Overview
Overview
Curtin’s Bachelor of Laws offers a rich and professionally relevant coverage of foundational areas of legal knowledge as well as developing the core skills essential to effective legal practice. It will give you a professional legal qualification allowing you admission to practise as a lawyer, including the giving of legal advice and appearing in court. It will also give you a strong commercial awareness and the opportunity to focus on industry.
This course is strongly commercially focused and has an emphasis on industry connectedness and innovative teaching, with students being exposed from early in their studies to the culture, community and ethics of legal practice. In their second and third years of study, students will study in trimesters, enabling them to complete 300 credits in each year. Overall, students can complete the equivalent of 4 years of academic study in three calendar years.
Students will gain practical legal experience at our state of the art city campus at 57 Murray Street, complete with digital moot court and John Curtin Law Clinic, near the District Court and in the heart of Perth’s legal precinct. The course can only be completed internally.
What jobs can the Finance Double Degree Major (LLB/BCom) course lead to?
- Lawyer
- Criminal, Family, Human Rights or Mining Lawyer
- In-house Counsel
- Financial Dealer and Broker
- Barrister
- Solicitor
- Accountant (General)
- Marketing Officer
- Business Systems Analyst
- Industrial Relations Officer
- Management Consultant
- Valuer
- Economist
- Advertising Account Executive
What you'll learn
- identify, understand, apply and analyse financial issues and their impacts on national and international financial environment
- communicate quantitative and qualitative financial analysis professionally and in ways that are responsible and appropriate for local, national and international business contexts
- distinguish, identify and apply available technologies and methodologies to investigate financial issues in ways that demonstrate critical thinking and responsible judgement
- apply acquired skills individually and in a group to facilitate the understanding and solution of financial issues in a professional and ethical manner while appreciating the importance and impact of cultural diversity on making financial decisions
- understand the implications and potential impacts of current developments as well as identify new developments in the field of finance and integrate available strategies into the existing body of knowledge