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Bachelor of Arts - Media with the degree of Bachelor of Laws

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Faculty:
Faculty of Arts
Award:
Bachelor of Arts - Media with the degree of Bachelor of Laws (BA-MediaLLB)
Study Mode:
Full-time
Attendance Mode:
Internal
Candidature Length:
Full-time: 5 years
Study Period Offerings:
Session 1 (March), Session 2 (August)
General requirements:
Minimum number of credit points required for the degree 120
Minimum number of credit points at 300 level or above 54
Minimum number of credit points at 200 level or above 90
Minimum number of credit points from units with a LAW, LAWS or LAWZ prefix 72
Minimum number of credit points from units without a LAW, LAWS or LAWZ prefix 48
Minimum number of credit points from units with a LAW, LAWS or LAWZ prefix at 400 or 500 level 24
Completion of a designated People unit
Completion of a designated Planet unit
Completion of a designated PACE unit with a LAW, LAWS or LAWZ prefix
Completion of other specific minimum requirements as set out below
Note:
Students must complete one designated People unit and one designated Planet unit. Those units must be taken in two different Faculties. Units which are already a required unit of the student's program of study will not satisfy the People unit requirement or Planet unit requirement.

In order to graduate students must ensure that they have satisfied all of the general requirements of the award: see the general requirements listed above.

Specific minimum requirements:

Credit points

100 level

Required
3
Foundations of Law (3)
 
Required
3
Criminal Justice and Procedure (3)
 
Required
3
Contracts (3)
 
Required
3
Law, Lawyers and Society (3)
 
Required
3
Australian Media (3)
 
Required
3
Media Cultures (3)
 
Required
3
Introduction to Digital Media (3)
 
Required
3
Academic Cultures (3)
 

200 level

Required
3
Torts (3)
 
Required
3
Jurisprudence (3)
 
Required
3
Property Law (3)
 
Required
3
Equity and Trusts (3)
 
Required
3
Business Organisations (3)
 
Required
3
International Law (3)
 
Required
3
News and Current Affairs (3)
 
Required
9cp from
 
Screenwriting: An Introduction (3)
 
 
Narrative Journalism (3)
 
 
Radio Production (3)
 
 
Radio Broadcasting (3)
 
 
Non Fiction Writing: Travel Writing (3)
 
 
Non Fiction Writing: Music and Arts Journalism (3)
 
 
Screen Production 1 (3)
 
 
Screen Production 2 (3)
 
 
Cybercultures (3)
 
 
Interactive Web Design (3)
 
 
Music and Arts Journalism (3)
 
 
Music Production 1 (3)
 
9
Music Production 2 (3)
 
Required
6cp from
 
Australian Film and Television (3)
 
 
Visual Countercultures: Graffiti, Kitsch and Conceptual Art (3)
 
 
Narrative Journalism (3)
 
 
Performance and Popular Media (3)
 
 
Literary Journalism (3)
 
 
International Television and Beyond (3)
 
 
Introduction to the Cinema (3)
 
 
Free Cultures (3)
 
 
Theories of Writing for the Media (3)
 
 
Documentary Media: Forms, Histories, Futures (3)
 
 
Photographic Cultures (3)
 
6
Sound Cultures (3)
 

300 level

Required
either
or
 
Media Futures (3)
C
3
Media Ethics (3)
C
Required
3
Constitutional Law (3)
 
Required
3
Administrative Law (3)
 
Required
3
Civil and Criminal Procedure (3)
 
Required
3
Evidence (3)
 
Required
6cp from
 
Non Fiction Writing: Telling True Stories (3)
 
 
Non Fiction Writing: Memoir and the Personal (3)
 
 
Advanced Screen Production 1 (3)
 
 
Advanced Screen Production 2 (3)
 
 
Screenwriting: Images, Ideas, Stories (3)
 
 
Advanced Radio Production and Broadcasting (3)
 
 
Advanced Interactivity (3)
 
 
Advanced Digital Production (3)
 
 
Media Internship (3)
 
 
Public Relations Practice (3)
 
 
Telling True Stories 1 (3)
 
 
Telling True Stories 2 (3)
 
 
Modelling and Animation (3)
 
 
Movement, Performance and Digital Media (3)
 
 
Advanced Audio and Sound Design (3)
 
 
Advanced Music Production (3)
 
6
Sound, Image and Interactive Media (3)
 
Required
3cp from
 
Media Identities (3)
 
 
Screens, Images, Ideas (3)
 
 
Culture and Technology (3)
 
 
Modernism, Postmodernism and Beyond (3)
 
 
Public Relations Theories (3)
 
 
Critical Games Studies (3)
 
 
Forensic Media (3)
 
3
Music, Sound and Moving Image (3)
 

400 level

Required
either
or
 
Media Law (3)
 
3
Media Law (3)
 

500 level

Required
either
or
 
Remedies, Reparations and Resolution in Law (3)
C
3
Remedies, Reparations and Resolution in Law (3)
C

Additional

Required
21cp from
21
LAW, LAWS or LAWZ units at 400 or 500 level
Required
3cp from
3
LAW, LAWS or LAWZ units at 400 or 500 level designated as PACE units

Balance of credit points required:

 
 
6
Electives

TOTAL CREDIT POINTS REQUIRED FOR THIS PROGRAM

120
Note:
Completing students may be eligible for the award of Bachelor of Laws with Honours. For further details refer to law.mq.edu.au/current_students/llb_students.
 
Units marked with a C are Capstone units.