Bachelor
The Bachelor of Laws Bachelor of Creative Intelligence and Innovation is an innovative UTS degree with a focus on creating new value through transdisciplinary problem solving.
By combining these courses, students learn to solve complex challenges, work collaboratively across and between disciplines, and apply their conceptual and problem-solving expertise beyond traditional professional boundaries.
Both degrees are practice-oriented in their design. In the BCII, students use design processes to engage with industry experiences, real-world projects and self-initiated proposals. The law component of this degree offers fieldwork, leadership, mooting and mentoring opportunities, and meets the academic requirements for admission to practise law in NSW. Students can also enrol in the Legal Futures and Technology major, which provides a future-focused look at the technologies shaping the legal profession.
By the end of the course, students have the skills to engage in critical and creative thinking, invention, complexity, innovation, future scenario building and entrepreneurship, and the ability to work on their own across disciplines.
Graduates have the capacity to take a contemporary and solutions-focused approach to a career in law, or to use their legal expertise as a solid foundation for entrepreneurial, collaborative, strategic or analytical positions across a range of professional sectors.
Career options include entrepreneur, speculative start-up consultant, entrepreneurial lawyer, commercial lawyer, corporate lawyer, barrister, creative enterprise manager, solicitor, product development and life cycle manager, market researcher, strategic analyst, and brand development manager.
By being creative thinkers, initiators of new ideas, scenario planners, global strategists, open network designers or sustainable futures innovators within their chosen field of study, graduates maximise the potential of their chosen profession, making them highly sought after graduates with the ability to identify and develop solutions to some of the most complex issues that face their disciplines and society.
The course comprises a total of 240 credit points. The study components for course completion are as follows.
The law component of 144 credit points is made up of:
The creative intelligence and innovation component consists of 96 credit points. The creative intelligence and innovation subjects are undertaken in accelerated form within July and Summer sessions during the first three years of study, and through one full year of study after completion of the professional degree. The Bachelor of Creative Intelligence and Innovation is not offered as a separate degree, but is completed only in combination with the professional degree program.
For a current listing of subjects in each course, refer to the study package directory.
To practise as a lawyer in NSW, students need to successfully complete an accredited legal academic qualification (eg Bachelor of Laws) and an accredited course of practical legal training (PLT), which UTS offers through its PLT program.
Students enrolled in this course may complete their practical legal training by undertaking a postgraduate course in PLT, such as the Graduate Certificate in Professional Legal Practice (C11232).
In the final year of the Bachelor of Creative Intelligence and Innovation, students can undertake between 6 and 12 credit points of internship (work experience) that relates to innovation within their research, career development or core degree specialisations. For students undertaking 12 credit points of internship, international internships may be negotiated.
This course involves significant industry engagement as part of the learning process. Students may be required to relinquish intellectual property when they opt in to certain industry-related experiences, particularly relating to internships and capstone projects.