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Edith Cowan University (ECU)

  • 19% international / 81% domestic

Bachelor of Laws/Bachelor of Psychology

  • Bachelor

Pursue a career in law with a focus on human behaviour.

Key details

Degree Type
Bachelor
Duration
5 years full-time, 10 years part-time
Course Code
W83, 0102000
Study Mode
Online, In person

About this course

Pursue a career in law with a focus on human behaviour.

This course equips you with skills for the courtroom and beyond, while focussing on issues of social change, group processes, group management, and cross-cultural psychology.

ECU's law program goes beyond the classroom, you'll have the chance to put theory into practise and work on real life cases in our Law Access Program, compete in mooting competitions around the world, and gain access to the Law Society Peer Mentoring Program.

Psychology is about all of us. Our lived experiences, our feelings, thoughts, behaviours, understandings, interactions, and decisions. It's also about the way we live with ourselves and others.

Our degree in psychology is designed for students with a humanities or science background and is a bridge to many different employment opportunities, including in mental health, human resources, child and family services, youth work, alcohol and drug counselling, rehabilitation and disability, migrant support or research and policy development. It will equip you with skills in analysing and researching behaviour and explaining interactions between people and their environment, learning from expert academics, researchers and practitioners.

Study locations

Joondalup

Online

What you will learn

  • Adopt professional and ethical behaviour and/or personal citizenship that reflect the interrelationship between ethics, codes of conduct, justice and community service.
  • Apply broad and coherent range of legal and psychology knowledge to a range of theoretical and practical issues, incorporating international/global/cultural/Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander perspectives.
  • Collaborate in team settings and demonstrate initiative to produce measurable outcomes.
  • Communicate legal and psychology knowledge, concepts and advice using relevant technologies clearly and persuasively.
  • Exercise critical thinking, judgement and intellectual independence to evaluate, consolidate and synthesise knowledge relevant to legal and psychology issues.
  • Reflect on feedback and critique on own performance to support scholarship and personal and professional development, demonstrating autonomy, responsibility and accountability.
  • Think creatively to anticipate challenges and generate solutions in legal, psychology-based situations.
  • Use digital technologies and [discipline related literacies] to [access, evaluate and synthesise] relevant information from [multiple sources]

Career pathways

Psychologist, Lawyer, Solicitor, Legal Practitioner, Community Legal Adviser, Legal Publisher, Local Government Officer

Graduate outcomes

Graduate satisfaction and employment outcomes for Law & Paralegal Studies courses at Edith Cowan University (ECU).
84%
Overall satisfaction
84%
Skill scale
72%
Teaching scale
77.5%
Employed full-time
$72k
Average salary