My name’s Chris Forbes and currently I’m studying my masters in Law, majoring in Public Law.

Well I’ve chosen to do a masters degree in coursework, you’ve got either a coursework or a research masters. So coursework consists of if you’re doing, if you’re doing fulltime it’s four fulltime subjects each semester, so eight in total spread over one year, and it’s basically just a two or three hour lecture a week. There’s no tutorials which differs from an undergrad degree, and the major assessment piece is a research paper, and you have between six and ten thousand words per subject.

As I said before they had one ex-lawyer from the UN who came and taught International Humanitarian Law, she’s now a barrister here in the city, here in Brisbane. So you do get elements, or you get a glimpse into various aspects of that through the practitioners they get on board to actually teach the subjects. Hi, I’m Mark Metzeling and I graduated from a Master of Laws at QUT.

After finishing university I wanted to get further knowledge in legal area to boost my employment capabilities as well, so I did my Graduate Diploma of Legal Practice here at QUT, and also a Masters of Law here at QUT. In the Masters of Law I chose to do general coursework to give me more of a grounding in technical legal areas but at a more advanced level. Subjects such as Insolvency Law and Alternative Dispute Resolution at a masters level gave me skills that would come in handy in everyday use in the legal environment, in the real world.

By doing a masters it helped me decide which areas of the law I really wanted to go into and work in, it was great because then I had the confidence to go into that area of the Law with more knowledge and, in consultation with my actual employer, we chose the subjects that would be of greatest benefit to me, therefore the employer saw the direct benefit of having me study a masters degree as well.

My name is Professor Rosalind Mason and I am the head of the School of Law at QUT. In particular at the post-graduate level we have students who have busy day jobs, and who are coming to study with us because they want to move on further with their career, they want to enhance their career options, and so we appreciate the fact that they are busy people who have a passion about learning something, but that they are perhaps going to be time poor.

So when we are delivering our post-graduate programs, we have a range of options available. Depending on the subjects, it may be a subject where they come and they study, say one night a week across a semester, but equally we will also have subjects where they are taught in the block mode, so that they might be over a weekend, and we also have for some subjects, they are taught completely online.