L3016 Bachelor of Laws (Honours) and Bachelor of Art History and Curating

Double degree courses include the features of the component degree courses, except that electives may be reduced.

Law

L3001 Bachelor of Laws (Honours) is a specialist course that develops through themes: legal methodology and legal practice; public law; and private law. The specialised knowledge and advanced skills are imparted in later year elective units, including a final year project involving intensive research and writing. In this double degree course you complete:

Part A. Core studies

Core studies covers three interrelated themes: Legal methodology and legal practice, Public law and Private law. 

Legal methodology and legal practice includes the nature of law, and particularly statute law enacted by parliaments and common law developed by courts. It also includes the key concepts, principles and methods of research and reasoning that enable lawyers to identify and interpret law and apply it to relevant facts in order to provide legal advice. It covers the law of procedure and evidence that governs judicial proceedings, alternative methods of resolving legal disputes and the code of ethics that regulates the professional conduct of legal practitioners.

Public law includes constitutional law, administrative law and criminal law. It concerns the powers and procedures of the legislative, executive and judicial organs of government and how they are regulated and controlled by 'the rule of law'. It also concerns the legal relationship between government and individuals, including the protection of individual rights.

Private law deals with legal relationships between legal persons, including corporations as well as individuals. It includes the study of property rights, contractual rights and obligations, wrongs (called 'torts') such as trespass and the negligent infliction of injury, and the law of equity and trusts.

Part B. Specified electives

In later years of the course, you will be able to choose from a broad range of elective law units. High achieving students may also include one or two master's units in their final year of study. Elective law units enable you to develop specialised knowledge and advanced skills in areas of law that suit your own interests, skills and career goals. In addition to public and private law, these include international law, commercial law and human rights law. You will have opportunities to study overseas, and to undertake work-based learning, for example, in our legal clinical program and in local and international clinical placements.

Art History and Curating

F2021 Bachelor of Art History and Curating is structured in five parts and develops through theme studies in critical contexts, disciplinary practices and electives related to your discipline. These will come together through an internship and a final research project. In this double degree you complete:

Part A. Critical contexts

These studies will equip you with the skills necessary to research fine arts issues and provide the research methods relevant to your studio or workshop practice. They will enable you to contextualise your own practice and communicate ideas and strategies. Through the prism of history, as well as reference to bodies of knowledge relevant to cultural production, you will begin to situate the place of art in society.

Part B. Disciplinary practices

The studies will assist you to develop the perceptual, practical and intellectual skills required by art, design and architecture students in the discipline of drawing. This will introduce you to occupational health, safety and environmental training particularly within the context of studying art, design and architecture. 

Part C. Applied disciplinary practices 

Through this component of the course you will develop key skills and concepts particular to your specialisation. Through lectures and seminars, studios or practice driven workshops, you will develop the capacity for independent cultural production within fine art and related fields. Interdisciplinary skills and practices will be explored in conjunction with critical thinking. You will have the opportunity to interact with topics and students from a range of relevant fields in the arts.

Part D. Discipline electives

These elective studies provide you with the opportunity to deepen and broaden your knowledge and practice through the selection of electives in Art History and Theory. In these studies you can choose to undertake a unit abroad or select units in your discipline that are of interest.

Course progression maps

The course progression map provides guidance on unit enrolment for each semester of study.

You must complete 252 credit points, of which 156 points are from the Bachelor of Laws (Honours) (including all the requirements in Part A and 72 points from Part B as described in the single degree) and 96 credit points are from the Bachelor of Art History and Curating (including all the requirements in Part A, B, C and D for the single degree).