Unit of Study LEGL2017 Public Interest Advocacy (2025)

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Unit type

UG Coursework Unit
Credit points

12
Faculty & College

Faculty of Business, Law and Arts
Placement

No

Enrolment information

This unit requires attendance, for all students, at a compulsory, online, six-day practicum/residential (please check the class timetable for details).

Unit description

Explores the theory and practice of community activism and social change with an emphasis on the intersection of law with these areas of social engagement and provides students with a broad based introduction to the skills and techniques necessary to bring about useful social change in a highly corporatised and technocratic society.

Unit content

Module 1: Activism, democracy and social movements

Module 2: Strategies and planning for successful campaigns

Module 3: Media, publicity and outreach

Module 4: Public and private bureaucracy

Module 5: Direct action, protest and litigation

Module 6: Organisational and personal sustainability

Availabilities

Not currently available in 2025

Learning outcomes

Unit Learning Outcomes express learning achievement in terms of what a student should know, understand and be able to do on completion of a unit. These outcomes are aligned with the graduate attributes. The unit learning outcomes and graduate attributes are also the basis of evaluating prior learning.

On completion of this unit, students should be able to:

explain the nature of public interest advocacy as a field of work and practice

demonstrate an awareness of the key features of legislative, judicial and administrative decision-making in Australia, and of the principal tools of public interest advocacy

develop effective strategies for public interest advocacy in relation to specific issues, using a variety of advocacy techniques and tools

work effectively on processes related to strategic planning and advocacy.

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