This on-campus 5-year full-time course is offered by the Faculty of Arts and the Faculty of Law and is available at Hobart. The first year only is also offered at the Launceston and Cradle Coast campus. The Bachelor of Arts offers the opportunity for a liberal education. Students are able to exercise choice across a wide range of disciplines. These include the humanities (Ancient Civilisations, Ancient Greek, Latin, English, History, Asian Languages, European Languages and Philosophy), the social sciences (Geography, International Relations, Political Science, Psychology, Public Policy and Sociology) and interdisciplinary studies (Aboriginal Studies, Asian Studies, Asian Religions and Comparative Philosophy, Criminology, European Studies, Gender Studies and Journalism, Media & Communications) as well as visual and performing arts (Art Theory, Music History, Music Skills and Music Technology). The Bachelor of Laws course is the basic academic preparation for persons who wish to enter the legal profession and other careers involving legal work. The course also has wider applicability in developing the attributes and skills inherent in a general university education. Students develop the values and intellectual abilities necessary to marshal facts and to critically assess and evaluate information, theories and doctrines thus preparing themselves for a variety of career roles.

Graduates of combined degrees could expect to find open to them all the career paths that are open to graduates of the Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Laws degree courses. A law degree is a prerequisite to admission as a legal practitioner. Today, however, employers from a widening range of disciplines value the skills that law graduates possess. A range of career choices lie open to law graduates as a solicitor, barrister, industry legal officer or ministerial adviser, as well as in legal aid, community legal centres, the Attorney-General's department, law reform commissions, consumer affairs, environment, foreign affairs, police, legal drafting, politics, banking, finance, journalism, publishing and teaching.