It’s really important that we equip our
students with skills that will take them into
a variety of careers. So skills of communication,
skills of analysis, problem solving, time
management and so forth. And those skills
are not just talked about, students will see
in a subject what graduate attributes are
being aimed at within that subject.
We think it’s really important that our
graduates as professionals and professionals
educated within the discipline of law are
able to think broadly & reflectively. Law
brings with it a special commitment, a commitment
to social justice, to legal justice & to the
rule of law, and we want our students, whatever
career path they follow, to be able to think
about that and so, both within the law subjects,
but also within the informal curriculum if
you like, through for example our programs
such as the Brennan Justice & Leadership program,
we give our students opportunities to reflect,
to reflect on the role of law, how law impacts
on the community and also opportunities for
service, to really live out those values.
Many of our students and obviously particularly
at the JD level will be coming in at a more
advanced stage, in terms of their life experience
if you like, and so it’s really important
that we provide those opportunities for access
& flexibility. So for example we try to ensure
that in the foundation subjects, the core
subjects, there’s always an opportunity
for students to be able to do that in the
evenings and so forth, that there are repeat
classes, as well we give a range of options
to ways in which students might be able to
take subjects. It might be that they can do
them intensively; it might be in the evening.
What’s really crucial is what is right for
the subject, but also bearing in mind that
we want our students to feel that they’ve
got that flexibility & they’ve got access.
It’s really important to us that we help
them, we want them to be successful graduates
so what we do is we try to help them through
that journey, and I think that’s something
that’s particularly important at UTS & it’
s a tradition in this faculty.
