Overview

COMBINE YOUR SKILLS TO MAKE YOUR MARK.

This double degree gives you the best of both worlds, allowing you to learn about contemporary arts and culture, while also developing the skills and knowledge needed for a career in law - whether that's in traditional law or beyond.

Griffith Law School is proud to rank first in Australia for law in the Academic Ranking of World Universities 2019. Judged on quality of education, staff, research and performance, it means you'll be taught by people who are challenging the status quo and creating new legal knowledge, models and processes. It'll equip you with what you need to make your own mark in the future.

With a range of arts majors and minors, and hundreds of electives to choose from, you'll have the freedom to create your own unique skill set. Once you complete the double degree, you can choose to specialise in law, combine your skills to work as a specialist media or arts lawyer, or use your arts qualification to explore a wide variety of opportunities.

Industry and expert connections

With this double degree, you'll learn how to research across various topics, think critically and constructively, create and manage new knowledge, and communicate your ideas effectively. You'll gain extensive practical experience through moots, engagement with industry and legal clinics through the Griffith Legal Clinic program, offering one of the broadest ranges of clinical options in Australia.

In your final year, you'll collaborate with your fellow Bachelor of Arts students on an authentic problem, using your learnings and teamwork to deliver a solution. You'll also have the opportunity to complete an internship or work-based learning project or undertake study abroad. We even have a dedicated placement officer to help guide you into an internship that meets your career goals.

Graduate outcomes

Your dual qualifications will prepare you for a career in legal practice, specialising in media or arts law, other areas of law, or in the arts, media organisations, business or government.

Arts majors

*Chinese Language

*Creative Writing

*Criminal Justice (Gold Coast and Mt Gravatt)

*Drama (Gold Coast and Mt Gravatt)

*History

*Indigenous Studies

*Islam-West Relations

*Italian Language

*Japanese Language

*Journalism

*Language, Culture and Society

*Literary Studies

*Security and International Studies

*Popular Culture and Screen Studies

*Psychology (Gold Coast and Mt Gravatt)

*Sociology

*Social Justice

*Spanish Language

*Strategic Communication

Global mobility

Students in this degree may be able to participate in an overseas program specifically designed to fit the degree's teaching objectives such as 3192LHS Language In-Country Independent Study Enhanced and 3610LHS Muslim World Study Tour.

Professional recognition

To be eligible for admission as a solicitor, a person must complete an approved law degree (undertaken approved practical legal training via a practical legal training course of Supervised Traineeship at a Law firm) and be able to satisfy the Legal Practitioners Admissions Board and the Supreme Court of their fitness to practise.

*Queensland Law Society

*Steps to practising law interactive tool outlining the steps to practise law, information on admission and practising law in Queensland, interstate and internationally.

Attendance information

The Bachelor of Laws (Honours)/Bachelor of Arts is offered full-time on-campus at the Nathan and Gold Coast campuses.

As a full-time student you will generally attend 10-15 hours of scheduled classes per week throughout the trimester. Classes may be scheduled during the day and early evening throughout the week.

Some law electives are based at Nathan campus, some at the Gold Coast. A few law electives are run in intensive mode, including in trimester 3. Intensive mode means that classes may be compacted over a week, or over several weekends. Some law electives are 'clinics' which typically involve work off campus. Law electives are not normally undertaken until the final two years of your law degree.

If you are an International student on a student visa, you must ensure that you enrol in a way that will allow you to complete your enrolment within the expected program duration as stated on your Confirmation of Enrolment (CoE).

My career opportunities

Key employment sectors*

*Professional, Scientific and Technical Services

*Arts and Recreation Services

*Public Administration and Safety

*Information Media and Telecommunications

*Manufacturing

*Financial and Insurance Services

*Retail Trade

Potential job outcomes

*Solicitor

*Barrister

*Arts lawyer

*Media lawyer

*Journalist

*Social historian

*Public relations officer

*Sociologist 

*Source: Australian Government Job Outlook.