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Undergraduate courseBachelor of Justice and SocietyFAST FACTSTaught on-campus at Flinders. Available to Australian and international students. Course length: The course requires three years of full-time study or the equivalent part-time. An additional one-year honours program is offered to selected students.
Prerequisites: There are no prerequisites and no knowledge is assumed. SATAC Code: 214241 [For Australian students] WHY STUDY JUSTICE AND SOCIETY?To influence society you need to be able to interpret it. As contemporary Australia becomes more complex, there is a growing demand for graduates who can analyse the moral and legal issues affecting us and provide advice on related policy issues.This course is designed to give you the intellectual tools required to fill these roles. It examines questions such as: what is justice, and does the legal system achieve it? What ethical and legal rules should govern the activities of governments and corporations? What ethical, social and legal issues arise from problems of gender, power, class, race, and our relationship with the environment?
COURSE OVERVIEWThe course combines legal studies and philosophy, while offering a wide choice of elective options. Topics within the philosophy major analyse ideas of justice, duty, rights, power, and responsibility through debates over philosophical conceptions of what these involve. These ideas are applied to particular areas of social concern, such as the family, culture, gender and the world of work. You will develop strong skills in reasoning and argument.Topics within the legal studies major provide an overview of the Australian legal system and discuss problems in specific areas of the law, such as those covering youth, environmental health, human rights, and the administration of justice. You will learn to locate, read and analyse legal materials as well as conduct research and examine possible reforms in relation to pressing legal issues. WHAT JOBS WILL I GET?There is a growing demand for graduates with a strong background in the analysis of moral and legal issues affecting contemporary Australia. This course will equip students to seek employment in a range of public and private sector organisations which demand a combination of legal, philosophical and social sciences skills and a knowledge of the relationships between justice, law and society. This includes the court system, justice administration, equal opportunity and other public sector jobs, as well as positions in law firms, trade unions, workers' compensation, community organisations, and private industry.To find out more about the jobs this degree can lead to, go to the Your Career section of our graduate careers website. WHAT WILL I STUDY?In First Year students take the core topics:
In Second and Third Years students will take a core Legal Studies topic; Researching Juvenile Crime and two additional Legal Studies topics. They will also take core Philosophy topics, which will be Freedom, Law and Society or Rights, Welfare and Power, and Moral Philosophy or Bioethics. They will also choose another Philosophy topic. Additionally they will enrol in a combined Legal Studies and Philosophy research topic and will complete a range of elective topics. Some students will also have the opportunity to undertake a work placement and they may also elect to complete a minor sequence in either Criminology or the subject area of their first year electives. Other philosophy topics that can be studied include: Mind and the World, Mind and Consciousness, Reality Perception and Knowledge, Ethics for Professionals and Philosophy and the Good Life. Other legal Studies topics that can be studied include: Access to Justice, Comparing Legal Cultures, Child Protection, Cultural Heritage and the law, Small Business; Legal Issues, Law and Urban Change, Law, Public Health and the Environment and Technology Regulation and Society, Gender Law and Society and Regulating Environmental Change. The full program of study is set out in the Course rule and topic descriptions for this degree. ENTRY REQUIREMENTS:
Year 12 applicants must have qualified for SACE and obtained Recorded Achievement in at least five two-unit SACE Stage 2 subjects. Included among the five must be four HESS General subjects.
Non-school leavers from various backgrounds, such as tertiary transfers, TAFE, Special Tertiary Admissions Test (STAT) and other access schemes are eligible to apply. There are no prerequisites.
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