This program is not accepting new enrollments. If you are a continuing student please refer to the Online Handbook in the year you started your Dual Law degree or contact the Faculty of Law for advice.

This program combines the professional Bachelor of Laws with the Bachelor of Media.

The Bachelor of Media provides conceptual underpinnings in media studies with foundational skills and concepts that are relevant to career pathways in a broad range of media production, professional communication and journalism, audio-visual industries, and public relations and advertising.

This degree combination is relevant to students interested in becoming media lawyers, or in media industries (e.g. web design and production, gaming and interactive virtual environments, design and distribution), audio-visual production industries (e.g. multimedia or screen director, editor, sound designer, producer and other roles within video and audio production as well as areas as diverse as film criticism, arts administration, festival programming, communication research and media marketing), journalism, corporate and organisational communication, public sector communication, and public relations.

Students will be immersed in the culture and philosophy of media studies through their courses in the media core and will specialise in one of the four streams - media production, communication & journalism, screen & sound or public relations and advertising.

First and second levels cover contextual media studies, and practical and theoretical skills in the specialisations. As students proceed into the third level, the program expands and deepens knowledge and understanding of these theories and skills.

Please refer to the program objectives and learning outcomes as listed for the Bachelor of Media (Media Production) program 3428, Bachelor of Media program 3429 (Communication and Journalism), Bachelor of Media (Screen and Sound) program 3433 and Bachelor of Media (Public Relations and Advertising) program 3433 .

Law compulsory courses - 96 UOC
Law prescribed elective - 6 UOC
Law elective courses - 42 UOC
Media Courses - 96 UOC -please see below
Total 240 UOC


MDIAC14781 Communication and Journalism
The basic requirements for the Bachelor of Media degree in dual mode (96 uoc) are:
1. Media Core (12 UOC)
2. Prescribed Media Elective (24 UOC)
3. Communication and Journalism Core (36 UOC)
4. Prescribed Communication and Journalism Electives (24 UOC)

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

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:

• Honours Weighted Average Mark (WAM)
The Honours WAM weighting for core/electives for the Honours WAM is currently under review.
• Satisfactory performance in written research
The Research Requirement for Honours is under review.
• Not been found guilty of plagiarism or serious misconduct on more than one occasion and not more than one failure in the law program

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

After completion of 144 uoc including all of the requirements of the Bachelor of Media dual degree, high achieving students may apply for admission to the Bachelor Media (Honours) program 4510. A minimum WAM of 70 in the Bachelor of Media (PR & Advertising) component of the dual degree is required for entry into Honours.

Bachelor of Media (Honours) program 4510.

To qualify for the award of the degree at Pass level, a student must:

For Academic Rules relating to the Bachelor of Media
Please see further detail on each Program Structure above.

For Academic Rules relating to the Bachelor of Laws
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