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Spring 2008 1. COURSE PLANNING-GENERAL INFORMATION A. Graduation Requirements: Students must complete a minimum of 91 hours of course work. Students must complete the 30 core course (first year) hours; complete Legal Profession; complete a seminar and a humanities course (identified by an H). Students entering law school in the fall of 2006 and later are also required to complete one professional skills course. B. Bar Examination Courses: Students are strongly encouraged to take as many bar exam courses as possible. Many bar exam courses are offered in the evening in alternating years only. Therefore, students should take these bar courses at the earliest opportunity. Bar examinations test the following subjects:
C. Evening Courses Offered Every Year
D. Evening Alternate Year Courses: Some evening program courses are scheduled on a rotation, which ensures that students will have access to all bar courses during their four-year tenure in the program. Therefore, certain bar and other courses are offered on an every-other year basis. The following course rotation is currently in effect: Courses offered in academic years which begin with an even number, (e.g. 2004-2005)
Courses offered in academic years which begin with an odd number, (e.g. 2005-2006)
E. Summer Courses:(Most frequently offered subjects)
F. Certificate Programs: Saint Louis University School of Law Centers for Excellence offer certificate programs for students in Health Law, Employment Law and International Law. These certificate programs have certain course requirements, which are explained on the Law School’s “Academic” web site under “Centers of Excellence”. Students who wish to pursue a certificate program should review the information on the web site, contact the program chair and enroll in the certificate program. Students who wish to pursue the Health Law certificate are reminded that Health Care Law is a basic, core requirement for that certificate and a pre-requisite for many health law elective courses. G. Concentrations: The School of Law has adopted five concentration programs that allow students to concentrate their legal studies in particular fields. These areas of concentration are:
Each of these concentrations has unique requirements of course work and clinical participation. Students can learn about the particular course and clinical requirements of these concentrations by accessing the Law School “Academic” web site and then selecting the individual Concentration forms. If students wish to obtain one of these concentrations, they must pay particular attention to the requirements and make sure that they select the appropriate courses at the earliest opportunity as some of these courses may be offered on an every-other-year cycle. H. Pre-requisite/Co-requisite classes: Attention should be paid to foundational courses, which serve as a pre-requisite or co-requisite for other courses in certificate and concentration programs. For example, Health Law is a pre-requisite for many health law classes. Taxation serves as a prerequisite for many courses in the Taxation concentration. Business Associations and Taxation are prerequisites for the Business Transactional Law concentration. Evidence and Civil Practice are prerequisites for many courses in the Civil Litigation Skills concentration. Evidence is a prerequisite for the Trial Advocacy I class. Legal Profession is a prerequisite for many clinical programs and externships. Please review the Law School’s “Academics” web page and select “Course Descriptions” to determine whether courses have pre or co-requisite requirements. I. Legal Profession: Legal Profession must be taken by evening students “at the first opportunity”. Therefore, students must take that course the first time it is offered during the evening after they have completed their first 30 hours of required course work. This will typically be in the spring semester of their second year in the part-time program. J. Course Registration for Students With CGPAs Between 2.00 and 2.25. PTE students whose CGPA at the end of the second semester (Spring 2006) is between 2.00 and 2.25 must register, in addition to Legal Profession, for at least two of the following courses in the Spring 2007 semester: Trusts and Estates, Conflicts, Real Estate Transactions or Taxation. 2. SPRING 2008 SCHEDULE The Spring 2008 semester class schedule can be found on the Law School’s Registration web site. Current first semester, first-year, part-time evening students who do not have a registration hold will be automatically registered for second semester (spring 2008) classes and do not need to take further registration action. Current first semester, first year, accelerated part time students who do not have a registration hold will be also be registered for second semester. 4. FOURTH SEMESTER RECOMMENDED SPRING COURSES A. General Recommend Schedule for Fourth Semester Part-time Students:
5. SIXTH/EIGHTH SEMESTER SPRING COURSES
6. REGISTERING FOR 12 + CREDITS A full-time course load is 12-16 hours per semester. Students may take up to 17 hours in any semester if their CGPA is 3.3 or higher or if they have the written permission of the Dean of Students or the Dean of the Academic Program. Students must pay the full-time tuition rate if they register for 12 or more hours. Students enrolled in more than 12 hours are not permitted to work more than twenty (20) hours per week under the American Bar Association Law School Accreditation rules. Please be sure to monitor the registration web site for information about registration dates and times, as well as the use of the Banner registration system. 7. PRE-REGISTRATION FOR SEAT-ASSIGNED COURSES Students who wish to enroll in a seminar or other seat-assigned courses must register through the on-line Web Registration Form. That form must be electronically submitted between noon on September 28th and noon on September 29th. Paper forms will not be accepted. Forms submitted after that period will not receive priority registration but late submissions may be considered if seat are still available. Seats will be assigned and students will be automatically registered based on enrollment preferences which take into consideration the timeliness of the submission of the form; the class year of the student; certificate and concentration requirements; and, in the case of seminars, whether the student has previously satisfied the seminar requirement. Students can access Banner after noon on October 3rd to see if they have been assigned a seat. Students whose priority does not permit them to be assigned a seat may register on Banner for any seats available in other offerings during the open registration period which begins on Wednesday October 17th at noon and ends on Thursday, November 1st at noon.
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