Overview
This Handbook is for commencing students. If you commenced in a prior year please refer to the Online Handbook in the year you started your Law degree or contact the Faculty of Law for advice.
This Bachelor of International Studies (UNSW BInst) and Bachelor of Laws provides an opportunity to obtain two degrees of professional importance to the public sector, community service, business and law practice. The Law courses satisfy the requirements for the award of the professional LLB degree. The UNSW BInSt is an innovative and practical program in which you will develop a comprehensive understanding of the contemporary world, pick up a useful second language, and experience one-year of study overseas. The program satisfies a growing demand in Australia and globally for graduates who are highly skilled, internationally informed and professionally equipped to meet the challenges of work in a rapidly changing global environment.
The program examines the interactions of nations, economies, institutions, peoples, cultures, technologies and ideas against a background of increasing international integration and changing modernity. It challenges you to: examine the dynamics of global and regional change; explore key issues and challenges in global change, evaluate the importance of globalisation, and debate key questions centred on nationalism, sovereignty, social change, development, and transnational interaction. You specialize in an area of study, complete language study and a one-year Overseas Study Program (OSP) at one of the more than 200 approved partner universities around the world.
The aims of UNSW BInSt are:
1. To satisfy a growing demand, in Australia and abroad, for graduates who are highly skilled, well informed and professionally equipped to meet the challenges of work in a rapidly changing global environment.
2. To give students a thorough preparation for further study and employment in areas vital to Australia's increasing participation in the international arena.
3. To examine and develop a better understanding of the interactions of nations, economies, institutions, peoples, cultures, technologies and ideas against a background of increasing international integration and changing modernity.
4. To promote competence in a major language or languages relevant and useful for the global economy in which we live (viz. French, German, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Italian, Greek and Indonesian).
To provide students with the invaluable experience of other cultures, languages and peoples - experience greatly valued by employers internationally, through the completion of a one-year Overseas Study Program.
Stand Alone Programs
Double Degree Structure
Students must complete 288 UOC.
- Law compulsory courses - 96 UOC
- Law prescribed elective - 6 UOC
- Law elective courses - 42 UOC
- International Studies core - 24 UOC
- Regional Electives - 12 UOC
- Specialist Electives - 12 UOC
- Language Study core - 24 UOC
- A minor stream - 24 UOC
- Overseas Study Program - 48 UOC
Notes:
- If you are undertaking the Asian Studies minor you must complete a sequence of 24 UOC in an Asian language. If you are undertaking the European Studies minor you must complete a sequence of 24 UOC in a European language.
- If you are enrolled in the International Studies/Law double degree and undertaking a minor in International Business, will complete 12 UOC in Regional and 6 UOC Specialist rather than 24 UOC.
- If you are enrolled in the BInSt/LLB double degree, you have the option of undertaking a major in International Business by completing three International Business approved electives (18 UOC or equivalent) as part of your Overseas Study Program (OSP).
- Courses that form part of your minor may not be double counted towards the Regional and Specialist components of the program.
- If you complete a minor in a language you must complete that study in a Language other than that which you choose for the Language Study Core requirement.
Minor
Major
- EXCH8035 Individual Study Program (18 UOC)
- EXCH8034 Individual Study Program (12 UOC)
If you commence the Overseas Study Program in T1 you will enrol in EXCH8035 Individual Study Program (18 UOC) in T1 and T2 and EXCH8034 Individual Study Program (12 UOC) in T3.
You must undertake OSP during Year 3.
Language at UNSW may be studied at Beginner, Intermediate or Advanced levels. If you have had experience learning a language previously or are a native speaker of a particular language, you are required to complete a language placement in order to be placed at an appropriate starting point. The online language placement is for students who are enrolling into a language at UNSW for the first time.
Chinese
French
German
Greek
The following courses are taught at UNSW. Intermediate and Senior Greek language courses are studied cross-institutionally at the University of Sydney. For more information, refer to the Greek Studies minor in the Bachelor of Arts.
Indonesian
The following courses are taught at UNSW. Introductory and Intermediate Indonesian language courses are studied cross-institutionally at the University of Sydney. For more information, refer to the Indonesian Studies minor in the Bachelor of Arts.
Italian
The following courses are taught at UNSW. Intermediate and Senior Italian language courses are studied cross-institutionally at the University of Sydney. For more information, refer to the Italian Studies minor in the Bachelor of Arts.
Japanese
Korean
Spanish
Asia
Europe
The Americas
Note: With the permission of the Director of Undergraduate Studies and the course teacher, undergraduate students may enrol in one or more Postgraduate courses, in a select list of approved Postgraduate Electives. Not more than half the students' total elective courses may be taken from the postgraduate offerings.
Nura-Gili Pre-Law Program
- LAWS1213 Foundations Enrichment 1 (3 UOC)
- LAWS1214 Foundations Enrichment 2 (3 UOC)
These courses are taken in place of 6 UOC of electives and are not available to other students.
Enrolment Disclaimer
You are responsible for ensuring you enrol in courses according to your program requirements and advice from your Program Authority. myUNSW enrolment checks that you have met enrolment requirements such as pre-requisites for individual courses but not that you are enrolling in courses that will count towards your program.
Additional Information
Completion of 24 uoc in Language Study courses will automatically confer a minor at the time of graduation.
Further Information
Contact the UNSW Arts and Social Sciences Student Centre for advice.
Program Fees
At UNSW fees are generally charged at course level and therefore dependent upon individual enrolment and other factors such as student's residency status. For generic information on fees and additional expenses of UNSW programs, click on one of the following: