Unit Synopsis
Legal professionals are required to solve complex legal problems by conducting research, critically analysing authorities through interdisciplinary knowledge and transmitting concepts to different audiences including clients, other professionals and public organisations. This unit further extends your research capabilities developed in Dissertation A. You will conduct a second research project into a legal issue agreed with your supervisor, critically examining the problem and preparing a written analysis suitable for publication. Your research in Dissertation B may be an extension of the research work undertaken in Dissertation A or a separate topic. Your focus may also extend beyond academic to professional journals.
Details
| Level | Undergraduate |
|---|---|
| Unit Level | 4 |
| Credit Points | 12 |
| Student Contribution Band | SCA Band 4 |
| Fraction of Full-Time Student Load | 0.25 |
| Pre-requisites or Co-requisites |
Prerequisites: Enrolment in CH75 Bachelor of Laws (Honours) and LAWS14003 Dissertation A 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 1 - 2026
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 12-credit Undergraduate unit at CQUniversity requires an overall time commitment of an average of 25 hours of study per week, making a total of 300 hours for the unit.
Assessment Tasks
| Assessment Task | Weighting |
|---|---|
| 1. Portfolio | 20% |
| 2. Written Assessment | 80% |
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
All University policies are available on the Policy web site, however you may wish to directly view the following policies below.
This list is not an exhaustive list of all University policies. The full list of policies are available on the Policy web site.
Term 2 - 2019 : The overall satisfaction for students in the last offering of this course was 100.00% (`Agree` and `Strongly Agree` responses), based on a 66.67% response rate.
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: Email
External reviewers require more time to provide feedback on student work
Move towards a post-moderation model for the external reviewers. This will be useful for calibration and also provide good feedback for students. There is no professional requirement for a pre-moderation model.
External reviewers were not used this year.
Source: Email
Students are interested in previous student work
Ask previous students for the opportunity to present their dissertations to future students.
Previous examples have been made available.
Source: Admissions
Low enrolment numbers
This course will not be offered in 2020 in order to provide time to look at alternatives and to see if CQU should continue to offer a law honours course.
In Progress
On successful completion of this unit, you will be able to:
- Conduct legal research extending the research conducted in Dissertation A or on a new topic and attain advanced theoretical and technical knowledge of a specialised area of law
- Analyse critically, evaluate and transform knowledge of legal authorities and critical academic or professional commentaries
- Scope, design and conduct a legal research project
- Transmit knowledge and ideas in an academic or professional research context
- Collaborate with academic supervisors and peers in a research community, providing and responding to feedback.
| Assessment Tasks | Learning Outcomes | ||||
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| 2 - Written Assessment | • | • | • | • | • |
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| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | |
| 1 - Communication | • | • | • | • | • |
| 2 - Problem Solving | • | • | • | • | • |
| 3 - Critical Thinking | • | • | • | • | • |
| 4 - Information Literacy | • | • | • | • | • |
| 5 - Team Work | • | • | • | • | • |
| 6 - Information Technology Competence | • | • | • | • | • |
| 7 - Cross Cultural Competence | • | • | • | • | • |
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| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 10 | |
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