Each has its distinctive ethos and aspirations. Let me outline those that shape UNSW and will affect your experience here. First, the School emphasises active learning. Lectures to large groups of students are unknown. The bulk of teaching is done in groups of no more than 40.
Students prepare material before classes and participate actively in classroom discussions.
This is not only the best educational approach for intending lawyers, whose future careers will regularly make demands on their capacity to explain and argue about the law, but it also develops superior skills of analysis, understanding and facility with legal materials. You will also find it a more stimulating educational experience. Second, we are committed to the principle of a relatively small compulsory core of courses in the LLB curriculum complemented with a wide choice of electives. This breadth of choice is necessary if legal education is to provide the foundation for different specialisations within legal practice as well as for the wide variety of other careers for which it has become a prized form of preparation. Third, the UNSW law curriculum has a national outlook and character.