Bachelor of Creative Industries/Bachelor of Laws (Honours)

Highlights

• Develop your creative thinking, innovation, entrepreneurial and project management skills, while meeting the academic requirements for admission to legal practice in Australia.
• Complete 2 separate degrees in 5.5 years full-time.
• Design your own degree by exploring your creative talents and choosing a creative industries major, as well as studying law.
• Benefit from meaningful connections with high profile industry employers and classes with leading law experts.
• Learn through industry partnerships and networking, and interdisciplinary work.
• Prepare for a career as an in-house lawyer for cultural institutions, government or regulatory bodies, or in law firms with specialist interests in the creative industries.

Why choose this course?

This course allows you to combine your creative interests with your law qualification. Whether you choose to work in the legal fraternity or within the creative industries, you will graduate with a unique set of skills that will enhance your employment options. You will gain key disciplinary knowledge in your chosen creative major, along with skills in creativity and innovation, as well as a law degree. You can choose a creative industry major from one of creative and professional writing; media and communication; drama and performance; entertainment; fashion communication; interactive and visual design; music and sound; and screen content production.

Our Bachelor of Laws (Honours) is a higher-level qualification than a bachelor degree, as it has honors-level content integrated throughout the course. The advanced knowledge and skills in this course will benefit your professional career, or future research and study.

Our contemporary law degree prepares you to think ahead and allows you to take advantage of employment opportunities in growth areas or newly emerging sectors, such as intellectual property and technology.

As a law student, you will benefit immediately and into the future from:

• a course that has been designed in consultation with industry to have a strong foundation in contemporary law knowledge, understanding, and experience
• meaningful connections with high profile industry employers
• practical and effective hands-on learning experiences during your studies
• classes with leading and expert teachers
• international study and placement opportunities
• our high-quality law library, expert librarians and Law Moot Court facilities
• the convenience of a city-based campus.

Real-world learning

You will study a combination of creative industries and law units in the first four years, with the law and elective units only in the final three semesters.

In your first year, you will be introduced to the creative industries and choose the first two units of your chosen major, along with studying the law of torts (negligence, damages and no-fault compensation schemes), legal problem solving and criminal law.

In your second year, you can choose an introductory law elective unit and will be required to complete units on legal research and dispute resolution. Introductory units on film and media production and visual communication are on offer, along with two more units from your creative industries major.

Your third year of study will further develop your creative industries skills in the area of your specialization and you will also hone your knowledge and skills by studying constitutional law, commercial and personal property law, and equity and trusts.

In the fourth year, you can choose a general law elective to study alongside real property law, administrative law and evidence, as you advance your creative industries area of specialization and prepare for the transition to new professional environments.

In your final semesters, you will study law and elective units only. The course structure allows you to choose general and advanced elective units that interest you. You will also study civil procedure, ethics, commercial remedies, and corporate law, before undertaking a legal research capstone project.