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.
The course offers multi-skilling and highly marketable career paths in information and communications technology and law. It equips students with professional legal skills and knowledge which are required by the Legal Profession Admission Board (LPAB) for admission to legal practice, solve non-legal problems and undertake specialised study in topical local and international law. The Information and Communications Technology component of the course is accredited by the Australian Computer Society and involves applied study of systems analysis and design, networking, programming and databases, web development, project management, communications, operating systems, human computer interaction and numeracy.
Graduates from this program are eligible to apply to the Legal Profession Admission Board for admission to legal practice in NSW after undertaking prescribed practical legal training. The Bachelor of Information and Communications Technology is accredited with the Australian Computer Society (ACS) at Professional level.
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Qualification for a double degree in law requires the successful completion of 400 credit points.
To gain early exit from the combined degree, with a Bachelor of Information and Communications Technology students are required to complete 16 technology units and the first eight law units.
Students enrolled in the Bachelor of Information and Communications Technology/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 Information and Communications Technology 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).
It may be possible to vary the sequence of units so that students study a greater concentration of either law or technology each semester, to minimise travel between campuses and to overcome timetabling problems. Students should speak to their Academic Course Advisor as needed. However students who enrol in Fundamentals of Australian Law must also be enrolled in Criminal Law and students who enrol in Legal Analysis and Critique must also be enrolled in Torts.
As a double degree graduate, you can look forward to career opportunities including:
Commercial advisor
IT systems architecture
Systems integrator
Solicitor or Barrister
Network adminstrator
Mobile application development
OSHC: 530 ($) AUD per year
