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.

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

• Demonstrate essential knowledge and innovative thinking necessary for a careers in ever changing business and not-for-profit environments
• Synthesise underlying principles and concepts for making sustainable business decisions to meet current and future needs
• Critically analyse the core professional obligations, values and operations of organisations including sustainability
• Critically evaluate, interpret and communicate information, data & resources in academic literature and digital contexts
• Work collaboratively and creatively to promote innovation
• Apply critical thinking and problem-solving strategies in disruptive domestic and global business contexts
• Convey information and ideas through effective communication skills appropriate to diverse audiences
• Apply technical and digital skills, including literacy and numeracy necessary for professional practice in business
• Evaluate and apply ethical, sustainable and social responsibility in professional practice and decision making
• Identify and act upon, learning opportunities and self-improvements.
• Demonstrate resilience, initiative, judgement, and reflective practice with a commitment to lifelong learning and professional development

On successful completion of the Bachelor of Laws, JCU 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
• 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 orally and in writing
• Collaborate effectively
• 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 recognise and reflect upon the professional responsibilities of lawyers in promoting justice and in service to the community.
• 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.

Credit points in major

24 credit points

Maximum time to complete

11 years

Course includes mandatory professional placement(s)

No

Professional accreditation requirements

Nil

Supplementary exam for final subject

A student 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

Expiry

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

Approved abbreviation

BBus-LLB

Exit with lesser award

Students who have completed 24 credit points of their course award requirements, and withdraw from or fail to meet the requirements for progression in the later years, may be eligible for the award of Diploma of Tertiary Studies.

Eligibility

By invitation of the College Dean

Normally a minimum overall GPA of 5.0 (ie. credit average) is required across the bachelor degree with credits or better in the discipline specific areas.