Major Overview
- Description
As the accountability and personal liability of professionals, business managers and public servants continues to grow, a strong grounding in business law is becoming an increasingly attractive attribute for potential employers both nationally and internationally. The Business Law major focuses on the fundamental relationship between law and business and is ideal for those planning careers in a wide range of business areas including professional accounting, business management, international trade and industrial relations. It equips you with high-level analytical, problem-solving, research and communication skills that will enable you to recognise, analyse and, where possible, avoid the legal problems that arise in the course of many common business transactions. In cases where such avoidance is not possible, Business Law students have the knowledge to intelligently request and act on legal services and advice.
- Outcomes
Students are able to:
- demonstrate a comprehensive understanding of the main principles of business law with depth in each of the following areas: what we know about the law, how it is made and how it works in our society
- demonstrate an understanding of legal reasoning, rules, institutions, players and power structures
- demonstrate an understanding of how law operates in the context of modern commercial practice to facilitate a range of business transactions, including financing transactions, provide appropriate structures for the conduct of various business activities and resolve disputes between parties involved in any or all of these activities or structures
- demonstrate developed cognitive skills to review, analyse, consolidate and synthesise knowledge, identify and solve defined problems, and exercise critical judgement and thinking in creating new understanding
- demonstrate well developed skills to present data and evidence in an appropriate format and communicate through written and oral media clearly, effectively and appropriately in a range of contexts to a variety of audiences
- demonstrate well developed skills to work productively in a group
- demonstrate well developed bibliographic and referencing skills
- demonstrate basic time and project management skills.
- Broadening guidelines
All students studying towards a Bachelor's Degree at UWA are required to Broaden their studies by completing a minimum of four units (24 points) of study outside their degree specific major. Broadening is your opportunity to explore other areas of interest, investigate new disciplines and knowledge paradigms and to shape your degree to suit your own aspirations and interests. Many of you will be able to undertake more than this minimum amount of broadening study and we encourage you to do so if this suits your aspirations. Over the next few months you will find here some broadening suggestions related to your degree-specific major. While we know that many students value guidance of this sort, these are only suggestions and students should not lose sight of the opportunity to explore that is afforded by your Broadening Choices. Advice can also be sought from your Allocated Student Advising Office.
- Courses
Business Law can be taken as a degree-specific major in the following degree courses:
Example Study Plan
See study plans for more information.
Units
Key to availability of units:
- S1
- Semester 1
- S2
- Semester 2
- N/A
- not available in 2025 – may be available in 2026 or 2027
Level 1
Degree-specific major units
Take all units (12 points):
Level 2
Degree-specific major units
Take all units (18 points):
Level 3
Degree-specific major units
Take all units (12 points):
| Availability | Unit code | Unit name | unit requirements |
|---|---|---|---|
| S2 | LAWS3222 | Taxation Law | |
| S2 | LAWS3308 | Business Law in Practice |
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Degree-specific major units
Take unit(s) to the value of 6 points: