The combined degrees program of Bachelor of Laws and Legal Practice/Bachelor of Science requires the completion of a minimum of 216 units of study and a Bachelor of Science/Bachelor of Laws a minimum of 198 units.

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 (subject to meeting course pre-requisites where applicable).

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 or via university internal transfer, for admission to the Bachelor of Science, Bachelor of Science (Animal Behaviour), Bachelor of Science (Aquaculture), Bachelor of Science (Biodiversity and Conservation), Bachelor of Science (Environmental Science), Bachelor of Science (Forensic and Analytical Chemistry), Bachelor of Science (Marine Biology) or Bachelor of Science (Nanotechnology).

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

Prerequisites and Assumed Knowledge for Specialisations

There are no formal prerequisites for the specialisation in Biodiversity and Conservation but a knowledge of Mathematics, Physics or Chemistry to Year 11 is desirable.

Successful completion of SACE Stage 2 Chemistry or the equivalent is required for entry to the specialisation in Forensic and Analytical Chemistry.

There are no formal prerequisites for the specialisation in Marine Biology, but knowledge of Mathematics and/or Physics to SACE Year 11 level is desirable.

Successful completion of SACE Year 12 Chemistry will allow entry into the specialisation in Nanotechnology Biomedical Nanotechnology stream.

There are no prerequisites or assumed knowledge for the other specialisations.

Program of study

To qualify for the combined degrees program of Bachelor of Science / Bachelor of Laws and Legal Practice, a student must complete the following program of study with a grade of P or NGP or better in each topic:

  • 27 units of First Year Science topics ; and
  • 54 units of upper level topics including either a major and a minor or an extended major or a specialisation# from the programs listed below.

#Specialisations or the double specialisation have different admission requirements to other programs of study available in the Bachelor of Science. In order to undertake a specialisation or double specialisation students must be admitted to the specialisation or double specialisation program.

Not all topics are necessarily available in a given year.

No more than 45 units of First Year level topics may be included in the degree.

 

Specialisations* are offered in:

Extended Majors are offered in:

Majors are offered in:

Minors are offered in:

* The name of the specialisation will appear on the transcript and the parchment e.g. Bachelor of Science (Aquaculture)

** Students cannot undertake the stream in Environmental Forensics in the combined degree. Students interested in this combination should take the two degrees concurrently.

*** Students cannot undertake the stream in Quantum Nanostructures in the combined degree. Students interested in this combination should take the two degrees concurrently.

^ These Science programs have been phased out from 2011 and are not available for commencing students. Students who commenced prior to 2011 in these programs may complete according to their original Program of Study.

^^ The Engineering Science major is not accredited by Engineers Australia. There is no honours program available in Engineering Science.

^^^ Students may not take both the Mathematics major and the Statistics minor instead they should choose the extended major in Mathematics.

 

* The name of the specialisation will appear on the transcript and the parchment e.g. Bachelor of Science (Aquaculture)

** Students cannot undertake the stream in Environmental Forensics in the combined degree. Students interested in this combination should take the two degrees concurrently.

*** Students cannot undertake the stream in Quantum Nanostructures in the combined degree. Students interested in this combination should take the two degrees concurrently.

^ These Science programs have been phased out from 2011 and are not available for commencing students. Students who commenced prior to 2011 in these programs may complete according to their original Program of Study.

^^ The Engineering Science major is not accredited by Engineers Australia. There is no honours program available in Engineering Science.

^^^ Students may not take both the Mathematics major and the Statistics minor instead they should choose the extended major in Mathematics.