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Test Edith Cowan University (ECU)

  • 19% international / 81% domestic

Bachelor of Laws/Bachelor of Psychology

  • Bachelor

Pursue a career in law with a focus on human behaviour. This course equips you with skills for the courtroom and beyond, while focussing on issues of social change, group processes, group management, and cross-cultural psychology.

Key details

Degree Type
Bachelor
Duration
5 years full-time, 10 years part-time
Course Code
W83, 0102000
Domestic Fees
$15,800 per year / $79,000 total
International Fees
$47,550 per year / $237,750 total

About this course

Pursue a career in law with a focus on human behaviour.

This course equips you with skills for the courtroom and beyond, while focussing on issues of social change, group processes, group management, and cross-cultural psychology.

ECU's law program goes beyond the classroom, you'll have the chance to put theory into practise and work on real life cases in our Law Access Program, compete in mooting competitions around the world, and gain access to the Law Society Peer Mentoring Program.

Psychology is about all of us. Our lived experiences, our feelings, thoughts, behaviours, understandings, interactions, and decisions. It's also about the way we live with ourselves and others.

Our degree in psychology is designed for students with a humanities or science background and is a bridge to many different employment opportunities, including in mental health, human resources, child and family services, youth work, alcohol and drug counselling, rehabilitation and disability, migrant support or research and policy development. It will equip you with skills in analysing and researching behaviour and explaining interactions between people and their environment, learning from expert academics, researchers and practitioners.






Australian Qualifications Framework (AQF) level

This course has been accredited by ECU as an AQF Level 7 Bachelor Degree Award.

Entry requirements

Admission requirements you'll need to meet for this course.

  • All applicants must meet the academic admission requirements for this course. The indicative or guaranteed ATAR is as published (where applicable) or academic admission requirements may be satisfied through completion of one of the following:

    • AQF Advanced Diploma or equivalent;
    • Undergraduate Certificate;
    • Successfully completed 1 EFTSL of study at bachelor level or higher at an Australian higher education provider (or equivalent);
    • Special Tertiary Admissions Test;*
    • University Preparation Course;*
    • Indigenous University Orientation Course;*
    • Aboriginal University Readiness Assessment; or*
    • Associate Degree.

    * Further information can be found on the Study course entry page.

    For international students, requirements include your secondary school results.

  • English competency requirements may be satisfied through completion of one of the following:

    • Year 12 English ATAR/English Literature ATAR grade C or better or equivalent;
    • Special Tertiary Admissions Test;*
    • IELTS Academic Overall band minimum score of 6.0 (no individual band less than 6.0);
    • Successfully completed 1.0 EFTSL of study at bachelor level or higher in the UK, Ireland, USA, NZ or Canada;
    • University Preparation Course;
    • Indigenous University Orientation Course;*
    • Aboriginal University Readiness Assessment;*
    • AQF Diploma, Advanced Diploma or Associate Degree;
    • Successfully completed 0.375 EFTSL of study at bachelor level or higher at an Australian higher education provider (or equivalent); or
    • Other tests, courses or programs defined on the English Proficiency Bands page.

    * Further information can be found on the Study course entry page.

Applications for this course are not accepted through ECU's Experience Based Entry Scheme.

Study locations

Joondalup

What you will learn

  1. Adopt professional and ethical behaviour and/or personal citizenship that reflect the interrelationship between ethics, codes of conduct, justice and community service.
  2. Apply broad and coherent range of legal and psychology knowledge to a range of theoretical and practical issues, incorporating international/global/cultural/Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander perspectives.
  3. Collaborate in team settings and demonstrate initiative to produce measurable outcomes.
  4. Communicate legal and psychology knowledge, concepts and advice using relevant technologies clearly and persuasively.
  5. Exercise critical thinking, judgement and intellectual independence to evaluate, consolidate and synthesise knowledge relevant to legal and psychology issues.
  6. Reflect on feedback and critique on own performance to support scholarship and personal and professional development, demonstrating autonomy, responsibility and accountability.
  7. Think creatively to anticipate challenges and generate solutions in legal, psychology-based situations.
  8. Use digital technologies and [discipline related literacies] to [access, evaluate and synthesise] relevant information from [multiple sources]
  1. Adopt professional and ethical behaviour and/or personal citizenship that reflect the interrelationship between ethics, codes of conduct, justice and community service.
  2. Apply broad and coherent range of legal and psychology knowledge to a range of theoretical and practical issues, incorporating international/global/cultural/Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander perspectives.
  3. Collaborate in team settings and demonstrate initiative to produce measurable outcomes.
  4. Communicate legal and psychology knowledge, concepts and advice using relevant technologies clearly and persuasively.
  5. Exercise critical thinking, judgement and intellectual independence to evaluate, consolidate and synthesise knowledge relevant to legal and psychology issues.
  6. Reflect on feedback and critique on own performance to support scholarship and personal and professional development, demonstrating autonomy, responsibility and accountability.
  7. Think creatively to anticipate challenges and generate solutions in legal, psychology-based situations.
  8. Use digital technologies and [discipline related literacies] to [access, evaluate and synthesise] relevant information from [multiple sources]

Career pathways

There are career opportunities in private practice, in-house corporate practice and in-house government roles in legal and business careers relevant to your chosen Commerce major. Corporate planning, government policy, politics, journalism, creative writing and many other careers that require excellent written and verbal communications skills, and logic and analytical ability are also welcome options for graduates.

Possible future job titles

Psychologist, Lawyer, Solicitor, Legal Practitioner, Community Legal Adviser, Legal Publisher, Local Government Officer

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Graduate outcomes

Graduate satisfaction and employment outcomes for Psychology courses at Test Edith Cowan University (ECU).
87.4%
Overall satisfaction
88.7%
Skill scale
73.5%
Teaching scale
58.2%
Employed full-time
$65.8k
Average salary