Bachelor of Laws / Bachelor of Business
Bachelor of Laws / Bachelor of Business
The Bachelor of Laws / Bachelor of Business offers students a course focused on commercial law with emphasis on intellectual property law. As the only double degree in Victoria with this specialisation, students learn about trade marks, patents and designs, copyright, the prohibition of misleading or deceptive conduct and competition…
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COURSE DESCRIPTION
The Bachelor of Laws / Bachelor of Business offers students a course focused on commercial law with emphasis on intellectual property law. As the only double degree in Victoria with this specialisation, students learn about trade marks, patents and designs, copyright, the prohibition of misleading or deceptive conduct and competition law.
You’ll learn to think like an entrepreneur and develop the skills and knowledge essential to business management and operations.
The combination of degrees equips you with the skills to work in commercial and general legal practice, within management, and as entrepreneurs.
Work Integrated Learning is a guaranteed part of all our bachelor degrees. In this double degree, you’ll complete law-related professional experience placements at organisations in Australia or overseas. You’ll also be introduced to the practical aspects of legal practice through moot court scenarios and advocacy exercises. And in the Industry Consulting Project (BUS30009), you’ll team up with other students to work on a real project briefed to you by an industry partner.
Course learning outcomes
The Bachelor of Laws provides an accredited qualification in law and educates students to meet the challenges of a profession and society that are increasingly diverse, complex and technologically sophisticated. It provides a rigorous and intellectually challenging legal education that develops and enhances legal knowledge and a broad range of skills necessary for legal practice; promoting respect for the Rule of Law and adherence to ethical conduct and professional responsibility.
When combined with the Bachelor of Business, graduates will have developed the core knowledge and skills essential to business management and operations in the 21st Century. Graduates are entrepreneurial thinkers with the theoretical and practical knowledge required to operate effectively in diverse settings such as not-for-profits, government, small businesses and corporate organisations.
The amalgamation of these two comprehensive degrees produces graduates that are highly capable candidates for a broad range of career opportunities, expanding beyond law and business.
Upon successfully completing the Bachelor of Laws, students will be able to:
- describe and demonstrate the application of the fundamental areas of Australian law and the Australian legal system and of the principles and doctrines that underpin them
- describe and demonstrate the application of ethical and professional responsibility in the practice of the law and a commitment to the pursuit of justice
- analyse and evaluate the interdisciplinary contexts in which legal issues arise and the disciplines and policy considerations that influence the content and operation of the law
- describe and compare the international legal order and the law and legal systems of Australia’s major trading partners
Career opportunities
Graduates will be entrepreneurial thinkers with the theoretical and practical knowledge required to operate effectively in diverse settings such as law firms and barristers’ chambers, not-for-profit organisations, government, small businesses and corporate organisations.
REQUIREMENTS
If you’re currently in Year 12 or have completed Year 12 in the last seven years, you’ll be considered for admission to undergraduate courses primarily based on whether you have successfully completed the Victorian Certificate of Education (VCE), or an interstate or international Year 12 qualification.
English language requirements
Satisfactory completion of one of the following:
- Swinburne’s English for Academic Purposes (EAP 5 Advanced level) with overall 70%, all skills 65%
- minimum IELTS overall band of 6.5 (Academic Module) with no individual band below 6.0
- Pearson (PTE) minimum score of 58 (no communicative skills less than 50)
- TOEFL iBT (internet-based) -79 (no less than 13 in reading, 12 in listening, 18 in speaking 21 in writing)
- C1 Advanced – 176, no band less than 169
- any other equivalent assessment of English language proficiency.
EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION
Swinburne University of Technology is a public university based in Melbourne- that is among the top 3% of universities in the world. The University focuses on science, technology and innovation and offers courses well recognised by professional organisations. The Good Universities Guide 2016 awarded the University five stars for both graduate satisfaction and generic skills and four stars for teaching quality. It also features in the top 200 ranked universities in the QS Graduate Employability Rankings; and enjoys close ties with industry- providing students with invaluable workplace experience.
