Bachelor of Laws (Honours) Bachelor of Creative Intelligence and Innovation

Program Overview

This combined Bachelor of Laws (Honours) and Bachelor of Creative Intelligence and Innovation degree equips students with the skills to transform ideas into reality. It combines legal knowledge with creative intelligence, empowering graduates to provide innovative solutions to complex challenges. The program emphasizes high-level conceptual thinking, problem-solving, and entrepreneurial outcomes, preparing students for careers in law, business, and innovation.

Program Outline

Degree Overview:

This combined Bachelor of Laws (Honours) and Bachelor of Creative Intelligence and Innovation degree is designed for enterprising individuals who aspire to develop the ability to transform ideas into reality. It equips students with the skills, perspectives, and strategies necessary to bring their ideas to fruition. Creativity is viewed as the driving force behind innovation, realized through design processes. Students are empowered to generate and test ideas within diverse disciplinary contexts, evaluating their value through hands-on experimental practices, rigorous interpretation, and analysis. Taking a transdisciplinary approach, the program utilizes multiple perspectives from various fields, integrating a range of industry experiences, real-world projects, and self-initiated proposals. Graduates are equipped to address the complex challenges and untapped opportunities of today's world. Honours is related solely to the law component, and students must successfully complete both research subjects: 76090 Research Methodology and 76040 Research Thesis. Strong research skills are highly valued in contemporary professional practice. Students gain an in-depth understanding of legal challenges and concerns. This combined degree empowers graduates to provide innovative and thoughtful solutions to complex challenges, a crucial skill for bringing great ideas to life. By focusing on high-level conceptual thinking and problem-solving practices that lead to innovative, creative, and entrepreneurial outcomes, students of the combined degree also gain leading-edge capabilities that are highly valued in the globalized world, including dealing with critical and creative thinking, invention, complexity, innovation, future scenario building, entrepreneurship, and the ability to work independently across disciplines. These creative intelligence competencies enable graduates to navigate a rapidly changing world. Students have the opportunity to engage in deeper study of the law through the subjects 76090 Research Methodology and 76040 Research Thesis. This course can serve as a pathway to higher degree research programs.

Outline:

The program comprises a total of 240 credit points. The law component consists of 144 credit points, including:

• 108 credit points of compulsory core law subjects
• A 6-credit-point legal theory option
• 30 credit points of law options, which include either:
• 18 credit points of law options, a 6-credit-point research methodology subject, and a 6-credit-point research thesis subject, or
• A 6-credit-point technology law, policy, and ethics (Capstone 1) subject, a 6-credit-point applied project in law, an innovation and technology (Capstone 2) subject, a 6-credit-point research methodology subject, a 6-credit-point research thesis subject, and either a disruptive technologies and the law subject or a local internship.
The creative intelligence and innovation component consists of 96 credit points. The creative intelligence and innovation subjects are undertaken in accelerated form within July and Summer sessions during the first three years of study, and through one full year of study after completion of the professional degree. The Bachelor of Creative Intelligence and Innovation is not offered as a separate degree but is completed only in combination with the professional degree program.

Careers:

Career options for graduates include entrepreneur, speculative start-up consultant, entrepreneurial lawyer, commercial lawyer, corporate lawyer, barrister, creative enterprise manager, solicitor, product development and life cycle manager, market researcher, strategic analyst, and brand development manager. By being creative thinkers, initiators of new ideas, scenario planners, global strategists, open network designers, or sustainable futures innovators within their chosen field of study, graduates maximize the potential of their chosen profession, making them highly sought-after graduates with the ability to identify and develop solutions to some of the most complex issues that face their disciplines and society.