Undergraduate: Course rule and topic information

Bachelor of Information Technology

(BInfTech)

COMBINED DEGREES PROGRAMS

BACHELOR OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY/BACHELOR OF LAWS AND LEGAL PRACTICE

The combined degrees program of Bachelor of Information Technology/Bachelor of Laws and Legal Practice requires five-and-a-half years of full-time study (or the equivalent part-time).

The combined degrees program of Bachelor of Information Technology/Bachelor of Laws requires five years of full-time study (or the equivalent part-time).

The course aims to produce graduates who will be able to fill the expanding role for professionals in law and in information technology, areas in which there is an increasing discipline overlap.

For admission to the program, students first must apply for admission to the Bachelor of Laws and Legal Practice. If successful, they will be given the option of taking up the combined degrees program at the time of their first enrolment.

Eligible students who decline the offer to take up the combined degrees program at enrolment and wish in a subsequent year to enrol in the combined degrees program will be required to apply to SATAC for admission to the Bachelor of Information Technology.

Students who commence, but subsequently do not wish to complete, the combined degrees program may be eligible to transfer to either the Bachelor of Information Technology or the Bachelor of Laws and Legal Practice programs and to receive credit for some, or all, of the topics already completed.

Program of Study [November, 2008]
To qualify for the combined award a student must complete the following program of study with a grade of P or NGP or better in each topic:

• a Law component of 138 units for the Bachelor of Laws and Legal Practice or 120 units for the Bachelor of Laws [see Bachelor of Laws and Legal Practice entry for further information].
• an Information Technology component of 73.5 units for the Bachelor of Information Technology according to the program of study below.