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Minimum English Language Proficiency Requirements

Students of non-English speaking backgrounds must have an adequate English language capacity assessed under the Australian International English Language Testing System (IELTS). The IELTS score required for admission to this course can be found in Schedule I of the JCU Admissions policy.

Special admission requirements

Applicants who wish to pursue the Accounting major in the Business component of the degree must nominate it as part of their application.

Additional course rules

Nil

Course learning outcomes

JCU graduates are committed to lifelong learning, intellectual development, and to the display of exemplary personal, professional and ethical standards. They have a sense of their place in the tropics and are charged with professional, community, and environmental responsibility. JCU graduates appreciate the need to embrace and be acquainted with the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples of Australia. They are committed to reconciliation, diversity and sustainability. They exhibit a willingness to lead and to contribute to the intellectual, environmental, cultural, economic and social challenges of regional, national, and international communities of the tropics.

In the context of a JCU graduate on successful completion of an Bachelor of Laws with Honours degree graduates will be able to:

• Demonstrate an understanding of a broad and coherent body of knowledge that includes the fundamental areas of legal knowledge, the Australian legal system, and underlying principles and concepts, including international and comparative contexts

• Demonstrate an understanding of the broader contexts within which legal issues arise

• Demonstrate an understanding of principles and values of justice and of ethical practice in lawyers’ roles.

• Demonstrate knowledge of research principles and methods

• Identify and articulate legal issues and apply legal reasoning and research, critical analysis and creative thought, judgement and intellectual independence to generate appropriate responses to legal issues and to identify and solve legal problems

• Demonstrate the intellectual and practical skills needed to identify, research, analyse, evaluate, consolidate and synthesise relevant factual, legal and policy issues

• Communicate in ways that are effective, appropriate and persuasive to present a clear, coherent and independent exposition of knowledge and ideas for legal and non-legal audiences both

• (a) orally; and

• (b) in writing

• Collaborate effectively

• Learn and work independently, reflect on and assess their own capabilities and performance, and make use of feedback as appropriate, to support personal and professional development

• Demonstrate an ability to apply knowledge and skills with initiative and judgement and with due consideration of ethical issues likely to arise in professional contexts, appropriate approaches to ethical decision-making, professional responsibility and professional judgement in planning, problem solving and decision-making in professional practice and/or scholarship

• Demonstrate an ability to adapt knowledge and skills in diverse contexts

• Demonstrate an ability to apply knowledge and skills with responsibility and accountability for own learning and professional practice and in collaboration with others within broad parameter

• Demonstrate an ability to recognise and reflect upon the professional responsibilities of lawyers in promoting justice and in service to the community

• Demonstrate project and/or research work

• Demonstrate well developed judgement of ethical issues in research.

On successful completion of the Bachelor of Business graduates will be able to:

• Demonstrate essential knowledge necessary for a career in business related professions

• Synthesise underlying principles and concepts for making business decisions

• Critically analyse the core professional obligations, values and operations of organisations including sustainability

• Critically evaluate data & resources in the context of relevant academic literature

• Apply critical thinking to address issues in business

• Convey information clearly and fluently, in high quality written form appropriate for their audience

• Demonstrate effective oral presentation skills for academic and professional audiences

• Demonstrate the ability to work collaboratively

• Apply technical skills, including numeracy, necessary for professional practice in business

• Demonstrate an awareness of ethical and social responsibility in professional practice

• Identify and act upon, learning opportunities and self-improvements

Credit points in major

24 credit points

Credit points in major

24 credit points

Cairns

Maximum time to complete

10 years

Course includes mandatory professional placement(s)

No

Accreditation requirements

1. To be eligible for accreditation with Certified Practising Accountants (CPA Australia) and/or the Institute of Chartered Accountants Australia (ICAA) students must complete the Accounting major as well as the following subjects:

BX2014:03 Financial Management

BX2016:03 Business Modelling

BX2019:03 Business Information Systems

2. In accordance with the requirements of the Supreme Court (Admission) Rules 2004 (Qld), students who intend, at any time, to seek admission as a Legal Practitioner in Queensland must include as subjects within their degree:

LA4022:03 Civil Procedure

LA4038:03 Legal Ethics and Trust Accounting

3. Students seeking admission to practise law are strongly advised to include the following level 4 subjects:

LA4007:03 Succession

LA4019:03 Conveyancing and Drafting

LA4032:03 Family Law

Supplementary exam for final subject

A candidate who has failed a single subject towards the award in their final teaching period and who gained 40% or more of the marks for that subject, may be granted a supplementary examination in that subject

Maximum allowed

80 credit points in accordance with the Advanced Standing for Previous Studies and Recognised Prior Learning policy.

Expiry

Advanced standing gained for any subject shall be cancelled 21 years after the date of the examination upon which the advanced standing is based if, by then, the candidate has not completed the course of study prescribed for the degree.

Inclusion of majors on testamur

Any business major may appear on the testamur.

Course articulation

Not applicable