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Policy on permission to over-enrol
Policy on permission to over-enrol
Students are reminded that they require the permission of the Course Coordinator if they wish to over-enrol. Over-enrolling for full time students means enrolling in 5 (and no more than 5) units in any one trimester; for part time students it means enrolling in more than 3 (and more than 3) units in any one semester. Students can, of course, change their enrolment status where they experience changes in their personal circumstances. The Law School views three units in trimester 3 as a full-time load, since it is a shorter teaching period.
For university policy, see rule 17 of General Rules. For further information and to apply for permission to over-enrol go to AskUNE and enter 'permission to over enrol'.
Students in combined law courses, eg the BA/LLB, BBus/LLB, BSci/LLB etc need the approval of the co-ordinator of both the Bachelor of Laws and their other degree. This is particularly true if they are seeking to add non-law units to their enrolment. They do not need the other coordinator’s permission if they are only enrolled in law units.
The Law School represents to the outside world and to our accrediting body that four units of study is a full-time load. It is expected that any one unit of law study will take 150 hours for the average student. In a teaching period with 12 formal weeks of teaching together with a two-week break, that means that students need to spend around 12.5 hours per week on each unit. It is consistent with the representation we make as to workload that students are only given permission to over-enrol when they have clearly demonstrated, through strong academic results, that the expectations that apply to an average student do not fully apply to them. However, even such students are discouraged from over-enrolling. Over-enrolment is likely to lead to poorer academic results, which not only reflects superficial learning, but also can reduce students’ prospects of future employment.
The following criteria will be applied when assessing an application to over-enrol:
- A full-time student would need to demonstrate achievement of a minimum of two credits and two distinctions in a recent teaching period and one of those distinctions must have been in a law unit.
- Permission to over-enrol is valid for one academic year.
- Renewal of this permission is dependent upon the student having comfortably passed all units they have attempted during the period in which they were over-enrolled.