Bachelor
If you're a current Queensland Year 12 student you may be eligible to receive an offer for this course on the last day of Queensland Year 12 before receiving your ATAR or selection rank.
It's not easy to look a repeat youth offender in the eye and try to help them-it takes conviction. This double degree will equip you with the kind of thinking you need to work in youth justice probation community justice outreach or policing-careers with heart. If you want to make a difference and pursue a career where no two days are the same this is the course for you. The possibilities are endless for building a stimulating career in the community.
All the justice lectures are recorded and study materials available online so you can access resources at any time and fit study into your lifestyle.
You will have the unique ability to apply psychological principles to the field of justice. With an understanding of the most recent theory and practice of social justice and skills in social developmental cognitive and abnormal psychology you will have a pathway to careers in public policy development criminal justice institutions such as police security and intelligence agencies corrections rehabilitation services and family services.
Justice offers extensive career paths in areas that make a real difference in our community. Career pathways include policing customs community outreach forensic investigation mediation outreach programs social work intelligence defence insurance and banking investigation youth justice Indigenous justice community legal services and policy and adviser roles within a range of state and federal government departments.
Past graduates have developed successful careers in state and federal law enforcement correctional services private security defence services foreign aid programs customs Australian Security Intelligence Organisation and Scotland Yard and have worked on social and justice policies for government and non-government organisations. Others have become criminologists contributed to women's youth and children's advocacy or worked in the areas of human rights and antidiscrimination.
The Bachelor of Behavioural Science (Psychology) is accredited by the Australian Psychology Accreditation Council (APAC). To pursue a career in a professional area of psychology you will need to undertake further study to gain registration with the Psychology Board of Australia.
First year comprises foundation units to give you a solid overview of each area. You will study introductory psychology criminology and policing interpersonal processes and skills justice and society and professional academic skills.
In second year you will expand your knowledge in social and organisational psychology research analysis social ethics developmental psychology and counselling. You will also develop an understanding of the criminal justice system and learn about forensic psychology and how it relates to law.
During the third year you will complete compulsory and elective psychology units select your chosen justice major and complete the relevant justice major core units.
In fourth year combine four compulsory units with the other four units of your choice. Compulsory units include physiological psychology psychopathology and Advanced Statistical Analysis . You will complete two core units from your Justice majors and select two major elective units.
First year comprises foundation units to give you a solid overview of each area. You will study introductory psychology criminology and policing interpersonal processes and skills justice and society and professional academic skills.
In second year you will expand your knowledge in social and organisational psychology research analysis social ethics developmental psychology and counselling. You will also develop an understanding of the criminal justice system and learn about forensic psychology and how it relates to law.
During the third year you will complete compulsory and elective psychology units select your chosen justice major and complete the relevant justice major core units.
In fourth year combine four compulsory units with the other four units of your choice. Compulsory units include physiological psychology psychopathology and Advanced Statistical Analysis . You will complete two core units from your Justice majors and select two major elective units.