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tram:
okkkkkkkkk.....after looking at that site......i am NOT COMPLAINING about the fees of our JDs anymore.....
EvangelionZeta:
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--- Quote from: AzureBlue on June 30, 2010, 12:22:48 pm ---Just wondering - does anyone know why Melb Uni scrapped undergraduate law (ie. LLB)?
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Attempt to emulate US universities, where the only undergraduate degrees are Arts and Science.
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US universities don't even have undergrad commerce or law? Wow... so if you want to do law at, say, Harvard or something, you have to do undergrad arts or science, then go into postgraduate law (similar to the Melbourne model).
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Basically it comes from a line of thought (pretty much what James Lu advocates, incidentally) that a University education should be about the EDUCATION, as opposed to the vocational aspect of it. By giving undergraduates a "general knowledge" of various disciplines (in the US, you HAVE to do a certain number of Arts, Science, Language and Writing subjects, amongst other things I think), their philosophy is to produce students who are well-rounded and prepared for the work force both skills-wise and mind-wise - hence why putting the skills part of the education (ie. the Law or business degree) after the "knowledge" part is enforced.
AzureBlue:
--- Quote from: EvangelionZeta on July 01, 2010, 03:03:44 pm ---Basically it comes from a line of thought (pretty much what James Lu advocates, incidentally) that a University education should be about the EDUCATION, as opposed to the vocational aspect of it. By giving undergraduates a "general knowledge" of various disciplines (in the US, you HAVE to do a certain number of Arts, Science, Language and Writing subjects, amongst other things I think), their philosophy is to produce students who are well-rounded and prepared for the work force both skills-wise and mind-wise - hence why putting the skills part of the education (ie. the Law or business degree) after the "knowledge" part is enforced.
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LOL did James end up accepting the offer to Oxford or Yale?
Yeah, personally, I think the Melb Model/US structure is a great idea as it does broaden the experiences and views of students. I don't just want to do one area of study in my uni course, and of course I would love to incorporate arts subjects (such as creative writing, politics or history) and some law into my undergrad commerce degree (breadth is awesome :))...
EvangelionZeta:
--- Quote from: AzureBlue on July 01, 2010, 03:07:18 pm ---
--- Quote from: EvangelionZeta on July 01, 2010, 03:03:44 pm ---Basically it comes from a line of thought (pretty much what James Lu advocates, incidentally) that a University education should be about the EDUCATION, as opposed to the vocational aspect of it. By giving undergraduates a "general knowledge" of various disciplines (in the US, you HAVE to do a certain number of Arts, Science, Language and Writing subjects, amongst other things I think), their philosophy is to produce students who are well-rounded and prepared for the work force both skills-wise and mind-wise - hence why putting the skills part of the education (ie. the Law or business degree) after the "knowledge" part is enforced.
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LOL did James end up accepting the offer to Oxford or Yale?
Yeah, personally, I think the Melb Model/US structure is a great idea as it does broaden the experiences and views of students. I don't just want to do one area of study in my uni course, and of course I would love to incorporate arts subjects (such as creative writing, politics or history) and some law into my undergrad commerce degree (breadth is awesome :))...
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Yale - he actually got offers to Harvard and Princeton as well though, apparently.
EvangelionZeta:
He's going to Yale - as we've just established, he can't study Law at undergraduate level there. :p
If you mean NOW now, he's not doing any Uni at all in Australia - he basically became a full-time tutor for the first half of the year...
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