A Self-organised Internship is where you independently organise an unpaid internship and wish to have that internship included in your law program and awarded credit towards your degree. Students with a Self-Organised placement MUST apply for their internship to be approved by the Director of Experiential Learning PRIOR to commencing their internship. Applications for enrolment will not be considered after the commencement of the internship.
If you wish to organise your own placement, you must read and provide theCriminology Supervision manual or UNSW Law Internship Supervisor Manual to the supervisor/organisation to ensure a well-structured internship is arranged. You must also request your supervisor to complete the Host Organisation Information form and the WIL agreement then submit it with your application on InPlace. The manual and forms are available on Inplace in the Shared Documents.
A criminology self-organised internship must
- involve work related to your academic program to extend your learning experiences
- be 70 hours during the teaching term dates of the term you apply for
- be unpaid
- provide new learning opportunities
- be submitted prior to week 10 term 2 via inplace and approved by the Director of Experiential Learning and the course convenor
A law self-organised internship must
- involve substantive legal practice, policy, advocacy education and/or community development work
- be supervised by a lawyer
- be over 10 days (70 hours) during the teaching term dates of the term you apply for
- be unpaid
- provide new learning opportunities
- be submitted before the end of week 10 the term before via inplace and approved by the Director of Experiential Learning
When does the course run?
Law self-organised internships are available in all terms to students who meet the requirements, Criminology internships are only available in term 3. See the handbook entries for the course prerequisites and requirements.
LAWS3555/JURD7555 UNSW Law Internships (LLB and Juris Doctor)
LAWS8173 UNSW Law Postgraduate Internship (LLM)
LAWS8052 Human Rights Internship Program (LLM)
CRIM3025 Criminology Work Integrated Learning Placement
How to Apply
Applications must be submitted during the specified appication period - See key dates on InPlace - shared documents
- Once you have checked that you meet all course prerequisties and requirements, make contact with the organisation you would like to intern with to find out if they have available internship placements.
- After reaching an agreement with an organisation you must then apply during the application period for the term you wish to take your internship.
- Applications are made by completing the documents listed below, available in the shared documents on Inplace and uploading to the allocated space on InPlace
- Your internship must be approved by the Director of Experiential Learning in order to be enrolled and receive course credit..
All internships must be approved prior to commencement and take place within the teaching weeks of the enroled term to receive course credit.
Application documents required
As you have already been accepted by the organisation you do not need to write a statement of interest for your application. Instead of a statement of interest please include the following details and upload the documents in your application:
- Completed Host Organisation Information form;
- Completed WIL agreement document
- Your resume; and
- Your MyUNSW academic statement
The provided information will be used to assess the suitability of the organisation and the proposed placement to be part of the Law Experiential Learning internship program. Generally, suitable organisations will be engaged in legal practice, or legal policy. The organisations for LAWS8052 Postgraduate Human Rights Internship Program must be in the area of law, community development in justice and/or human rights.
The submitted applications and relevant supporting documents are received by the Teaching Support Officer and the Director of Experiential Learning for processing and assessment. We will endeavour to finalise all placements prior to your class registration appointment.
If a placement is not finalised prior to the enrolment period, you should enrol in another elective. Should you be successful in your internship application then that course can be dropped before the census date with no penalty. Should you be unsuccessful then you will not be disadvantaged due to the waiting period.
NOTE: All placements/enrolment will be finalised two weeks before the start of term. Please do not contact the Experiential Learning team or Student Services prior to that.
Once all placements are confirmed, UNSW Law and Justice will notify you of the outcome of your application via email to your UNSW Email account. Additional information can be found in your course outline or on Moodle.
All communications will be sent to your UNSW email account. It is your responsibility to check your UNSW email account on a regular basis.
Further enquiries:
- Law Experiential Learning - experiential@unsw.edu.au