Course code: 0546 + Course abbreviation: BCom/LLB
The following should be read in conjunction with the statement on the Bachelor
of Commerce and the Bachelor of Laws in the Law section of this handbook.
The double-degree course of Bachelor of Commerce/Bachelor of Laws requires five
years of full-time study, with an overload of 12 points. An additional year is
required to complete the degree with honours. Students intending to undertake
honours in commerce would need to complete the overload in the first three
years. Units in the Faculty of Business and Economics are six-point units and
units in the Faculty of Law are 6-point or 12-point units. Students must
complete units to the value of a minimum of 252 credit points unit to the
following conditions.
(a) 96 points (16 units) must be chosen from units offered by the Faculty of
Business and Economics (Clayton) and must include:
(i) Completion of the following compulsory units:
(ii) Completion of a major in a
discipline or field of study of the faculty. This requires students to complete
48 points of study in a single discipline or field of study with at least 12
points at each of second and third-year level. Disciplines are defined by
department prefixes and fields of study are those sets of related units that
may be defined in the handbook.
(iii) A maximum of eight first-year-level units (48 points). In order to meet
this requirement, students are able to undertake the second-year versions of
the appropriate number of compulsory units.
(b) In the first three years, students should include from the Faculty of Law
the 12-point units LAW1100 Legal process, LAW3300 Criminal law, LAW2100
Contract and LAW3400 Property. (Satisfaction of (a) and (b) allows completion
of the Bachelor of Commerce degree.)
(c) Students would then follow a program for the next two years comprising the
compulsory units LAW3200 Constitutional law, LAW3100 Administrative law and
LAW2200 Torts and law elective units to bring total law units to a total of 156
points.
Students must have the Commerce program of study approved by the Commerce
course coordinator (or nominee) and the Law program of study approved by the
Law course coordinator (or nominee) prior to the commencement of the relevant
year.
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