Program

Fine Arts / Law - 4704

Program Summary

Faculty: Faculty of Law

Contact: http://www.law.unsw.edu.au/

Campus: Sydney

Career: Undergraduate

Typical Duration: 5 Years  

Typical UOC Per Semester: 24

Min UOC Per Semester: 6

Max UOC Per Semester: 24

Min UOC For Award: 240

UAC Code: 426000

Domestic Entry Requirements: See Domestic Entry Requirements

International Entry Requirements: See International Entry Requirements

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Program Description

This program is for new 2017 commencing students. 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.

The Bachelor of Law / Bachelor of Fine Arts (LLB BFA) is a 5 year dual award program which combines a highly valued legal qualification with a qualification designed for those who may wish to involve themselves as practitioners in the visual arts or related fields.

The LLB component provides students with the fundamentals of law and the opportunity to complete a professional legal degree. The BFA component offers students strong fundamentals combined with flexibility to explore various media through practice and experimentation.

Program Objectives and Graduate Attributes

The UNSW School of Law instills in students the understandings, values, skills and qualities necessary to become highly qualified professionals with a strong sense of citizenship, community and social justice. A legal education at the UNSW Law School, therefore, develops graduates who have:
  1. a functioning and contextual knowledge of law and legal institutions;
  2. excellent intellectual skills of analysis, synthesis, critical judgment, reflection and evaluation;
  3. the capacity to engage in practical and scholarly research;
  4. effective oral and written communication skills both generally and in specific legal settings;
  5. a commitment to personal and professional self-development, ethical practice and social responsibility.
The BFA component aims to:
  1. Provide an opportunity for students to undertake rigorous and demanding studies at tertiary level from a wide range of approaches and disciplines within the visual arts.
  2. Provide the opportunity for students to explore the visual arts through a critical examination of the possibilities they offer and by use of available technological resources.
  3. Encourage students to develop increased self-motivation as developing independent and professional practitioners.
  4. Encourage students to realise their own intellectual and creative potential.
  5. Increase students' awareness of, and sensitivity to, their environment.
  6. Provide students with:
  • an understanding of concepts relevant to aesthetics and the visual arts;
  • an understanding of various media through practice and experimentation with such media;
  • an understanding of research practice in fine arts, and a capacity to engage with research;
  • a confidence and competence in decision making, together with an appreciative and informed awareness of viewpoints in the visual arts other than their own; and
  • an understanding of the historical and theoretical underpinning of contemporary fine art practice.

Program Structure

The Bachelor of Law Bachelor of Fine Arts consists of 144 UOC of Law courses and 96 UOC of Fine Arts courses as detailed in the following table:
 
LLB component
 144 UOC
  • Compulsory courses (96UOC)
  • Prescribed elective (6UOC)
  • Law Electives (42UOC)
BFA
component
 96 UOC
  • Fine Arts core courses (36 UOC)
  • Fine Arts Studios (24 UOC)
  • Fine Arts, Design or Media Arts Studios (24 UOC)
  • Contextual Studies (12 UOC)

For a list of the studio & contextual studies courses available, please see Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours) Program 4814.

Approved Sequence of Study
The Plan for the dual Fine Arts/LLB program provides a standard outline of the sequence of law courses in Years 1-5.

Plan for Fine Arts/LLB 4704

Free Law Electives
All Free Electives must be taken from an approved list of LAWS courses. Approximately 25-30 electives are made available each session. The number of students that may take an elective may be limited.

General Education Requirements

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

Honours

Honours in BFA Component
Students undertaking the BFA in Dual Award mode may apply to complete an
additional year (48UOC) of study for the award of Honours. For details of Honours please see 4814 Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours).

Honours in LLB Component
High achieving students may be eligible to graduate with a Bachelor of Laws (Honours).

Please visit the Honours in law website for further information about the current Honours policy (applicable to students who commenced the LLB in 2014 or earlier) and the new policy (applicable to students who commenced the LLB from 2015 onwards).

Academic Rules

For Academic Rules relating to the Bachelor of Fine Arts

To satisfy the Fine Arts component of the dual award, students must have completed 48 UOC in their Fine Arts Major and 48 UOC in their Fine Arts Streams.

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

Fees

For information regarding fees for UNSW programs, please refer to the following website:  UNSW Fee Website.

Important Information

The Academic Rules for the BFA/LLB and the online enrolment facility provide students
with a wide range of course choices. The online enrolment facility checks that
students meet the enrolment requirements for individual courses but not that a
course complies with Program Rules. Students are responsible for ensuring they are
enrolling in accordance with the Academic Rules outlined above. Students should
not assume that because they have enrolled in a course online that the course is automatically credited to their dual degree program.

Professional Recognition

For further information, please refer to the Professional Recognition of Programs in the UNSW Online Handbook.

Contact

Contact Faculty of Law Student Services for advice on the LLB component.

Tel: +61 (2) 9385 2264
Location: 2nd Floor, Law Building, Kensington Campus


Contact the UNSW Art & Design for advice on the BFA component.

Tel: +61 (2) 8936 0684
Location: Ground Floor, D Block, Paddington Campus

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