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- School of Justice promotes QUT careers mentor scheme to all students
generally and especially at orientations for first years.
- Current Indigenous students employed to act as 'peer mentors' during 2-3
day Pre-law Program for commencing Indigenous Students (Law and Justice)
- Informal mentoring for international students by way of morning tea early
in semester to introduce new students to the current ones.
- The Law School provides a peer mentor program for first year students to assist them in their transition to university.
Learning Support:
- LWB141 Legal Institutions and Method (Law School) and JSB132 Professional
Skills (Justices Studies) first semester first year units involve IT literacy
and academic writing/research skills.
- Structure and focus of core first year units in both School of Law and School of Justice designed to provide learning support for students, in the sense that
both first year programs are developed in an integrated and incremental way
with a commitment to the pedagogy of scaffolding and providing formative feedback
to students on their learning to lay the necessary foundations for students'
later years of study.
- Pre-Law Program for commencing Indigenous Students (Law & Justice):
2-3 day program covering study, library & IT skills, as well as panel
session with current Indigenous students.
- Specialist Equity Orientation - 1 day workshop for commencing Q-Step students
(Law School) covering study, library & IT skills, as well as panel session
with current students.
- Special 3 day orientation attendance school for Law School external students
which also assists in study skills acquisition.
- Provision general assistance and advising by administrative and academic
staff to students re appropriate support facilities at QUT and on suggested
combinations of units and appropriate study load.
- Most Faculty OLT sites have links to generic skills materials.
Contact First Year
- School of Justice has regular email contact with all first
year students and contacts first year student reps twice a semester.
- For both Schools, main first year contact is orientation - which is held
in the same format for beginning of the year and mid-year entry students.
- Law School External students have a compulsory orientation attendance school
at the end of first week of semester (both semesters' entry), which provides
students with information about studying as an external student, together
with some grounding in study skills.
- Email (around Week 6-7) to all first-year Indigenous and Q-Step students
checking on their progress and inviting them to raise any issues of concern
with Law Equity Officer.
Resources For
- Faculty website: web-based information from the Assistant Dean, Learning and Teaching available for all students, including a link to specific information on
Surviving First Year, transition issues,
necessity for time management skills,
links to support services and other workshop information.
- Student handbooks made available to all students (eg, Law
School Undergraduate Student Handbook for the current year and First
Year Justice Studies Handbook).
- At the tailored orientations for Q-step and Indigenous students, each student
is provided with sets of resources and other information.
- First year OLT sites provide a range of resources for first year students.
Social Events For:
- Social events are geared around Orientation sessions - eg School
of Justice has a morning tea for commencing students to meet staff
and new colleagues; the Law School has a special orientation for part-time
students which commences with an afternoon tea
- Staff/Student morning tea (usually each semester) for new and continuing
Indigenous and Q-Step students.
- Lunch for new and continuing Indigenous students with Indigenous lawyers.
- Morning tea and lunch during Equity Orientation and Pre-law Program where
commencing students meet key academic and administrative staff responsible
for first-year programs.
- QUT Law and Justice Students Association (QUOTALS) holds a welcome BBQ
on the Friday before semester starts for all commencing students and staff.
Contact First Year:
- Contact with first year unit coordinators and teachers.
- Contact with School administrative staff, particularly "front desk"
staff.
- Law School external students have dedicated administration staff contact.
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