Provide sound legal advice.
Our Law program is designed to produce law graduates with a practical focus.
- Only a full-time option is available to international students on a Student visa. Online programs are not available to Student visa holders.
- * Estimated tuition fees are based on 2025 rates. Refer to international fees for more information.
- Not all majors/minors and elective options are available at every campus. You should refer to the What Can I Study tab, and the proposed study sequence for your chosen campus and intake for further information.
Our Law program is designed to produce law graduates with a practical focus.
You will cover all the academic courses required for admission as a legal practitioner in Australia.
Whether your interest is the global, international or national legal system, you will choose from a range of courses to prepare you for a career in the law.
You will engage in active learning experiences and gain practical skills right from your first year. For example, You will observe volunteer lawyers conducting client interviews at an Advice Clinic operated by Suncoast Community Legal Service.
You will research answers to legal problems, prepare advice, present legal argument, observe court proceedings, and take part in simulated court presentations in our new Moot Court venue.
You can further develop your skills by working with Legal Service clients under legal supervision in the elective Law Professional Practice, or undertake a legal internship in a law workplace such as a law firm, court or legal aid service.
Law Honours is available, usually without extending the time required to complete your degree.
Career opportunities
Solicitor, barrister, government legal officer, judge's associate, law academic, corporate in-house counsel, business and public service administration.
Registration
The degree is an approved academic qualification for admission to the legal profession. Graduates must undertake a further period of practical legal training before being admitted as a legal practitioner.
Program structure
Introductory courses (5)
COR109 Introduction to Psychology A
LAW101 Introduction to Psychology B
LAW102 Introduction to Indigenous Australia
LAW103 Communication and Relationships
LAW104 Counselling Development and Supervision 1
Advanced courses (20)
14 required courses:
LAW201 Counselling Development and Supervision 2
LAW202 Counselling Placement 1
LAW203 Counselling Placement 2
LAW204 Strengths Based Counselling: Collaborative Approaches
LAW205 Group Processes and Practice
LAW206 Developmental and Family Counselling
LAW301 Counselling Skills for Crisis, Disaster, Grief and Loss
LAW302 Positive Psychology for Counselling
LAW303 Introduction to Human Development
LAW304 Social Research
LAW401 Ethics and Professional Practice
LAW402 Understanding Cultural Diversity
LAW403 Communication and Thought
LAW404 Business Analytics
PLUS select 6 elective courses from:
LAW305 Introduction to Economics
LAW306 Management and Organisational Behaviour
LAW307 Introduction to Marketing
LAW309 Accounting for Business
LAW310 Introduction to Informatics
LAW311 Business Law and Ethics
LAW316 Corporate Governance and Social Responsibility
LAW318 Consumer Behaviour
LAW405 Services Marketing
LAW406 Marketing Communication
LAW407 Marketing of Social Causes
LAW408 Brand Management
LAW410 Contemporary and Emerging Marketing Perspectives
LAW411 International Marketing
LAW412 Food Marketing
LAW414 Sport and Event Marketing
LAW415 Marketing Research Project
LAW416 Communication and Thought
The following 2 elective courses are only available to students who have been accepted into honours in Law:
LAW440 Management and Organisational Behaviour
LAW441 Accounting for Business
Please note: Semester offerings for Law elective courses are subject to change and are dependent on student demand. For more information on elective availability please contact your Program Coordinator.
Electives courses (7)
In addition to the requirement for 6 advanced level Law electives, you must select 7 elective courses from either faculty (Arts, Business and Law or Science, Health, Education and Engineering). Of these electives, 2 must be advanced level (200/300/400 coded) courses, and a maximum of 4 courses can be Law electives.
Note: Program structures are subject to change. Not all USC courses are available on every USC campus.
Total units: 384
Recommended study sequences
Program requirements and notes
Program requirements
In order to graduate you must:
- Successfully complete 384 units as outlined in the Program Structure
- Complete no more than 10 introductory level (100 coded) courses, including the core course
Program notes
- Completing this program within the specified (full-time) duration is based on studying 48 unit points per semester (normally 4 courses)
- Courses within this program are assessed using a variety of assessment methods including essays, seminar presentations, reports, in-class tests and examinations. Not all courses will necessarily include all methods
- As part of your USC program, you may apply to Study Overseas to undertake courses with an overseas higher education provider
- Refer to the Planning your study page to manage your progression
- Semester offerings for Law elective courses are subject to change and are dependent on student demand. For more information on elective availability please contact your Program Coordinator
- Honours in Law available for high performing students