南澳大学

Gain a competitive edge by combining law with sport and recreation management, and graduate with two degrees in just five years.

A double degree expands your knowledge and opens doors to a broad range of career opportunities.

You will graduate with professional honours, an advanced understanding of legal principles of Australian law and the latest legal concepts in sport and recreation management. This legal expertise, combined with the knowledge and skills you’ll gain from your specialisation, will set you on track for a leadership career.

In your law studies you’ll gain practical real-world experience by undertaking an industry or clinic placement, a law reform project or high-level research in your final year. You’ll also be involved in mock-trials in our moot court, learning what it’s like to be act as an advocate and argue a case before a judge. You can also gain valuable experience at our Legal Advice Clinic, solving legal problems of clients under the guidance of a managing solicitor.

In your sport and recreation management studies you will develop skills through site visits, hear from professionally successful guest lecturers in the field of sport and recreation, and learn from a highly experienced teaching team.

What you'll learn

This degree is made up of 40 courses. You will do 24 courses in law and 16 courses in sport and recreation management.

Your career

You will hold a desired skillset for a diverse range of careers including:

• Celebrity endorsement adviser: managing legalities and contracts for professional sports/paid endorsement arrangements between individuals and organisations to help promote a product or service
• Project manager: ensuring projects are delivered on time and according to project plans; managing project team resources; scheduling, preparation and resource forecasting; managing vendors and suppliers; managing budgets
• Solicitor (with further study): commercial solicitor: focusing on business-specific legal practice such as: corporate, contract, competition, communications, commercial property, finance, employment, intellectual property, transport, sports and media law
• personal solicitor: focusing on areas such as personal injury, family and tort law, criminal litigation, succession and inheritance, residential property, taxation and trusts
• Sport equality advocate: supporting fairness in sport, equality of access and gender diversity by addressing issues and disparities
• Sports tribunal adviser/lawyer: serving as both a lawyer and agent to represent the legal, financial and contractual interests of clients such as sports players, coaches and teams

Alternative Pathways:

There are other pathways you can follow to study this degree. You could consider the Bachelor of Business (Legal Studies).