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Office of Registrar & Academic Services
FAQs
- Do you have a part-time program?
- We currently do not have a part-time program. Students are required to attend full time. Students must carry a minimum of 12 credit hours per semester. However, merely complying with the 12 credit hours per semester will not enable students to graduate in three years. A normal course load is 15 hours.
- How many credits do I need to graduate?
- 90 hours are required for a Juris Doctor degree.
- What are the minimum and maximum number of hours that can be taken each semester?
- Students may take a minimum of 12 hours and a maximum of 16 hours per
semester.
- What courses are required for graduation?
- Required First Year Courses include:
- Civil Procedure I
- Constitutional Law I
- Contracts I & II
- Criminal Law
- Legal Writing I & II
- Legal Research
- Property I & II
- Torts I & II
- Required Upper Level Courses include:
- Constititutional Law II
- Criminal Procedure
- Professional Responsibility
- A Perspective Course (to be chosen from a list of courses)
- A Writing Requirement Course or Legal Research Project (30 page paper required).
- Does your law school have a grade normalization policy?
- Yes, we have a grade normalization policy in order to maintain relative parity in grading among faculty, particularly among first year sections.
- Our grade normalization policy states:
- For first year courses, the mean average grade in all classes shall fall within the range of 2.700 to 3.000.
- For upper level courses, the mean average grade in classes of more than 25 students should fall within .25 points of the class' mean average of the incoming students' GPA.
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