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NTU will begin offering our Law degree program for
external study from semester 2 2003. Our
external degree program utilises the latest in web-based
and related information technologies to ensure that
your learning experience will be almost as complete,
convenient and fulfilling as an on-campus student would
experience. We can't quite transport you through
cyberspace to The Shed cafeteria or on-campus sports
and entertainment facilities and functions, but just
about everything else is available online. You
can even speak with your lecturers and tutors online
during weekly tutorials, or at regular scheduled consultation
sessions.
Below you will find more details about NTU's external
law degree program. For further details, contact
the following people:
Preliminary, administrative and enrolment enquiries
Administrative Officer: Ms Jill Thyne
Tel: +61 (0)8 8946 6833
Fax: +61 (0)8 8946 6933
Email: law@cdu.edu.au
Academic enquiries
Prof. Ned Aughterson (Co-ordinator of Undergraduate
Studies)
Tel: +61 (0)8 8946 6899
Email: ned.aughterson@cdu.edu.au
Computer, Internet and IT-related enquiries
Mr. Ken Parish
Tel: +61 (0)8 8946 6842
Email: ken.parish@cdu.edu.au
The external law degree program will be introduced
progressively from semester 2 2003. We are offering
the full range of first year subjects externally online
from that time, with other subjects being added in later
semesters as students progress through their degree.
Units available for external study during semester 2
2003 are:
* Common units are multidisciplinary subjects designed
to introduce beginning university students to fundamental
academic skills and provide a deeper understanding
of their region and culture. Generally, all
students in all faculties must complete 2 common units
as part of their degree. However, students
in the graduate law stream (i.e. who already have
a higher education degree in another discipline) may
not be required to enrol in common units.
In semester 1 2004, we anticipate that the following
units will be offered for external study:
The heart of NTU's online learning system is Learnline*,
a student-only access area of the NTU website powered
by the latest Blackboard software. All NTU Law
School teaching materials (lecture notes, study guides,
tutorial problems, essay topics and so on) for all subjects
are available online via Learnline.
You can also interact with lecturers and tutors by
individual or group email, participate in electronic
discussion board forums, undertake online self-tuition
revision tests, and check your grades. You can
even submit essays electronically using Blackboard's
Digital Drop Box.
* You can access Learnline
as a guest by clicking the "Preview" button
on the Learnline login screen.
All lectures in units offered externally will be made
available online progressively through the semester
in Apple Quicktime "streaming audio" format.
In this way you are able to listen to lectures almost
as if you were attending on-campus. In fact in
some ways it's better, because you can listen to the
lecture whenever it suits your own schedule, listen
to it again for revision, and pause the audio whenever
you like (so you can "surf" to relevant case
law or legislation using the online lecture notes associated
with the lecture audio, or just so you can go and make
a cup of coffee).
You will be expected to participate in weekly online
tutorials in all core academic law units. Online
tutorials are generally scheduled on a weekday evening,
and are conducted using the latest "voice-chat"
technology. Using a headset microphone available
fairly cheaply from most electronics stores, you will
be able to speak and listen to your tutor and other
students while "workshopping" tutorial problems
dealing with aspects of the unit of work being covered
during that week.
NTU Law School subscribes to a wide variety of online
law reports and other subscription services (see NTU
Library Law Databases), allowing you to access many
of the resources of the on-campus law library from your
computer desktop. Access to the databases is by
password using your student ID number once you are an
enrolled student Additional readings and case
extracts may also be made available in individual subjects
in PDF Acrobat format. Of course, there are still
many texts and other resources that it simply isn't
practical to put online, so there is still some advantage
in having access to a physical law library. However,
NTU's external law degree program has been designed
especially with the needs of remote and regional students
in mind. As many resources as possible are made
available online, and due allowance is made for students
who have no access at all to a physical law library.
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