The Dual award degree Bachelor of Music (Honours) / Bachelor of Laws is a 6 year program (full-time) and provides an opportunity to obtain two degrees of importance to talented students or students wishing to explore connections between music and law. The Law courses satisfy the requirements for the award of the professional LLB degree.The music courses offer intensive pre-professional training in musicology, music theory, performance and composition as well as one of four music streams: Music Creative Practice, Music Inquiry, Sonic Arts and Music Pedagogy. All streams are supported by a variety of large and small, western and non-western music ensembles as well as extensive opportunities for developing musicianship skills.

Applicants must satisfy the entry requirements to Law as well as to the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. Admission to this program will be only by internal program transfer for high-achieving students already enrolled in the Dual program Music /Law 4774. In order to transfer to this program, students must have a minimum WAM of 70 in the Music component of program 4774 and have satisfied all core, elective and stream requirements in levels 1-3 of Music.

For questions regarding the Bachelor of Music requirements of the program, students should contact the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Student Centre.

For questions regarding the Bachelor of Laws component of the program, students should consult the Faculty of Law Student Centre.

For the Bachelor of Laws, please see the program objectives and learning outcomes listed in 4701 Bachelor of Laws

For the Bachelor of Music, please see the program objectives and learning outcomes as listed in 3440 Bachelor of Music (Honours).

In this dual degree program, students must successfully complete 288 UOC, including 144 UOC for the BMus(Hons) and 144 UOC for the LLB.

Law compulsory courses - 96 UOC
Law prescribed elective - 6 UOC
Law elective courses - 42 UOC
Music Courses - 144 UOC - please see below for further detail
Total 288 UOC

The following stream specialisations are available in the Bachelor of Music

MUSCE14774 Music Creative Practice
MUSCF14774 Music Inquiry
MUSCH14774 Music Pedagogy
MUSCG14774 Sonic Arts

High achieving students who secure a WAM of 75 across their program and who have completed at least 48uoc of their program at UNSW are eligible for the award of their Pass Degree "with Distinction".

Students must study Music courses in a sequence approved by the Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences and Law courses in a sequence approved by the Faculty of Law. An approved sequence can be found here:

Plan for Music (Honours) / Law 4779

Students enrolled in a combined law degree (with exception to Jurisprudence/Law) are not required to complete general education courses.

This is an embedded Honours program for high achieving students in Music who have completed the first three levels of the Bachelor of Music component of the program and achieved a minimum WAM of 70 in all Music courses.

The Bachelor of Music will be awarded with the following levels of Honours:

Honours will be awarded in the following classes, based on the student's WAM rounded off to the nearest whole number:

The Bachelor of Laws (LLB) will be awarded with the following levels of Honours:
Honours Class 1
Honours Class 2, Division 1
Honours Class 2, Division 2

To be awarded Honours in Law, students are not required to complete an additional year. Honours in Law is based on academic excellence throughout the degree. There are three criteria relevant for awarding Honours:

The Honours WAM weighting for core/electives for the Honours WAM is currently under review.

The Research Requirement for Honours is under review

For more information, please visit Honours Page on the Law website

To qualify for the award of the degree, a student must complete:

To qualify for the award of the degree, a student must complete:

For Academic Rules relating to the Bachelor of Laws component of this combined degree program, please refer to program 4701. Although 4701 program is no longer on offer, all combined law students enrolled in the LLB will need to comply with the rules stated here.

A direct link is given below:
Bachelor of Laws 4701

For information regarding fees for UNSW programs, please refer to the following website:  https://my.unsw.edu.au/student/fees/FeesMainPage.html