Required Courses
The curriculum is designed to help you master the knowledge you’ll need to pass the bar examination and competently practice law. With 66 required credits – including Bar Exam Skills – you will have a class in almost every subject tested on the bar examinations in all 50 states. The curriculum allows concentrations of study in a variety of areas.
The following subject areas are covered by required courses:
- Advanced Writing
- Bar Exam Skills
- Business Organizations
- Civil Procedure
- Constitutional Law
- Contracts
- Criminal Law
- Criminal Procedure
- Evidence
- Personal and Professional Responsibility
- Property
- Research and Writing
- Remedies
- Secured Transactions
- Tax
- Torts
- Wills, Estates, and Trusts
- Upper level skills course designated by chosen concentration.
- Minimum 3 credits of a clinic or externship.
Concentrations
Students have the option of focusing their third year curriculum in a specific area of study, or concentration. Concentrations are designed to familiarize a student with the problems that might be encountered in a certain field of practice.