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Part-Time/Hybrid Curriculum

The school requires 90 credit hours of instruction for graduation. Under the hybrid program, 57 credit hours, including all hours in the last year of the program are completely online. Apart from a required orientation session, the other credit hours will be satisfied through attendance for on-campus instructions during, at most, two long weekend periods during the fall and spring semesters and one long weekend during the summer session. Notably, after the first year, all summer semester classes are completely online as are all classes during the last year of study.

In view of the demands of work and other commitments, the online component of classes is conducted in an asynchronous manner. That means that students complete classes on their own schedules. Apart from meetings with instructors or students that may be required, students work at times when they are able to do so. Attendance at pre-scheduled classes is not required.

Below is the current curriculum. Courses that are completely online, with no on-campus residential requirement, are shown with an *.  Please note that the curriculum is in development in preparation for a revised bar exam as developed by the National Conference of Bar Examiners and that some changes may be made to the curriculum. Additional online non-credit courses are also provided for students deemed at risk based on performance.

First Year

 

Fall

 

Spring

 

Summer

 

Civil Procedure I

3

Civil Procedure II*

3

The Successful Lawyer

2

Torts I

3

Torts II

3

Legal Communication II*

3

Legal Communication I*

2

Property I

3

Legal Research II

1

Legal Research I*

1

 

 

 

 

Legal Foundations

1

 

 

 

 

 

Second Year

Fall

 

Spring

 

Summer

 

Contracts & Sales I

3

Contracts & Sales II*

3

Elective*

3

Property II

3

Constitutional Criminal Procedure

3

Elective*

3

Criminal Law*

3

Elective

3

 

 

 

Third Year

Fall

 

Spring

 

Summer

 

Evidence*

4

Business Organizations*

4

Elective*

3

Professional Responsibility*

3

Elective*

2

Elective*

3

Constitutional Law I

2

Constitutional Law II

3

 

 

 

Fourth Year

Fall

 

Spring

 

Bar Exam Course I*

3

Bar Exam Course II*

3

Elective*

3

Elective*

3

Elective*

3

Elective*

2