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 subject 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.
(c) Completion of LAW4171 Corporations law. (Satisfaction of (a), (b)
and (c) allows completion of the Bachelor of Commerce degree, which is
required to progress to honours in Commerce.)
(d) The final two years of the program must include the compulsory units
LAW3201 Constitutional law, LAW3101 Administrative law, LAW2200 Torts and
elective law units to bring the total law units to 156 points.
Students must have the Commerce program of study approved by the Commerce
course director (or nominee) and the Law program of study approved by the Law
course director (or nominee) prior to the commencement of the relevant year.
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