Faculty of Arts
Socio-legal studies

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1. Requirements for a major
2. For more information
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The Faculty of Arts offers an interdisciplinary major in socio-legal studies. This program is designed to provide Bachelor of Arts students with an opportunity to examine law in its societal, political, and cultural context. It will appeal to students who wish to use the methods and perspectives of various academic disciplines to study legal issues and to use the conceptual framework of the law to illuminate empirical and theoretical concerns in the various disciplines. The program is not designed to prepare students for law school nor does it provide paralegal training. It is a field of study within the Faculty of Arts curriculum which helps students develop their ability to think clearly and to analyse arguments critically. It provides sound preparation for a variety of activities including teaching, public and social policy, public advocacy, business administration and government.

There are no prerequisites for first-year subjects in socio-legal studies.

The prerequisite for entry into second-year socio-legal studies subjects is usually the completion of 25 points of arts subjects at first year including the core subject 191-110 Law in Society. The prerequisite for entry into third-year socio-legal studies subjects is usually three second-year subjects in socio-legal studies (37.5 points) including the core subjects 166-215 Rights and the Law and 191-211 Law, Justice and Social Change.

1. Requirements for a major

A major in socio-legal studies consists of nine 12.5 point subjects totalling 112.5 points. It comprises:

two first-year arts subjects (25 points) including 191-110 Law in Society; and
three socio-legal subjects at second-year level (37.5 points) including 191-211 Law, Justice and Social Change and 166-215 Rights and the Law; and
four socio-legal studies subjects at third-year level (50 points) including 191-301 Law in Social Theory.

Core subjects

First year		Points
	191-110 Law in Society	12.5

Second/third year
	191-211 Law, Justice and Social Change	12.5
	166-215 Rights and the Law	12.5

Third year
	191-301 Law in Social Theory	12.5

Optional subjects

	Second-year subject
	733-213 Legal Studies:Environmental Law	12.5
	Second/third-year subjects
	131-072 South Africa Under Apartheid: 1948-1994	12.5
	131-073 Human Rights in Australian History	12.5
	131-111 Crime Law & Punishment-Colonial Victoria	12.5
	166-004 Change & Conflict in Australian Society	12.5
	166-022 Public Policy Making	12.5
	166-038 Indigenous Rights: Land and Heritage	12.5
	166-040 Constitutional Design and Change	12.5
	166-083 Sociology of Youth & Youth Policy	12.5
	191-003 Crime and Public Policy	12.5
	191-005 Criminal Law and Criminology	12.5
	191-006 Policing	12.5
	191-008 Sociology of Crime and Deviance	12.5
	Third-year subject
	760-393 Arts Law in Australia	12.5

Third/fourth-year subjects
	121-225 Place and Possession	12.5
	121-226 Native Title	12.5
	191-407 Sentencing Theory and Practice	12.5
	191-415 Youth Crime and Society	12.5
	191-417 Corporate and White Collar Crime	12.5
	191-422 Women, Gender and Crime	12.5
	191-427 Crime Ethnicity and Race	12.5
	191-433 Criminal Justice Decision Making	12.5
	191-435 Drugs and Justice	12.5
	196-420 The Legal Context of Human Services	12.5

2. For more information

Department of Criminology
234 Queensberry Street
The University of Melbourne
Victoria 3010
Tel: +61 3 8344 9440
Fax. +61 3 9349 4259
Email: discovery@criminology.unimelb.edu.au

First-year subject

191-110 Law in Society

Second-year subject

733-213 Legal Studies:Environmental Law

Second/third-year subjects

191-211 Law, Justice and Social Change
166-215 Rights and the Law

Third-year subject

191-301 Law in Social Theory