A NEW bachelor of laws degree offered for the first time this year at Charles Sturt University has made a splash with 65 new students accepting places in the course.
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With nearly 230 applications for the first year it was offered, the director of CSU's Centre for Law, Associate Professor Alison Gerard, said she is pleased that enrolments were well above expectations.
The course is being offered by distance education through the Bathurst campus.
“We are aiming to create legal professionals who know their communities and are equipped to be global citizens,” Professor Gerard said.
In helping students better understand regional and rural areas, CSU says the degree is the first law degree in Australia to incorporate compulsory studies in Indigenous Australian content and cultural competence.
“We have also shown our commitment to regional Australia by including compulsory subjects on community law, which considers issues relevant to local communities in rural and regional Australia, and resources law involving primary production, native title and the environment,” Professor Gerard said
