This capstone unit provides you with a choice of an international study tour, domestic placement, participation in a social innovation project, or workplace simulation. You may undertake a multi-week legal international study tour, facilitated by CQUGlobal, to an international location in conjunction with an external partner organisation. International study tours will involve you having to pay for travel and accommodation which may be offset by access to government scholarships, e.g. New Columbo plan. Prior to travelling to an international location, you will study appropriate aspects of host country law and culture and will develop practical skills necessary to support your practicum. You may undertake a domestic placement, facilitated by the Workplace Instruction (WIL) team, or you may also be able to source and complete an approved placement to gain experience in a legal environment. Prior to undertaking a domestic placement, you will study appropriate cultural aspects, ethical responsibilities and will develop practical skills necessary to support your placement. You may undertake a social innovation project, facilitated by the Office of Social Innovation, designed for you to engage with a social innovation issue. The workplace simulation option is a simulated legal work experience with a heavy emphasis on skill development (advocacy, drafting, client interviewing, negotiating, file management, problem solving) in the context of a practical legal case file. The specialist area that forms the subject of this simulation may vary annually. The capstone unit will enable you to apply your knowledge to legal problems in a legal environment. As part of your capstone you will undertake an analysis, maintain a reflective journal, and present your accomplishment to peers which will then be used to update your ePortfolio.
Level | Undergraduate |
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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 |
Prerequisite: 24 credit points of 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 |
Optional Residential School View Unit Residential School |
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).
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 Task | Weighting |
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1. Written Assessment | 20% |
2. Learning logs / diaries / Journal / log books | 40% |
3. Presentation | 40% |
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%).
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Term 1 - 2023 : The overall satisfaction for students in the last offering of this course was 64.00% (`Agree` and `Strongly Agree` responses), based on a 42.37% response rate.
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.
On successful completion of this unit, you will be able to:
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8 - Ethical practice | • | • |
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