Overview 2020
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Candidates will be offered admission to the Bachelor of Laws with Honours in their final year of Law study if they meet the minimum Grade Point Average (GPA) requirement of 5.20 in their law studies to date in accordance to the Course Rules. A candidate with a GPA of 5.80 or above will be offered admission to the First Class Honours stream. The award of an Honours degree in Law requires the achievement of the requisite minimum GPA as outlined in the Course Rules. The Bachelor of Laws with Honours will provide an understanding of research principles and methods and provide a pathway for those seeking to undertake postgraduate research.
Students are invited to transfer to the Bachelor of Laws with Honours (L4U), Graduate Entry three year program, in their final year of study (year 1 is exempt for graduate entrants, making the course a three year program).
Students who do not already have a completed undergraduate qualification should refer to Bachelor of Laws with Honours (L4W), four year program.
Course objectives
The Bachelor of Laws (Honours) course is the basic academic preparation for persons who wish to enter the legal profession and other careers involving legal work. The course also has wider applicability in developing the attributes and skills inherent in a general university education. Students develop the values and intellectual abilities necessary to marshal facts and to critically assess and evaluate information, theories and doctrines thus preparing themselves for a variety of career roles.
Learning Outcomes
- Understand the fundamental areas of legal knowledge.
- Understand the broader contexts in which legal issues arise.
- Identify and apply the principles and values of justice.
- Possess the intellectual and practice skills to research, evaluate and synthesise factual, legal and policy issues.
- Apply legal research and reasoning to deliver evidence based responses to legal issues.
- Think creatively.
- A capacity to apply legal reasoning and through research generate an appropriately creative, critical and reasoned response to legal issues.
- Communicate in a coherent and professionally appropriate way for the context.
- Capacity to work and learn independently – and make use of feedback and reflection to support personal development.
- Refine research questions, identify appropriate reference sources and methodologies, distil and analyse information to produce a well justified outcome/response.
- Act in accordance with ethical research precepts, and develop an understanding of approaches to ethical decision making.
Career outcomes
The course aims to equip students with the capacity to enter the legal profession, legal education, areas of social justice, advocacy, policy and reform work, politics, and the general corporate and public service sector. It will also provide the training and skills for postgraduate work leading to a career in academia.
Professional Recognition
This course will be professional recognised as per the Bachelor of Laws degree. There are no additional professional recognition aspects related to this course that are not already embedded in the Bachelor of Laws.
Course structure
Year 1
Students who have been admitted as graduate entrants (ie have completed an Australian Bachelor degree or equivalent), are exempt from completing Year 1.
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Year 2
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Year 3
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Choose 5 electives units from the following list:
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Year 4
Honours Year (law)
The Honours units that you enrol in depends on your eligibility for First or Second Class Honours.
First Class Honours
Requires an achievement of a GPA in law units (excluding LAW121, LAW122, LAW455 and LAH401) of 6.0 (Distinction).
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Choice of 2 x electives from the following list
If minor research component has not already been completed, 1 x elective from the below list must meet the minor honours research requirements. A 'minor research unit' is any LLb elective is which a research-based assessment task comprises at least 2,000 words and at least 50% of the electives unit's assessment.
Law Elective Choice
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Second Class Honours
Requires an achievement of a GPA in law units (excluding LAW121, LAW122, LAW455 and LAH401) of 5.7 (Second Uppers) or 5.4 (Second Lowers).
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Choice of 2 x electives from the following list
If minor research component has not already been completed, 1 x elective from the below list must meet the minor honours research requirements. A 'minor research unit' is any LLb elective is which a research-based assessment task comprises at least 2,000 words and at least 50% of the electives unit's assessment.
Law Elective Choice
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View all details for LAW606 Law of the Oceans and the Antarctic
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Entry requirements
Eligibility
A candidate will be offered admission to the Bachelor of Laws with Honours at the completion of their penultimate year of Law study if he or she has achieved a GPA of 5.20 or above. This GPA is calculated in accordance to the Course Rules. A candidate with a GPA of 5.80 will be offered admission to the First Class Honours stream. It is proposed that a Law Honours Transfer form be created to facilitate the transfer of students to the Bachelor of Laws with Honours. Students will need to complete an eCAF for this new course.
Articulation from
The Bachelor of Laws with Honours articulates from the Bachelor of Laws course. Credit will be automatically applied for all core law units completed and credit for advanced law electives will be keyed by the Law Faculty Officer.
Articulation to
Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice, Masters, Doctor of Philosophy.
Fees & scholarships
Domestic students
Domestic students enrolled in a full fee paying place are charged the Student Services and Amenities Fee but this fee is incorporated in the fees you pay for each unit you enrol in. Full fee paying domestic students do not have to make any additional SSAF payments.
Detailed tuition fee information for domestic students is available at Scholarships, fees and costs, including additional information in relation to a compulsory Student Services and Amenities Fee (SSAF).
International students
2020 Total Course Fee (international students): $108,100 AUD*.
Course cost based on a rate of $31,950 AUD per standard, full-time year of study (100 credit points).
* Please note that this is an indicative fee only.
Scholarships
For information on general scholarships available at the University of Tasmania, please visit the scholarships website.
How can we help?
Do you have any questions about choosing a course or applying? Get in touch.
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- International
- +61 3 6226 6200
- Course.Info@utas.edu.au
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