- Overview
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MC161 - Juris Doctor
Plan: MC161 - Juris Doctor
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 it is designed to develop, and to assist you in developing skills as an independent and lifelong 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 lawyer 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 the students, and for accessing research sites of relevance to the course content.
The University’s distributed learning system (DLS) will be used to provide your work to a range of resources for online learning, as set out below:
Learning Resources: On enrolment in each course you will be provided with a folder of course materials described above. These materials will also be accessible on the DLS and will include:
- Lecture notes and presentation slides which can be used as either preparation or revision materials.
- Staff and Guest lectures digitally recorded, and provided online as audio-stream files for access from a computer, or in format compatible with personal music players.
- A number of courses have been developed as fully integrated online resources able to be studied during the Summer School. Courseware delivered via DLS 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 store 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.
Legal cases can be browsed online at the Australian Legal Information Institutes website (http://www.austlii.edu.au).
You will be directed to legal case studies prepared to illustrate specific principles and made available via the DLS.
Assessment and Feedback Tools: A range of assessment tools will be provided online to assist with course content and to produce immediate feedback.
- Discussion boards will be used as a forum to discuss and analyse readings, theories, events etc.
- Quizzes will 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.
Additional Information
Please note that this program’s courses (whether core, option, or university elective courses) may have mandatory in-person attendance or assessment to pass the course.
If you are choosing to enrol in a course which has mandatory in-person attendance or assessment, you will need to comply with RMIT vaccination requirements which are applicable during the duration of the course. This RMIT requirement includes being vaccinated against COVID-19 or holding a valid medical exemption.
Please read this RMIT Enrolment Procedure as it has important information regarding COVID vaccination and your study at RMIT: https://policies.rmit.edu.au/document/view.php?id=209.
Please read the Student website for additional requirements of in-person attendance: https://www.rmit.edu.au/covid/coming-to-campus.
Top of pageWork integrated learning
RMIT University is committed to providing you with an education that strongly links formal learning with professional or vocational practice. As a student enrolled in this RMIT University program you will:
- undertake and be assessed on structured activities that allow you to learn, apply and demonstrate your professional or vocational practice;
- interact with industry and community when undertaking these activities;
- complete these activities in real work contexts or situations; and
- be provided with distinctive sources of feedback to assist your learning.
- Any or all of these aspects of a WIL experience may be simulated.
You will be provided with opportunities to apply your academic skills to a work-based context in the core course Negotiation and Dispute Resolution. In other courses, the practical application of theoretical concepts will be achieved through activities such as case studies, projects and assignments.
Top of pageProgram Structure
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Program transition plan
The following table outlines courses in the program that have pre-requisites, and the pre-requisite courses you are required to pass before undertaking the course.
Introduction to the Australian Legal System and Legal Methods is a co-requisite or pre-requisite for all law courses. It must be undertaken in the first semester of the program.
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| All law courses in Juris Doctor | LAW1019 Introduction to the Australian Legal System and Legal Methods |
| LAW1026 Australian Company Law LAW1024 Australian Property Law LAW1022 Intellectual Property Law LAW1033 Competition and Consumer Law LAW1034 International Business Law LAW1035 Advanced Commercial Law LAW1042 Internet Law LAW1044 Private International Law LAW1039 Labour Law |
LAW1021 Contract Law |
| LAW2393 Issues in Corporate Governance LAW1047 Legal Issues in the Finance Sector LAW1050 Acquisitions, Mergers and Takeover Law LAW1045 Insolvency |
LAW1026 Australian Company Law |
| LAW1038 Asia Pacific International Tax Law LAW1048 Advanced Tax Law |
LAW1028 Australian Taxation Law |
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