Comments

• Applied most of the changes suggested by HoS Gordon Stewart.
• In reading feedback, website and handbook I believe that the LLB might require a few diversions from the standard programme page structure:
  • Entry into second year: Quite a lot of content on this process, so where will we locate it?
  • Selection into Honours: Not like any other honours programme, so where will we put it?
  • Conjoint degree: As the LLB is often studied simultaneously with another degree we will have to cover the conjoint option here. WIll this be a new tab or using customisations of the degree requirements tab (we have space seeing there are no majors)? Not much detail currently provided.
• Added a duration/intensity (that really come in to its own for part-time only qualifications and PG (where there is a specified maximum duration as well as the standard full-time minimum)
• Revised the entry requirements.
• Fine-tuned the first degree requirement.

Duration/intensity

The LLB represents four years of full-time study and may also be studied part-time.

Entry Requirements

To be accepted into the LLB you need to

• achieve University Entrance for at least one of the admission types.

Thoughts and questions

Link to admission types, as not all students will understand all of them: http://www.victoria.ac.nz/study/apply-enrol/admissions

Degree requirements

• Total of 480 points required, of which:
  • At least 90 points must be from non-law courses chosen from any other first degree at this university.
• Complete three core courses at 100 level (usually in the first year):
  
  • LAWS 121
  • LAWS 122
  • LAWS 123.
• Complete non-law courses worth 70 points (usually in the first year)
• Selection into second-year law is based on academic performance in the three 100-level LAWS courses, and on the successful completion of at least 70 points from non-law courses (link away to the full policy).
• Complete five core courses at 200 level:
  
  • LAWS 211
  • LAWS 212
  • LAWS 213
  • LAWS 214
  • LAWS 297.
• Complete further non-law courses worth 20 points.
• Complete two core courses at 300 level:
  • LAWS 301
  • LAWS 312
• Complete eleven further LAWS courses at 300 level, including LAWS 334 if you wish to apply for admission to the Bar.

Supplementary information

Standard ones on Requirements of UG degrees

"All students are encouraged to read the additional information on the criteria for selection in to second-year law (link to new 5th tab).

"You should read the current law prospectus for . . ." (GUS, p.88).

"A B+ average over the . . ." (GUS, p.89).

"Selection in to Honours: Each year, the top . . ." (GUS, p.89).

Strongly worded warning/advice that in selecting the non-law course students should ensure they enroll in the prerequisites for a plan b (a major or two in another degree), just in case they miss the cut for entry into second year law. 

Tool tips

Standard ones on Requirements of UG degrees

Bar: One step in the process to practice as or to call yourself a New Zealand lawyer

Thoughts and questions

The LLB probably needs another tab to handle the 'law selection criteria'. Is this an issue? 

Listing all the 300-level courses in one requirement (5) clouds the year  3 and year 4 course allocation. Does this matter?

Do we deal with the LLB(Hons) when we are doing UG degrees or leave it until PG programmes (assuming PG gets left until the end of the project)? We are treating other honours degrees (except BE(Hons) as PG and leaving them, but the LLB(Hons) comes instead of finishing the LLB, not after. Discuss with Alison and Gordon?

The 'selection into honours' paragraph might take some careful wording, as entry to this programme reshapes the 3rd and 4th years.

LLB Conjoint programme

Comments

We decided to limit our treatment of conjoint and double degrees to a few words and a link to an existing homesite page.

The suggested exception to this is the LLB, because 80% of students do a conjoint degree. As such, it seems necessary to give more coverage to this flexibility for this degree.

I have used the major requirements section to describe the conjoint options, as the LLB doesn't have any majors. However, this section of the page is likely to be hand crafted.

• We need to state the general requirements for conjoints (at least those applicable to the LLB. See Entry and Conjoint Requirements sections above.
• Based on the graduate numbers (see comment) we will show an LLB/BA only for the MVP. We can always add more conjoint examples later.

Entry Requirements

Admission to a conjoint degree programme normally occurs in a student's second year, but may also occur later. Students seeking to enter a conjoint programme must have a minimum of a B- average over the courses completed in the previous year of study, but not yet completed the requirements of either component degree. Students must maintain a minimum of a B- average over the courses completed each year in order to remain in the conjoint programme.

Conjoint Requirements

For conjoint programmes consisting of the LLB and a three-year degree:

• Total of 660 points required, of which:
  • At least 480 points from courses at 200 level or higher.
  • Maximum of 60 points may be credited to the conjoint programme from a previously completed degree.
  • At least 180 points from courses passed at Victoria University
• Students must meet the conjoint requirements for each component degree.
• 300-level courses may not normally be used to satisfy the major or specialisation requirements for both component degrees.

Supplementary information

"Many students who wish to study Law also wish to study other subjects on another degree concurrently. Referred to as a conjoint degree, this arrangement allows an efficiency in the total number of points that must be completed, but comes with some conditions. This section helps explain the LLB conjoint option. Students requiring more information are encouraged to contact . . ."

Note to explain which degrees are most commonly taken with an LLB and why we only show the BA example.

Students taking a conjoint programme usually study courses required for each of the programme in each year.