Bachelor of Socio-Legal Studies

3 years full time
4 years full time (Honours)

The Bachelor of Socio-Legal Studies is designed for students who are interested in studying and understanding legal ideas, institutions and practices from the perspectives of the humanities and social sciences. It is not a professional law degree, but an opportunity to engage with the every-changing relationship between law and society using the methods of a broad range of humanities and social science disciplines, including history, philosophy, political science, sociology, social policy, performance studies, anthropology, literary studies, and economics. It combines a clear focus on the core socio-legal subjects with the breadth provided by a second major in Arts or Government and International Relations, as well as a pool of related electives.

Basic requirements of the degree:

• A major in Socio-Legal studies comprising two Junior units and six Senior units.
• A second major from the Part A list of subject areas in the Faculty of Arts.
• Four Senior units from a pool of units in the Faculties of Arts and Economics & Business related to Socio-Legal studies.

An additional honours year is also available for suitably qualified students.

As well providing a solid starting point for a research degree in socio-legal arenas, the degree will provide the foundation for a wide variety of professional fields which lie outside the legal profession itself, but articulate closely with it: social policy, government and business administration and management, non-government organisations, criminology and public
advocacy.

There are many ways to structure your degree. Below we've given you just one example:

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