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University of Tasmania

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Bachelor of Psychological Science and Bachelor of Laws with Honours in Law

  • Bachelor (Honours)

The Bachelor of Psychological Science and Bachelor of Laws with Honours is an on-campus 5-year full-time course offered by the Tasmanian School of Business and Economics and the School of Law and is available at Hobart. The first year only is also offered at the Launceston and Cradle Coast campus.

Key details

Degree Type
Bachelor (Honours)
Duration
5 - 11 years full-time
Course Code
L4P

About this course

The Bachelor of Psychological Science and Bachelor of Laws with Honours is an on-campus 5-year full-time course offered by the Tasmanian School of Business and Economics and the School of Law and is available at Hobart. The first year only is also offered at the Launceston and Cradle Coast campus. This course may be studied part-time.

This course entry refers to the fifth/final year of the Law program which is the Honours year. Please see Bachelor of Psychological Science and Bachelor of Laws 63Y for information on the first four years of this course.

Students are invited to transfer to the Bachelor of Psychological Science and Bachelor of Laws with Honours (L4P), five year program, in their final year of study.

What you will learn

Learning Outcomes for the Law Honours year are as follows:

  • Understand the fundamental areas of legal knowledge.
  • Understand the broader contexts in which legal issues arise.
  • Identify and apply the principles and values of justice.
  • Possess the intellectual and practice skills to research, evaluate and synthesise factual, legal and policy issues.
  • Apply legal research and reasoning to deliver evidence based responses to legal issues.
  • Think creatively.
  • A capacity to apply legal reasoning and through research generate an appropriately creative, critical and reasoned response to legal issues.
  • Communicate in a coherent and professionally appropriate way for the context.
  • Capacity to work and learn independently - and make use of feedback and reflection to support personal development.
  • Refine research questions, identify appropriate reference sources and methodologies, distil and analyse information to produce a well justified outcome/response.
  • Act in accordance with ethical research precepts, and develop an understanding of approaches to ethical decision making.

Career pathways

Graduates of combined degrees could expect to find open to them all the career paths that are open to graduates of the component degree courses.

A law degree is a prerequisite to admission as a legal practitioner. Today, however, employers from a widening range of disciplines value the skills that law graduates possess. A range of career choices lie open to law graduates as a solicitor, barrister, industry legal officer or ministerial adviser, as well as in legal aid, community legal centres, the Attorney-General's department, law reform commissions, consumer affairs, environment, foreign affairs, police, legal drafting, politics, banking, finance, journalism, publishing and teaching.

BPsychSc graduates have knowledge, analytical, research and interpersonal skills with a high degree of application in areas such as health, education, justice, welfare, business, employment and training. Students are able to structure their course to incorporate a major, minor or student electives in areas which suit their career choice, or to equip them for a range of career options. Graduates are also able to progress to postgraduate training and careers in professional areas, such as counselling, criminology and corrections, social work and psychology

Professional Recognition

This course will be professional recognised as per the Bachelor of Psychological Science and Bachelor of Laws degree.