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    Mar 29, 2024  
2008-2009 Undergraduate Bulletin 
    
2008-2009 Undergraduate Bulletin [Archived Bulletin]

Paralegal Certificate


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Paralegal education prepares the student to assist with substantive legal work under the supervision of an attorney or to work in a law-related setting. It does not lead to licensure as an attorney or to the practice of law.

Objectives

(1) To provide an American Bar Association-approved program with a curriculum leading to a paralegal certificate; (2) to provide a liberal arts based education for undergraduate paralegal students; (3) to develop in each paralegal student superior writing, speaking, and analytical skills; (4) to offer high quality specific legal training to liberal arts students and bachelor’s degree holders seeking to become paralegals; and (5) to instill respect for legal and practical values and ethics.

This program is open to undergraduate students in all majors and to postbaccalaureate students.

Certificate Requirements


Required courses


  • Note: Post Baccalaureate Certificate seeking students must repeat the above three core courses for credit if the course work is seven or more years old. Other courses seven or more years old are subject to legal studies department approval for application toward the paralegal certificate. When courses are repeated to fulfill Paralegal Certificate requirements, the repeated course credit will be changed to zero and the resulting grade will be excluded in the grade point average computation.

Elective courses


Select 4 credits (students who took LGST 5000 instead of LGST 1110 must select one additional 2-credit course) of additional coursework from all legal studies (LGST) courses listed above or the following interdisciplinary courses:

Note


Upon approval of the chair of the Legal Studies department, postbaccalaureate students can also take law-related courses offered by the Master of Arts in Public Administration in the Graduate School of Management. These courses can also count toward a master’s degree in public administration.

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