This major should allow students to understand, apply and adapt a coherent body of knowledge, the underlying principles and concepts in socio-legal studies and the adjacent areas of law and criminology in a range of contexts to a level necessary for many areas of vocational and professional employment. What impact does law have on our lives? To what extent does law either control what we do or allow us to achieve what we want? Is the law the same thing as justice? Can the world be saved by law? These are some of the questions examined in this major.

Graduates in this major will have a solid foundation for career options in a variety of roles in the private sector and in government. These include law-related policy and research roles in law reform and justice agencies, and various positions in those sectors that draw on an appropriate level of knowledge of law, such as human resources, industrial relations and a range of government organisations and non government organisations involved in areas such as human rights, equal opportunity, health care, social services, law enforcement and legal assistance and legal administration.