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Unit Synopsis
In your first year of law studies you will have learned the foundations of legal research and knowledge management. Legal Research will develop these skills to a level appropriate for a legal professional working as a researcher, legal project manager and in all other areas of legal practice. You will learn to access, analyse and evaluate information from legal authorities and from other relevant disciplinary knowledge bases. In Legal Research you will work with your peers in a learning community to apply your research skills in the context of a current legal research project such as contemporary law reform issue, a project for a community legal centre or the work of a research centre. You will prepare a research document which engages with a real public interest law issue and produce an artefact which will then form part of your professional portfolio.
Details
| Level | Undergraduate |
|---|---|
| Unit Level | 2 |
| Credit Points | 6 |
| Student Contribution Band | SCA Band 4 |
| Fraction of Full-Time Student Load | 0.125 |
| Pre-requisites or Co-requisites |
Pre-requisite: LAWS11057 Introduction to Law Important note: Students enrolled in a subsequent unit who failed their pre-requisite unit, should drop the subsequent unit before the census date or within 10 working days of Fail grade notification. Students who do not drop the unit in this timeframe cannot later drop the unit without academic and financial liability. See details in the Assessment Policy and Procedure (Higher Education Coursework). |
| Class Timetable | View Unit Timetable |
| Residential School | No Residential School |
Unit Availabilities from Term 2 - 2019
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Attendance Requirements
All on-campus students are expected to attend scheduled classes - in some units, these classes are identified as a mandatory (pass/fail) component and attendance is compulsory. International students, on a student visa, must maintain a full time study load and meet both attendance and academic progress requirements in each study period (satisfactory attendance for International students is defined as maintaining at least an 80% attendance record).
Recommended Student Time Commitment
Each 6-credit Undergraduate unit at CQUniversity requires an overall time commitment of an average of 12.5 hours of study per week, making a total of 150 hours for the unit.
Assessment Tasks
| Assessment Task | Weighting |
|---|---|
| 1. Portfolio | 20% |
| 2. Written Assessment | 20% |
| 3. Written Assessment | 60% |
This is a graded unit: your overall grade will be calculated from the marks or grades for each assessment task, based on the relative weightings shown in the table above. You must obtain an overall mark for the unit of at least 50%, or an overall grade of ‘pass’ in order to pass the unit. If any ‘pass/fail’ tasks are shown in the table above they must also be completed successfully (‘pass’ grade). You must also meet any minimum mark requirements specified for a particular assessment task, as detailed in the ‘assessment task’ section (note that in some instances, the minimum mark for a task may be greater than 50%).
Past Exams
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Feedback, Recommendations and Responses
Every unit is reviewed for enhancement each year. At the most recent review, the following staff and student feedback items were identified and recommendations were made.
Source: SUTE student feedback
I really enjoyed the unit and how there was a task each week to complete for the assessment. Overall the delivery of the unit was outstanding! It was engaging, interesting and informative.
Continue to deliver the unit content in an engaging, interesting and informative way.
This was continued.
Source: SUTE student feedback
I also found the final assignment to be very large for not many marks.
Review the weighting of the research portfolio and oral presentation components of Assessment 2.
This review has occurred for term 3. The portfolio now only covers weeks 7-11 rather than the entire unit.
Source: Students and markers
The portfolio assessment task is too large for 25%.
The total number of weeks covered by the portfolio task will be reduced significantly for term 3.
In Progress
On successful completion of this unit, you will be able to:
- Develop and evaluate strategies for solving legal problems, researching options and presenting solutions using a variety of different research and collaboration tools
- Analyse legal problems through critical thinking, evaluating and weighing evidence and developing alternative solutions
- Engage in collaborative research as a member of the learning community and as an ethically responsible professional
- Activate solutions and apply research toward legal change in context of a practical research project of public interest.
| Assessment Tasks | Learning Outcomes | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | |
| 1 - Portfolio | • | • | ||
| 2 - Written Assessment | • | • | • | |
| 3 - Written Assessment | • | • | • | |
| Graduate Attributes | Learning Outcomes | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | |
| 1 - Communication | • | • | ||
| 2 - Problem Solving | • | • | • | |
| 3 - Critical Thinking | • | • | ||
| 4 - Information Literacy | • | |||
| 5 - Team Work | • | • | ||
| 6 - Information Technology Competence | • | |||
| 7 - Cross Cultural Competence | • | |||
| 8 - Ethical practice | • | • | ||
| Assessment Tasks | Graduate Attributes | ||||||||||
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| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 10 | |
| 1 - Portfolio | • | • | • | • | • | • | |||||
| 2 - Written Assessment | • | • | • | • | |||||||
| 3 - Written Assessment | • | • | • | • | • | • | |||||