Bachelor of Commerce/Bachelor of Laws

Course code: 0546 * Course abbreviation: BCom/LLB * Total credit points required: 252 * 5 years full-time, 10 years part-time * Managing faculty: Law

Study mode and course location

On-campus (Clayton)

Course description

This double-degree program allows students to complete the requirements for the individual Bachelor of Commerce and Bachelor of Laws programs in a minimum of five years of study.

Course structure

The commerce component requires that students complete 96 points of study, including at least seven compulsory units and a major sequence in one of the following disciplines: accounting, finance, economics, business law and taxation, econometrics and business statistics, management, marketing, Asian development and transition, international commerce, competition regulation and public policy, information strategy and decision making, labour and employment, and human resource management. For details of the units required for major specialisations, refer to the Bachelor of Commerce entry in the Faculty of Business and Economics section of this handbook. Students may graduate with the Bachelor of Commerce degree after three years of study, provided they have completed a minimum of 144 points of study including the 96 points of commerce units and met all the requirements for the Bachelor of Commerce degree.

The law component requires that students complete 156 points of study, including 12 compulsory units and a further 14 elective law units.

Course requirements

Bachelor of Commerce degree requirements

Students must complete 16 units (96 points) from the Faculty of Business and Economics as follows:

(i) five compulsory common core units (30 points):

AFC1021 Accounting principles
ECC1000 Principles of microeconomics
ETC1000 Business and economic statistics
MGC1010 Managing people and organisations
MKC1200 Principles of marketing

(ii) at least two units from the following list:

AFC1100/AFC2100 Introduction to finance, or AFC1030 Introductory financial accounting
ECC1100 Principles of macroeconomics
ETC1010 Data modelling and computing
MGC1020 Organisations: contexts and strategies

(iii) a major specialisation of at least eight units (48 points) in a discipline or field of study of the faculty with at least 12 points at each of second and third-year levels. To complete a major in the department of Business Law and Taxation, students must complete seven units (42 points) of study in units with a prefix of BTC or BTX offered on the Clayton campus, with at least 12 points at each of second and third-year levels, in addition to completing at least 6 points of study in an approved law unit (normally LAW2101 (Contract A)).

All units taken as part of the commerce component must be taught by departments of the faculty on the Clayton campus.

(iv) a maximum of eight first-year-level units (48 points).

(v) a minimum of four third-year-level units (24 points) must be from those offered by the faculty on the campus delivering this program.

(vi) 48 points of law units identified below (*).

Bachelor of Laws degree requirements

Students must complete 28 units (156 points including the 48 points of law units counted as part of the Bachelor of Commerce degree) from the Faculty of Law as specified below.

First year - 48 points

LAW1101 Introduction to legal reasoning*
LAW1102 Law in society*
LAW2101 Contract A*
LAW2102 Contract B*
24 points first-year-level core units from the Faculty of Business and Economics

Second year - 54 points

LAW3401 Property A*
LAW3402 Property B*
6 points elective law units
36 points approved by the Faculty of Business and Economics

Third year - 54 points

LAW4169 Equity*
LAW4171 Corporations law*
LAW4170 Trusts
36 points approved by the Faculty of Business and Economics

Fourth year - 48 points

LAW2201 Torts A
LAW2202 Torts B
LAW3201 Constitutional law
LAW3301 Criminal law and procedure A
LAW3302 Criminal law B
18 points elective law units

Fifth year - 48 points

LAW3101 Administrative law
LAW5104 Civil procedure
LAW5125 Lawyers, ethics and society
LAW5159 Evidence
24 points elective law units

Students have a maximum time limit of 10 years to complete the course from the date of commencement.

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