Curriculum

During the first year of law school, all day division, full-time students will complete 31 credit hours of the Foundation Curriculum as follows:

Fall semester:  Contracts, Constitutional Law, Torts, and Legal Skills & Values I

Spring semester: Civil Procedure, Criminal Law, Introduction to International and Comparative Law, Property, and Legal Skills and Values II

After completing the Foundation Curriculum, students must also complete 59 credit hours of upper-level courses. Most of these courses are electives, but students must satisfy several upper-level requirements. These are the requirements that must be met:

• Professional Responsibility: Students must pass this course with a C or better.
• Litigation and Alternative Dispute Resolution: Students must take two courses that satisfy the litigation and alternative dispute resolution requirement.
• International and Comparative Law: Students must take at least one upper-level course that satisfies the international and comparative law requirement.
• Legal Skills and Values III
• Graduate Seminar: Students must take a seminar involving a multi-draft writing project.
• Community Service: Students must also perform thirty (30) hours of community service.