Academics: Required Courses and Elective Concentrations

Includes courses critical to the bar examination and entry into practice.

Required Curriculum

Consists of 63 hours of required substantive and skills-based courses and 27 hours of elective course work, including a minimum of 3 credits of intense clinical experience. The curriculum allows concentrations of study in a variety of areas.

Subject areas covered by required courses:

Contracts • Advanced Writing • Property • Personal and Professional Responsibility • Torts • Remedies • Criminal Law • Secured Transactions • Criminal Procedure • Business Organizations • Civil Procedure • Wills, Estates, and Trusts • Research and Writing • Evidence • Constitutional Law

Concentrations

All about Concentrations

Students focus in the following areas of study:

Business Transactions, General Practice/Solo & Small Firm, Litigation, International Law, Intellectual Property, Taxation and Public Law — which includes tracks in Administrative Law, Constitutional Law and Civil Rights, and Environmental Law. It addition, students can build their own concentration or choose to be undeclared.

Some of the most flexible scheduling options in the nation

We offer classes year-round with terms starting in January, May, and September. Each term is 15 weeks.

1	PART-TIME: Year-Round for 3 Years (12 credits/semester)
2	PART-TIME: Year-Round for 4 Years (9 credits/semester)
3	FULL-TIME: Terms Off for 3 Years (15 credits/semester)
4	FULL-TIME: Year-Round for 2 Years (15 credits/semester)
5	WEEKEND: Part-Time, 3 or 4 Year programs

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is accredited by the American Bar Association (ABA) and the Higher Learning Commission (HLC).
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