Postgraduate handbook 2004
Business and Economics

Executive Certificate in Business Law

Course code: 3188 + Course abbreviation: ExecCertBusLaw + Caulfield (some units may be offered at the Clayton campus) + On-campus + One semester full-time, two semesters part-time + Course director: Professor Richard Cullen; deputy course director: Associate Professor Robin Edwards + Total credit points required: 24

The certificate is a short course designed to provide a sound theoretical and practical knowledge in business law and to develop an understanding of and an ability to analyse a range of legal problems arising in the practice of business law.

Course structure

(a) Students must complete two units (12 credit points) from the following list:

• BTX9060 The law of employment
• BTX9070 Labour relations law
• BTF9150 Competition and consumer law
• BTF9190 International trade law
• BTC9300 Health services law
• BTF9380 Banking law
• BTF9760 Risk control and the law
• BTX9890 Law, privacy and ethics in marketing

(b) Students must complete a further two units (12 credit points) from:
(i) the units listed in (a) or,

(ii) with the approval of the course director, students who have completed two 9000-level units, with at least a credit average in those units, will be able to undertake up to two 4000 or 5000-level units available within the MBL course.
Students who achieve an overall credit average are eligible to apply for entry to the Master of Business Law. If entry to the MBL is achieved, advanced standing will be awarded for the units completed in the executive certificate.

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