While
precise details regarding the requirements for the faculty's undergraduate
degrees are outlined in the faculty's regulations, students may find some
assistance in the less formal restatement of these requirements in the 'Outline
of undergraduate studies' section below.
Student Services officers of the faculty are available to advise students on
their choice of units at the time of enrolment. This advice, however, will be
most helpful if students have already made themselves familiar with all the
units and considered what their fields of interest are likely to be. Similarly,
when re-enrolling in later years of the course, students should discuss their
choice of units with the faculty advisers. Details of unit structures,
including the number of hours devoted to lectures/tutorials etc is set out
elsewhere in this handbook (under `Units - all faculties'), or on the Law
faculty website at http://www.law.monash.edu.au/.
It is the responsibility of students to ascertain, from the regulations
governing their courses, the units (including the number of points) required
for their LLB degree. The approval of students' enrolments by the faculty does
not relieve the students of this responsibility.
The
Faculty of Law awards advanced standing towards the Bachelor of Laws for units
passed in completed or incomplete tertiary studies, provided that it is
satisfied that the units for which advanced standing is sought were
substantially the same in content, contact hours and standard of assessment as
those units from which exemption is sought.
The onus is upon the student to complete the relevant application form
(obtained from
http://www.law.monash.edu.au/undergraduate/forms/index.html) and provide
documentation concerning previous studies for which advanced standing is sought
together with an academic transcript of results. The documentation should be in
the form of handbook unit entries and those sections of the handbook setting
out course structure, unit outlines, reading lists etc. The documentation
should be provided at the time of application or at the very latest, at the
time of enrolment. The minimum information required is the number of years in
the course, level of unit in the course, unit content and textbooks, number of
contact hours per week, credit weighting of the unit and method of assessment
(number and length of assignments, number and length of examinations etc).
Irrespective of what study applicants may have undertaken prior to admission, or may be permitted to take during their course under cross-institutional arrangements, it is the policy of the faculty that a certain amount of work must be undertaken in the Bachelor of Laws at Monash University in order to be admitted to this degree. Students enrolled in a Bachelor of Laws course must complete at least 50% of their total credit points of study towards that degree in the undergraduate program in the Faculty of Law at Monash University.
For
each undergraduate Bachelor of Laws degree (including all double degrees) there
is a maximum time limit within which students must complete all of the
requirements for the degree. The time limits are set out in the degree
regulations and in the course information below.
Students may apply for a period of intermission not exceeding one year at any
given time. By granting intermission, the faculty reserves a place in the
course in the following year. However, the period of approved intermission will
be counted in the time limit for completion of the course. Applications for
intermission should be made by completing the 'Application for intermission'
form (available from
http://www.law.monash.edu.au/undergraduate/forms/index.html) and
submitting it to the Student Services office in the faculty.
The
faculty permits both full-time and part-time enrolment. Units to the value of
48 credit points constitute a standard annual full-time load (although most
Bachelor of Laws programs require over load enrolments during the course of the
degree).
Part-time enrolment is allowed, provided the student is aware of the maximum
time limit for degree completion as stated in the regulations for the relevant
course. Part-time students are expected to proceed at half the rate of
full-time students and to complete their units for the degree in the same order
as full-time students.
There are no arrangements for external studies. All students are expected to attend and participate in the classes in units for which they are enrolled.
The
following policy statement has been approved by the Executive Committee:
(a) The Monash University Codes of Practice for Teaching and Learning states:
"Students of the university have the following responsibilities: for on-campus
students, to attend lectures, tutorials and seminars for each unit in which
they are enrolled." Thus the provision of lecture tapes and other teaching
materials online to on-campus (non-distance education) students is intended to
supplement rather than substitute for regular class attendance. Unless
otherwise indicated, law teaching materials made available to on-campus students
online are not offered as a form of distance education.
(b) The Law faculty's policy is to provide at least one stream of taped
lectures in compulsory and quasi compulsory units wherever possible.
(c) The provision of taped lectures in units or particular unit streams is made
available at the discretion of the lecturer.
(d) The provision of taped lectures in units or particular unit streams is not
guaranteed as this service may be affected by technical difficulties.
(e) Where lecturers provide teaching materials online, these materials will be
made available as soon as practicable after the class, subject to faculty
workload constraints. Students should refrain from asking lecturers to provide
taping of lectures or additional teaching materials online.
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