Indigenous Children & the Law - JURD7813
Faculty: Faculty of Law
School: Faculty of Law
Course Outline: See below
Campus: Sydney
Career: Postgraduate
Units of Credit: 6
EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)
Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 3
Enrolment Requirements:
Pre-requisite: 36 UOC of JURD courses for students enrolled prior to 2013. For students enrolled after 2013, pre-requisite: 72 UOC of JURD courses.
Excluded: LAWS8123
CSS Contribution Charge: 3 (more info)
Tuition Fee: See Tuition Fee Schedule
Further Information: See Class Timetable
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Description
Course Objectives
- Demonstrate knowledge of the range of issues impacting on Indigenous Children's legal and political participation, including a critical understanding of the policy considerations informing the law in this area.
- Demonstrate the skills of analysis and evaluation which are required to engage in practical and scholarly legal research. This will include skills necessary to plan effective research strategies; collect, retrieve and collate relevant information; analyse, evaluate and interpret information apply and report on empirical research.
- Recognise and reflect on ethical and justice issues that are likely to arise in professional practice in this area.
- Identify and formulate legal issues in this area and engage in critical analysis of those issues.
- Be able to communicate their understanding and analysis of legal and policy issues in this area to others in both legal and non-legal formats.
Assessment
Essay - 80%