Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion, students will have the knowledge and skills to:
On satisfactory completion of the course requirements, you should be able to:- Demonstrate an advanced and coherent knowledge of key principles of family law including an extended understanding of recent developments, and be able to cite the relevant legislative provisions and case law appropriately;
- Apply your knowledge of family law creatively and with initiative to construct an accurate written advice that addresses a factually complex hypothetical family law problem, and present that advice to specialist and non-specialist audiences;
- Identify and use a range of legally-specific research principles, methods and tools appropriately to respond to a factually complex family law problem;
- Locate, describe, apply and critically evaluate key aspects of family law including recent developments, and selected secondary academic literature and theoretical writing about family law and its reforms;
- Identify a range of perspectives and values that are relevant to family law and critically examine (in written and oral form) those perspectives and values;
- Acquire experience in collaborative learning and demonstrate interpersonal and communication skills to function effectively in small groups;
- Demonstrate an ability to engage purposefully and constructively in the planning, management and execution of a substantial group project;
- Demonstrate a high level of personal autonomy and accountability;
- Reflect coherently upon your learning in the course, your own values, the values underlying the family law system, and the difference between family law and practice in other legal areas, and comment on those differences at a theoretical level.
Other Information
There are no pre-requisites for this course. However, the completion of Property, Equity and Trusts and Corporations is an advantage.Those who have an interest in feminist legal theory and women and the law will find this course enhances their study in those areas.
Indicative Assessment
The means of assessment for this course is likely to include a written submission to a law reform parliamentary inquiry, a take home assignment and a piece of reflective writing. It is also likely that there will be flexible delivery of some of the course content, participation requirements, group work and oral presentations.Details of the final assessment will be provided on the course WATTLE site by the first week of semester.
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Workload
One contact per week in most weeks. Three contact hours in some weeks. Estimated total workload of 10 hours per week.Requisite and Incompatibility
Prescribed Texts
Please refer to course WATTLE site.Preliminary Reading
Please refer to course WATTLE site.
Fees
Tuition fees are for the academic year indicated at the top of the page.
If you are a domestic graduate coursework or international student you will be required to pay tuition fees. Students continuing in their current program of study will have their tuition fees indexed annually from the year in which you commenced your program. Further information for domestic and international students about tuition and other fees can be found at Fees.
- Student Contribution Band:
- 3
- Unit value:
- 6 units
If you are an undergraduate student and have been offered a Commonwealth supported place, your fees are set by the Australian Government for each course. At ANU 1 EFTSL is 48 units (normally 8 x 6-unit courses). You can find your student contribution amount for each course at Fees. Where there is a unit range displayed for this course, not all unit options below may be available.
| Units | EFTSL |
|---|---|
| 6.00 | 0.12500 |
Course fees
- Domestic fee paying students
| Year | Fee | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 1994-2003 | $1554 | |
| 2014 | $2808 | |
| 2013 | $2808 | |
| 2012 | $2808 | |
| 2011 | $2778 | |
| 2010 | $2718 | |
| 2009 | $2670 | |
| 2008 | $2670 | |
| 2007 | $2670 | |
| 2006 | $2646 | |
| 2005 | $2298 | |
| 2004 | $1926 |
- International fee paying students
| Year | Fee |
|---|---|
| 1994-2003 | $2916 |
| 2014 | $3762 |
| 2013 | $3756 |
| 2012 | $3756 |
| 2011 | $3756 |
| 2010 | $3750 |
| 2009 | $3426 |
| 2008 | $3426 |
| 2007 | $3426 |
| 2006 | $3426 |
| 2005 | $3234 |
| 2004 | $2916 |
Offerings, Dates and Class Summary Links
ANU utilises MyTimetable to enable students to view the timetable for their enrolled courses, browse, then self-allocate to small teaching activities / tutorials so they can better plan their time. Find out more on the Timetable webpage.
