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Law

The Programme

The following three units are scheduled to be offered in the 2014 International Human Rights Law Program:

Any student in good standing at a law school in Australia who will have completed one year of academic work, or the equivalent prior to enrolment, and satisfied any unit prerequisite is eligible for participation in the program. These units are Murdoch University School of Law units, taught intensively in English, available to Murdoch law students or cross-institutional Australian law students. Each unit will be taught in intensive mode over about 36 hours and will be worth 4 credit points; there may also be additional sessions with international jurists. Students may enrol in one, two or three units, for a maximum of 12 credit points. All classes will be conducted either in the morning or afternoon so as to enable students to pursue other scholarly or curricular activities.

Students who successfully complete this Program's units may receive credits towards their LLB, JD or LLM degree at their respective Australian universities. All grades awarded are Murdoch University grades.

Workload

Murdoch University considers a 12 point unit load to be full time study; students are expected to be doing 50 hours of learning for each point of load. Students engaged in a full load are expected to be doing around 40 hours a week of learning related activity if they wish to get the most out of their units.

Students will be provided with materials electronically prior to the commencement of teaching in Geneva and will be expected to have done some prior reading. Face to face teaching and other activities will occur over the period in Geneva accompanied by site visits. Some assessment may occur in Geneva and assessments will also be due at the end of semester 2. Please direct any queries you have in relation to assessment to your unit coordinator.

Please note that results will not be available until after Board of Examiners approves those results at the end of semester 2.

Students who choose to do three summer or winter units will be fully loaded for the duration of the following semester. Although the School of Law may allow an overload in individual cases, it is unlikely that the overload would be of more than one extra unit. Students who take two units will be allowed to do a third unit in the following semester as normal load and may be allowed to do a fourth unit as an overload. The School of Law's position is that it will not normally allow an overload for a student if his or her grade point average is not above 2.6.