake a creative writing project (WRIT13013) in Terms 1 and 2, but those undertaking a media/professional writing project will only be able to do so in Term 1.

What do I need to start?

Entry Scores

Entry Requirements

Prerequisites: English, Queensland Year 12 or equivalent;

OP 10 or equivalent

English Requirements:

If you were not born in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, United Kingdom, Ireland, South Africa or United States of America, you are required to meet the English Language Proficiency requirements set by the University.

Applicants are required to provide evidence of completion of:

• a secondary qualification (Year 11 and 12, or equivalent), or
• tertiary diploma level qualification, or
• bachelor level qualification study for a period of at least 2 years fulltime with a minimum overall GPA 4.0

completed within Australia, Canada, New Zealand, United Kingdom, South Africa, Ireland, or United States of America, which will meet the English proficiency.

If you do not satisfy any of the above, you will need to undertake an English language proficiency test and achieve the following scores:

• An International English Language Testing System (IELTS Academic) overall band score of at least 6.0 overall with a minimum 5.5 in each subset; or
• Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) - Requires 550 or better overall and minimum TWE score of 4.5 (Paper Based Test), or 75 or better overall and no score less than 17 (Internet Based Test); or
• Pearson Test of English Academic (PTE Academic) - Requires an overall score of 54 with no sub-score less than 46; or
• An Occupational English Test with Grades A or B only in each of the four components; or
• Cambridge Certificate in advanced English (CAE) - Score of 180 or above; or
• Cambridge Certificate of Proficiency in English - Score of 200 or above; or
• Combined Universities Language Test (CULT) - 70% with no individual component score of less than 15.

English test results remain valid for no more than two years between final examination date and the date of commencement of study, and must appear on a single result certificate.

Security Requirements

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Health Requirements

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Assumed Knowledge

Nil

Fees and Charges

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Core Learning Outcomes

Please refer to the Core Structure Learning Outcomes

Geography and Environmental Studies Learning Outcomes

• 1.
• For unit learning outcomes for Bachelor of Laws, please see: https://handbook.cqu.edu.au/programs/index?programCode=CG98
• 2.
• Analyse and explain a coherent body of disciplinary knowledge (depending on the majors selected in the BA), in cogent arguments and from selected disciplinary perspectives, the way that humans recognise, record and debate human practices, meanings and values.
• 3.
• Identify discipline relevant problems, analyse and critically and assess the critical debates surrounding them, evaluate possible solutions, adapt the knowledge gained, and apply this to relevant and/or contemporary issues.
• 4.
• Research, find, retrieve, sort, test and deploy evidence, data and information effectively.
• 5.
• Learn and work independently and collaboratively and reflect upon feedback to identify and enact self improvements.
• 6.
• Identify and respond to ethical issues in a range of contexts.
• 7.
• Communicate cogent arguments and/ or research result in appropriate oral and written formats and media.

History Learning Outcomes

• 1.
• For unit learning outcomes for Bachelor of Laws, please see: https://handbook.cqu.edu.au/programs/index?programCode=CG98
• 2.
• Analyse and explain a coherent body of disciplinary knowledge (depending on the majors selected in the BA), in cogent arguments and from selected disciplinary perspectives, the way that humans recognise, record and debate human practices, meanings and values.
• 3.
• Identify discipline relevant problems, analyse and critically and assess the critical debates surrounding them, evaluate possible solutions, adapt the knowledge gained, and apply this to relevant and/or contemporary issues.
• 4.
• Research, find, retrieve, sort, test and deploy evidence, data and information effectively.
• 5.
• Learn and work independently and collaboratively and reflect upon feedback to identify and enact self improvements.
• 6.
• Identify and respond to ethical issues in a range of contexts.
• 7.
• Communicate cogent arguments and/ or research result in appropriate oral and written formats and media.

Liberal Arts Learning Outcomes

• 1.
• For unit learning outcomes for Bachelor of Laws, please see: https://handbook.cqu.edu.au/programs/index?programCode=CG98
• 2.
• Analyse and explain a coherent body of disciplinary knowledge (depending on the majors selected in the BA), in cogent arguments and from selected disciplinary perspectives, the way that humans recognise, record and debate human practices, meanings and values.
• 3.
• Identify discipline relevant problems, analyse and critically and assess the critical debates surrounding them, evaluate possible solutions, adapt the knowledge gained, and apply this to relevant and/or contemporary issues.
• 4.
• Research, find, retrieve, sort, test and deploy evidence, data and information effectively.
• 5.
• Learn and work independently and collaboratively and reflect upon feedback to identify and enact self improvements.
• 6.
• Identify and respond to ethical issues in a range of contexts.
• 7.
• Communicate cogent arguments and/ or research result in appropriate oral and written formats and media.

Literary and Cultural Studies Learning Outcomes

• 1.
• For unit learning outcomes for Bachelor of Laws, please see: https://handbook.cqu.edu.au/programs/index?programCode=CG98
• 2.
• Analyse and explain a coherent body of disciplinary knowledge (depending on the majors selected in the BA), in cogent arguments and from selected disciplinary perspectives, the way that humans recognise, record and debate human practices, meanings and values.
• 3.
• Identify discipline relevant problems, analyse and critically and assess the critical debates surrounding them, evaluate possible solutions, adapt the knowledge gained, and apply this to relevant and/or contemporary issues.
• 4.
• Research, find, retrieve, sort, test and deploy evidence, data and information effectively.
• 5.
• Learn and work independently and collaboratively and reflect upon feedback to identify and enact self improvements.
• 6.
• Identify and respond to ethical issues in a range of contexts.
• 7.
• Communicate cogent arguments and/ or research result in appropriate oral and written formats and media.

Social Enquiry Learning Outcomes

• 1.
• For unit learning outcomes for Bachelor of Laws, please see: https://handbook.cqu.edu.au/programs/index?programCode=CG98
• 2.
• Analyse and explain a coherent body of disciplinary knowledge (depending on the majors selected in the BA), in cogent arguments and from selected disciplinary perspectives, the way that humans recognise, record and debate human practices, meanings and values.
• 3.
• Identify discipline relevant problems, analyse and critically and assess the critical debates surrounding them, evaluate possible solutions, adapt the knowledge gained, and apply this to relevant and/or contemporary issues.
• 4.
• Research, find, retrieve, sort, test and deploy evidence, data and information effectively.
• 5.
• Learn and work independently and collaboratively and reflect upon feedback to identify and enact self improvements.
• 6.
• Identify and respond to ethical issues in a range of contexts.
• 7.
• Communicate cogent arguments and/ or research result in appropriate oral and written formats and media.

Writing Learning Outcomes

• 1.
• For unit learning outcomes for Bachelor of Laws, please see: https://handbook.cqu.edu.au/programs/index?programCode=CG98
• 2.
• Analyse and explain a coherent body of disciplinary knowledge (depending on the majors selected in the BA), in cogent arguments and from selected disciplinary perspectives, the way that humans recognise, record and debate human practices, meanings and values.
• 3.
• Identify discipline relevant problems, analyse and critically assess the critical debates surrounding them, evaluate possible solutions, adapt the knowledge gained, and apply this to relevant and/or contemporary issues.
• 4.
• Research, find, retrieve, sort, test and deploy evidence, data and information effectively.
• 5.
• Learn and work independently and collaboratively and reflect upon feedback to identify and enact self improvements.
• 6.
• Identify and respond to ethical issues in a range of contexts.
• 7.
• Communicate cogent arguments and/ or research result in appropriate oral and written formats and media.