LLB463 Legal Placement
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| Unit code: | LLB463 |
|---|---|
| Prerequisite(s): | LLB104 and (LLB105 or LLB107) |
| Antirequisite(s): | LWB456 |
| Credit points: | 12 |
| Timetable | Details in HiQ, if available |
| Availabilities |
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| CSP student contribution | $2,040 |
| Pre-2021 CSP student contribution | $1,597 The pre-2021 commonwealth supported place (CSP) contribution amount only applies to students enrolled in a course prior to 2021. To learn more, visit our Understanding your fees page. |
| Domestic tuition unit fee | $3,024 |
| International unit fee | $4,044 |
Unit Outline: Semester 1 2024, Gardens Point, Internal
| Unit code: | LLB463 |
|---|---|
| Credit points: | 12 |
| Pre-requisite: | LLB104 and (LLB105 or LLB107) |
| Anti-requisite: | LWB456 |
| Coordinator: | Samuel Roach | s2.roach@qut.edu.au |
Overview
This unit will enable you to experience the real world application and development of your legal knowledge and skills through participation in a domestic legal placement. You will work alone or with a small group of students to respond to real world legal issues at a community legal centre, not-for-profit organisation, law firm or company. You will undertake legal research, draft reports, prepare presentations, and/or undertake other legal tasks under supervision. This unit affords you an authentic learning context to undertake legal work in the real world. Through this experience you should develop skills to be better placed for career planning and transition to the workplace.
You will need to enrol in this unit in order to apply for a project. However, your enrolment does not guarantee that you will be allocated to a QUT-organised project, or that you will be able to undertake this unit.
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this unit you will be able to:
- Appraise the legal system and/or the role of lawyers (CLOs 1.1, 1.5, 2.3)
- Appraise social, professional and/or ethical issues, analysing the professional and/or ethical responsibilities of a legal practitioner in a public, private or community legal context (CLOs 2.3, 5.1)
- Evaluate and reflect on your application of discipline-specific and professional knowledge and skills and implement personal learning strategies (CLOs 1.1, 2.3, 5.2)
- Practice and reflect upon cross-cultural competence using collaborative strategies to cater for racial, indigenous, cultural or socio-economic difference (CLO 1.2, 1.4, 4.3, 5.2)
Content
The unit consists of the following components:
- preparation for the legal placement
- workshops
- reflection upon your learning during and after the placement experience
- completion of the domestic legal placement
Learning Approaches
This unit employs a self-directed and active approach to learning in an authentic work context.
Your participation in this unit includes:
- Four two-hour workshops in weeks 1, 2, 3 and 4
- Online or face-to-face academic learning support in preparation for the placement experience and the assessment of student learning
- Individual consultation between you and the unit coordinator
- Experiential learning and reflective practice
- Project supervisor's feedback
- Active learning in an ethos of the student assuming responsibility for his/her own learning
- Online learning and teaching resources provide feedback on your learning and are available via the Canvas site for this unit.
Feedback on Learning and Assessment
You will receive feedback on the assessment items and learning activities in the unit through written comments on criteria sheets and individual contact with the unit coordinator by phone, email or during classes. In addition, industry supervisors will provide you with ongoing feedback throughout your placement.
You should reflect upon the feedback on your assessment in this unit (both your individual and generic feedback as provided on Canvas) for the purpose of identifying:
- gaps in your knowledge and understanding of relevant legal principles
- inadequacies in your problem solving methodology
- strategies to improve your problem solving, oral and written communication skills in further assessment
- areas for improvement for future studies within the LLB, including legal research strategies
- the connection between writing reflectively and your continued professional development as a lawyer.
Assessment
Overview
The summative assessment consists of a reflective journal and a virtual presentation
Students may be required to attend campus or an assessment centre for the purposes of assessment, regardless of the attendance mode for the unit
Unit Grading Scheme
7- point scale
Assessment Tasks
Assessment: Reflective Journal
The reflective journal requires you to critically reflect on your learning in your placement experience. This demonstrates your understanding of the personal and professional challenges you have faced during the unit and in the project experience.
This assignment is eligible for the 48-hour late submission period and assignment extensions.
Assessment: Virtual presentation
Acting as a lawyer, you will submit a virtual presentation to your peers, critically analysing a contemporary legal issue that you have focussed on during your placement.
This assignment is eligible for the 48-hour late submission period and assignment extensions.
Academic Integrity
Students are expected to engage in learning and assessment at QUT with honesty, transparency and fairness. Maintaining academic integrity means upholding these principles and demonstrating valuable professional capabilities based on ethical foundations.
Failure to maintain academic integrity can take many forms. It includes cheating in examinations, plagiarism, self-plagiarism, collusion, and submitting an assessment item completed by another person (e.g. contract cheating). It can also include providing your assessment to another entity, such as to a person or website.
You are encouraged to make use of QUT’s learning support services, resources and tools to assure the academic integrity of your assessment. This includes the use of text matching software that may be available to assist with self-assessing your academic integrity as part of the assessment submission process.
Further details of QUT’s approach to academic integrity are outlined in the Academic integrity policy and the Student Code of Conduct. Breaching QUT’s Academic integrity policy is regarded as student misconduct and can lead to the imposition of penalties ranging from a grade reduction to exclusion from QUT.
Resources
Canvas site
Online materials for the unit are available on the unit Canvas site.
Risk Assessment Statement
Whilst undertaking activities related to your project you will be covered by QUT workers' compensation, public liability and professional indemnity insurance. You must familiarise yourself with the workplace health and safety rules of the particular workplace you attend.
It is also important to view the QUT WIL Health and Safety PowerPoint, Managing your rights, responsibilities and safety on placement, which will be shown to you in Workshop 1. You may also be required to undertake an induction in the relevant workplace.
You may have to sign a confidentiality agreement whereby you agree not to disclose any information learned in the course of the placement to any person outside the field placement office. You will need to understand matters of intellectual property, conflict of interest and insurance, which are also detailed in the Health and Safety resources.
Unit Outline: Semester 2 2024, Gardens Point, Internal
| Unit code: | LLB463 |
|---|---|
| Credit points: | 12 |
| Pre-requisite: | LLB104 and (LLB105 or LLB107) |
| Anti-requisite: | LWB456 |
| Coordinator: | Samuel Roach | s2.roach@qut.edu.au |
Overview
This unit will enable you to experience the real world application and development of your legal knowledge and skills through participation in a domestic legal placement. You will work alone or with a small group of students to respond to real world legal issues at a community legal centre, not-for-profit organisation, law firm or company. You will undertake legal research, draft reports, prepare presentations, and/or undertake other legal tasks under supervision. This unit affords you an authentic learning context to undertake legal work in the real world. Through this experience you should develop skills to be better placed for career planning and transition to the workplace.
You will need to enrol in this unit in order to apply for a project. However, your enrolment does not guarantee that you will be allocated to a QUT-organised project, or that you will be able to undertake this unit.
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this unit you will be able to:
- Appraise the legal system and/or the role of lawyers (CLOs 1.1, 1.5, 2.3)
- Appraise social, professional and/or ethical issues, analysing the professional and/or ethical responsibilities of a legal practitioner in a public, private or community legal context (CLOs 2.3, 5.1)
- Evaluate and reflect on your application of discipline-specific and professional knowledge and skills and implement personal learning strategies (CLOs 1.1, 2.3, 5.2)
- Practice and reflect upon ethical and professional identity, using collaborative strategies that draw on feedback, experience and career development (CLO 1.5, 4.3, 5.2)
Content
The unit consists of the following components:
- preparation for the legal placement
- workshops
- reflection upon your learning during and after the placement experience
- completion of the domestic legal placement
Learning Approaches
This unit employs a self-directed and active approach to learning in an authentic work context.
Your participation in this unit includes:
- Four two-hour workshops in weeks 1, 2, 3 and 4
- Online or face-to-face academic learning support in preparation for the placement experience and the assessment of student learning
- Individual consultation between you and the unit coordinator
- Experiential learning and reflective practice
- Project supervisor's feedback
- Active learning in an ethos of the student assuming responsibility for his/her own learning
- Online learning and teaching resources provide feedback on your learning and are available via the Canvas site for this unit.
Feedback on Learning and Assessment
You will receive feedback on the assessment items and learning activities in the unit through written comments on criteria sheets and individual contact with the unit coordinator by phone, email or during classes. In addition, industry supervisors will provide you with ongoing feedback throughout your placement.
You should reflect upon the feedback on your assessment in this unit (both your individual and generic feedback as provided on Canvas) for the purpose of identifying:
- gaps in your knowledge and understanding of relevant legal principles
- inadequacies in your problem solving methodology
- strategies to improve your problem solving, oral and written communication skills in further assessment
- areas for improvement for future studies within the LLB, including legal research strategies
- the connection between writing reflectively and your continued professional development as a lawyer.
Assessment
Overview
The summative assessment consists of a reflective journal and a virtual presentation
Students may be required to attend campus or an assessment centre for the purposes of assessment, regardless of the attendance mode for the unit
Unit Grading Scheme
7- point scale
Assessment Tasks
Assessment: Reflective Journal
The reflective journal requires you to critically reflect on your learning in your placement experience. This demonstrates your understanding of the personal and professional challenges you have faced during the unit and in the project experience.
This assignment is eligible for the 48-hour late submission period and assignment extensions.
Assessment: Virtual presentation
Acting as a lawyer, you will submit a virtual presentation to your peers, critically analysing a contemporary legal issue that you have focussed on during your placement.
This assignment is eligible for the 48-hour late submission period and assignment extensions.
Academic Integrity
Students are expected to engage in learning and assessment at QUT with honesty, transparency and fairness. Maintaining academic integrity means upholding these principles and demonstrating valuable professional capabilities based on ethical foundations.
Failure to maintain academic integrity can take many forms. It includes cheating in examinations, plagiarism, self-plagiarism, collusion, and submitting an assessment item completed by another person (e.g. contract cheating). It can also include providing your assessment to another entity, such as to a person or website.
You are encouraged to make use of QUT’s learning support services, resources and tools to assure the academic integrity of your assessment. This includes the use of text matching software that may be available to assist with self-assessing your academic integrity as part of the assessment submission process.
Further details of QUT’s approach to academic integrity are outlined in the Academic integrity policy and the Student Code of Conduct. Breaching QUT’s Academic integrity policy is regarded as student misconduct and can lead to the imposition of penalties ranging from a grade reduction to exclusion from QUT.
Resources
Canvas site
Online materials for the unit are available on the unit Canvas site.
Risk Assessment Statement
Whilst undertaking activities related to your project you will be covered by QUT workers' compensation, public liability and professional indemnity insurance. You must familiarise yourself with the workplace health and safety rules of the particular workplace you attend.
It is also important to view the QUT WIL Health and Safety PowerPoint, Managing your rights, responsibilities and safety on placement, which will be shown to you in Workshop 1. You may also be required to undertake an induction in the relevant workplace.
You may have to sign a confidentiality agreement whereby you agree not to disclose any information learned in the course of the placement to any person outside the field placement office. You will need to understand matters of intellectual property, conflict of interest and insurance, which are also detailed in the Health and Safety resources.
Unit Outline: Summer 2024, Gardens Point, Internal
| Unit code: | LLB463 |
|---|---|
| Credit points: | 12 |
| Pre-requisite: | LLB104 and (LLB105 or LLB107) |
| Anti-requisite: | LWB456 |
Overview
This unit will enable you to experience the real world application and development of your legal knowledge and skills through participation in a domestic legal placement. You will work alone or with a small group of students to respond to real world legal issues at a community legal centre, not-for-profit organisation, law firm or company. You will undertake legal research, draft reports, prepare presentations, and/or undertake other legal tasks under supervision. This unit affords you an authentic learning context to undertake legal work in the real world. Through this experience you should develop skills to be better placed for career planning and transition to the workplace.
You will need to enrol in this unit in order to apply for a project. However, your enrolment does not guarantee that you will be allocated to a QUT-organised project, or that you will be able to undertake this unit.
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this unit you will be able to:
- Appraise the legal system and/or the role of lawyers (CLOs 1.1, 1.5, 2.3)
- Appraise social, professional and/or ethical issues, analysing the professional and/or ethical responsibilities of a legal practitioner in a public, private or community legal context (CLOs 2.3, 5.1)
- Evaluate and reflect on your application of discipline-specific and professional knowledge and skills and implement personal learning strategies (CLOs 1.1, 2.3, 5.2)
- Practice and reflect upon ethical and professional identity, using collaborative strategies that draw on feedback, experience and career development (CLO 1.5, 4.3, 5.2)
Content
The unit consists of the following components:
- preparation for the legal placement
- workshops
- reflection upon your learning during and after the placement experience
- completion of the domestic legal placement
Learning Approaches
This unit employs a self-directed and active approach to learning in an authentic work context.
Your participation in this unit includes:
- Four two-hour workshops in weeks 1, 2, 3 and 4
- Online or face-to-face academic learning support in preparation for the placement experience and the assessment of student learning
- Individual consultation between you and the unit coordinator
- Experiential learning and reflective practice
- Project supervisor's feedback
- Active learning in an ethos of the student assuming responsibility for his/her own learning
- Online learning and teaching resources provide feedback on your learning and are available via the Canvas site for this unit.
Feedback on Learning and Assessment
You will receive feedback on the assessment items and learning activities in the unit through written comments on criteria sheets and individual contact with the unit coordinator by phone, email or during classes. In addition, industry supervisors will provide you with ongoing feedback throughout your placement.
You should reflect upon the feedback on your assessment in this unit (both your individual and generic feedback as provided on Canvas) for the purpose of identifying:
- gaps in your knowledge and understanding of relevant legal principles
- inadequacies in your problem solving methodology
- strategies to improve your problem solving, oral and written communication skills in further assessment
- areas for improvement for future studies within the LLB, including legal research strategies
- the connection between writing reflectively and your continued professional development as a lawyer.
Assessment
Overview
The summative assessment consists of a reflective journal and a virtual presentation
Students may be required to attend campus or an assessment centre for the purposes of assessment, regardless of the attendance mode for the unit
Unit Grading Scheme
7- point scale
Assessment Tasks
Assessment: Reflective Journal
The reflective journal requires you to critically reflect on your learning in your placement experience. This demonstrates your understanding of the personal and professional challenges you have faced during the unit and in the project experience.
This assignment is eligible for the 48-hour late submission period and assignment extensions.
Assessment: Virtual presentation
Acting as a lawyer, you will submit a virtual presentation to your peers, critically analysing a contemporary legal issue that you have focussed on during your placement.
This assignment is eligible for the 48-hour late submission period and assignment extensions.
Academic Integrity
Students are expected to engage in learning and assessment at QUT with honesty, transparency and fairness. Maintaining academic integrity means upholding these principles and demonstrating valuable professional capabilities based on ethical foundations.
Failure to maintain academic integrity can take many forms. It includes cheating in examinations, plagiarism, self-plagiarism, collusion, and submitting an assessment item completed by another person (e.g. contract cheating). It can also include providing your assessment to another entity, such as to a person or website.
You are encouraged to make use of QUT’s learning support services, resources and tools to assure the academic integrity of your assessment. This includes the use of text matching software that may be available to assist with self-assessing your academic integrity as part of the assessment submission process.
Further details of QUT’s approach to academic integrity are outlined in the Academic integrity policy and the Student Code of Conduct. Breaching QUT’s Academic integrity policy is regarded as student misconduct and can lead to the imposition of penalties ranging from a grade reduction to exclusion from QUT.
Resources
Canvas site
Online materials for the unit are available on the unit Canvas site.
Risk Assessment Statement
Whilst undertaking activities related to your project you will be covered by QUT workers' compensation, public liability and professional indemnity insurance. You must familiarise yourself with the workplace health and safety rules of the particular workplace you attend.
It is also important to view the QUT WIL Health and Safety PowerPoint, Managing your rights, responsibilities and safety on placement, which will be shown to you in Workshop 1. You may also be required to undertake an induction in the relevant workplace.
You may have to sign a confidentiality agreement whereby you agree not to disclose any information learned in the course of the placement to any person outside the field placement office. You will need to understand matters of intellectual property, conflict of interest and insurance, which are also detailed in the Health and Safety resources.