UNDERGRADUATE GUIDE LAW AND JUSTICE 2018 LAW LEGAL & JUSTICE STUDIES PARALEGAL STUDIES DOUBLE AND COMBINED DEGREES WITH LAW www.scu.edu.au/aw CRICOS Provider: 01241G Thomas Lynch graduate
LAW & JUSTICE DEGREES WHY STUDY WITH US? Ranked in the top 150 universities under 50 years od in the word. Times Higher Education Young University Rankings Outstanding research achievements rated at word standard or above in 24 key research areas. Exceence in Research for Austraia 2015 (ERA) Strong focus on socia justice and ecoogica jurisprudence. Provides practica ega education with exceent empoyment opportunities. Law Lounge support network for first-year study groups. Summer Law Schoos at Byron Bay and the God Coast. Pathways between degrees. On campus and onine study options. Three teaching sessions. Degrees which put you in the workpace SCHOOL OF LAW & JUSTICE The Schoo of Law and Justice is committed to providing an innovative and rewarding ega education which enabes graduates to make a significant contribution in the fied of aw and justice. The Schoo offers three ega education streams. The (LLB) is the primary academic degree for those who want to quaify and work as a awyer in Austraia. The Bacheor of Lega and Justice Studies is for those who want to work in poicy deveopment, paraega positions and in the justice fied. The Associate Degree in Law (Paraega Studies) is for those who want to work as paraegas, conveyancers or in simiar ega roes. Graduates wi be abe to choose from a range of empoyment opportunities. If ega practice is your dream, the pathways to practice may ead to careers in the private sector practising as a barrister, or as a soicitor or paraega in a arge corporate, regiona or suburban firm. Pubic sector opportunities incude Lega Aid, the Director of Pubic Prosecutions or community based organisations such as Aborigina and Torres Strait Isander Lega Services and Community Lega Centres. A graduates have the potentia to pursue other career opportunities in business and finance, community deveopment, poicy and research and other aw reated fieds. Studying with Southern Cross University Studying with us invoves a range of earning experiences which may vary based on your course of study, your ocation and your mode of study. You may take part in face-to-face ectures, workshops and tutorias, and coaborative peer projects. Courses may incude interactive video-conference ectures, podcasts and discussion forums. You can bring your own device onto campus (or use one of our on-campus computers) and tap into our extensive wireess network. Degrees are offered onine for students who cannot make it onto campus or are baancing work and other commitments, and incude opportunities for gaining professiona experience and buiding networks. For a video about our outstanding aw graduates, visit: www.scu.edu.au/ aw-justice A aw and paraega courses can incude a work pacement which wi count towards your degree. The earning opportunities provided during a pacement may incude attending court, ega and other research, working as part of a ega team, working with cients, managing fies, drafting correspondence and other ega documents, and genera administrative tasks. The knowedge and experience gained through a practica pacement supports students as they work towards the transition to ega practice or to work as a paraega. Students are responsibe for identifying their own pacement, which must be approved by the Schoo. Students enroed in the can undertake a 15-day supervised work pacement to gain insights into the roe of a ega practitioner as we as the dynamics of a ega practice and the ega system. Paraega students in the Bacheor of Lega and Justice Studies and the Associate Degree in Law (Paraega Studies) can undertake a 10-day supervised work pacement to gain insights into working in a ega environment in a paraega capacity, incuding areas of ega practice such as conveyancing, business or famiy aw. Southern Cross University acknowedges the Aborigina and Torres Strait Isander peopes as the Traditiona Custodians of the ands where we ive, earn and work. Degrees Career Opportunities UAC/QTAC codes Indicative ATAR/ OP B Laws Undergraduate entry B Laws Graduate entry for those with a Bacheor degree B Lega and Justice Studies ATAR: 68 OP: 13 Associate Degree in Law (Paraega Studies) ATAR: 63 OP: 15 As barristers or soicitors; or in aw reated areas in private, corporate, or government organisations. During their careers graduates can further deveop a speciaisation in many fieds of aw such as famiy aw, wis and estate panning, crimina aw, corporate aw, property and conveyancing aw, town panning and environmenta aw, empoyment and industria reations, commercia aw, compensation aw, entertainment aw and sporting aw. GC 336060 L 336000 GC 056661 L 056601 See B Laws above. GC 336766 L 336100 Law reated work in ega firms, government poicy making, corporate firms, government ega departments, aw enforcement agencies, ega aid offices, court administration, pubic prosecutions, and in the corporate sector in banking, insurance and conveyancing.* This is a recognised educationa quaification for a icensed conveyancer in NSW. In ega offices in most areas of paraega practice, with soicitors and barristers, government ega departments, aw enforcement agencies, ega aid offices, court administration, pubic prosecutions, and in the corporate sector in finance, banking, insurance and conveyancing.* This is a recognised educationa quaification for a icensed conveyancer in NSW. GC 056761 L 056001 GC 336161 L 336110 GC 056161 L 056051 GC 336361 L 336300 GC 056361 L 056061 Units Duration (years) F: futime P: parttime 32 4F/8P 24 3F/6P 24 3F/6P 16 2F/4P The and doube degrees with aw incude compusory on-campus workshops for both on-campus and onine students. GC = God Coast L = Lismore *For conveyancing icensing requirements in NSW, and detais of mandatory additiona work experience required to enabe registration, enquiries shoud be made to NSW Fair Trading. Visit: www.fairtrading.nsw.gov.au In QLD ony quaified soicitors are egay permitted to engage in conveyancing. Doube Degrees Locations UAC codes QTAC codes ATAR & OP Duration Bacheor of Arts, Bacheor of Business, Bacheor of Lega and Justice Studies, Bacheor of Socia Science, Bacheor of Sport and Exercise Science, Bacheor of Psychoogica Science, Combined Degree and Creative Writing God Coast, Lismore, Onine God Coast, Lismore, Onine God Coast, Lismore, Onine God Coast, Lismore, Onine God Coast Lismore GC 336160 L 336104 GC 336114 L 336101 GC 336169 L 336109 GC 336162 L 336113 Lismore, God Coast GC 336163 L 336106 Lismore, Coffs Harbour, Onine God Coast, Lismore, Onine L 336105 CH 336150 GC 336164 L 336115 Coffs Harbour Onine GC 053261 L 056041 GC 056461 L 056011 GC 056961 L 056111 GC 056561 L 051071 GC 056861 L 056081 L 056201 CH 056151 GC 056371 L 056211 Indicative Indicative Not avaiabe for new course Not avaiabe for new course 5F/10P 4F/8P See page seven for detais of a Doube and Combined degrees. 2 3
BACHELOR OF LAWS BACHELOR OF LEGAL AND JUSTICE STUDIES Thomas Lynch Soicitor, Kay & Hughes Art and Entertainment Lawyers, Sydney Kay & Hughes provides ega advice to the media, arts and entertainment industries. I get to protect artists so that art keeps being made and its vaue remains intact. Being a awyer here combines my passions of music and art with my passion for the aw. Thomas s main areas of aw are inteectua property (IP) aw, contract aw, and commercia/corporate aw. I draft and review contracts, advise cients on how to best protect their IP rights, and when things get messy, strategise on methods and mechanisms to find a resoution, incuding representing cients in the often compex and difficut itigation process. Tom moved from Sydney to study and chose to ive at one of the Lismore campus coeges. Within hours of moving into the coege I was meeting peope. It had a rea community fee from the beginning. It was a good base for me as it was ony a few minutes wak from campus. I coud do things ike go surfing in Byron Bay or wak to the UniBar after casses, or go to the on-campus parties. The (LLB) is a recognised degree enabing admission as a awyer throughout Austraia. This four-year degree can aso be studied as a five-year doube degree with either Arts, Business, Lega and Justice Studies, Psychoogy, Socia Science or Sport and Exercise Science. Students who undertake a doube degree with aw are candidates for both degrees and are abe to compete the two degrees in five years fu-time study rather than the seven years usuay required. (See page 7). A new four-year combined degree and Creative Writing is aso being offered in 2018. The and doube degrees with aw incude on-campus workshops for both onine and on-campus students. For more information on the workshop program visit: www.scu.edu.au/awworkshops Appicants who do not have the required entry mark for the are encouraged to appy for the Associate Degree in Law (Paraega Studies) or Bacheor of Lega and Justice Studies. If students achieve the required grade point average, they may then appy to transfer into the. Students study core units, pus seect units from an extensive range of eectives to suit their career aspirations. Core units aign with professiona accreditation requirements and incude areas such as Civi Litigation and Procedure; The Phiosophy of Law; Environmenta Law; Professiona Conduct; Evidence; and Austraian Crimina Law. Eective units may incude areas as diverse as Cyberaw; Entertainment Law; Victimoogy; Human Rights; Pubic Interest Advocacy; Race and the Law; Anima Law; and Ecoogica Jurisprudence. A sma number of units incude compusory on-campus workshops. For a fu ist of aw units visit: www.scu.edu.au/courses Professiona recognition A degrees fufi the academic requirements for admission to the ega profession. Professiona admission authorities aso require aw graduates of a universities to compete practica ega training or simiar to gain admission to practise as a awyer. Students who intend to practise aw outside Austraia shoud refer to the reevant country s admission body to confirm their admission requirements. Professiona pacement Law students may undertake vountary ega experience and professiona pacement with ega firms or offices to buid their practica ega skis and deveop their professiona networks. BACHELOR OF LAWS Graduate entry for those with a Bacheor eve degree The graduate entry is a three-year degree which meets the requirements for admission as a awyer throughout Austraia. Pease read the description for the undergraduate entry above. Whie career opportunities are the same, some graduate-entry students may aso choose to speciaise in fieds of aw reevant to their previous degree. Professiona recognition and professiona pacement are the same as for the. The Bacheor of Lega and Justice Studies brings together studies in aw and poitics. It is an exceent degree for those wanting to work in poicy deveopment, paraega positions, conveyancing, and in the fieds of justice. It provides a thorough practica grounding in ega knowedge and a strong understanding of Austraian and internationa poitics and society. For peope who have aready been working professionay in the fieds of aw and justice, this course wi hep extend their knowedge, skis and expertise to deveop their career. This Bacheor degree is an extension of the Associate Degree in Law (Paraega Studies), and offers a wider choice of speciaised study areas. Students who want to become awyers and who achieve the necessary grade point average may appy for admission to the during or at the competion of their studies. Aternativey, students who wish to exit this course eary with the Associate Degree in Law (Paraega Studies) may do so with the competion of the required 16 units. The course consists of compusory aw units and eective units, incuding Austraian Poitics, the Austraian Lega System, Goba Socia Movements and Socia Poicy. Aternativey, students can choose to study a major in Conveyancing. Some eective units, when studied onine, require students to attend oncampus workshops. For more information on the workshop program, visit: www.scu.edu.au/awworkshops Professiona recognition The Bacheor of Lega and Justice Studies provides students with the opportunity to achieve the academic requirements necessary to obtain a conveyancer s icence in NSW, and is accredited by NSW Fair Trading. For icensing requirements, and detais of mandatory additiona work experience required to enabe registration, enquiries shoud be made to NSW Fair Trading, visit: www.fairtrading.nsw.gov.au Note that each Austraian state or territory has its own egisation reguating conveyancing practice, except QLD where ony quaified soicitors are egay permitted to engage in conveyancing. Professiona pacement Students can undertake vountary ega experience and paraega pacement with ega firms or offices to compement their practica ega skis and become famiiar with the issues facing working paraegas. Johanna Byrne Soicitor, Lavan, Perth 2016 Nationa Indigenous Law Student of the Year Before her graduation, Johanna Byrne was offered a great job with Lavan, one of Perth s top ega firms. Johanna, who has a passion to become a crimina awyer and hep disadvantaged peope, studied her aw degree onine. Johanna s Honours research thesis, The under-utiisation of Section 32 of the Menta Heath Forensic Provisions Act 1990 (NSW), was inspired by an experience cose to home. When her edest son, who has an inteectua disabiity, got into troube with the aw, Johanna, then working as a forist, did a the eg-work in preparing a Section 32 appication to get him diverted from the crimina system towards hep and treatment. There s a arge gap in the understanding of both awyers and the courts about peope who have an inteectua disabiity and the effects the process can have on them. We ended up winning the case and when my awyer said I think you re wasting your time as a forist that panted the seed. I enroed in the degree because the Southern Cross University aw schoo is very socia justice orientated. Johanna s ong term goa is to be a barrister. There are currenty not enough Indigenous barristers. By going to the Bar I fee I can effectivey advocate on behaf of those who are disadvantaged in the community - the Indigenous, the inteectuay disabed and the poor - through pro-bono work. A ot of these peope cannot afford barristers. 4 5
ASSOCIATE DEGREE IN LAW (PARALEGAL STUDIES) DOUBLE DEGREES WITH LAW Angea Powditch student Angea Powditch was one of 70 students from around the gobe who attended the prestigious and highy competitive Oxford/George Washington Internationa Human Rights Law 2016 Summer Schoo at the University of Oxford, in the UK. I competed two subjects in a month with distinctions, and introduced mysef to everyone I possiby coud. Her ist of infuentia contacts now incudes Lord Mance from the UK s Supreme Court who dissented in the Juian Assange case, Justice Richard Godstone, who was appointed by Neson Mandea to the Supreme Court of South Africa, and Professor David Kaye, the UN Specia Rapporteur on the protection and promotion of the Right to Freedom of Expression and Opinion. I visited the UN Human Rights Office in Geneva (Switzerand) and met Azin Tadjdini from the Specia Procedures Branch Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights. I was so overwhemed at this great priviege. Angea was ony abe to make the momentous journey thanks to the support of a GoFundMe account, a Southern Cross University Associate Aumni Schoarship and the federa government OS HELP oan scheme. Angea is active in the Schoo of Law and Justice. She is a member of Southern Cross University Law Student Society (SCULSS), has earned the Far North Coast Law Society Schoarship, and competed a Testra mentorship through the University s Career Deveopment Service where she was paired with Testra ega counse Virginia Gaoway. This course produces skied graduates, ready for work in a ega environment with just two years of study. Combining inteectua rigour with practica ega skis, it gives students an exceptiona foundation for a career as a paraega professiona in a broad range of settings. Paraegas perform substantive ega work in ega practices, banks, insurance companies, or other pubic and private organisations with in-house ega departments. A paraega s tasks may incude ega research, drafting wis, preparing ega arguments, preparing agreements, compiing court documentation, ega record keeping, ega communication and cient services. Students who achieve the required grade point average during or on competion of this degree may appy for admission into the undergraduate entry. This course consists of compusory aw units and eective units. Students can choose to study a major in Conveyancing. Some eective units, when studied onine, require students to attend oncampus workshops. For more information on the workshops program. Visit: www.scu.edu.au/awworkshops Professiona recognition The Associate Degree in Law (Paraega Studies), with the Conveyancing major, provides students with the opportunity to achieve the academic requirements necessary to obtain a conveyancer s icence in NSW, and is accredited by NSW Fair Trading. For icensing requirements, and detais of mandatory additiona work experience required to enabe registration, enquiries shoud be made to NSW Fair Trading, visit: www.fairtrading.nsw.gov.au Note that each Austraian state or territory has its own egisation reguating conveyancing practice, except QLD where ony quaified soicitors are egay permitted to engage in conveyancing. Professiona pacement Students may undertake vountary ega experience and para-professiona pacement with ega firms or offices to compement their practica ega skis and become famiiar with the issues facing working paraegas. Southern Cross University offers doube degrees with aw in arts, business, psychoogy, socia science and sport and exercise science. Students may aso undertake a speciaised Bacheor of Lega and Justice Studies, doube degree. Doube degrees give students the opportunity to study two discipines concurrenty. Students who undertake a doube degree with aw are candidates for both degrees and are abe to compete the two degrees in five years fu-time study rather than the seven years usuay required. The University is aso offering a unique four-year combined degree in aws and creative writing. It wi provide graduates with cear professiona pathways as both ega and writing practitioners. The fufis the academic requirements for admission to the ega profession. Professiona admission authorities aso require aw graduates of a universities to compete practica ega training or simiar to be eigibe to practise as a awyer. Students who intend to practise aw outside Austraia shoud check with the reevant country s admission body to confirm their practising requirements. Appicants who do not have the required entry mark for a doube degree with aw are encouraged to appy for the singe, partner degree. If those students achieve the required grade point average during that course, they may then appy for transfer into the doube degree. Some units incude compusory face-to-face workshops. Visit: www.scu.edu.au/awworkshops Bacheor of Arts, knowedge of arts and aw; and those specific to each discipine. For arts: communication industries, community reations, journaism, cutura poicy, management and administration, education, pubishing, pubic service, mutimedia design, creative and cutura industries, poitics, socia justice and human rights. For aw: as barristers or soicitors; or in aw-reated areas in private, corporate, or government organisations. Bacheor of Business, knowedge of business and aw; and those specific to each discipine. For business: advertising, marketing, pubic reations, product management, management, internationa business, human resource management, investment, banking, accounting and finance. For aw: as barristers or soicitors; or in aw-reated areas in private, corporate, or government organisations. Bacheor of Lega and Justice Studies, Graduates may pursue career opportunities incude: as barristers or soicitors; or in aw-reated areas of private, corporate or government organisations. With this doube degree, students can study a broad range of aw eectives and can speciaise with a major in Conveyancing. Bacheor of Psychoogica Science, Graduates may pursue career opportunities as barristers or soicitors; or in aw-reated areas in private, corporate, or government organisations. There are a range of career opportunities in government departments, particuary those connected with heath, socia and disabiity services, youth services, corrective services, the armed services, research agencies such as the CSIRO, and in education. Bacheor of Socia Science, knowedge of socia science and aw; and those specific to each discipine. For socia science: professiona roes in socia wefare, community deveopment, or in poicy-reated areas of government departments and the private sector. For aw: as barristers or soicitors; or in aw-reated areas in private, corporate, or government organisations. Bacheor of Sport and Exercise Science, knowedge of heath, sport, fitness or eisure industries and aw; and those specific to each discipine. For sport and exercise science: sport administration, sport faciity management, heath and fitness centre management, heath promotion. For aw: as barristers or soicitors; or in aw-reated areas in private, corporate, or government organisations. COMBINED DEGREE WITH LAW and Creative Writing This unique four-year combined degree in aws and creative writing provides graduates with cear professiona pathways as both ega and writing practitioners. Students gain fuency in written and ora expression, reading and research skis, and above a, writing across a range of genres, both professiona and imaginative. The course anchors creativity, imagination and expressiveness within a professiona degree, with cear vocationa outcomes in aw, government and industry. Graduates wi be highy competent and adept in these two ocay significant and gobay reevant fieds. The degree meets ega accreditation requirements and can be competed on campus or fuy onine. Graduates can pursue career opportunities that combine knowedge of creative writing and aw; and those specific to each discipine. Graduates wi be skied as awyers who can write we and as writers who can think and argue strategicay. They can pursue opportunities in fieds such as inteectua property, commercia or academic pubishing, corporate communications, as we as ega work in a range of creative industries, government departments and professiona practices. 6 7
KEY DATES FOR 2018 Rising Stars Schoarship appications for 2018 UAC and QTAC on-time appications for 2018 entry (Session 1) Late UAC and QTAC appications incur an extra fee Open Juy 2017 Check website for cosing dates: scu.edu.au/schoarships Open eary August 2017 Cose ate September 2017 STAR Eary Entry opens Eary Juy 2017 STAR Eary Entry offers Eary December 2017 Southern Cross University Info Days 4, 5 and 7 December 2017 UAC and QTAC main round offers Mid January 2018 For the fu ist of offer rounds visit the UAC and QTAC websites Session 1 2018 teaching dates 5 March - 1 June 2018 Orientation 26 February - 2 March 2018 Session 2 2018 teaching dates 2 Juy - 28 September 2018 Orientation 25-29 June 2018 Session 3 2018 teaching dates 29 October 2018-15 February 2019 Orientation 22-26 October 2018 5 steps to Southern Cross 1 Choose a course www.scu.edu.au/courses 2 Find out more campustours@scu.edu.au www.scu.edu.au/yourfuture E: futurestudent@scu.edu.au Freeca: 1800 626 481 3 Appy To study on campus (fu-time or part-time) appy via UAC www.uac.edu.au or QTAC www.qtac.edu.au To study onine, appy direct to the University. www.scu.edu.au/howtoappy 4 Accept your offer www.scu.edu.au/gettingstarted 5 Enro in units www.scu.edu.au/enro Schoo of Law & Justice The information in this brochure was correct at the time of pubishing (October 2017). A University courses are subject to change by the University and the information provided in this brochure shoud be used as a guide ony. To the extent permitted by aw, Southern Cross University excudes a iabiity arising from the use of, or reiance on, the information contained in this brochure. Internationa students: Southern Cross University wecomes internationa students. This guide however is not intended for their use. Internationa students shoud contact SCU Internationa. W: www.scu.edu.au/internationa E: intoff@scu.edu.au T: 02 6620 3876 Copyright Southern Cross University October 2017. SCU6337