bachelor of planning / laws
This program provides an opportunity to obtain two professional degrees. It allows students to add the professionally recognised Law program to the professionally accredited Planning program offered by the Faculty of the Built Environment. The Law courses satisfy the requirements for the award of the professional LLB degree. Because the Planning program contains a percentage of open electives that can be replaced by Law courses, the combined program requires only four additional sessions of study to gain both qualifications. In general, this study is taken concurrently with the BPlan program and both can be completed in a minimum of seven years, consisting of twelve academic semesters (six years), plus two semesters of compulsory Work Experience. This compares with the five-year BPlan program, which consists of eight academic semesters and two semesters (12 months) of compulsory Work Experience.
Admission and Transfer Arrangements
Students may enter directly in Year 1 or may apply to transfer from the Planning Program after the completion of one year if they have achieved a distinction or higher average. All applications for transfer must be registered with the University Admissions Centre. Transfer after the second year may result in the student taking more than the minimum time to complete the combined degree.
Transfer from the combined BPlan LLB program into either the BPlan or LLB programs may occur at the discretion of the respective Head of Program. All applications for transfer must be lodged through the University Admissions Centre.
Program Schedule
| code | course name | UOC |
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Year 1 |
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Semester 1 |
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| PLAN1241 | Planning Theory and Practice | 6 |
| PLAN1101 | Understanding Design | 6 |
| PLAN1011 | Urban Society | 3 |
| GEOS1701 | Environmental Systems and Process | 6 |
| BENV1141 | Computers & Information Technology | 3 |
| Total | 24 | |
Semester 2 |
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| PLAN1042 | Local Planning | 6 |
| PLAN1122 | Development Processes | 6 |
| GEOH2801 | Geographical Information Systems for Built Environment | 6 |
| Elective (note: to be chosen in consultation with Head of Planning Program) | 6 | |
| Total | 24 | |
| code | course name | UOC |
Year 2 |
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Semester 1 |
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| PLAN2041 | Integrated Planning 1 - Communication in Planning | 6 |
| PLAN2032 | Urban Design | 6 |
| PLAN2111 | Economics of Planning and Development | 6 |
| LAWS1052 | Foundations of Law | 6 |
| Total | 24 | |
Semester 2 |
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| PLAN2152 | Resources, Planning and the Natural Environment | 6 |
| PLAN2122 | History, Heritage and the Built Environment | 6 |
| LAWS1061 | Torts | 6 |
| LAWS2160 | Administrative Law | 6 |
| Total | 24 | |
| code | course name | UOC |
Year 3 |
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Semester 1 |
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| PLAN3031 | Integrated Planning 2 - Strategic Planning | 6 |
| PLAN3041 | Planning Law and Administration | 6 |
| PLAN3051 | Development Assessment | 6 |
| LAWS1071 | Contracts 1 | 3 |
| LAWS2140 | Public Law | 3 |
| Total | 24 | |
Semester 2 |
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| PLAN0081 | Work Experience |
24 |
| Total | 24 | |
| code | course name | UOC |
Year 4 |
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Semester 1 |
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| PLAN0082 | Work Experience |
24 |
| Total | 24 | |
Semester 2 |
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| PLAN3032 | Integrated Planning 3 - Master Planning | 6 |
| PLAN3015 | Social Planning | 6 |
| PLAN3052 | Qualitative Methods | 6 |
| LAWS1072 | Contracts 2 | 6 |
| Total | 24 | |
| code | course name | UOC |
Year 5 |
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Semester 1 |
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| PLAN4221 | Regional Policy | 3 |
| PLAN4031 | Research Design | 3 |
| GEOH3671 | Transport, Land Use and Environment | 6 |
| LAWS1001 | Criminal Law 1 | 6 |
| LAWS6210 | Law, Lawyers and Society | 6 |
| Total | 24 | |
Semester 2 |
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| PLAN4132 | Thesis Project | 12 |
| PLAN4142 | Professionalism, Ethics and Politics | 6 |
| LAWS1011 | Criminal Law 2 | 6 |
| Total | 24 | |
| code | course name | UOC |
Year 6 |
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Semester 1 |
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| LAWS1081 | Property, Equity and Trusts 1 | 6 |
| LAWS8820 | Law and Social Theory or |
6 |
| LAWS8320 | Legal Theory | 6 |
| LAWS2311 | Litigation 1 | 6 |
| LAWS2150 | Federal Constitutional Law | 6 |
| Total | 24 | |
Semester 2 |
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| LAWS1082 | Property and Equity 2 | 6 |
| LAWS2321 | Litigation 2 | 6 |
| LAWS4010 | Business Associations 1 | 6 |
| LAWS7420 | Advanced Legal Research | 2 |
| Law Elective | 4 | |
| Total | 24 | |
| code | course name | UOC |
Year 7 |
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Semester 1 |
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| Law Electives | 24 | |
| Total | 24 | |
Semester 2 |
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| Law Electives | 24 | |
| Total | 24 | |
| Program schedules and course information may change without notice. Please check all details on the Faculty Timetable | ||
Degree Rules
- The degrees of Bachelor of Planning and Bachelor of Laws are awarded at pass level after successful completion of a minimum of 192 units of credit from the Planning Program and 144 units of credit from the Laws Program. The Bachelor of Planning may be awarded at honours level in accordance with the faculty regulations for this program.
- To fulfil these requirements, students must complete:
- 144 units core courses in Planning, being all those prescribed in the faculty regulations for this program.
- 48 units of work experience as prescribed in the faculty regulations for this program.
- 92 units of core courses in Law, being all those prescribed in the faculty regulations for this program.
- 52 units of program electives in Law, selected in accordance with the faculty regulations for this program.
- The standard duration of the program is 7 years, consisting of 12 semesters of full time study (24 units of credit per semester) plus 2 semesters of required work experience
- Law units may not be taken until after the student has successfully completed 48 units of credit of the Planning program.
Faculty Regulations for the BPlan LLB
Core Courses
The core courses prescribed for the combined program are all those named in Table 4707-1 Program Schedule.
Honours
The Bachelor of Planning degree may be awarded with honours based on the quality of performance in the program of study undertaken to fulfil the requirements of that degree (being 240 units of credit including 144 units of prescribed core and the first 48 units of Law courses undertaken for the combined program), and in accordance with current faculty regulations. Honours are Class 1 or Class 2 Division 1 or Class 2 Division 2.
Work Experience
Students must undertake 48 units of Work Experience in a planning or planning-related area (which could be with a professional practice specialising in environmental law). Although Work Experience is normally undertaken after the completion of five academic sessions, BPlan LLB students may elect to undertake the one year (two sessions) of compulsory Work Experience required for the award of the single BPlan degree after the completion of their BPlan and LLB coursework. In addition, students may undertake the compulsory Work Experience in flexible ways (subject to the approval of the Head of the Planning and Urban Development program), thereby reducing the overall length of the BPlan LLB Program.
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