To enhance this combination, the University encourages professional bodies to contribute to course design, wide use of workplace experience programs, and professionally-experienced academic staff. This focus is also reflected in the strategic and practical aims of the University's research programs, a number of which are conducted in conjunction with industry. Students also have access to sporting facilities, counselling and health services, language and learning support and careers advice. The Faculty of Law undergraduate curriculum has been developed so as to provide emphasis on theoretical, critical and contextual perspectives, on skills training and on the development of research and legal reasoning as well as on ethics and professional responsibility. The principal areas of the law are included within the compulsory core, as are all areas of knowledge required to satisfy the academic requirements for admission to the legal profession.
Students have a choice of elective units, including electives from other faculties and schools.
A number of assessment methods are employed to test learning outcomes. Although undergraduate numbers are large, and lecture numbers reach 400 in some first year subjects, the Faculty has a large complement of full-time academic and casual staff and is therefore able to maintain a full seminar program in all subjects. The average size of a seminar is 20. The student intake is diverse, encompassing school leavers, graduates, mature-age students and equity target groups. The Faculty has a modern information technology infrastructure including a student computer laboratory.