Last Updated on January 18, 2023
Laws and Arts
Bachelor degree (honours)/Bachelor degree
Laws and Arts is a double degree which allows you to complement your practical knowledge of the Australian legal system with a grounding in arts and humanities. Choose from a large number of exciting specialisations and tailor your studies to a field you are passionate about.
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While either Law or Arts can be a fine start to your career, you can enhance your options and professional expertise by combining them in this sought-after double degree course.
Tailored to your interests and career aspirations, a feature of our Law course is the large number of specialist units available. Coupled with some 40 Arts majors and minors, you can blend your study of Law with subjects such as bioethics, criminology, international relations, holocaust or genocide studies, or indulge your passion for the performing arts, language, music or theatre. The choice is yours.Start of expanded content
This course leads to two separate degrees:
- the Bachelor of Laws (Honours), and
- the Bachelor of Arts.
You will gain all the benefits of each degree course and be fully equipped to pursue a career in either field separately or to combine the two in your chosen work.
Graduates with these two degrees will have a solid foundation in the concepts, procedures and reasoning underpinning the Australian legal system and the research, analytical and communication skills of the legal profession. In Arts, they will have been challenged to think critically and creatively, to resist easy answers or simplistic solutions and to develop an ethical and intellectual framework within which to understand what it means to be human, and how this changes over time. Taken together with the opportunities to study overseas and undertake work-based projects, it’s a dynamic combination.
The course offers opportunities for law graduates to focus on issues of policy and governance in addition to direct legal services. Graduates will be highly sought-after across a broad range of areas including diplomacy and trade, human rights and international law, intellectual property and publishing, advertising, marketing, entertainment law and international business.Show less
At a glance
Subject prerequisites
| English | Maths | Sciences / Other |
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| Tick | N/A | N/A |
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Course Details
| Location | On-campus at Clayton: Full time & part time |
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| Duration | This course is equivalent to 5.25 years of full-time study and offered only in accelerated mode to complete in 5 years. Part-time study is also available. |
| Start date | First Semester (February) |
Fees
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A Monash Law/Arts double degree offers the idealistic person a realistic way to make a difference in the world. Whether you aspire to work in a top-tier law firm, commercial or international law, a community legal centre or as an advocate for justice, a Monash Law degree lets you take the first step. You will be building a solid foundation for a legal career, with your training beginning on day one. In this practical double Bachelor degree course, you’ll also have the option of studying overseas, taking one of many different double degrees and gaining applied legal experience.
In your first year, you’ll begin mastering the concepts, procedures and reasoning underpinning the Australian legal system. Alongside this rigorous training in the basics, throughout your degree you’ll also be able to pursue the areas of the law that interest you.You’ll benefit from a range of specialist law electives as diverse as ‘Negotiation and Conflict Resolution,’ ‘Media Law’ or ‘Animal Law.’
This freedom to craft a course that perfectly matches your interests and aspirations extends to an expansive choice of Arts electives across the University. You’ll have a double degree that is recognised by the Council of Legal Education and includes the prerequisite studies to prepare you for admission to practice as a barrister and solicitor of the Supreme Court of Victoria.
Factor in significant opportunities for hands-on practical experience (including our clinical legal education program); international study (including at the Prato Centre in Italy); a supportive and industry-focused community (including a dynamic Law Students’ Society); and the prestige that comes with a degree from a leading law school and you’ll have the ideal foundation for a lifelong career.
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Majors, extended majors and minors
In this course, you can choose from the following majors, extended majors and minors. Some are only available as minors or only in certain locations, so click through to see the full details.
- Anthropology
- Archaeology and ancient history
- Behavioural studies
- Bioethics
- Chinese studies
- Communications and media studies
- Criminology
- European languages
- Film and screen studies
- Gender studies
- Global Asia
- History
- Holocaust and genocide studies
- Human geography
- Human rights
- Indigenous cultures and histories
- Indonesian studies
- International relations
- International studies
- Islamic studies
- Japanese studies
- Jewish studies
- Journalism
- Korean studies
- Linguistics and English Language
- Literary studies
- Music
- Philosophy
- Politics
- Psychology
- Religious studies
- Sociology
- Theatre and performance
