BLS Bachelor of Law and Society - Flinders University

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Overview

The Bachelor of Law and Society requires 3 years of full-time study (or the equivalent part-time). The course is offered by the College of Business, Government and Law.

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Program of study overview

Program of study notes

Program of study
108 Units

Year 136 Units

Core22.5 Units

Elective13.5 Units

Select 13.5 units from the following or any other Level 1 elective topics from across the University where requisites are met:

Indigenous Studies: An Introduction

Innovative and Creative Thinking: Recognising Opportunities

Modern Asia since 1945

Essential Legal Skills

Critical Thinking

An Introduction to Democracy and Government

Issues in Sociology

Sociology of Everyday Life

Year 236 Units

Core18 Units

Electives 18 Units

Select 18 units from the following or any other Level 2 elective topics from across the University where requisites are met:

Nationalism, Populism and Democracy

Reconciliation and Indigenous Knowledges

Ethics for Professionals

Breaking the Rules: Opposing Injustice Without Violence

Australian Indigenous Politics

Sociology of Deviance

Race, Power and Identity

Year 336 Units

Core9 Units

Option4.5 Units

Elective 22.5 Units

Select 22.5 units from the following or any other Level 3 elective topics from across the University where requisites are met:

Crime, Law and Trauma

International Criminal Justice

Encountering Crime

Debates in Public Policy

Australian Foreign Policy

Global Inequality

The International Protection of Human Rights

Environmental Politics

The Politics of the Australian Welfare State

Admission requirements

Admission requirements

English Language requirements

Aims

This course is designed to give students the intellectual tools to understand, conduct research into and evaluate the relationship between law and society.

Students develop:

An understanding of how the law operates as a social institution, including its institutional structure, the role of key legal personnel, and the process of law reform
A critical appreciation of how the law is shaped by and shapes its social context, including how law is constituted by (and constitutes) relations of power and normative understandings
Skills to research and analyse the relationship between law and society

Associations

Combined degree association

Honours - 1 year/Bachelor association