LLH403 Legal Industry Capstone Project
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| Unit code: | LLH403 |
|---|---|
| Prerequisite(s): | LLH402 |
| Antirequisite(s): | LLH401 |
| 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 2 2024, Gardens Point, Internal
| Unit code: | LLH403 |
|---|---|
| Credit points: | 12 |
| Pre-requisite: | LLH402 Legal Research Project |
| Assumed Knowledge: | LLH402 Legal Research Project |
| Anti-requisite: | LLH401 Legal Research Capstone |
| Coordinator: | Samuel Roach | s2.roach@qut.edu.au |
Overview
LLH403 is a work-integrated learning unit that prepares students to transition from university to professional work. This final-year capstone unit will enable you to apply the research skills developed in LLH402 to a real-world legal problem. QUT works with industry partners to identify the complex contemporary legal problems Australians are facing. You will apply your legal knowledge and research skills by completing a research project that presents a solution to one of these problems. You will further develop your reflective writing skills by critically reflecting on the challenges you faced while completing your research project.
Whether you see your future in a law firm, community legal centre, law reform commission, government department, or elsewhere, you will require the ability to apply your legal knowledge in real-world contexts; recognise opportunities to create solutions in the workplace; and reflect on feedback, experience and career development.
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this unit you will be able to:
- Critically analyse the law to address social, professional and/or ethical issues (CLOs 1.1, 1.5, 2.1, 2.3)
- Apply appropriate research methodologies and skills to identify and evaluate primary and/or secondary resources that inform critical analysis (CLOs 3.1, 3.2, 3.3)
- Concisely communicate legal concepts, critical analysis, arguments and supporting evidence (CLOs 4.1, 4.2)
- Reflect on your application of professional knowledge and skills and make professional and ethical judgments about future practice (CLOs 5.1, 5.2)
Content
This unit consolidates and builds on knowledge and skills that you have developed throughout the degree and specifically focusses on:
- Planning, designing, and executing a policy submission that responds to WIL partner needs; and
- Demonstrating advanced reflective writing skills.
Learning Approaches
This unit adopts a blended learning approach to facilitate project-based learning in an authentic work context.
Your participation in this unit includes:
- Tutorials
- Online or face-to-face academic learning support and the assessment of student learning
- The option of individual consultation between you and the unit coordinator
- 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 are provided with formative and summative feedback to assist your learning throughout the semester through:
- The option of consultation with a member of the teaching team every week for the purpose of receiving formative feedback
- Individual feedback provided on assessment, together with the completed Criteria Referenced Assessment (CRA) form
- Generic feedback posted on the unit's Canvas for each item of assessment
Assessment
Overview
The summative assessment in this unit consists of a policy report and a reflection.
Unit Grading Scheme
7- point scale
Assessment Tasks
Assessment: Policy Report
QUT works with a number of industry partners to identify contemporary legal issues. Acting as a lawyer, you will complete a research project on one of these issues and present your findings as a policy report.
This assignment is eligible for the 48-hour late submission period and assignment extensions.
Assessment: Reflection
The reflective journal requires you to critically reflect on the work you have undertaken in your research project. This demonstrates your understanding of the personal and professional challenges you have faced, and the steps you will take to overcome these challenges in future.
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
Online materials for the unit are available on the unit Canvas site.
Risk Assessment Statement
There are no out of the ordinary risks associated with this unit.
Course Learning Outcomes
This unit is designed to support your development of the following course/study area learning outcomes.LW38 Bachelor of Laws (Honours)
- The essential principles and doctrines of Australian law and the Australian legal system
Relates to: ULO1, Policy Report - The role of law in achieving sustainable futures
Relates to: ULO1 - The application, operation and evolution of law in diverse, changing and global contexts
Relates to: Policy Report - Using legal reasoning and critical thinking in applying law to legal problems and providing legal advice
Relates to: ULO1, Policy Report - Applying critical perspectives, including theoretical, cultural and social perspectives, to evaluate law and policy
Relates to: ULO1, Policy Report - Selecting and using contemporary technologies to effectively search, organise and use information
Relates to: ULO2, Policy Report, Reflection - Selecting and applying appropriate research methods
Relates to: ULO2, Policy Report, Reflection - Planning and executing a research project and presenting findings and recommendations
Relates to: ULO2, Policy Report, Reflection - Knowing and using academic and legal writing conventions and communicating clearly, concisely and persuasively in written forms
Relates to: ULO3, Policy Report, Reflection - Using effective oral, visual or other professional communication in diverse contexts
Relates to: ULO3, Policy Report, Reflection - Making professional and ethical judgements
Relates to: ULO4, Reflection - Reflecting on feedback, experience and career development
Relates to: ULO4, Reflection
LW39 Bachelor of Laws (Honours) (Graduate Entry)
- The essential principles and doctrines of Australian law and the Australian legal system
Relates to: ULO1, Policy Report - The role of law in achieving sustainable futures
Relates to: ULO1, Policy Report - Using legal reasoning and critical thinking in applying the law to legal problems and providing legal advice
Relates to: ULO1, Policy Report - Applying critical perspectives, including theoretical, cultural and social perspectives, to evaluate law and policy
Relates to: ULO1, Policy Report - Selecting and using contemporary technologies to effectively search, organise and use information
Relates to: ULO2, Policy Report, Reflection - Selecting and applying appropriate research methods
Relates to: ULO2, Policy Report, Reflection - Knowing and using academic and legal writing conventions and communicating clearly, concisely and persuasively in written forms
Relates to: ULO3, Policy Report, Reflection - Using effective oral, visual and other professional communication in diverse contexts
Relates to: ULO3, Policy Report, Reflection - Making professional and ethical judgements
Relates to: ULO4, Reflection - Reflecting on feedback, experience and career development
Relates to: ULO4, Reflection
Unit Outline: Semester 2 2024, Online
| Unit code: | LLH403 |
|---|---|
| Credit points: | 12 |
| Pre-requisite: | LLH402 Legal Research Project |
| Assumed Knowledge: | LLH402 Legal Research Project |
| Anti-requisite: | LLH401 Legal Research Capstone |
Overview
LLH403 is a work-integrated learning unit that prepares students to transition from university to professional work. This final-year capstone unit will enable you to apply the research skills developed in LLH402 to a real-world legal problem. QUT works with industry partners to identify the complex contemporary legal problems Australians are facing. You will apply your legal knowledge and research skills by completing a research project that presents a solution to one of these problems. You will further develop your reflective writing skills by critically reflecting on the challenges you faced while completing your research project.
Whether you see your future in a law firm, community legal centre, law reform commission, government department, or elsewhere, you will require the ability to apply your legal knowledge in real-world contexts; recognise opportunities to create solutions in the workplace; and reflect on feedback, experience and career development.
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this unit you will be able to:
- Critically analyse the law to address social, professional and/or ethical issues (CLOs 1.1, 1.5, 2.1, 2.3)
- Apply appropriate research methodologies and skills to identify and evaluate primary and/or secondary resources that inform critical analysis (CLOs 3.1, 3.2, 3.3)
- Concisely communicate legal concepts, critical analysis, arguments and supporting evidence (CLOs 4.1, 4.2)
- Reflect on your application of professional knowledge and skills and make professional and ethical judgments about future practice (CLOs 5.1, 5.2)
Content
This unit consolidates and builds on knowledge and skills that you have developed throughout the degree and specifically focusses on:
- Planning, designing, and executing a policy submission that responds to WIL partner needs; and
- Demonstrating advanced reflective writing skills.
Learning Approaches
This unit adopts a blended learning approach to facilitate project-based learning in an authentic work context.
Your participation in this unit includes:
- Tutorials
- Online or face-to-face academic learning support and the assessment of student learning
- The option of individual consultation between you and the unit coordinator
- 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 are provided with formative and summative feedback to assist your learning throughout the semester through:
- The option of consultation with a member of the teaching team every week for the purpose of receiving formative feedback
- Individual feedback provided on assessment, together with the completed Criteria Referenced Assessment (CRA) form
- Generic feedback posted on the unit's Canvas for each item of assessment
Assessment
Overview
The summative assessment in this unit consists of a policy report and a reflection.
Unit Grading Scheme
7- point scale
Assessment Tasks
Assessment: Policy Report
QUT works with a number of industry partners to identify contemporary legal issues. Acting as a lawyer, you will complete a research project on one of these issues and present your findings as a policy report.
This assignment is eligible for the 48-hour late submission period and assignment extensions.
Assessment: Reflection
The reflective journal requires you to critically reflect on the work you have undertaken in your research project. This demonstrates your understanding of the personal and professional challenges you have faced, and the steps you will take to overcome these challenges in future.
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
Online materials for the unit are available on the unit Canvas site.
Risk Assessment Statement
There are no out of the ordinary risks associated with this unit.
Course Learning Outcomes
This unit is designed to support your development of the following course/study area learning outcomes.LW38 Bachelor of Laws (Honours)
- The essential principles and doctrines of Australian law and the Australian legal system
Relates to: ULO1, Policy Report - The role of law in achieving sustainable futures
Relates to: ULO1 - The application, operation and evolution of law in diverse, changing and global contexts
Relates to: Policy Report - Using legal reasoning and critical thinking in applying law to legal problems and providing legal advice
Relates to: ULO1, Policy Report - Applying critical perspectives, including theoretical, cultural and social perspectives, to evaluate law and policy
Relates to: ULO1, Policy Report - Selecting and using contemporary technologies to effectively search, organise and use information
Relates to: ULO2, Policy Report, Reflection - Selecting and applying appropriate research methods
Relates to: ULO2, Policy Report, Reflection - Planning and executing a research project and presenting findings and recommendations
Relates to: ULO2, Policy Report, Reflection - Knowing and using academic and legal writing conventions and communicating clearly, concisely and persuasively in written forms
Relates to: ULO3, Policy Report, Reflection - Using effective oral, visual or other professional communication in diverse contexts
Relates to: ULO3, Policy Report, Reflection - Making professional and ethical judgements
Relates to: ULO4, Reflection - Reflecting on feedback, experience and career development
Relates to: ULO4, Reflection
LW39 Bachelor of Laws (Honours) (Graduate Entry)
- The essential principles and doctrines of Australian law and the Australian legal system
Relates to: ULO1, Policy Report - The role of law in achieving sustainable futures
Relates to: ULO1, Policy Report - Using legal reasoning and critical thinking in applying the law to legal problems and providing legal advice
Relates to: ULO1, Policy Report - Applying critical perspectives, including theoretical, cultural and social perspectives, to evaluate law and policy
Relates to: ULO1, Policy Report - Selecting and using contemporary technologies to effectively search, organise and use information
Relates to: ULO2, Policy Report, Reflection - Selecting and applying appropriate research methods
Relates to: ULO2, Policy Report, Reflection - Knowing and using academic and legal writing conventions and communicating clearly, concisely and persuasively in written forms
Relates to: ULO3, Policy Report, Reflection - Using effective oral, visual and other professional communication in diverse contexts
Relates to: ULO3, Policy Report, Reflection - Making professional and ethical judgements
Relates to: ULO4, Reflection - Reflecting on feedback, experience and career development
Relates to: ULO4, Reflection