- Overview
- Learning outcomes
- Program delivery and structure
BP335 - Bachelor of Laws
Plan: BP335 - Bachelor of Laws
Campus: City Campus
Program delivery and structure
Approach to learning and assessmentWork integrated learningProgram structureProgram transition planApproach to learning and assessment
Over the duration of your program, you will experience a variety of approaches to teaching and learning. The approaches used in each course will be appropriate to the core curriculum areas and graduate capabilities. They are designed to develop, and to assist you in developing skills as an independent learner.
The major styles of teaching and learning you will experience throughout your program will include:
Classroom teaching: utilises a range of teaching and learning techniques including lectures, guest lectures by legal practitioners, class presentations, group discussion and student-led discussion. This style of learning is designed to maximise your understanding of the curriculum content and skills. It is designed to provide an environment where you can ask questions and seek feedback as well as contribute to class discussion with your peers. Classes may be offered in intensive mode over weekends or in week long blocks.
Problem-based learning: you may be in a small legal practice group or team, or work individually to apply knowledge to solve problems and examine case studies. This technique is designed to simulate the experiences you will encounter working as a lawyer.
Assignments and projects: these may be either research or problem-based, and may be undertaken in teams or individually. They will provide you with experience at undertaking legal research and legal reasoning, to write effectively and to present your findings and advice to a range of audiences; and may also require you to provide oral presentations. Assignments and projects are also designed to provide a way to receive feedback on your skills development and be able to utilise this feedback to improve your skills and further develop your capabilities in the relevant area.
Moots: You will be requested to participate in moots (mock courts), in which you may play the role of a solicitor, barrister, expert witness or negotiator. These moots will develop your capabilities in relation to substantive legal writing and drafting, legal research and legal reasoning, judgment and strategy and oral communication in advocacy and negotiation solutions.
Flexible delivery: The program will incorporate extensive use of online teaching resources; in the provision of support resources to you, and for accessing research sites of relevance to the course content. myRMIT will be used to provide your work to a range of resources for online learning, as set out below.
Learning resources: You will have access to course materials on myRMIT. These will include:
- Lecture notes and presentation slides which can be used as either preparation or revision materials
- Staff and Guest lectures which have been digitally recorded, and provided online as audio-stream files for access from a computer or digital device.
- Courseware delivered via myRMIT may comprise fully online, media rich content (HTML, animations, audiovisual, etc), or text-based resources designed for on-screen viewing or printing.
Legal research activities: Legal research is a key stone to becoming a lawyer and extensive online materials will be provided, both through the RMIT Library’s database subscriptions to case law and journals, and through individual course research references. You will be directed to legal case studies prepared to illustrate specific principles and made available via myRMIT.
Assessment and feedback tools: A range of assessment tools will be provided online to assist with course content and to provide you with immediate feedback.
- Discussion boards may be used as a forum to discuss and analyse readings, theories, events etc.
- Quizzes may be used for formative assessment and self-tests, incorporating a range of designs and feedback options.
Assessment is designed to provide you with opportunities to demonstrate the extent to which you have developed your capabilities and achieved specified learning outcomes in a given area. Methods of assessment will vary between courses, as it is appropriate to the objectives, learning outcomes and capabilities to be developed in each course. Assessment may take the form of:
Formal examinations: which provide you with the opportunity to demonstrate your understanding and application of fundamental legal principles to either practical or theoretical issues.
Assignments, case studies and projects: may be completed individually or in teams. They will provide you opportunities to develop your abilities in legal communications, research and reasoning, and problem solving.
Research projects: which assess your ability to fixate, assimilate, analyse and critically reflect on information.
In-class tests: provide you with feedback on your early understanding within a course and allow feedback to assist you in further developing your skills and abilities.
Reflective papers: where you reflect on what you have learnt and the methods you have utilised to enhance your learning, and develop your judgment and strategy capabilities.
Presentations: which provide you opportunities to develop your research, legal reasoning and oral communication skills.
Moots: which provide you with opportunities to demonstrate advocacy, negotiation, problem solving, leadership, judgment, legal reasoning and communications skills.
Top of pageWork integrated learning
As a student enrolled in this RMIT University program you will be provided with an education that strongly links formal learning with professional or vocational practice. The designated Work Integrated Learning (WIL) courses in this program are LAW2589 Justice Innovation (12 credit points) and LAW2586 Enterprise Law: Designing Legal Solutions (12 credit points). In this program, WIL is equitable, accessible and inclusive.
In LAW2589 Justice Innovation you will work in partnership with industry and with your peers to develop an innovative justice solution to a current social problem. LAW2586 Enterprise Law: Designing Legal Solutions is based on a law firm simulation advising start ups on their legal issues. These courses will provide you with opportunities to apply your academic skills to a work-based context.
In particular you will:
- undertake and be assessed on structured activities that allow you to learn, apply and demonstrate your professional or vocational practice;
- and be involved in authentic engagement with partner organisations that includes industry feedback. These learning opportunities will be in the form of industry-based projects, simulations or placements.
Top of pageProgram Structure
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Program transition plan
EFFECTIVE CHANGE FROM SEMESTER 1, 2023
If you commenced the program before Semester 1 2023, please refer to the following transition rules:
LAW2585 Contract Law has been replaced by LAW2632 Introduction to Contract Law and LAW2631 Advanced Principles of Contract Law.
(a) If you have already completed LAW2585 Contract Law
1. You do not need to complete LAW2632 Introduction to Contract Law or LAW2631 Advanced Principles of Contract Law; and
2. You need to complete a total of seven (7) law courses from the Approved Law Options List.
(b) If you have not completed LAW2585 Contract Law
1. You need to complete both LAW2632 Introduction to Contract Law and LAW2631 Advanced Principles of Contract Law; and
2. You need to complete a total of six (6) law courses from the Approved Law Options List.
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EFFECTIVE CHANGE FROM SEMESTER 2, 2022
If you commenced the program before Semester 2, 2022, please refer to the following transition rules:
1. LAW2599 Taxation Law has been replaced with LAW2439 Taxation 1 in the Approved Electives Options List.
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