Bachelor of Socio-Legal Studies
There is no new intake for this degree
Three years full-time
Six years part-time
The Bachelor of Socio-Legal Studies program is a unique degree within the tertiary landscape that offers a coherent study path if you are interested in studying legal ideas, institutions and practices from the perspectives of the humanities and social sciences. Our degree responds to the international and national emergence of socio-legal studies as a major area of social science and humanities research and teaching. We also understand the increasing importance of adopting a unified approach to law and society in a wide variety of professional fields that lie outside the legal profession itself, but articulate closely with it, such as social policy, criminology, government and business administration and management, public advocacy and non-government organisations.
We aim to equip you with a range of analytical, research and communication skills and capacities with which to tackle the diverse issues addressed through socio-legal study, such as crime control and punishment, the globilisation of legal practices and institutions, responses to historical injustice, law and social change, law and the media, law and family life, forensic social science, and law reform, amongst many. As such, the degree provides a sustained program that investigates law and society by using the methods of a broad range of disciplines including history, philosophy, political science, sociology, social policy, performance studies, anthropology, literary studies and economics. This distinct approach ensures that you are equipped with the solid foundations to work in the fields of professional practice that link an understanding of law with other forms of knowledge, or to participate in the many exciting fields of research studying legal ideas, institutions and practices in their historical, cultural and social context.
By combining a clear focus on the core socio-legal subjects with the breadth of a second major in Arts, as well as a pool of related electives in Arts and Economics and Business, we are able to offer you a structured program of social-legal study. Although it is not a professional law degree, it is an opportunity for you to mobilise your interest in law and society through a clearly defined program of study that provides a solid starting point for your future beyond graduation.
The basic requirements for the Bachelor of Socio-Legal Studies are:
- a major in socio-legal studies comprising two junior core units, four senior core units and two senior elective units from a pool of related socio-legal elective units
- a second major from the Part A list of subjects in the Faculty of Arts
- four senior elective units from a pool of related socio-legal units in the Faculties of Arts and Economics and Business.
An additional honours year is also available for suitably qualified students.
| Core Major |
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| Socio-Legal Studies |
Pathways
| Year One | Year Two | Year Three | |||
| Semester 1 | Semester 2 | Semester 1 | Semester 2 | Semester 1 | Semester 2 |
| SLSS1001 Introduction to Socio-Legal Studies | SLSS1003 Law and Contemporary Society | SLSS2601 Socio-Legal Research | SLSS2615 Law & Social Theory | SCLG2601 Sociological Theory | SLSS Major Senior Elective Unit |
| Arts (Part A or B) Junior Unit Choice | Arts (Part A or B) Junior Unit Choice | Related Socio-Legal Senior Unit | SLSS Major Senior Elective Unit | PHIL2645 Philosophy of Law | Related Socio-Legal Studies Senior Unit |
| Arts (Part A or B) Junior Unit Choice | Arts (Part A or B) Junior Unit Choice | Arts (Part A) Major Senior Unit | Related Socio-Legal Studies Senior Unit | Related Socio-Legal Studies Senior Unit | Arts (Part A) Major Senior Unit |
| Arts (Part A) Major Junior Pre-Req Unit | Arts (Part A) Major Junior Pre-Req Unit | Arts (Part A) Major Senior Unit | Arts (Part A) Major Senior Unit | Arts (Part A) Major Senior Unit | Arts (Part A) Major Senior Unit |
| 24 credits | 24 credits | 24 credits | 24 credits | 24 credits | 24 credits |
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Core units of study and semester offerings are subject to change
Each box represents one 6 credit point unit of study. This diagram is a sample structure only, and is based on a standard full-time progression over 3 years. |
Total 144 credits | ||||