Fine Arts / Law - 4704
Program Summary
Faculty: Faculty of Law
Contact: http://www.law.unsw.edu.au/
Campus: Sydney
Career: Undergraduate
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
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
- a functioning and contextual knowledge of law and legal institutions;
- excellent intellectual skills of analysis, synthesis, critical judgment, reflection and evaluation;
- the capacity to engage in practical and scholarly research;
- effective oral and written communication skills both generally and in specific legal settings;
- a commitment to personal and professional self-development, ethical practice and social responsibility.
- 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.
- 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.
- Encourage students to develop increased self-motivation as developing independent and professional practitioners.
- Encourage students to realise their own intellectual and creative potential.
- Increase students' awareness of, and sensitivity to, their environment.
- 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
LLB component
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144 UOC
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BFA
component
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96 UOC
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Plan for Fine Arts/LLB 4704
General Education Requirements
Honours
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
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
Important Information
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
Contact
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
Area(s) of Specialisation