If English is not your first language or was not the medium of instruction in your secondary or tertiary studies, you are required to demonstrate your proficiency in the English language by achieving a prescribed level in an approved English examination or test before you can receive a full offer of a place.
IELTS (Academic version): 6.5 overall score, minimum 6.0 in each subtest
TOEFL internet-based score: Total score 82 (Writing 21, Speaking 18, Reading 13, Listening 13)
Pearson Test of English Academic (PTE): 58 overall; No communication skills less than 50
Your English language proficiency test must be no more than two years old at the time of your commencement at Western Sydney University.
Students enrolling in these units may need to have a National Police Check and consent or prohibited employment declarations as they may be conducting their placement in circumstances where they work with minors:
Clinical Legal Placement
Issues in the Criminal Justice System (corrective services field trip requirement) also records and identity check.
The following unit requires a visa for entry to the relevant country and the ability to travel at a specified time:
Foundations of Chinese Law
Foundations of Indian Law
The double degree program permits students to undertake multi-skilling and offers diverse career paths providing high marketability in multiple areas of expertise. The LLB provides students with professional legal skills including the ability to analyse legal material and understand fundamental legal principles; an understanding of the relationship between law and society; the skills to analyse and solve non-legal problems and specialised study into the Australian legal system.
Students in this double degree also have the opportunity to complete a semester of study overseas and receive advanced standing towards their majors, sub majors or Bachelor of Laws alternate units. They are encouraged to do so but must discuss this with a course advisor.
Graduates from the Bachelor of Laws are eligible to apply to the Legal Profession Admission Board for admission to legal practice in NSW after undertaking prescribed practical legal training.
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Qualification for a double degree in law requires the successful completion of 400 credit points including the units listed in the recommended sequences for the relevant double degree programs.
Students are eligible to graduate in the associated degree at the end of three years of full-time study, only when they have completed all non-law units plus the eight law units specified in the study sequence as being in the first three years of the relevant double degree.
Students enrolled in the Bachelor of Arts/Bachelor of Laws will only be eligible to graduate from their Bachelor of Laws degree upon completion of the entire 400 credit point course. Students enrolled in this course who wish to graduate with a standalone law degree prior to completion of the entire Bachelor of Arts component must transfer to course Bachelor of Laws (Non Graduate Entry) which requires the completion of 320 credit points (inclusive of 80 credit points of non-LLB study).
Arts Units
Bachelor of Arts/Bachelor of Laws students are required to complete four Level 1 Bachelor of Arts core units plus one of the eight-unit majors and one of the four-unit sub-majors or the Psychology key program in the Arts degree (16 units, including the four Level 1 Arts core units) together with the LLB key program (24 units). The double degree combination therefore consists of 40 units with no additional electives or choice beyond that already included within the separate Arts and Law key programs.
Our graduates find employment in:
Courts and legal advice
Communication and media industries
Education
Psychology and counselling
Cultural, political and social policy analysis
Writing and Publishing
Legal Practitioner
OSHC: 530 ($) AUD per year
